Thursday, April 17, 2008

M83 - Album Out Now



Beautiful, washed out video for "Graveyard Girl" off M83's new album, Saturdays = Youth.

Monday, April 7, 2008

THE PRESETS


It's been a while since I've said this without imitating a fluro teeny-bopper, but - The Presets are awesome... This attitude was greatly helped by the set I saw them play at V Festival in Sydney last weekend (I've put a photo I took from the fest above). It has fully renewed my respect for the Sydney-based twosome. Their set started off with their usual songs off BEAMS which everyone has heard the Presets play numerous times over the past couple of years... But then they started to delve into some of their new songs, and it could have been the drugs and alcohol, but I really, really enjoyed it.

After this experience, I am really looking forward to getting their new album
APOCALYPSO which is due for release on April 12th (you can pre-order a copy here). The first single off the album "My People" was quite similar to some of their earlier banging songs, but others e.g. "This Boy's In Love", "Yippiyo Ay" and "If I Know You" are totally different. These songs have the feel of 80s and 90s new wave dance acts like Depeche Mode, New Order, Underworld and The Crystal Method, and this I believe is such a better way to show their musical talent.

It's sometimes easy to forget when brilliant musicians are actually brilliant when their fan-base is predominantly undesirable.
It's a lot easier to take the easy road and just dismiss them as another one of "those" acts. But everyone forgets that The Presets are so talented and pretty much created a genre in indie-dance in Australia and in turn The World, and deserve to cash in on their popularity... But enough of that, the new stuff that is coming from the creative brains of Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton is making blood travel to my crotch and I can't wait to listen to the whole album when it comes out next week.. It's posted on their myspace now for those who can't wait. Below I have posted "If I Know You" and an awesome remix of "This Boy's In Love" - enjoy

The Presets - If I Know You (YSI)

The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike remix) (YSI)


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