This week in new music
Fri 8th Jul, 2011 in Local News
New tunes from Gotye, Mariachi El Bronx, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, Ghoul and the supergroup featuring Mick Jagger, Damien Marley and Joss Stone.
Gotye and Kimbra got covered in body paint for the video to Somebody That I Used To Know but even without the clip the track proves that the follow up to Gotye’s debut is going to be well worth a listen. He has a fair bit of expectation to live up to though – his last record just came in at eleventh Hottest Australian Album of All Time on triple j’s poll.
Last year Radiohead drummer Philip Selway released an album of acoustic songs, Familial. Selway has now re-recorded several songs that were originally written for that album with a full band for a new EP, Running Blind, which will be released later this month. You can hear the EP’s title track here:
Everyone’s favourite hardcore turned Mariachi band The Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx return with a second album of Mexican flavoured tunes in August. The lead single from the record is 48 Roses and makes us very keen for another Bronx/El Bronx double header tour soon!
Been dying to hear what Superheavy – the new super group featuring the strange lineup of Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and the composer of the Slumdog Millionare score, AR Rahman – sounds like? Well here’ the first 30 seconds of their track Miracle Worker that has been released as a teaser for their album which is expected in September.”
Ghoul had planned to release a mini-album and full-length LP this year but those plane have been downscaled – we’ll have to wait until 2012 for a full album for the Sydney based band. To tide us over, they’ve released this new track Lodum (Rising) as a followup to their Dunks EP. If you’re heading to Splendour or the DJ Shadow sideshows be sure to check them out.
Modular have taken out three places in the top ten of triple j’s Hottest 100 Australian Albums countdown (#7 Apocalypso – The Presets, #8 Wolfmother – Wolfmother, and #9 Since I Left You – The Avalanches) so it seems appriopriate to feature three Modular tracks on this week’s music wrap up.
First of all there’s a rare Stereolab remix of the title track from the Avalanches Since I Left You, which has been released along with the announcement that the band’s only album is about to receive the deluxe 10-Year Anniversary treatment.
The label has also released a new remix of Cut Copy’s Blink And You’ll Miss a Revolution by Toro Y Moi and the track from the self titled debut by recent Vivid VIVE visitors Azari & III.
As we reported last week Josh Homme, Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst, Ryan Adams, Daniel Johnston, Mike Watt and members of The Dandy Warhols, The Strokes, Sleater-Kinney, Pearl Jam, Gang of Four, The Shins, Wilco, The Decemberists and Spoon have all donated rare and unreleased tracks to the new three-disc compilation Live From Nowhere Near You: Volume Two. You can take a listen to the track Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse has left to the compilation Dead End Job at the Dead Letter Office below.
Finally head over to Stereogum to grab the two mix tapes they’ve put together – Cruel Summer 2011 Volumes One and Two featuring tracks from YACHT, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, SBTRKT, Fucked Up (Volume One) and The Weeknd, Yuck and J Mascis (Volume Two).
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