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The best of this week’s singles (part 2): Ninetails, Department M, Kev La Kat and more!
Published on January 23rd, 2014 | Jonny Abrams
This week’s singles threw up so many good ‘uns that we’ve had to do a part 2 – and here it is, featuring Milk & Biscuits, Ninetails, Department M, FaltyDL, Merchandise, Each Other, Kramies, Smith Comma John, Mutado Pintado, YACHT and Kev La Kat…
SEE ALSO: The best of this week’s singles (part 1)
Milk & Biscuits – “Hairstyles”
We wanted to resist its twee-pop charms but were utterly sold by the first blissfully jazzy trumpet solo.
The male singer sounds like Lee Gorton from Alfie, which in case you’re not sure is a good thing.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Ninetails – “Radiant Hex”
It’s about bloody time somebody slathered mariachi trumpets over a lysergically clacking beat. Judiciously restrained vocals and a spot of glitch about it too. Splendid.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Department M – “Miscellany”
Kinda sounds like Mars Volta and New Order stumbling out of that machine from The Fly. Think Depeche Mode might have been in there too. Satisfyingly weird.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
FaltyDL – “Danger”
Skittering, clattering beat slips and slides its way through pulsating rave synth and dilates every pupil in an eighty-mile radius.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Merchandise – “Begging for Your Life/In the City Light”
Murmurs its way through sounding like a hundred different things within its four minutes, eventually settling on bubbling up into a dizzying frenzy of feedback – a logical solution to the delightfully illogical.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails!
Each Other – “Send Your Signals”
Divertingly tangential sludgy psych jangle, like Mazes meets Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Kramies – “The Wooden Heart”
Graceful, mysterious, echo-chamber balladry with fire in its belly.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Smith Comma John – “How to Sleep and Never Wake”
A rainbow-spewing bubbleworks of disparate electronic elements forced quite expertly into playing well together.
Rocksucker says: Three a Half Quails out of Five!
Mutado Pintado – “The Tick”
Buzzes and stomps in strangely alluring fashion.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
YACHT – “Plastic Soul”
Seems as if it’s set to be vacuous hipster-synth fare, then reaches its exquisitely whirring chorus and casts off the doubt like an unwanted item of clothing. Lovely.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
Kev La Kat – “Keep It Tropical”
Does good by its title by scattering refreshing steel drum all over it, keeping a groove going with rubbery synth bass.
Rocksucker says: Three and a Half Quails out of Five!
NOW: check out part 1 of our round-up of this week’s best singles!
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Jonny Abrams Editor of Rocksucker and the website's founder, Jonny is passionate about the music he listens to, both good and bad, as well as interviewing his favourite musicians.
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