четверг, 9 июня 2011 г.

Girls sing: New music with female vocal

Twin Sister - an ideal name for twee-pop band. Stop, it's not twee? Gorgeous. Their new song sounds like disco jam - not only psychedelic, but strawberry, so tasty and sweet. And yep, that was Animal Collective reference.
Twin Sister - Bad Street by DominoRecordCo
First and the best Diplo-produced song in that post. You must remember Girls Aloud and their hits, such as… Ouch, hope yours memory's better than mine. So, it's solo song by Nicola Roberts, one of the group. Sounds like Major Lazer remix of La Roux song produced by Justice, and it's awesome.
Every year we had a candidate for the position of new Bjork. It were Emilie Simon, Joannna Newsom, Ida Maria - no one took the place. But god bless the polars - looks like we have a winner! Olga Bell, nee Russian, grown in Alaska, now she live in New York, but her music still holds icy calm of the north. Her debut album, Diamonite, is full of cold, but touchy electronics. It's clash of pagan and urban mythologies, ice desert and built up areas. The peak moment of the album - "Charlie", long and hypnotic northern poem. This album is beautiful as nature itself - as diamond, as boundless ocean, as aurora borealis.

Bodies of Water is the most 70s band of our days and the most Swedish band from California. And yes, it was allusion to ABBA - honestly, I don't really know more about 70s pop. It's sounds like famous quartet, but as if all the existential sadness of Sweden band break through cheerful melodies and smiles. As if Belle and Sebastian will see this world in a serious way. It's nostalgic music about something irretrievably lost and something that you can find only there - in the music.
Bodies Of Water - Open Rhythms by design_t
I know that it's not fair but I've decided to do this short review. I really appreciate her work and I think that there are only two real songstress in the mainstream pop right now - it's Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. I don't like the Gaga way - she's too pushy, and that's why I've waited for Beyoncé record. And I wasn't disappointed - "4"'s precious album. There's no big hits, all given to ballads and some experimental tracks - and besides it, it's beautiful. Sometimes I even think that she's the voice of all women - why not? She's the woman who sings, she just comes in and says about things that worry many of us. The-Dream on the backs, brilliant cameo of Andre 3000 - the album is superb in details. So, who's run the world? Beyoncé.

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