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Here’s your latest FP Picks update .. loads of great new music as always inc banging trx fm CMAT, Getdown Services, Keo & many more. If you like what you hear please follow and share this playlist, it helps us keep doing our thing by getting the algorithms on our side. Also please support the artists featured in any way you can!
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Helen (Futureproof) x
Bon Iver – If Only I Could Wait (ft. Danielle Haim)
Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon) has shared a double single from the upcoming album SABLE fABLE and states: “For the second look into fABLE, it couldn’t be a single; it had to be a double. First, Walk Home is a romp where you can’t wait to pull your clothes off fast enough and jump inside bed with your one true lover. And then If Only I Could Wait (which features Haim’s Danielle Haim). A duet. A bilateral crying question. How long can the two of us hang on to each other?” If Only I Could Wait is a dizzy, ecstatic head-trip, with incandescent strings and keyboards swirling over a distorted drum loop and those two voices forming spiraling layers.
CMAT – Running/Planning
CMAT has dropped infectious new single Running/Planning, taken from the upcoming album EURO-COUNTRY which she describes as her “most important record” to date. The track takes an incisive look at societal expectations, particularly those placed on women. “Running/Planning is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist,” CMAT explains. “It’s an abstracted view of societal pressure on women—specifically through a relationship lens: You start dating someone, you get engaged, you get married, you have kids etc etc etc… everything has to follow this linear pattern. (That’s the reason for the repetitive chorus!)” Great vocals and great songwriting on this absolute rousing banger from CMAT – can’t wait to catch her at Glasto!
Getdown Services – Dog Dribble
Bristol-based duo Getdown Services shared the highly infectious and quick-witted track Dog Dribble a while back with its droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves. Getdown Services are described as a ramshackle stream of consciousness riot, with their music landing somewhere between Kneecap, The Dare and LCD Soundsystem. We’ve been lucky to experience the energetic and captivating live performance of Getdown Services – well worth checking out and what a banger this one is with its upbeat tempo and amazing guitar solo. A total earworm for sure!
Witch Post – The Wolf
Witch Post have shared their haunting new track The Wolf, blending indie and experimental pop, taken from their upcoming debut EP Beast. “Last night I left a big, raw soup bone at the end of the driveway with a note underneath,” they say of the track. “This morning the bone is gone and all that is left is shredded paper covered in pinkish slobber. I walk with a friend and we speak about it all; the note, the bone, the feeling that I had been harboring in my gut that I needed to make contact. A few weeks back, I had pieced together the mystery of why neighbors’ small dogs would go missing once a month, or trash cans would be tipped over, slashed with claw marks …” A mesmerizing track transporting listeners into a nocturnal dreamscape.
Erotic Secrets of Pompeii – Speak Medieval
This quirky indie gem from Bristol art rockers Erotic Secrets of Pompeii teases elements of burlesque amidst a frenetic assault of chromatic riffs & stop-start rhythms. With an assortment of lyrical imagery, at times akin to a Terry Gilliam film, that skirts round ideas of chopping heads off through to military musical ensembles, the track takes no prisoners as it jumps from the motif to motif & section to section with no let up! With radio support from 6Music & Radio X plus comparisons being made to cult bands like The Cardiacs & Virgin Prunes by highly respectable blogs & journos, I’ll finish off by saying overall, this is an intense listen for those who like the music to get right inside their head – seatbelts on folks… we’re going on a trip!
L’objectif – Burbank
Leeds-based alt-rock outfit L’objectif have dropped their energetic new single Burbank and state: “Burbank is about a character who travels to America in the pursuit of fame and self discovery but in the process seems to completely lose their identity. This song is the second instalment in a trilogy of songs that are connected, following on from goth kids, written about the same character earlier in their life. In Burbank, the character’s futile search for identity brings about the unravelling of all their flaws as they lose themselves to addiction, false hope and their own ego.” It’s filled with pulsating guitar melodies and the insatiable energy that’s become synonymous with L’objectif‘s upbeat sound.
Cliffords – Bittersweet
Cork-based band Cliffords have shared their nostalgic new single Bittersweet and vocalist Iona Lynch states: “Bittersweet is a more abstract look at nostalgia and our last few years of living in Cork. The first few lines of the song ‘the city begged look up’ comes from something my grandad always said to me, ‘look up or you’ll miss half the beauty of the city’. Bittersweet reflects the mixed emotions of us as a band finding our way in music and in ourselves as young adults. The lyrics poke fun at heartbreaks and how dramatic and potent those feelings felt at the time.” Cliffords fuse melody-rich shoegaze with the raw intensity of grunge, crafting a widescreen and cinematic sound.
Keo – I Lied, Amber
London-based band Keo have dropped their shoegaze-influenced debut single I Lied, Amber following a sold-out show at London’s Oslo. The track showcases the band’s blend of layered shoegaze guitars and rhythmic elements, drawing influence from artists like Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. “It’s about pretending to trust somebody and lying to yourself that you do. Letting your past relationships negatively dictate your future ones but ultimately surrendering to the person with the knowledge that they have your heart in the palm of their hand,” Keo say of the release. The track marks the start of an undoubtedly exciting year ahead, which proceeds with Keo hitting the road in support of Birmingham band Overpass.
Rosie Alena – Billboards
Rosie Alena explores the end of a relationship across new EP Everyman. Beginning with Billboards, the EP is ushered in in a calm and subdued manner, Alena’s voice gentle and soothing as it floats with the weight of a feather like a soft mist across that opening track. Alena says of the song, “Although Billboards is the opening track of the EP, it is the last of the four songs I wrote and represents the finality of a relationship. It is about hearing rumours at parties about the man I used to be with and quite literally seeing his work plastered onto billboards. I no longer knew the ins and outs of his life but I was repeatedly bombarded by his name and presence. I felt deeply rejected and powerless in a situation I thought I had complete control over.”
Antony Szmierek – Crashing Up
Just a few years ago, Antony Szmierek decided to take a punt on himself, swapping his life as high school English teacher for a career as a spoken word artist and musician and wasn’t that a great decision! He’s just released his debut album Service Station At The End Of The Universe that runs the gamut of human emotion – from the minutiae to the mammoth. The album reminds us that life is fleeting, and we might never understand what others are going through. Antony tells Principle: “In a weird sort of meta way I inserted myself as a character in for Restless Leg Syndrome and Crashing Up. I think those are the ones that I feel sort of most proud of because it felt like I’d done something new and it felt like I’d allowed myself to open up and take a lot of the crutches away, the humour and the three finger twixes of it all.”
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