No Pain In Pop

List

New ‘Dragnet’ column up at The Quietus looking at the best tracks of the year so far. Includes Joy Orbison, Floating Points, Lone, Karizma and ten others.

Click here to read.

Tags: blank dogs, burial, faltydl, floating points, four tet, joy orbison, karizma, lone, surf city, telepathe, the mayfair set, the quietus, toro y moi, trailer trash tracys, walter jones

@DazedDigital

No Pain In Pop playlist up now at Dazed Digital. Details below, thanks to them for their kind words.

Old Blood - I Win
Arch M - Cat Grave
Night Control - Good Looks
Little Dragon - After the Rain (Floating Points Remix)
The Mayfair Set - Already Warm
The Samps - Magnetic Thys
A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways at Mt Jade
Sunni-Geini - SG Main Theme
Nite Jewel - Chimera
Banjo or Freakout - Archangel (Burial Cover)

Tags: arch m, banjo or freakout, dazed digital, floating points, little dragon, night control, nite jewel, old blood, sunni-geini, the mayfair set, the samps

Twilight of the Dogs

…or ‘Beauty and the Beast’. The Mayfair Set, our latest saints, are a potent, poignant combination of Dee Dee Dum Dum Girls and Whoever Blank Dogs Is; marrying the propeller gut dread of the latter with the former’s dawn-sun reach to give first glimpse of something that will grow in the minds of our young, and their young in turn, into something undeniably, eye-stingingly great. Loyal to tragic extents, ‘Already Warm’ flows against the blood’s tide like the swelter of an evening grown distant, but hovering close and ever-ready, for a chance to be reborn in photographs that fade away from their centre, the threat loitering even now as time vignettes the masterworks of your memory. More lost ghosts, then - who was it that fronted Black Tambourine with Pam Berry? Curtis? Or Maus? Dee Dee carries the dog-eared image of him in her wallet like a fatigued sentry, poor girl; poor girl.

The pair’ll feature on a 7″ at some point in the near future to be issued, naturally enough, by the golden gloves of New York’s Captured Tracks.



MP3: The Mayfair Set - Already Warm



MP3: The Mayfair Set - Desert Fun

Tags: blank dogs, captured tracks, dum dum girls, the mayfair set

‘Totemic’: a blerk index

Links to sate the baying who’ve arrived here after hearing my unflinchingly pretentious ramblings on BBC Radio 1.

The Mayfair Set
The Samps
Arch M
Gentle Friendly

Our next compilation will be issued on the sixth of April.



MP3: Arch M - Cat Grave

Tags: arch m, bbc, gentle friendly, huw stephens, the mayfair set, the samps