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Showing posts with label MDNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MDNA. Show all posts
Monday, 2 April 2012
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Nuova musica
Once again, it is time for a visit to some of the choons that have pricked my attention of late...
Let's open the selection with the electro-tastic, feather-clad (and preposterously-named) Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (aka the equally-weirdly-named Orlando Higginbottom) with his new single Tapes & Money, released on 2nd April 2012. It's amazingly catchy!
NB 2024 UPDATE: Gone from YouTube et al, but you can still watch it on Universal Music's site here.
The ebullient Beth Ditto and The Gossip are set to return with their forthcoming album A Joyful Noise, produced by Kylie collaborators Xenomania and due out in May. From it, here is the (slightly "rocky" for my tastes) new single Perfect World:
Next, a fabulous slice of pure 80s-infused electro genius from I Am A Camera and their Warhol-inspired Factory Boys:
Ever-intriguing (I for one never quite know what to make of her), the artiste known as Santigold has released a remarkable video for her forthcoming single Disparate Youth. I love it!
Totty time! Courtesy once again of the lovely Henry over at Barbarella's Galaxy, the new single Nackt (naked) by the hunky London-born German gayer Jay Khan is rather good, but not as fab as its video!
However, this week there is only one song that could possibly be the "star of the show"! For, on the eve of the launch of Our Glorious Leader's much anticipated album MDNA (which you can listen to courtesy of The Sun), Madonna has really gone for gold with the wonderful video for the next single Girl Gone Wild.
Featuring none other than our house favourite bendy boy-band Kazaky (who I have featured previously here, here and here), it's the Queen of Pop herself, back on top form:
Enjoy!
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Music à la mode
Time again for some more newer music that has caught my ear...
As the sunshine today makes us dream of Summer, so our first number is most appropriate. Insanely catchy - in fact just insane - this dancy number Skirts by Leeds-based "Brit-electro" band The Other Tribe does bring to mind pleasant thoughts of bopping in the middle of a field. The herald of another "Summer of Love", perhaps..?
Our own favourite Willy - Mr Young - has a new single, Losing Myself, due out on 18th March. The video is brilliant, and I can't wait to hear some remixes of the song...
Now here's a novel discovery - the most bizarre-looking Scandinavian dance diva Cazzi Opeia and her remarkably catchy My Heart in 2:
The Noughties' answer to the Beastie Boys, LMFAO have released the video for their latest single Sorry for Party Rocking, and it is another phantasmagorical epic - love it!
Among the teasers for her new album MDNA that Our Glorious Leader Queen Madge has been popping out this week, my personal favourite (appropriately enough) is the darkly electro Gang Bang. I can't wait for the album!
And finally, house favourite fierce rulin' diva here at Dolores Delargo Towers Luciana has a new single coming out. Her last smash Jump (with the Cube Guys) remains one of our anthems - and who can forget her collaboration with Betty White?. This time returning to her earlier partnership with Bodyrox, also featuring Chipmunk, and starring Boo the blue Staffie, it's Bow Wow Wow!
As always, enjoy! [As ever, let me know your thoughts.]
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Musical Mélange
It's been a while since I captured a few of the newer sounds that have piqued my interest...
We go away from the bright lights of showbiz for a couple of breaks, and look what happens - a second instalment of Kylie Minogue's "K25" Silver Jubilee celebrations is released! This is a fab stripped-back take on the classic On A Night Like This, and I love it:
Miss Charlotte Hatherley, formerly the guitarist from Ash, has re-emerged into the ambient electro world, calling herself Sylver Tongue. Capturing a hint of 80s experimentalists the Cocteau Twins here, and more recent popsters such as Goldfrapp there, Hook You Up is a beautiful concoction:
Thanks once again to the lovely Henry over at Barbarella's Galaxy, here's another new European band I have never heard before. And French combo M83 (for it is they) have only gone and got their new single Midnight City remixed by Swedish mega-DJ Eric Prydz! On their website they describe the video thus: "a tribute to Village of the Damned and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...No kids were hurt in the process!"
Mere words cannot describe the colour-splash of Con Bro Chill! With possibly the most fluorescent video since Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, and a happy sound reminiscent of the Scissor Sisters with a "Madchester" beat, here's Power Happy:
Look out GaGa, there's someone else out there ready to take your tinfoil crown! Judging from this remarkable dance number Time To Go, Miss Kwanza Jones is a very fierce rulin' diva indeed. And I love her voice!
And to conclude, topping and tailing this selection with our Patron Saints, Queen Madge has premiered her new upcoming single Girl Gone Wild, and again the jury is out - it certainly is catchy, especially after a couple of listens. I suspect somehow it needs a bit more remixing (and, of course a decent video) to make it a classic. We'll see...
As ever, enjoy!
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