Kele Releases New Tracks!

Holy fucking shit motherfuckers - Kele Okereke, lead singer from Bloc Party has finally released new tracks from his upcoming album Boxer - and its some of the best material I've heard since Bloc Party released the collections of B-Sides unofficially entitled Another Weekend in the City. The music is clear, unhinged, beautiful, and at times, a little bit banger. Maybe the band needed a split to express themselves musically - a sad day for all of us Bloc Party fans, but a good thing ultimately. Who knows, maybe Pin Me Down, Russell Lissack's side project Pin Me Down's first album is awesome as well. Ill give it a listen and post about it later today.

Check out this Tron-esque video for the club sounding track Tenderoni!

Kele Okereke - OS|MS

Rise by Kele Okereke

Walk Tall by Kele Okereke

Kele Okereke - Tenderoni (Larry Tee and Beckwith Remix)

LOL Nu-Rave: Klaxons release new song

Hey guys remember Nu-Rave!

HAHAHAHA!

Anyways the Klaxons are back. Its been three long years since NME embarrassed the electro/indie world by inventing the term Nu-Rave and tacking it onto the Klaxons and everything else with guitars and neon colors (thanks a billion NME). Apparantly the Klaxons tried to pull a MGMT with their second album and go all experimental, but their label wouldnt let them get away with it and shelved the album.

So anyways, their back, with a very familar sounding tune entitled "Flashover." Its aight.

Flashover by klaxons

The Klaxons - MS|OS

Pin Me Down

So... Pin Me Down.

What to say. Russell Lissack (Bloc Party, fool) is an amazing guitar player, expressive and emoitional, with a great degree of technical skill yet possessing of a tempering intelligence that keeps him seemingly restrained until the appropriate moment. He has proved an expert DJ and programmer, a hard working and proficient musician with interesting ideas.

Milena Mepris is pretty hot.

I just dont know what to think. Mepris' (former lead singer of Black Moustache) voice seemed to be a fantastic contributing factor on such projects as Pin Me Down's excellent remix of "Ares," but it was pretty filtered and background, whereas on these tracks its front and center - and noticeably more, erm, nasally. I just dont know. The two tracks I have heard so far, "Cryptic" and "Time Crisis," its almost omnipresent, forgettable and annoying, until Russell's unusually muscular guitar playing edges it out of the way, and becomes immediately recognizable as the defining factor it was with Bloc Party.

Maybe its Russel's fault. While I certainly extract a great amount of joy from hearing him play guitar the same way he did with Bloc Party, maybe he needs to grow more as a guitarist to help these tracks stand out.

Or maybe he should just get back with Bloc Party.

Check out this remix, however, it does empty some of the guitar but it softens Mepris' voice and turns the track into an unoffensive eurodance track.

Pin Me Down - MS|OS

Pin Me Down - Time Crisis (Co-Pilots Turbulence Remix)

Bloc Party - Ares (Pin Me Down Remix)