Sunday, 8 February 2015
Friday, 6 February 2015
Cosmo Sheldrake – “Tardigrade Song”
Stand strong, stand proud
London’s Cosmo Sheldrake is an irrefutable badass. A veritable one-man band who mixes traditional world music sounds with modern electronic production, he’s a unique standout even if what I just described sounds like Beats Unique (it’s not). His latest single “Tardigrade Song” sings about the struggles and desires of what National Geographic describes as the world’s toughest animal. Who else sings about this kind of shit?
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Thursday, 5 February 2015
Diet Cig – “Harvard”
A joke about what’s happening below the crop is too easy, right?
There’s something about jangly, snotty indie pop that manages to keep it relevant and interesting way past its heyday in the 90s. Upstate New York duo Diet Cig are making a great name for themselves from their debut tracks, the second being a simultaneously cutting and charming diss track against singer Alex Luciano’s ex. Kind of want to don a pair of suspenders and sneer at passerbys whilst smoking a cigarette on a sidewalk patio in Brooklyn after listening to this. Just me?
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