Almost spherical tunes coming in from Norway. Sgrow are offering the sort of dark, deep end of the electronic music spectrum. Attached is Heartstrings off the debut EP they released in May. And good news! The duo will be stopping in Europe for a handful of shows, playing Hamburg’s Astra Stube this Friday, 13 Sept and Lüneburg on Saturday. The legend Kirrin Island is going to play too on Friday, so there really aren’t many reasons to stay absent from this. Come.
Cologne’s fruit loops duo VIMES just rolled another big one. [tweetable hashtag=”#vimes #pouledor”]Celestial is red hot new and sounds fresh and pleasant like a warm September night.[/tweetable] But hold your horses! The fun does not stop here. The single will be out alongside a selected b-side September 30th on Berlin’s über-label Humming Records and you can also catch the lads at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival this month.
Imagine the 60s James Bond movies, sort of slow-paced spy movies, Sean Connery in the Caribbean. That is exactly what the new and absolutely phenomenal Monster Rally LP sounds like. Young Sean Connery, in a suit, in the Caribbean. [tweetable hashtag=”#jamesbond #pouledor”]Mellow tropical tunes with a 1960s special agent flair to it.[/tweetable] Attached is Orchids, the first single, the album drops October 29th via the great Gold Robot Records. Also available in the giant-CD-format.
The week kicked off rather awful in this part of the world. Summer has fled the scene over night and it’s been windy and raining cats and dogs. Just then, in this grim outlook, enter Claire, day saver and avid follower who found herself surfing the SoundCloud, liking this song attached and then wired her latest finding straight to Poule headquarters. Amazing, thank you Claire, you winner.
So this is Noble Savage from Canada offering a refreshing breeze of surf pop. The lad has a new album out accompanying this song. The best part: it’s even better than this song, very diverse, has eight stellar track aaaaand it’s free name-your-price up on bandcamp. So click through, thank Claire and [tweetable hashtag=”#noblesavage #pouledor” alt=”Enjoy life with a proper soundtrack.”]enjoy life with a proper soundtrack.[/tweetable]
Wonderful dream slash surf pop by Boston’s Orca Orca. Attached is Climb, opening track of his phenomenal debut Tidals. Snag the whole record on bandcamp. And heads-up to one of Team Poule’s favorite blogs Guerolitomusic for sharing this great track.
Massive new single by one of Germany’s finest non-automotive exports: SEA+AIR. The group started out as a solo project for Daniel Benjamin (the man) almost ten years ago – who, fun fact, played support for Whitney Houston on a couple of European gigs in 2010, whaat. Then his wife Eleni apparently got tired of him being on the road all the time so Daniel Benjamin (the band) became a duo, SEA+AIR. Which I reckon is a nice wordplay on ‘Sie und Er’, Her and Him, in german. But that is just speculation.
Husband and wife have been busily touring ever since the release of their last album, playing almost 500 shows over course of the last two years. In-sane. Attached is their latest single Dirty Love which is being released September 6th. Watch below the fine video directed by Ben Monteiro.
On top of that, they are embarking on one last hoo-rah before hitting the studio: a great European tour starting in London tomorrow, August 28th playing The Water Rats. Then working their way through Germany, the Netherlands and Poland: Cologne Sep 10th, Berlin Sep 17th and Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival Sep 28th, among loads of dates. A total of more than 30 shows til October – that’s dedication. And people of Regensburg, Plauen and Flensburg: your cities have been selected, too. It does sound like an awful amount of fun.
