M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) return with “Midnight City” the first single takn from their forthcoming double album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, released on October 17. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson (Beck, NIN, Goldfrapp), the album includes contributions from Zola Jesus, Brad Laner (from 90’s band Medicine) on guitar, and Saturdays = Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby. With [...]
Pain by name and by nature? Leaving the confines of Nouvelle Vague, French singer Mélanie Pain releases her debut album sung in both English and French.
Amadeus, Amadeus, rock me Amadeus! Phoenix’s fourth album is a show stopper without a Salieri in sight.
Virgin, 2008 I have a very vivid memory of M83‘s previous album Before the Dawn Heals Us being played at a thunderous volume while sleeping at a friend‘s house early one morning, and it shook through the drunken spillover of the night before as if the ceiling inside my head was about to cave [...]
Anthony Gonalez is the driving force behind French band M83. Since 2001 M83 have released several albums of hypnotic electronica combined with effects laden guitars, and softly sung vocals. Static’s Chris Berkley managed to track down Anthony on his first Australian tour and discussed airline mishaps, growing up on the French Rivera, the new M83 [...]
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).
