Friday, 20 June 2008Polka Party on Happy Release records POLKA PARTYJapanese Haircut Happy Release Records United Kingdom (UK) Quantity Pressed : 500 Release Date: 9th Jun 2008 Brit Pop, pioneered by late nineties bands like Blur, Pulp and The Stone Roses has evolved into a guitar based layered dance influenced pop reinterpreted by Franz Ferdinand, and Bloc Party leading this next wave. For the first time thanks in part to music being able to be delivered directly to an audience, that audience helping to make these bands the success they are. That part of the story is new and Polka Party is making their way into this movement. Japanese Haircut pounces straight off with a hyper paced high hat and dirty punk chords. Thomas O delivers the lyrics in a deadpan forced stutter on the beat, not so much singing as he is just forcing them into your ears. Half talking, chanting '...oil slick eyelash... Japanese Haircut...'. It sounds like it's combining Art Brut's naive wit albeit a tougher persona with guitar surges of huge choruses that keep climbing to ever higher heights, then pausing for a drum machine handclaps breakdown and distant splintered guitar lines. It's pure dissafected power pop, brief and to the point. Completely contemporary in the unrelenting aggresive get up and move beats and high guitar lines. Labels: Happy Release records, polka party
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Lisa O Piu on Autumn Ferment records
Artist: Lisa O Piu
Whisperers, Wavers, Hunters and Sailors / Equatorial Changes
Autumn Ferment Records
Quantity Pressed: 500
Release Date: 3rd Jun 2008
Sweden is some kind of weird magical place where everyone has super cheap, nicely designed furniture in their homes, the best chocolate, bank accounts and they used to see the Shout Out Louds and Peter Bjorn and John down the street. It's more than just a coincidence that this area of the world has resulted in the proliferation of bands like these. And from all across the musical spectrum, Love is All, Dungen, I'm from Barcelona... all from an entire country's population way smaller than New York City. Is it the government funding or the pervasive DIY spirit from this homogeneous gene pool.
The only comparison I can come up with as a frame of reference for Lisa O Piu is Joanna Newsome, not vocally in any way, but she shares the same kind of fairy tale folk, full of that poetic imagery and mythology.
She has this wavering vibrato voice, that seems like it's the kind of thing you're born with, or just inherently know how to sing, and can't be trained. It sounds effortless and fits right into the whole otherworldly feel.
Lisa O Piu grew up outside of Stockholm, Sweden and it sounds like she was a little obsessed with horses, riding...drawing them, as evident by the sleeve art on her latest single on Autumn Ferment Records. She primarily writes with acoustic guitar and keeps the arrangements pretty sparse and on 'Wavers, Whisperers...' Lisa changes the finger picking tempo every measure, keeping the lyric constantly surprising if not a little disorienting, any kind of chorus is nonexistent. Electric guitars and layers of vocals slowly work their way into this epic ballad of the sea, it's travelers and creatures.
Labels: autumn ferment records, Lisa O Piu, sweden
posted by Jason @ 04:25 2 Comments
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Dear Jason,
I just read your review and was a bit confused by your description of this weird and magical place you talk about. Since I know for a fact that Lisa is Swedish, which you also mention in this review, I wonder why you insist on mentioning things that has nothing to do with Sweden, but have quite a lot to do with Switzerland. I am of course talking about the chocolate and the bank accounts. I know it can be difficult to distinguish these two countries from each other (because the initial TWO letters are the very same, and of course they are both European countries), but if you must talk about the country an artist or a band are from, I am sure they would appreciate it if you got it right.
On the plus side though, at least you mentioned IKEA!
Yours sincerely,
Jennie
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