2011 Digest

Bleeding Knees Club
1st January
A duo make up of two dudes from Australia’s Gold Coast, the songs they make are unmistakably brash, but in a playful way, like a hateful puppy

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/bleeding-knees-club/

Hourglass Sea
January 4th
The work of Dean Bentley, this is a project that sounds like Solar Bears being played on the wrong speed setting, a hyperactive mass of noise that doesn’t quite seem certain where it’s going.

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/hourglass-sea/

Fear of Men
January 12th
It’s lush, and feels gloriously analogue – a texture to the noise going deeper than the grit of their lo-fi recordings. It’s a sound that meanders, a hazy stumble through a dozen half remembered pop songs.

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/fear-of-men/

Tashaki Miyaki
February 12th
These kind of doo-wah inspired snippets can’t stay undiscovered for long

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/tashaki-miyaki/

Bos Angeles
April 9th
Coming from Boscombe (near Bournemouth, apparently), the shadow that Los Angeles casts runs through from their name into their sound, broad strokes of the surf-rock aethetic translated into naval gazing beauty.

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/bos-angeles/

Jewellers
April 13th
Lovely and worrying in equal measure

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/jewellers/

Woman’s Hour
April 17th
Imagine if Kate Bush was 20 today

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/womans-hour/

The Bell Peppers
May 2nd
Whilst everyone else had their eyes transfixed on the Royal Wedding (wasn’t her dress amazing? didn’t Pippa look great? and they kissed twice!) The Bell Peppers were in the process of uploading their languid, sweltering surf rock stylings to bandcamp

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-bell-peppers/

Regal Safari
May 16th
A darkness lurking throughout, the pressure slowly building throughout with the briefest glimpses of light offered intermittently

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/regal-safari/

YRRS
June 11th
Fuzzy bluster

http://thepigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/3793/

BITE MARKS
July 31st
A mixture of the stark and the deeply textured

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/07/bite-marks-swarm.html

AC SLATER (now YOOFS)
17th September
They bring to mind sitting in terrible student houses and drinking budget whiskey with people that you don’t really know, just to feel alive.

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/09/ac-slater-all-my-whiskey.html

Xavier Leon
22nd September
A jittery concoction

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/09/xavier-leon-movin-on.html

Female Band
17th October
It’s a bit of a hipster thing to say you enjoyed Bethany Cosentino’s work back when she was making weirdo noise and having about 5 people listen to her tracks, but there was something mystically charming about those days, something that London’s Female Band manages to capture in these 4 minutes

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/10/female-band-one-day-sea-will-swallow-me.html

Embers
7th November
Brutal and atmospheric

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/11/embers-tunnel-vision.html

Spectral Park
21st November
Maybe if The Horrors had done their drug cocktails a bit differently and had a slightly different music selection to soundtrack their comedown, this could’ve been one of the b-sides for Skying.

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/11/spectral-park-lappel-du-vide.html

J£ZUS MILLION
30th November
This is fucking brilliant, like if Baths studied a bit more and procrastinated a lot less.

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/11/jzus-million.html

Shinies
4th December
You’ve got to appreciate a band who obey the first rule of appealing to the hipster crowd (which happens to be having a naked babe in your artwork) whilst making a racket that seems blissfully unaware of the hype it will create.

http://www.lostlostlost.com/2011/12/shinies-spent-youth.html

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