What is fucking brilliant this week?Hot Chip - Don’t Dance
If you’ve been near the internet recently you will know that Hot Chip are the greatest band of all time (until the next one comes along). This track, off their at-times-more-difficult-to-listen-to-than-people-are-making-out new album, does quite a good job of justifying these claims.
It’s got an amazing snare ‘n’ bass bit in it that sounds like ‘Homework’-era Daft Punk, which then gives way to preposterously intense, mile-high waves of crashing, whirring doomsynth. It basically sounds like taking drugs at the end of the world. It is brilliant.
Bloc Party - The Prayer
For some reason we have been listening to this old BP single quite a lot lately. It is essentially the best Gregorian chant-based indie rave mash-up track OF ALL TIME. Not that there’s much competition for that title, but still. Proves that when Kele and Co. get it right, they get it incredibly right (see also ‘Flux’).
Kylie Minogue - Wow (CSS Remix)
Here, the feisty Brazilians improve Kylie’s new single ten-fold, using much the same technique that saw them turn the last Cribs single from a load of indie nonsense into a massive dancefloor hit (ie mess about with things ever so slightly but not that much really).
Hercules & Love Affair…
…are pretty bloody amazing, are they not? (More on this ’revelation’ soon).
Munch Munch - Wedding
This sunkissed slice of indie R&B sounds like a collaboration between Hot Chip, Architecture In Helsinki and a field full of hippies. It also sounds like a right old racket, especially when it reaches the three minute mark. Nevertheless, it is excellent.
Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
Upping the sunshine factor even further is this blissfully bouncy electropop love song that throbs and pulses and makes you feel better about all the shit in the world. Meteorologists are yet to find an explanation for the recent warm weather, but druids nationwide are tipping this as the source.
David Jordan - Sun Goes Down
Still. Now doubling as a HILARIOUS mobile phone alarm tone (“open your eyes ‘cos another day is dawning”). Oh the fun we have.
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