THE BEST:
'Moving Mountains' –
Disclosure ft. Brendan Reilly
The UK house duo have slowed things down with this slinky
electroballad featuring sexy r&b vocals from London singer Brendan Reilly.
The whole song builds up to some tasty but smooth trap flavourings towards the
end. I’m now pretty psyched for these guys upcoming sophomore album, Caracal. Check out the track here whilst
it’s still available for stream (skip to 1:29:00 to listen).
‘Another Body’ – El-P
Master hip hop producer El-P has recently refrained from making
beats entirely out of cat noises in order to deliver this epic instrumental set
to appear during the end credits of the latest Fantastic Four film. It isn’t
very hip hop flavoured, but still shows off the producer’s talents, composed of
cinematic trumpets, fat strings and brooding layers of electronica. Let’s hope
the movie lives up to it’s soundtrack and isn’t a pile of wank like the
original Fantastic Four film (yeah I said it! Isn’t ‘pile of wank’ such a weird
expression?)
'Get Up Get Down' –
Mick Jenkins
I guess you could call this a party tune. The hook’s punchy and the beat’s pretty wavy. However, Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins still manages to drop some socially conscious rhymes in the second half, keeping hold of his witty personality and preventing himself from turning into another Drake clone.
'Crackula' – Pizza
Tramp
‘What do you get when
you cross a horrible Welsh punk band with zero editing skills and footage shot
on a digital camera. CRACKULA.’ That video description alone has won me
over.
THE WORST:
‘Throne’ – Bring Me The Horizon
Once a shitty metalcore band, Bring Me The Horizon have now
decided to become a shitty carbon copy of Linkin Park. Too harsh? Life is
harsh. Deal with it.
‘Restless’ - New
Order
What decade is this? Out of the blue, eighties electro kings
New Order are back with a new single. Unfortunately, it isn’t very good.
Bernard Summer’s disinterested vocals always had a dark undertone to them, but
here they just simply sound disinterested. Also where are the groovy synths? With
its flat guitars and strings, the whole thing might as well be a modern U2
song.