Peace (the band not the plea)

"It’s spectacular, how you suck my blood. Baby you’re Dracula"

I don't know what I love more: the fact that their Facebook page is higher up on Google search engine than the Peace corp or the fact they have used a watermelon as their EP artwork.

Peace are about to venture on the NME awards tour with Django Django, Miles Kane and Palma Violets (I will get on to them later). This band is the band who are currently being repeated on YouTube adverts, radio one late night shows and being showcased on Xfm Great Xpectations (where you can download California daze for free).

Peace have managed to create an EP that has no faults, no glitches and still, despite the envy, makes you feel like you could share their company over a drink or two down the pub.

Covering Binary Finary's Trance Hit, Track 1998(Delicious) from their EP is a 10 minuet squeezing of wondrous beauty.  Its ridiculous how good this is.




New song Wraith is available on the 13th.

Swim Deep

"Fuck your romance, I wanna pretend That Jenny Lee Lindberg is my girlfriend"

The Birmingham sprung, 'Beach grunge,' Swim Deep have become a particular favourite of mine recently. With the power of the cinnamon role and their latest track, Honey, Swim deep have had allot more radio play, spreading their name, which can only be a good thing with an upcoming tour and album on the horizon.

Swim Deep's late 80's pop sound is strung from effortlessly cool tales of lust and romance. 

Released back in May but this is still up there in my most played: King City

  

A little something

"See you on the Flip Side"



The Gaslight Anthem-45

This song makes me want to ride a skateboard down to the beach, with a few ill-mannered friends; and spend the hole day drinking Budweiser, sitting on a well gratified bench, heckling residence as they pass by... being that ruthless teenager you always secretly wanted to be, no matter how socially condemnable they were.

No hope for the Vaccines

The Vaccines are back (even though it felt like they never left) with another classic upbeat, rhythmically acclaimed sound to accompany the release of there new upcoming album. But unlike there many hits about coming of age, love and family, this track focuses on being bored?
So the theme is relatable than most, the song lasts over the 3 minute Vaccine average and would probably give 'If you wanna' a run for it's money, on being the biggest crowd pleaser at festivals. The only problem is that the song itself is just that little bit annoying, due to the repetitive nature of the cords and lyrics. 



The video for this track follows  story of a helpless boy stuck in his awkward teen years trying to express his love for an older woman. Set in a reminiscence black and white could imply that this is a strange sort of love letter from lead singer Justin Young to his youth, remember his embarrassing heart breaks in adolescence. 




  The Catchy song has proven to be successful already as it climbs its way up to the top 30 of the UK chart. 

Grimshaw take over

Rather happy today to find that Nick Grimshaw will be taking over from Chris Moyles and the team on the morning breakfast show for radio1.

I  don't quite understand why it has taken them this long in the first place; it is quite an achievement of Moyles (who is clearly not a music fan) to stay in employment with the largest music radio station in the UK, with his max 6-song -a-show-playlist and his constant controversial, babble that seemed to dribble out of his boorish mouth every morning.
With his contract due to end with the BBC in 2014 I do wonder what he is going to do next, maybe reading lengthily chapters of poorly written books on bbc 3? Or even doing the late, late, late night show where he can talk his listeners to sleep or rekindle his bond with the trucker audience.
When the Moyles team is just a distance memory, we will have Grimmy to fill the void.
For all of you who have no idea who Nick Grimshaw is; he is a presenter on T4 as well as Radio1's late night show after Zane Lowe, were fans are urged to 'stay up with grimmy.' The nocturnal 27 year old is well known for his bubbly personality, his funny anecdotes, oh and just casually partying with the A-listers' cool crowd, hitting up Camden bars with the likes of  Peaches Geldof and Kate Moss.
From interviewing artists such as Beyonce to  Bieber we know he is going to do just fine with the morning slot. I just hope I'm not the only one who cant wait to wake up with Grimmy every morning.

Arctic Monkeys

The rifts that inspired the new Teddy boy look of Alex Tuner has indelibly turned into a fascination for old school rock and roll. 

Arctic Monkeys new Album ‘Suck it and see’ has evidently caste a heavy storm over the bedrooms of eager rock and rollers. The 2010 album ‘Humbug’ with epic battles of songs like ‘my propeller’
makes the direction to create a highly influenced American- rockabilly- Harley Davidson- road trip-sound track of this new album foreseeable. The over use of the word brick in track ‘Brick by brick’ should cause the  song to falter; but what it lacks in lyrics it makes up for in garish guitar riffs and razor blade drum solos. 'Suck it and see' is the incriminating end in every teenage rebellion; the album sets aside every previous work from the Arctic Monkeys, and if they carry on making albums like this the cultural revolt will infiltrate social order and make the light weight, mind-numbing 9-5 workers remember the electrifying life they once had.

8/10

Bombay bicycle club

From seeing them live earlier this year I was more than thrilled to here the new release of the video for their latest single 'How can you swallow so much sleep.'

 The song itself is powered on dreamy chimes and bubbling guitar rifts; the enchanting melody takes us past the lullaby and into a childhood dream world, leaving the faint echo of repetitive lyrics astray in the distance as we follow a story line of a dreaming boy defining gravity, jumping planets and sawing through the universe.

The amazing filmmaker, Anna Ginsburg created this stop-start motion film that provides a beautiful delusion to a already brilliant track.

The film took over 4 months of hard work and persistence to make; showing that a true piece of art is one that is worth working for.

The Track is from the bands latest album 'A different kind of fix.' Which is worth having in your record collection.