As my attempt to locate all of the marbles lost during an epic May Day weekend continues in vain, I’m finding that my ears are experiencing a temporary intolerance towards electronic music. Thankfully two lots of psych-lovin’ shaggy-haired lads are helping me through this fragile period.
Malachai – Snowflake
Bristol duo, with some kind of involvement from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. A number of tracks have a bit of a sneaky hip hop/programmed beats influence, but this is a huge-riff-n-sing-along tune.
Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss
They’ve been part of The Canyons lovely little Hole In The Sky family for some time, but their new material has managed to elicit extremely rare bursts of jingoism from me that other referential bands like Wolfmother and Jet never have. New album out soon, and I am excited. Even though the track featured in their 2nd album teaser video seems to be a rip of Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depression”, other tasters give me faith.
