Summer is here and the record industry is rushing its schedule before the season break. As usual, plenty of album streaming action, beginning with our favorite Swedish pop star. ROBYN offered ‘Body Talk Part 1’ the first of three mini albums she plan to launch over 2010, through her Myspace page. The nine track record … Read more
Casi un mes desde que cerramos el chiringuito para ir al ATP de Pavement, volvemos con una edición condensada de nuestro habitual repaso semanal. En esta ocasión con una selección de los videos lanzados durante las últimas semanas.
La primera parte está dedicada a aquellas canciones y artistas que ya han sido grandes éxitos en nuestro loop pero no contaban con formato audiovisual hasta la fecha; comenzando con la excepción de Flying Lotus, que nos presenta una canción nueva, ‘Heave (N)’, un descarte de su excelente album ‘Cosmogramma’ cuya calidad indica la bestia de disco que el experimental beatmaster ha producido. A continuación de ‘Heave (n)’ una selección de promos actuales que no deberían necesitar mayor presentación.
‘Dancing On My Own’, the first official single from Robyn’s new mini album –beginning a trilogy to be released during the year- replaces Male Bonding as number one in the loop.
One of the highlights of the third LCD Soundsystem opus and the returns of Crystal Castles and PJ Harvey are some of the new entries … Read more
‘Dancing On My Own’, el primer single oficial del nuevo mini album de Robyn’s – el comienzo de una trilogia a publicarse durante este año- sustituye a Male Bonding como número uno de nuestro loop.
Uno de los temas destacados de la tercera obra de LCD Soundsystem y los regresos de Crystal Castles y PJ Harvey … Read more
Enduring a minor delay due to the vulcanic cloud forcing us to alter our plans, we begin our review of last week’s music activity with the record that everybody is talking about. James Murphy has made available the third LCD SOUNDSYSTEM album, ‘This Is Happening’ , for streaming weeks before its released, right before their … Read more
After the mild disappointment that was their second opus “The Understanding”; Röyksopp, Norway’s biggest electronica export, are back to their most pop-tastic form in “Junior”.
The duo from Bergen has scheduled two albums to be released in 2009, when “Junior” is about to hit the shops and can be listened in full at the band’s myspace page; it will be followed by “Senior” at the end of the year. First impressions are more than positive . The album is packed with potential singles, most of them helped in the vocal field by the cream of Today’s cutting edge Scandinavian female artists. After the jump, a quick look at Röyksopp’s women.
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Our favourite tracks of 2008 also suffered from the overall quality clash, even when the new digital format threaten with turning the traditional album into a thing from the past, favouring the track as the ultimate choice. Even so, the highlighted singles pale in comparison with other years’ offer, showing a noticeable growth in the presence of guilty pleasures that wouldn’t have classified in better times; hardest sounds were also on the rise.
Not everything was negative, though. The EP, as a way of compromising between the track and the album, seemed to be the chosen format among new acts that wanted to launch themselves with something more substantial than a mere catchy tune; the quality and number of them made us raise our hopes for a better 2010.
Nuestras canciones favoritas del 2008 acusaban también el bajón cualitativo general, incluso cuando los nuevos formatos digitales amenazan con convertir al tradicional álbum en cosa del pasado, favoreciendo la canción como elección ultima. Incluso así los singles que destacamos palidecen si los comparamos con los de otras temporadas, con un considerable aumento en la presencia de “pecadillos comerciales” que no hubieran llegado a clasificarse en tiempos mejores; los sonidos más duros también incrementaban su presencia.
No todo era negativo: el formato EP, a modo de compromiso entre canción y álbum, parecía estar en auge entre nuevas bandas que se presentaban con algo más sólido que un mero tema pegadizo; en tal número y cantidad que nos hacían concebir esperanzas de mejora en el 2010.
