Death and Vanilla

Hailing from my favourite musical country, Sweden (Malmö, more specifically), I give you Death and Vanilla. There isn't much info at all to be found on this group. I must say, the mystery suits the music well. They have a free "EP" available for download (provided below for your listening pleasure) and a pretty much blank myspace page. Their sound is hypnotic, druggy hazes of clouds & space and haunting mesmerizing magical puffs..."Ghosts in the Machine" is absolutely perfect. "Godspeed" is wonderfully creepy. "Run Rabbit Run" picks up the pace with a nice bass. "The Colour of Space" has a very Broadcast feel. All lovely, all recommended!

I discovered them through the rather ace BEKO Digital Single Label out of France, where Death and Vanilla has the proud honor of being beko_01! BEKO offers a new, free digital single EVERY Monday. There is some horrible stuff there, but also plenty of gems. Ask and I'll enlighten, or be like me: download the entire catalog and have fun with it! Yay!

Seeland

Land ahoy!! That's right, I Seeland! Brilliant space-age pop, as they like to call it, from a former Broadcast member and some guy from a band called Plone who I should probably look into. Oh this music is awesome. So space-age, so pop! I'm sad it's taken me over a year to discover this brilliance! I'm glad to see Tim ditched the Broadcast ship to make this! So much better than anything Broadcast is doing nowadays! (Sorry Broadcast, I'm still bitter about that 20+ minute experimental opening to your last show). "Tomorrow Today" is the album and you must get it, it's absolutely fantastic! I love the pop numbers, I love the mellow chill out ones too, I love the swank!

Sample away:

Turnaround

Captured

Hang on Lucifer


Plus a pretty video!

New Young Pony Club - We Want To

New single from New Young Pony Club! "We Want To" is certainly my favourite song off their new album "The Optimist" which was released everywhere last week. Further delving into cheesy 80s awesomeness, here's the video with an edited version of the song:

Chinawoman

Today I give you Chinawoman who vamps us into submission with her gorgeous torch ballads. Chinawoman is a mysterious Russian woman who lives in Canada. Yes, mysterious. Her real name is Michelle but I much prefer Chinawoman. She's got a new album out, "Show Me the Face" which I must say is one of my favourite albums of the year so far. It's a vast improvement over her debut "Party Girl" and sees Chinawoman's sound (mostly music-wise) evolving. There are more instruments and a much more diverse selection of musical styles. Like the artist herself, the music is very mysterious and drags you into its foggy, dark world. I personally can't help but become engrossed every time I play it. Through it all, her voice remains the focal point with its same deep self...I loooove her deeeeep voice. 

Sample away... 

Lovers Are Strangers (from Party Girl) 

Russian Ballerina (from Russian Ballerina EP)

Go & It's No Compliment (both from Show Me the Face) 

The fantastic video for "Lovers Are Strangers":

You can purchase all her releases digitally here: http://bazaar.chinawoman.ca "Party Girl" was also released on CD which you can buy at CDbaby. According to the Chinawoman herself, "Show Me the Face" should be seeing a physical release in the near future. Yay!