One of the many stellar songs from A Place to Bury Stranger’s second album Exploding Head was recent single “Slipping Away”, swathed as it was in industrial beats, brooding guitar complemented by a disaffected vocal (“Time’s Slipping Away” so true, alas) by Oliver Ackermann, plus a chilling Cure-esque middle eight. Brighton band and remixes to [...]
Cast your mind back almost 25 years if you’re able, to a time where men with long hair, thin black stovepipes, WWII caps, and frilly shirts weren’t laughed at but instead could be lead singers. Add the two Siouxsie Sioux copies gesticulating wildly in the background and you have all the markings of a classic ’80s goth-rock video. So what if the song was pretty much a direct rip off of their previous hit “She Sells Sanctuary”? Billy Duffy’s chugging riffs coupled with a nice bass groove from Jamie Stewart unpinned Ian Astbury’s Lord Byron meets Jim Morrison peacocking for one of The Cult’s strongest songs (featured on the Omnibus edition of Love).
As Webcuts said in our review of, We Were Promised Jetpacks’ debut These Four Walls –”…the single, “Quiet Little Voices” is the band’s sing-along rocker, a chorus-less anthem, catchy enough to appear in mainstream commercials or the next episode of your favorite television show.”
The Too Pure Singles Club returns in 2012 with a bang (or is that a rattle) with the sound of Icelandic mantra magicians Dead Skeletons. For the uninitiated, Dead Skeletons came into existence in 2008 when band member Jon Saamunder needed music for an art installation in the Reykjavik Art Museum. Enlisting the help of friends Henrik Bjornsson and Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt the trio penned the songs which would eventually become the Dead Magick album, a 72 minute, 12 song journey through space and time, life and death. “Om Mani Peme Hung” is the sound of Neu! on a meditation retreat engaging in a spiritual hypno-chant. Now repeat after me… Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung… (subscribe to the Too Pure Singles Club here).
