Artists To Watch In 2005
According to Pitchfork, which gets some love in today's Sun Times...
Bloc Party: Jagged guitar lines and dense harmonies pepper the hook-filled songs from England's latest '80s indie revivalists.
Jesu: Former frontman of industrial pioneers Godflesh merges spaced-out shoegaze and sludgy heavy metal.
Justus Kohncke: Recent singles from this Cologne-based producer range from glam-rock-biting floorfillers to sultry tech-house.
LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy, one half of the prestigious New York production team DFA, will offer his band's electro-punk debut.
M.I.A.: London's Sri Lankan-born M.I.A. mixes politics and effortless cool with rubbery, dancehall-inspired beats.
Posted at 9:35 AM
Tags: Bloc Party | LCD Soundsystem | M.I.A.
You've left off the y in bloc party.
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i <3 Justus Köhncke!
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A few bloc party tracks
http://nowaycomputer.com/blog/index.php/archives/2005/01/02/happy-2005/
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Why can't we get a really good pop act in 05? I mean one that has substance. Gwen was a good start. I'm tired of the mass produced crap we've been getting, but I don't like the really serious rock stuff either. Somebody help!
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Justus Kohncke is amazing- that track on Kompakt 100 he did, 'Hot Love' feat. Meloboy, is such a nice little blast of sticky shuffletech. Can't wait for his LP.
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the Bloc Party full length kicks a lot of ass, however, i don't feel the same about the LCD full length sadly :(
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AJ -- this site turned me onto Annie. Would highly recommend her.
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Godflesh, haven't heard that name in a while, hopefully we'll get more toe tappers like Locust Furnance out of Jesu.
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Bloc Party sounds like Millencolin (sp? -shitty pop punk band) if they tried to cover a generic indie band. Such a tired sound. I thought the Killers couldn't be touched in their synthetic poseur indie genre.
LCD soundsystem had SO MUCH hope, how the fuck could he blow it so badly? Every single leading up to the full release was mind numbingly good-then we get 6 tracks of complete filler to compile the rest. Talk about monotonous uninspired melodies. The best song on the album that was (somewhat) unreleased is a beatlesesque music number. WHAT? Dance-punk-elecrash/clash whatever his genre is that he helped create I think is officially dead. He was one of the last chances of saving it. He could have revived it. It's ironic that this music completely embodies the lethargic anthems he once complained about. Where's the soaring electronic explosion chorus's of "Yeah?" I kept waiting for something to happen through half the songs but nothing ever came close. Dissapointing
-end rant.
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Maybe the DFA will remix the album and make it sound better?
...ha
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give the LCD album time. i found it a bit anticlimactic at first as well but i'm really, really loving it now. i don't know if any band could top "yeah" but there's still a lot to like on the full-length.
and yeah, justus kohncke rocks.
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Has anyone heard about M.I.A.'s reaction to the tsunami tragedy in Sri Lanka. She's quite the revolutionary and the government there has released some rebels to foster goodwill after the calamity. $5 says she's just moving beyond the locked-in-your-room stage (remember Sept. 11 everybody) and will soon be clogging Brit radio with vitriol about how the US hasn't put up enough money for rebuilding. Godbless all 5'4" of her.
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MIA is absolutely despicable.
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