Helsinki, Finland. August 8th to 12th. Historic Suvilahti, former power plant. That’s the setup for Flow Festival, among the line-up obvious names like Bon Iver, Miike Snow, Lykke Li, Chromatics, Friends, Kindness, etc. It’s not just music though, numerous art installations and also lots of cool food related events are taking place around the musical line-up. Team Poule d’Or will fly over there and see what it’s all about. It does sound really excting.
Here starts a series of exciting less known (at least to the Poule) musicians that will play during the weekend. First pick is Rime, a collaboration of vocalist Sara Sayed and producer/multi-instrumentalist Antti Hynninen. They’re drawing influences from R&B, Jazz and contemporary pop music and are generally quite exciting! Think they sound best when consumed live. They’re playing Wastelands on Friday, 17h15.
One of those awesome inbox surprises: Karana from Brooklyn. They’re electronic, they’re pop, they’re 80s, they’re 2012, they’re really good! And they have a great EP titled Chalk Marks that has been on high rotation all day today. Can’t stop. It’s out on Soundcloud > it’s a free download, grab it while they last. Your chance to be their 39th facebook fan: NOW.
Got a rather lovely inbox from a guy called Jeremy the other day. Turns out he makes music (surprise!) under the moniker Daddy Lion and hails from Columbia, SC – a city Team Poule stopped for lunch in on our big road trip through the States. Mean-to-the-while, he has an album out titled Habitat that is packed with warm guitar strings and generally nice tunes. A bit like Wild Nothing with a hunch of Mystery Jets – although I actually have NO idea what Mystery Jets sound like (shame on the Poule) but I feel like that’s what they sound like. Also, why don’t you just listen for yourself. Oh and the album is out on bandcamp.
London’s To Kill A King apparently are quite a big deal already – however the Poule only just heard about them. They have a new EP entitled Word of Mouth sitting in their pipeline and it’s really fantastic. They are pushing Rays as the first single now but our headquarters are really digging the bit more uptempo track Funeral – which however I can’t share, unfortunately. So take the Poule’s word for it (HA – see what I did there?) and wait for the EP to drop on Friday. Soon enough.
Edit: Actually – the EP is out for free now. Here.
After dropping a rather enjoyable EP entitled Iris last year, Britain’s Moscow Youth Cult are now readying the release of their debut album Happiness Machines for July 30th. Jon and Daniel have put together 14 songs that make a quite brilliant mix of rough electronic sounds, warm bass lines and dreamy pop elements. They sound a bit like as if you had taken the glitchy Elite Gymnastics (much love) and the rough/rhythmic Civil Civic (much love too) and strapped them together. Both dreamy and rough – at the same time!
Fused by their passion for both video games and vintage horror movies, Happiness Machines could well be soundtrack for Mario Kart’s Bowser’s Castle track – you who know, know.
Attached is the lead single Love > Lore. The press release quite accurately closes with: “Basically it’s what would happen if dubstep, chillwave and Bibio’s tape recorder all got chucked into the Large Hadron Collider by Thom Yorke. Dressed as a witch.” There you go.
Oooooh boy – first single off Two Door Cinema Club‘s new album. Their first album was SO good – this new one can only be a mess. Sleep Alone is quite rad though. BOOM. Free download until tomorrow 19h30 CET on twodoorcinemaclub.com.
Helsinki, Finland. August 8th to 12th. Historic Suvilahti, former power plant. That’s the setup for Flow Festival, among the line-up obvious names like Bon Iver, Miike Snow, Lykke Li, Chromatics, Friends, Kindness, etc. It’s not just music though, numerous art installations and also lots of cool food related events are taking place around the musical line-up. Team Poule d’Or will fly over there and see what it’s all about. It does sound really excting.
One of those awesome inbox surprises: Karana from Brooklyn. They’re electronic, they’re pop, they’re 80s, they’re 2012, they’re really good! And they have a great EP titled Chalk Marks that has been on high rotation all day today. Can’t stop. It’s out on 
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