It’s a rainy spring day…. I find it a perfect opportunity to sit down and share a few freshly released tracks that have recently caught my attention and made their way onto my i-pod. Ooooh! So many great new tunes!
Enjoy!
Santigold
Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Santigold blends hip-hop and electronica. I’ve been looking forward to a new album from this exuberant artist since her debut album, Santogold, in 2008. The up-coming, Master of My Make-Believe, launches early this May! Here are a couple pre-released tracks to hold you over until then.
Fanfarlo
London is the home of this indie pop/folk band. Their recent album, Rooms Filled With Light, released late February of this year. Overall, the album is… good. However, Feathers, is a great track! I absolutely love it’s vibe and it has been my favorite, most repetitively listened to song, for the last couple weeks! Replicate and Shiny Things are runners up.
Sinead O’Connor
It’s been FIVE years since Dublin, Ireland’s Sinead O’Connor has released a new album! Time has not changed anything! Sinead remains one of the all-time best female vocalists… ever. Released late last month, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? is possibly her most blatant, dramatic, in your face, to the point album yet! What else would you expect from Sinead? She tells it how it is, and does it well! I love this album more every time I listen…
Born in 1966, pushing 50, Sinead continues to rock a live performance! The woman still has pipes!!
The lyrics of this song are frank, at times harsh, but thought provoking… “I don’t know what to want from this world”.
Sinead does manage to offer up one happy, up-beat track! This song makes me think of my best friend Denise, who loves Sinead and is getting married soon! This track will be played at her wedding!!
Hot Chip
Electro-indie band from… surprise, surprise, London… Hot Chip just announced the launch of their new album, In Our Heads, this June. I really enjoyed their previous album, One Life Stand, released in 2009, so I’m pleased to listen to Flutes, a teaser track from the anticipated album. (Wait a second… is that James Frain in the above image… nope.)
New Build
Interestingly enough, if you simply can’t wait for Hot Chip’s new album, you can listen to New Build. Three of Hot Chip’s five talented members (not including vocalists) collaborated on this debut New Build project. The album, Yesterday Was Lived And Lost, released this week. I gave it a listen yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised.
M.I.A.
British hip-hop diva, M.I.A. released this single, Bad Girls, a few weeks ago! I’m hooked! She has yet to announce the date of her 2012 album release, but I’m content to listen to this track over and over again in the meantime! Here it is, just in case you are amongst the deprived who have not heard it yet… catchy song, love the video!
TRUST
Ok… I’ve ranted and raved about this new electronic duo recently. But that was prior to the release of their album, TRST, which I was anxiously awaiting, and it finally happened the end of February! Here are a couple more tracks that were unavailable until TRST’s release. Love the album. Best electro-indie of 2012! (To check out my previous post regarding TRUST, click here: http://eclecticcorinne.blogspot.com/2012/01/indie-discoveries-trust.html)
