“One listen to the opening track & you know you are in the presence of future greatness” – ROUGH TRADE SHOPS [Album of the Week]
“If you like Fleet Foxes & Bon Iver, you will flip out over Isbells” – BBC RADIO ONE
After 15 years of playing, making and recording music with several rockbands Gaëtan Vandewoude felt the time was right to start creating his very own songs. Mostly writing & recording during nighttime, in a shabby old stable, this resulted in a collection of introspective yet observing songs, inspired by his immediate surroundings. Somewhere in that process a band was formed with Naima Joris, Bart Borremans and Gianni Marzo, allowing each one of them to give their own colour & contribution to the music.
Phantogram’s debut LP ‘Eyelid Movies’ brings you a fresh new take on electronic influenced rock. Their music is a culmination of unique street beat rhythms, spaced-out synths, swirling guitars, with the combined textures of technology and organic origin. It sounds like it’s made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop – each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t live and work in a major urban center, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY home (population 26,186). Saratoga isn’t exactly teeming with fans of J.Dilla, My Bloody Valentine or Serge Gainsbourg…except for Phantogram! All tracks have been written, composed, performed and engineered by Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter themselves.
‘Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out’ is taken from the 2009 debut album from the Michigan-bred Pop/Soul singer/songwriter. The LP ‘A Strange Arrangement’ draws from the inspiration of Leroy Hutson, Smokey Robinson and the legendary songwriting and production trio of Holland, Dozier, Holland. At the same time, it revels in raw the sounds of the independent (and often unappreciated) musicians who aspired to achieve a level of success akin to their famous peers. The album is full of original compositions (bar a cover of The New Holidays’ ‘Maybe So, Maybe No’) that underlies a heartfelt nostalgia to the sweet soul of yesteryear. Login to check the full-length, it’ll be with you a while.
‘Love Will Find You’ is the 2010 sophomore release from the former bare-knuckle boxer from Yorkshire, England. Findlay was heralded by many critics as the UK’s answer to Jose Gonzales when his debut album, Separated By The Sea, was released on Peacefrog Records in 2007. The release garnering much praise, including a 5* review in the Guardian which described it as the most unlikely classic of the year. Love Will Find You moves beyond Findlay’s earlier folk sound to a more ambitious place. Produced by Bernard Butler (Suede), the album features songs that are lush and intimate, influenced as much by Phil Spector and Ennio Morricone as by Roy Orbison or The Beatles. His music is courageous, triumphant, challenging and otherworldly. Much of it references rockabilly and the 50s / 60s, albeit with a production style that brings it up to date as a contemporary LP.
This is the lead off single from Aloe Blacc’s forth coming album ‘Good Things’, produced by Truth & Soul, and featuring the backing band known as Expressions and El Michels Affair. The A-Side “I Need A Dollar” has just debuted as the theme song to the HBO series How To Make It In America.
Austrian label G-Stone Recordings was founded by the legendary Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister. At 16 years strong this label has brought us some of the greatest releases in electronic and downtempo music, boasting a roster of such artists as Dj DSL, Tosca, Rodney Hunter, Stereotyp, Urbs, Peace Orchestra and of course Kruder and Dorfmeister as themselves.
Some say the sound of Trip Hop is making a bit of a comeback and with the current resurgence in all things past the natural progression probably suggests this. We at Stylus believe it never really disappeared, a case in point with G-Stone Recordings.
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority chose the Soultourist remix of Jamie Lloyd ‘You Out Or In’ for the soundtrack to their video showing the creation of their Marilyn Munroe coffee sculpture. Last years installment featuring the Mona Lisa has over 100,000 views on youtube.
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