Although well known in the UK, I wanted to note that Mystery Jets will release their fifth album ‘Curve Of The Earth‘ on January 15th. The band released the lead-off song ‘Telomere’, a fantastic spacey and atmospheric indie rock track. Blaine Harrison explained he came up with the idea for the song after reading Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids. “There’s this great line in there where she said “the victories and the plights of your ancestors live through you in your blood”. I started thinking about ancestry and I wonder if, all the people who’ve come before you in your bloodline, if part of them does live on in your essence.” The new album will have a release via Caroline International and the album was recorded in east London.
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London indie rockers Pure Youth have just released the video for ‘New November‘ that comes off the ‘On Our Way’ EP. The London band formed in 2014 has already picked up some wins with the first single ‘I’m Not Yours’ which was featured on Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlist and clocked 126k+ streams. All in all, the new single “New November” is a mature & sophisticated sound for a band that has only been together for a year. The band shows no signs of slowing down having supported Youth Club and No Devotion on the road.
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It’s been reported that David Bowie fought back from six heart attacks in the past year to make his final album.
Bowie who passed away this morning at 69 just released a new album this last week.
His biographer, Wendy Leigh says, “He didn’t just battle cancer if that’s not enough – he had six heart attacks in recent years,” she told BBC News.
Sadly, the people wake up to learn that David Bowie died after an 18-month battle with cancer.
British PM David Cameron one of the the first to tweet: “I grew up listening to and watching the pop genius David Bowie. He was a master of re-invention, who kept getting it right. A huge loss.”
British industry lobbying group U.K. Music tweeted: “There will never be another David Bowie. R.I.P.”
Britain’s Official Charts Company shared Bowie’s chart success, saying: “To date, he has scored 61 top 40 singles, including five number 1s, and 44 top 40 albums, nine of which hit the top spot.”
Indie alternative pop act Sleeping Wolf is making noise with the latest track ‘Ghost’. The Los Angeles duo is a collaboration of Steve Solomon & Jake Newton who began writing in 2014 and have a broad range of influences. The release of their debut ‘EP’ got initial traction having been handpicked by iTunes as a ‘new music spotlight’ and has had nearly million streams across Soundcloud & YouTube. Their latest single ‘Ghost‘ which is layered in classic 80’s synths is my favorite, and is the first of the tracks to be released in 2016. The band notes, “Ghost has been hanging around our subconscious for a while. We’ve written versions and variations of this song a few times before we landed on the current iteration. We wanted nostalgia and something that would tear at your heart while dance.”
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