Folie à Deux (with Sarah)

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Tunes from Queens of the Stone Age, The Stone Roses and Foals as well as HudMo and Zach Hill.

New ones from Le Galaxie (who are launching their new E.P. ‘Fade 2 Forever’ on the 14th in The Button Factory and We Arrive Alive (that launched their new E.P. on the Folie à Deux (with Sarah) Tumblr this week). Also, more Irish tunes in the form of Logikparty, Ghosts, Reid and Kool Thing.

Health and Young Legionnaire (my little ode to Canada Day and the 4th of July) ;).

Have a listen!!

Track Listing

Queens of the Stone Age - Turning on the Screw

We Arrive Alive - A Lethal Black Ooze

Foals - Tron

Ghosts - The Night Out

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Hudson Mohawke - Come Get It

Zach Hill - The Primitives Talk

Young Legionnaire - Nova Scotia

Health - USA Boys

Kool Thing - The Sign

Logikparty - Quantum Leap (Pitiless Censor Mix)

Reid - Miami

Le Galaxie (feat Elaine Mai) - Love System

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On this weeks Folie à Deux show, for all those heading to Body&Soul, tunes from SertOne, M83, Django Django & Gold Panda.

Some sweet-as-hell remixes from BretonLABS, Francophilippe and  The Bloody Beetroots.

New ones from Silversun Pickups and Stay+.

As well as music from Jamie T, Sleigh Bells, Gorillaz and Caged Animals!

Track Listings 

Jamie T - Castro Dies

Local Natives - Who Knows, Who Cares (BretonLABS Remix)

Sleigh Bells - Treats

Glorie - Full Circle

Django Django - Default

Gold Panda - Back Home

SertOne - Envious

Wu Tang Clan - Stomp da Roach (Bloody Beetroots mix)

Gorillaz feat. Andre 3000 - DoYaThing

Stay+ - Gaurdian

Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)

Caged Animals - Somebody To Use

The XX - Heart Skipped a Beat (Francophilippe Remix)

Maps and Atlases - Living Decoration (BretonLABS Remix)

M83 - Kim and Jessie

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On this weeks Folie à Deux …

Tunage from Seventeen Evergreen, Friends, Samiyan, Blink 182 (TWO - because I love them - yeah, what?) and The Kills.

New(ish) ones from Four Tet and Azelia Banks.

Irish artists Bantum/Come On Live Long, Kid Karate, We Arrive Alive, Ghost Estates and Eatenbybears.

Have a listen!

Track Listings

Seventeen Evergreen - Polarity Song

Samiyan - 52 Cushions

Four Tet - 128 Harps

Bantum / Come On Live Long - Elephants and Time Remix

Blink 182 - Easy Target

Blink 182 - Stockholm Syndrome

Jay Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder

We Arrive Alive - Save Me From The Morning

The Kills - M.E.X.I.C.O.

Azelia Banks - Jumanji

Kid Karate - Feral (Free Download)

Kronos Quartet - The Beginning Of The End

Friends - Friend Crush

Ghost Estates - Pop Song

Eatenbybears - Simple As Hell

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The newest installment of Folie à Deux is up …

Checking out the Forbidden Fruit line up with tunes from Bear in Heaven, New Order, Actress, Com Truise, Factory Floor, White Collar Boy, Bloody Beetroots and Holy Fuck. 

As well as a new one from KaraKara, off his new EP ‘Not Another EP’ and two from the Funeral Suits - who’s album ‘Lily of the Valley’ launches next week in Ireland - which a gig in Whelans on Thursday the 7th (details HERE), and an in-store at Tower Records tonight (June 1) !

Track Listings

KaraKara - First and a Half Base

Bear In Heaven - Ultimate Satisfaction (The Field Remix)

Holy Fuck - Dr. Dr E

New Order - Ceremony

Kool Thing - Light Games (Reid Remix)

Actress - Ivy May Gilpin

Com Truise - Colorvision

Factory Floor - Two Different Ways

White Collar Boy - Long Walk Home (feat. Gemma Dunlovely) 

The Bloody Beetroots - Cornelius 

The Funeral Suits - Machines Too

The Funeral Suits - I Still Love The High 

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This weeks’ Folie à Deux (with Sarah) is up ! 

Tunes from Toy and Shabazz Palaces - who both played Dublin recently. Some Suuns, Dntel, Have a Nice Life and Young Magic…

Remixes from The Hood Internet, Signal Path and Teen Daze.

Irish Artists Lorem Ipsum, Kid Karate and Come On, Live Long.

Listen ! 

Track Listings

Toy - Clock Chime 

Three Trapped Tigers - Blood and Biscuits

The Hood Internet - Shutterbug in Miami (Big Boi & Foals)

Lorem Ipsum - Hold It Against Me (Britney Spears Cover)

Shabazz Palaces - Youology

Young Magic - Night In The Ocean 

Cults - Go Outside (Signal Path Remix)

Come On Live Long - Elephants and Time

Dntel - To A Fault (feat. Grizzly Bear)

Have a Nice Life - The Icon and The Axe 

Twin Sister - All Around and Away We Go (Teen Daze Remix)

Suuns - PVC

Kid Karate - Wet

Kid Karate - Louder

Shabazz Palaces in The Twisted Pepper

Shabazz Palaces in the Twisted Pepper   

Seattle based rappers, Palaceer Lazaro and Tendai ‘Baba’ Maraire, better known as Shabazz Palaces, are new to my radar - but what an impression they have made. Their constantly surprising, subtext filled lyrics are atypically eloquent, and coupled with song structures that constantly ebb and flow in opposing directions, they are not your average rap couple. Also, they have dance routines. Mind blown. They played the Twisted Pepper on Friday night - and it was nothing short of awesome.  

Sidling onstage, cool as hell, bedecked in sunglasses and to a roaring crowds’ yelps of excitement - they began their set in earnest. Unfortunately, there were some sort of teething problems with their sound set up - to the point that the pair stand a few paces back from their african-print-sheeted drums and Ableton keypad as the tech team from the Twisted Pepper rush to fix the problematic lead that seems to be causing the trouble. Apologetic or bewildered - I can’t quite tell - the pair look at the crowd, who - in response - burst into applause and we-don’t-mind-waiting whoops. I think we have an understanding. The issue is sorted within minutes and the pair launch again into their set. One of the first songs is ‘Youology’ who’s’ snapping-noised start is mirrored by the thickest bass thud that you could imagine - and set-in syncopated rapping… 

‘searching blind / run behind / out of time / into fire / caked up in fake love to get you high’ 

…it’s so good. Filling out their set with ‘Recollections of the Wrath’ - with its female soul singing samples - and ‘An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinnitum’ - both tracks off their album ‘Black Up’  (which is epic, go buy) there isn’t a moment of wasted time between each song. Free-styled, improvised Ableton processes and live drumming, are twinned with maracas, dual clapping, thumb harps - and of course, succinctly worded, rapped lyrics. Their music, though thematically intense, is also whirring and sensual, and their voices velveteen. 

They both bounce and groove to their own constant beats, but when I realized that they have dance moves - routines even - sometimes even something akin to double dutch clapping, I could have quite literally jumped out of my skin. They are so fucking adorable, I could die.Their on stage symbiosis and relationship makes me jealous. ‘Free Press and Curl’ - a song with an undeniably catchy hook is next up, ‘I’m Free, I’m Free, You know I’m Free’, and that on the night finished with a bonged cacophony, was perfection, and performed to a crowd that seemed to know every lyric ver batim already. Always a good sign. The constant reverb and intensity isn’t something that I quite expected from this gig - the  album (and performance) vacillates in tempo from song to song, but the pairs’ stage presence has the whole room moving is a sort of collective wave on the strength of the beats. ‘Are You…. Can You… Were You? (Felt)’ - was the closing tune, and utterly perfect as such…. 

(Time / I understand it /  But I never choose it / I can’t explain it with words / I have to do it / The ship I came on here vanished /// It’s a feeling / It’s a feeling / It’s a feeling). 

Not. Enough. Superlatives. 

The Horrors at The Academy : In Review

The Horrors - The Academy 

With a thick and weighty stage presence that always brings to mind the movie ‘Control’, I walked into The Academy to an already-very-much-in-progress show by The Horrors. I, apparently, was 20 minutes late - having arrived at 9 - though through lack of much further publicity about the show apart from the initial sales push, I’m still not even sure if there was a support act* or what time the bands set actually started at. Not great to be fair. 

Regardless of such minor irritations, The Horrors stage show did not disappoint - in fact, it was fucking great. Though I do hope for insurances’ sake it came with a photo epilepsy warning - because the rather epic light show that accompanied would certainly have felled anyone with even the most minor malady. ‘Sea Within a Sea’ - one of my own favorites - was within the first few I caught - and had the crowd riled to a state of frenzy when the ever recognizable synth line kicked in halfway through the song. It was tight as fuck live - and could well have passed for the recorded album version - bar a nicely more evident live drum mix. Moving swiftly into ‘Still Life’ off their newest release ‘Skying’ - Faris Badwins’ idiosyncratic gesticulations were reminiscent of an old show band frontman - though granted, with much more hair and distressed leather. The band disappeared all too soon into the smog after this song - yes, I know I had just arrived). An eerily ominous, low synth sound resonated throughout the venue as the we-know-you’re-coming-back-for-an-encore purgatory went on for all of about 5 minutes before the band returned to placate the roaring crowds with two more songs. 

‘Changing The Rain’ was the penultimate song in the set - and its stodgily thick drum beat opening was deliciously thudding, and made what i can only describe as bone-crunch-noise samples that sat beside it, all the more gratifying. Each member of the band is equally captivating in their performances - detachedly nonchalant, but utterly involved in the (re)creation of each song - your eyes dart from musician to musician constantly, though Badwins’ mashing the mic up against the amps antics to create some fuck-off reverberated distortion was nothing short of classic rock god antics. The finale song was ‘Moving Further Away’ and its ridiculously perfect synth line start was twinned with actual maracas to create the shake noise you can hear on the album ( why the revelation of this instrument struck me as odd somehow i don’t know ). Lost in their own personal worlds of noise, the boys closed with this absolute belter. They’re SUCH a band - and their show was worth every moment of the six month wait from ticket purchase to actuality. And I have NO fucking patience.

(Caveat : My only minor foible with the show is down to preference - with bands who’s tunes are grimy and gritty as the Horrors - I almost prefer seeing them in the slightly more ineloquent settings of a festival tent - with all its beer-cup-strewn messiness and rolling eyed puntered mayhem. But maybe that’s just me)

* (Apparently there was a support act and their name was TOY - you can listen to them here)