In the AnCo corner, we have the heavy-hitting Noah Lennox, AKA Panda Bear, releasing his first material after the much lauded (and much copied) Person Pitch. It's woozy, off-kilter pop is instantly recognisable, but equally instantly lovable. His full album, Tomboy, is out sometime in the Autumn.
You can listen to them both on the Pitchfork Playlist.
2. Secrecy and anonymity are watchwords for 2010 it seems, withholding your identity the latest marketing ruse for many new bands. Most of the pioneers, the likes of Summer Camp, have since been rumbled, but Wu Lyf, who supposedly hail from Manchester, have managed to preserve their secret status. I followed a link to their website today that goes straight to a video depicting a struggle between white invaders and natives on a seemingly tropical coastline. It's got a sweet twist to it, plus some good old gore, and the song that soundtracks it (that i'm obviously assuming is by Wu Lyf themselves) is pretty great. It's got a similar aesthetic to the nostalgic pop that's so in vogue right now, save for the vocals that sound incredibly pained and impassioned, a dimension sorely missing from most other such bands. Check it out here.
3. SALEM are a band who make spaced-out goth pop, but who have come to be seen as leaders of the so called witch-house genre. Ludicrous genre names aside (i realise the witch connotations from the name, but seriously??), they've done a remix of the latest These New Puritans single, Hologram. As i'm meant to be seeing TNPs this weekend, it seemed rather timely, as well as the fact that it's a cool song, all slow beats, handclaps and deep vocal with a heavy drawl. SALEM's own stuff is also worth checking out, especially the song King Night.
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