Monday, April 16, 2012
Sissy
This is the second album of the Canadian duo made up of Johanne Williams and David Trusz. I heard about this band thanks to Trip Hop X. Sissy have an interesting mix of beats (I seriously suspect they recorded themselves hitting a metal barrel with a baseball bat, just listen to All Of Me), synthesizers, gloomy voice effects, piano.
I don't know anything about their first album, but I would definitely like to hear more of their music.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Quantifier - Dark Street
Search for Velure on Last.fm and you will find Quantifier under the Similar Artist section. The vice versa is also true.
Quantifier is a Polish producer and his music is mostly made of mixes which feature trip-hop beats, jazz saxophone and contrabass(double bass) sounds overdubbed with sporadic gramophone-like effect. There are no vocals by the way.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Lykke Li
Lykke Li hit mainstream with her single I Follow Rivers, but few know that this song comes from the second album of an interesting artist.
Her first album, called Youth Novels, was released in 2008 and presents a bunch of styles. The songs on this album reveal two constants: a preference for unusual intros and Lykke Li's beautiful voice. Dance, dance, dance reminds me of Nouvelle Vague, Little Bit of Martina Topley Bird's style and the voice from the beginning of I'm Good I'm Gone sounds like some industrial or new wave stuff (just to name a few similarities).
Note: Time Flies (Youth Novels album) is not a cover song from Vaya Con Dios(that's what my first thought was when I saw the title).
I've noticed that she has a choice for peculiar videos. Do you recognize the song she's playing a cappella in the beginning of the following video?
A couple of her videos including I Follow Rivers were directed by Tarik Saleh. His name didn't ring any bells but when I googled him I remembered that I saw one of his movies - Metropia (you should check it out).
Both albums are good and should make at least an interesting listening if her style doesn't appeal to you.
There are lots of songs from her on Youtube, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that both her albums were uploaded there.
Her first album, called Youth Novels, was released in 2008 and presents a bunch of styles. The songs on this album reveal two constants: a preference for unusual intros and Lykke Li's beautiful voice. Dance, dance, dance reminds me of Nouvelle Vague, Little Bit of Martina Topley Bird's style and the voice from the beginning of I'm Good I'm Gone sounds like some industrial or new wave stuff (just to name a few similarities).
Note: Time Flies (Youth Novels album) is not a cover song from Vaya Con Dios(that's what my first thought was when I saw the title).
I've noticed that she has a choice for peculiar videos. Do you recognize the song she's playing a cappella in the beginning of the following video?
A couple of her videos including I Follow Rivers were directed by Tarik Saleh. His name didn't ring any bells but when I googled him I remembered that I saw one of his movies - Metropia (you should check it out).
Both albums are good and should make at least an interesting listening if her style doesn't appeal to you.
There are lots of songs from her on Youtube, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that both her albums were uploaded there.
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