Cloud Nothings are my most listened to band of the last month (proof) and they’re brilliant. They’re what Japandroids might sound like if they were better recorded and children of a more sombre upbringing, but they still cram loads of big powerful sounds into their songs. ‘Stay Useless’ and ‘Fall in’ are their funnest tracks, but ‘No sentiment’ is the most interesting song on their album Attack On Memory, because it could have been obtained by travelling to an alternate reality where Nirvana were still in existence. I love it’s intensity and roughness, but because it’s ‘A’ section is coupled with a more melodic counterpart, the song battles against itself to brilliant results.

So, this is incredible.

This is the first single off Tall Ships’ first full length, T=0, which is coming out on April 16th (same day as Maps & Atlases new album - expensive week). 

The Brighton based band are going from strength to strength, taking a few strides away from their math-rock roots, arriving at a nice junction between a powerful yet anglular, and an accessible pop sound. The first two minutes are without vocals, but a brilliant looped riff carries the song along. 

I’ve been listening to it pretty much non stop.

musicalmathematics:

Music Video for “Bond” by LITE from “past, present, future” (2012.03.21
release)

Just, like… Wow. 

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SO. Continuing the theme which seems to have evolved with my initial posts on this here blog, I am writing a new feature about a band with a symbol for a band name. Welcome to the frame - ∆.

Or their google friendly attire is Alt-J. 

Triangles were always the most hipster of shapes, and I would assume the music accompanying a band name as such to be as pretentious as a juxtaposition. 

However, annoyingly, a juxtaposition is in fact present with this band, for despite the obtuse name, the music is so well crafted and so interesting that it is actually really easily likable, and accessible to an extent. Any barrier of pretension crumbles.

Like (in my opinion) peers Wild Beasts, the vocals are odd initially, but become delicate upon perseverance. When the bass comes in on the above track ‘Fitzpleasure’, the dimension shifts and the sonic landscape opens up and becomes so vast that you become absorbed and lost somewhere in between some rocky depths of bass and beautifully worked trill harmonies, like being stuck halfway up a mountain.

Also, hunt down Breezeblocks which is free on their soundcloud.

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