Crashing in on a wave of good will come London’s Gentle Friendly, a dazzling prospect enamoured with the same things we’re enamoured with – LA’s new noise, tracing exotic, Animal Collective and rhythm. David and Daniel (also of Peckham madcaps Buttonhead) stalk Dalston with a winning formula: salvage rusted drum kits and restaurant grade Arabica beans from skips, toss back the beans, bang the drums until joyous resonance is reached.
‘Ride Symbols’ is threaded with scratched noise, beaten into ticklish bruises by fedback shards and dumb-hearted drums; vocals playing cat and mouse in the gaps between. Gentle Friendly skitter and thrash and do all that you’d expect a new London Vigoda to, rhythm parts moving along docey-doe-eyed, melodies tapering up and out in traffic fumed ferris wheels like a more ready Fuck Buttons.
It’s pretty good, is what I’m trying to say. Listen, yeah?
Download: Gentle Friendly - 'Ride Symbols'
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Gentle Friendly @ RCRD LBL
Gentle Friendly @ MySpace
- Kev Kharas
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As Glaswegian jerk-merchants Errors continue to court admirers with a trail of sprawling electronic soundscapes, ‘Hans Herman’ seems an appropriate introduction for the Scottish beatniks.
Signed to Mogwai’s Rock Action imprint since 2006, rather than any particular rock-rock pretence the quartet are far more indebted to Autechre’s paranoid electronica and the spiralling intricacies of Gui Boratto’s minimal tech, as soft drones and fractured hooks scythe into the skull.
With waves of their electronic sprawl lapping more violently than ever, Errors found themselves awkwardly thrust to the forefront as support for Underworld three-night spell at London’s Roundhouse. Needless to say that bitter-tongued revellers took to the act, which - with an imminent debut album set to follow the sold-out release of the How Clean Is Your Acid House? EP - surely underlines the potential of these young rapscallions. Find your exclusive download below.
Download: Errors - 'Hans Herman'
Errors @ MySpace
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- Samuel Strang
Sleeping States are one of those much-discussed, but rarely discovered gems found shimmering at the bottom of the well. One of those wonderfully 'found' artists who demand the listener to proceed and tell the world of Markland Starkie's (for he is said act) languorously beautiful songs as if it were their sole mission in life, and one which should be approached with the appropriate level of zeal.
'September, Maybe' is taken from the second Sleeping States album (after his first, self-released CDR long-player), and sounds like the music of a man waiting for the rest of the world to catch up and find him. A piece of effervescent, folkish nearly-pop, it encapsulates the sparse beauty that Markland Starkie produces with seemingly little effort.
Sleeping States will be touring early in 2008, but expect the London-based fellow to crop up here and there in the coming months.
Download: Sleeping States - 'September, Maybe'
Sleeping States @ MySpace
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- Gareth Dobson
