No Pain In Pop

Brute

Leaden bass knuckleheads, take note: this is how you get heavy. Joker stands apart - he’s a low-end brute with rare flair, adding subtle licks of rainbow paint to his dub storm, doling punches that leave you smiling wry at the psychedelic bruises on your arm. While we’ve slunk from dubstep in recent times for things more lithe and surprising, Bristol’s Purple master offers a sound that’s impossible to resist, coming on like a modern day musical echo of Gabriele d’Annunzio or Alex DeLarge: young, skilled yob daubing art with victims’ blood.



MP3: Primary 1 & Riton - Radiates (Joker RMX)
(via The Fader; via NME)

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ZOMBY COMING

The video for the relatively sedate, near-beatless ‘Mercury’s Rainbow’, as shot by the man/woman/beast himself. It was originally posted by Ramp, so you’d imagine it might come out through them at some point.

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I found this scrawled on a toilet wall

Shot by Arran Ridley

“…by late summer 2010 and album number three, TEETH!!! had shaken off their residual radisms and had evolved into something akin to a post-ironic Blur, their primary colour aesthetic providing a chopping board upon which to more easily dissect a homeland that was now changing its cultural footing every week. It was almost like Albarn and co’s tackling of 40 years of British pop history was something TEETH!!! thought they could pay for in instalments, an ongoing concern downloaded gradually from the Argos catalogue. Emerging from the crashing of the slacker tide with brains and balls intact, the London three’s pursuit of hipster entropy is what perhaps came to most define them, mechanoid predators alert and whirring at the fading edges of a city, gorging on its deterioration. It was as if they wanted London to recede, mile-by-mile, person-by-person, until eventually everyone fell off the vanishing island and was bobbing in the Thames Estuary. The inevitable irony came a few years later of course, when, in a fit of ca…”

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Live: The Horrors

Live review of The Horrors‘ show at The Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London; 23/03/09.

Originally published at DrownedinSound.

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Five imaginary musical futures: alternatives to 2009

Photography by the inordinately talented Hannah Elisabeth

2009’s already been talked out, so halt your tongues and tuck in cheeks for five sights of music running on splintered time, rails leading most to bass-weight and rhythm.

Article originally published at DrownedinSound.

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