Euterpean mood

Tuesday ennui?

Time for a little selection of "newer" music that has caught my ear of late, methinks...

First up, the return of a Welsh electrodance fave - with a sublimely camp video that's most appropriate for this spooky time of year:

Bright Light Bright Light - Down To One

Forty-two years down the line since the girls released their first single, Keren and Sara are back again - with a corker!

Bananarama - Feel the Love

OMG! It's OMD!

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Veruschka

Speaking of "welcome returns", it's been a long while since we've heard anything from the Aussie combo with the best dressing-up box in the world...

PNAU, Empire Of The Sun - AEIOU

Even the Guardian could hardly believe that a world-class diva of the calibre of Miss Chaka Khan would ever agree to pair up with a vaguely-successful indie rock band from Crouch End (just down the road from Dolores Delargo Towers) - but the result is rather good:!

Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Chaka Khan - Tekken 2

And finally...

...the team-up we never realised we so desperately wanted! One of our all-time favourite divinely decadent bands, together with Ukraine's home-grown gay icon [see more here]? Oh, YES!!

Army Of Lovers feat. Olya Polyakova – Love Is Blue

[Thanks, John-John! Let's hope the official video is released soon...]

As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts...

That is good to me as well as that

It would appear that Ms Scarlet may be right - it certainly feels like that elusive "Indian Summer" is upon us. Yay!

Time, methinks, for a little round-up of the "newer" music that has caught my ear of late...

Let's open with the very welcome return of one of my favourite 80s synthpop bands, shall we? It's sublime:

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bauhaus Staircase

Here's darling Jake and his latest (and very catchy) choon:

Jake Shears - Last Man Dancing

If "Dafydd" from Little Britain got a load of naff tattoos and started hanging around with a woman who wouldn't look out of place in one of the windows in the Red Light District of Amsterdam...

Bentley Robles, LEXXE - I Just Wanna Dance

This is hilarious! Described by none other than Whigfield as "Like Borat, but with music", this piss-take of all things "90s Eurodance" is a work of genius:

Kyle Gordon feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica - Planet of the Bass

Cute gay pop-muppet Troye Sivan is back with an earworm...

Troye Sivan - Rush

Now, here's a formidable team-up of talent! Two "house fave" ladies for the price of one...

Jessie Ware & Róisín Murphy - Freak Me Now

With a complete change of tempo altogether, here's (a very short clip, unfortunately, of) something I heard recently on Radio 3 from the late, great Medievalist Belinda Sykes and her band :

Joglaresa - Bailemos! "A Dance Song after Rod Temperton's Boogie Nights"

But, finally, there is only one song for which the anticipation has been building - Our Princess Kylie's new one! It's brilliant:

Kylie Minogue - Tension

As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts!

Across every ocean

Timeslip moment again...

Thirty years ago today, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) were a force to be reckoned with, and not least for this marvellous creation - as we scramble ourselves for a return to the daily commute, appropriately enough, it's Locomotion:

I love it!

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Locomotion

Crossing every ocean for the sake of Locomotion
Crossing every ocean for the sake of Locomotion

Across every ocean
For the sake of Locomotion
But I wouldn't have a notion
How to save my soul
I walk down the sidewalk
Run down the boardwalk
Stop and make small talk
But I can't say no to you

I can't say no I can't say yes
I can't even write down my own address
I can't touch Heaven it's a little too far
It's the only way to travel
Got dreaming on a par
I'm staring through the window
Wondering where you are
Moving through the landscape at a million miles an hour

Across every nation
From the harbour to the station
It's a form of inspiration
It's a power to the state
They run down the railways
Sail across the seaways
Fly through the airways
But they can't say no
To you

I can't stand up I can't stand still
I know you wouldn't like it if I told you how I feel
I just want to say that it's only common sense
But the words always fail me at my own expense
I'm staring out the window
Wonder where you are
Moving through the landscape at a million miles an hour

Across every ocean
For the sake of Locomotion
But I wouldn't have a notion
How to save my soul
I walk down the sidewalk
Run down the boardwalk
Stop and make small talk

OMD website

Lieder für heute

Another selection of some newer musical delights is in order today, methinks...

First up, those marvellous pioneers of 80s electronic music OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) are back with a new album (English Electric) and a fab single Dresden:

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dresden

Regular faves here at Dolores Delargo Towers, those mad Melbourne-ites Parralox have a new single out, (featuring the rather cute Ryan Adamés), which has rather an early "house" feel about it - it's Silent Morning:

Parralox feat. Ryan Adamés - Silent Morning

Helen Marnie, lead vocalist and mainstay of the uber-cool Ladytron, started a solo career in 2012. Here, from her debut album Crystal World, is the single The Hunter. I like it - it reminds me a little of Tears for Fears...

Marnie - The Hunter

I am not usually known to be strangely drawn to "urban" shouty music, but once again the mere presence of the unbowed queen of dance music Luciana, in the estimable company of the horny gay bad boy Cazwell, makes this song irresistible - it's Guess What?:

Cazwell & Luciana - Guess What?

Speaking of fierce dance divas, here's the glamazon Bex and her new song What You Are. She loves only gold...

Bex - What You Are (Cutmore Extended Remix)

From the dance music of today, let's go right back to the heady days of Studio 54 in the company of the utterly fabulous Le Grind and their drag-tastic new single I Was There (Where Were You?) It's simply divine, daaahlings!

Le Grind - I Was There (Where Were You?)

And finally, continuing our countdown to Gay Pride on Saturday - who else could we choose to conclude this short, sharp collection but but the "Gay Pimp" himself Mr Jonny McGovern, with his anthem for Florida's "Gayest Weekend of All Time" (which took place this Spring), The Gayest Of All Time?

Johnny McGovern aka Gay Pimp - The Gayest Of All Time

Enjoy, sweeties - and let me know your thoughts!

A smorgasbord of 80s talent returns!

It's as if the 90s and the Noughties never happened - we have excellent new music releases this month from Donna Summer, Kim Wilde, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Andy Bell! A feast of nostalgia. Enjoy...

Donna Summer - To Paris With Love (WaWa Radio Edit)

Kim Wilde - Lights Down Low

OMD - If You Want It

Andy Bell - Non-Stop