YUKSEK

My review on Live Music Scene for Yukseks exciting second album 'Living On The Edge Of Time':
http://www.live-music-scene.co.uk/cd-reviews-content.asp?id=499

Shufflin'

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB returned last month with their exciting new single 'Shuffle' from their upcoming third album 'A Different Kind Of Fix'.

People didn't know which direction they'd take next since the first album 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose' was purely electric, pumping out tune after tune from popularly loved 'Always Like This' to my personal favourite 'What If'. Following up from their debut was 'Flaws', taken in the opposite direction being completely acoustic. Jack Steadman continued to still write beautiful lyrics and put together with the music, the tracks on there are so wonderful to listen to over and over again.

Where could they possibly go next? Electronic and dancey? Oh no no. 'Shuffle' may make you want to dance, but the only electronic element is the keyboard used mainly at the beginning and continuing in the background throughout. There's something so subtly summer-y and something so catchy about this track. The rhythms are upbeat and the melodies are exciting and vibrant. Lucy Rose provides a beautiful accompaniment to Jack Steadmans vocals, making 'Shuffle' sound even more marvelous. This is such a wonderful insight into where Bombay are heading with this album and what to look forward to when it comes out August 29th.

Feast your eyes and ears on this:

WEIRD things

LONE, recently known for his remix of Friendly Fires first single 'Live Those Days Tonight' from their new album Pala and his remix of Radiohead track 'Feral', has become a new favourite artist of mine. Hailing from Nottingham and having launched his own label 'Magic Wire', he consistantly creates a fresh post-hip hop, sun-kissed, chilled disco vibe like shown from his Echolocations EP and, my favourite album lately, Emerald Fantasy Tracks. I just can't get enough.

Even better when you find out about fresh new track 'All Those Weird Things'. Starting off as some crazy playful disco with some lush abstract melodies, Lone adds an average pulsating beat in the background, creating something vibrant and musically abstract with the conventions of a stereotypical beat driven dance track. Upbeat and uplifting, fresh and different. It has repetitive elements which are subtly catchy. A cowbell in the background starts off more new sounds that are being added as the song goes on. The beat momentarily leaves and a vocal sample comes in, something quite unexpected. Once the beat kicks back in, the song itself gets exciting, as if it's building up and it is. The melody fades out and just leaves the cowbell and beat to end the song which is something I most definitely adore about this since the melody it started with is the first thing to fade out.

LONE plays around with rich melodies and rhythms, making such an exciting, energetic and bubbly disco/dance track.


Lone "All those weird things" (clip)