Halo Halo share new video for ‘Taro Taro Taro’

24 July 2013

Halo Halo - Taro Taro Taro

Rachel Horwood, Jack Barraclough and Gill Partington, who make up Halo Halo, create some of the most inventive and infectious pop.
The London based trio’s self-titled debut album dropped a couple of weeks ago via Upset The Rhythm. ‘Taro Taro Taro’, the second song on the album. has just received the visual treatment. As the label describes, ‘Taro Taro Taro’ “sublimely loses itself in echoes of melody and propulsive rhythms, underscoring the song’s subject matter of a time travelling fisherman lost to the waves for 300 years”. The story is taken from Urashima Taro, a famous Japanese fairy tale. Watch the video below.


If you’re around London next Thursday August 1st, see them perform live alongside one of our favourite bands, Flamingods. It’s at Birthdays, and it’s free.

Listen to Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo’s new song

23 July 2013

Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo - Join Me On My Avalanche

Explosions In The Sky teamed up with film composer David Wingo to score filmmaker David Gordon Green’s upcoming dramatic comedy, Prince Avalanche. Starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an adaptation of Either Way, an indie comedy by Icelandic filmmaker Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson.
“Much like the film, the soundtrack stitches dozens of tiny moments of heartfelt brilliance into an emotionally resonant whole far more expansive than its intimate roots might imply”, says the press release.
We’ll have to wait for the film to be out next month, but we can already be sure the soundtrack will be tremendously beautiful. ‘Join Me On My Avalanche’, one of the songs off it, is now available to stream.
Prince Avalanche: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released via Temporary Residence. Pre-order it here and listen to Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo’s ‘Join Me On My Avalanche’ below.

Girls In Hawaii return with new album and drop first single

22 July 2013

Girls In Hawaii - Misses

Everest, the third full-length album from Belgian sextet Girls In Hawaii, will see the light of day on September 16th via Naïve Records. Antoine Wielemans, Lionel Van Cauwenberghe, Daniel Offerman, François Gustin, Brice Van Cauwenberghe and Boris Gronemberger, who make up the outfit, took a long break after the tragic death of drummer Denis Wielemans in a car accident in 2010.
Last year, Girls In Hawaii regrouped and this Spring saw them recording the forthcoming album in an ancient Manoir near Paris, with producer Tchad Blake (The Black Keys, Gomez).
According to the press release, each of the 11 songs featured on Everest is a variation “on the same themes of absence, irremediable loss, the aftermath, the will to live, and the search for catharsis!.
‘Missus’ is the first single taken from the album, and it comes with a video directed by Olivier Cornil. Check it out below.

Listen to Wackrow’s brand new track ‘Jet Washed’

17 July 2013

WackrowFor quite some time now, Wackrow’s music has been kicking in our eardrums so we are very excited to be premiering his brand new track ‘Jet Washed’.
The Berlin based British multi-instrumentalist, who has also been a member of The Oscillation and Velofax, crafts sounds inspired by varied musical territories such as Krautrock, progg, cosmic funk, electronica and new wave, amongst other genres and influences.
Recorded using a 4 track tape recorder, ‘Jet Washed’ has the perfect amount of groove and pop sensibility to get you sucked into it from the very first listen. Here it is.

CocoRosie share video for ‘Child Bride’

16 July 2013

CocoRosie - Child Bride

CocoRosie‘s latest album, Tales of a Grass Widow, came out last May via City Slang. The sister duo have just premiered a video for the track ‘Child Bride’, off the same album. The song and its video, as the title suggests, tells the story of a young girl who is given away by her family to a much older man. Emma Freeman directs and you can watch it below.