💯

Taken from Wolf Alice's 'Blush' EP - out now.

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BlushEP

https://www.facebook.com/wolfalicemusic 
https://www.twitter.com/wolfalicemusic

Blush

From 'Trapped in Amber', the new Jonnie Common album out on 31st October 2014 on vinyl, CD and download.
www.jonniecommon.com/
songbytoadrecords.com/artists/jonnie-common/

On previous album Master of None:
"I love this record' - Lauren Laverne (6 Music)
“Skewed-pop amble ... a lo-fi electro-folk wonder” - The List
“understated cooing over the minutiae of every day life ... transformed into bouncing astral straddling ditties” - Drowned In Sound

Jonnie Common makes some of the strangest noises ever to be combined into such catchy, digestible pop songs.

His first album Master of None came out on the awesome Manchester-based imprint Red Deer Club in 2011, and its combination of pathos, humour and charm made it a firm favourite, particularly amongst the Scottish underground music scene.

I suppose you’d have to call this stuff electronic pop, and while a lot of the music he makes has some very strange elements, the end result tends to be eminently listenable, infectious music.

Trapped in Amber, his new album, out on Song, by Toad Records on Halloween 2014, is perhaps less of a collection of breezy pop tunes than its predecessor, but I think it ends up actually feeling like a better overall album. It holds together more as a single, coherent piece of work, and with the more experimental stuff coming to the fore the sparkling pop moments actually end up standing out more this time around.

For a meticulous crafstman like Jonnie I am always amazed at how loose and relaxed his music sounds, and for someone who peppers his lyrics with wit and fun, it’s amazing how heartbreaking he can be, often when you least expect it. Try contrasting the lightness of Shark and Crumbs with the horrible sadness of So and So and the melancholic regret of Figurehead, for example.

It makes for music which sounds light and fun, but actually has far more depth than that, meaning that even once you get past the simple enjoyment of the hummable stuff, there is still a hell of a lot more here to enjoy.

Jonnie Common - Shark

The ambient synth segment of Underworld's 'Slow Slippy' made for T2 Trainspotting, looped for roughly two and a half minutes.

Original Track: https://soundcloud.com/underworld/slow-slippy
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10uhQU1-QvBfyrfrKsfFvvKbzdIpHOlCu/view

Property of Underworld, I don't own anything.

T2 Trainspotting (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Underworld - Slow Slippy [Synth Loop]

Underworld - Born Slippy .NUXX

A music blog, record label, video channel and podcast show based in Edinburgh.  With lots of gin and swearing.

If you want to submit music to the blog or the label, please don't send me a message on Soundcloud itself as I do not check them.  A Soundcloud link is great, but please email the link to toad at songbytoad.com.