Showing posts with label Metronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metronomy. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 April 2021

Avant-garde, never fade

Easter. If the shops weren't still closed thanks to the continued lockdown, they'd be shut anyway today. And it's getting colder again, so the garden's a less-than-enticing prospect.

There's nothing for it, but to entertain ourselves - how about a little round-up of some of the "newer" music that has caught my ear of late? That'll do nicely...

First up a little apéritif courtesy of Mr Boy George! He was there. Where were you?

Here's someone from RuPaul's Drag Queen UK [I wouldn't know; this bloody Drag Race thing seems to have been going for a hundred years and I have never watched it] with an "amusing" name, and a rather good choon:

Courtesy of Ana Matronic's Dance Devotion show on Radio 2 [again!] is this very weird little number from a band from... Totnes:

From the ridiculous to the sublime - an oddity from Brazil:

A cool little number from one of our favourite Ukrainian hunks, with a most magnificent video:

and finally...saving the best for last [and speaking of Drag Race, a bit of a team up between our beloved "house band" Steps and RuPaul's "right-hand woman"!

Enjoy! And, as ever, let me know your thoughts...

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Smash Hits!



I am well overdue sharing another selection of more current music that has caught my ear - however I have separately featured the new singles from both Tina Charles and Kate Bush this week, so what else is out there? [Just don't ask me to mention Beastie Boys or GaGa!]

Here's a woman who could rip Gaga's head off and spit down her neck... A mere three months after I began to rave about this song, here's the fantabulosa Luciana with the official video for I'm Still Hot!


With a distinctly OMD sound and a rather odd "Olympics-meets-Gladiator" themed video (complete with rather well-filled Speedos!), here's the new single from Cut Copy:


Next up, something that is completely off-the-wall - Danish group When Saints Go Machine and the haunting video for their new single...


A charming (and amazingly catchy) new single from Metronomy (all the way from Totnes), with a video featuring what looks suspiciously like hand-knitted seagulls:


This last video is completely beyond all comprehension! The song is mesmerising, though... Prepare yourselves for the San Francisco art project NewVillager:


Enjoy!