Another 6 Things You Should Be Listening To Right Now
Even more tunes that you really need to be listening to right now.
Now, generally speaking one should never go beyond a trilogy. Never overstep the boundaries of three. This rule applies to many mediums and many of the intricate details that make up those mediums. Three is a magic number after all.
Yet, here I am. Breaking that rule. Coming in with that most un-sacred number; four. For you see, some things must live outside the law. For the greater good. This semi-(though getting more consistently)regular feature is one such thing. For the greater good and for your benefit specifically, it and I must bend, and ultimately break, the rules.
Soon, the rule of three will be a long forgotten memory, just a distant number in the infinite. This article and I, well go on forever for I am incapable of dying. Well always be here to guide you through music, and your children, and your childrens children, and so on.
More specifically though, I just really couldnt think of a way to introduce this latest addition. Here is our previous entry in this series for your leisurely perusal, if you havent already and some links within to the others. For this one though. Heres a bunch of stuff I think you should be listening to now or once youve read this feature, if not before...
Disclaimer : some credit should be given for two of the entries here to WhatCulture Music Editor Rhys Milsom for his incessant assaults on my Facebook wall with new music.
1. Sleep Party People
shoegaze/dream pop/post-rockNow the fundamental ideals behind a good sleep and a good party might be quite at odds with each other normally. However, not so for Brian Batz, or that is Sleep Party People. No, in the case of Sleep Party People these two opposite ends of the spectrum coincide quite perfectly.
Started initially as the bedroom project of bedroom producer Brian Batz, this now fully functioning five piece (identity concealing rabbit masks included) deal in a sound that suits the introspective dreams of a good slumber as it does a vibrant though lethargic social gathering.
Using an old drum machine, some piano, some guitar and a lot synth to channel the spirits of My Bloody Valentine and shoegaze, Sigur Ros and serene scores, Mogwai and post-rock and a healthy shade of The Flaming Lips' modern, dream like psychedelia. This anonymous collective deliver songs of genuine beauty that float like the dawn haze of a long and heavy night.
Youre as likely to find yourself as you are to lose yourself when immersed within We Were Drifting on a Sad Song.
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