New Music | June

LAW
www.lawholt.com

Edinburgh-based vocalist Lauren Holt, aka LAW, is causing quite the stir with her super-moody, super-cool track ‘Hustle’. It’s the only thing she’s released so far, but I expect a few more tracks will be released in due course – and based on this one, they’re gonna be dope. This particular track has got an eerie, clappy rhythm to it that will make you wanna swig whisky in a tiny nightie in some motel room till you pass out. Yeah, that’s what the video is like, or perhaps a lo-fi, drunker, slowed-down version of Cher’s ‘Believe’. Watch this lady: things are going to get mega good for her.

Wolf Alice
soundcloud.com/wolfalice

London four-piece Wolf Alice have that wonderful quality of being both loud and quiet at the same time, cleverly borrowing from all across the guitar music spectrum and coming up with something that’s catchy, thoughtful and just really good. Vocalist Ellie Rowsell has that kind of voice that makes you want to shamelessly imitate it in the shower. The other three guys, Joff, Joel and Theo, do a pretty swell job too. This is the one band you should be on the lookout for on gig posters in your town this summer. Check out their track ‘Bros’ and prepare to be amazed.

Karen Gwyer
soundcloud.com/karengwyer

Karen Gwyer is a US girl who makes excellent music of the mysterious electronic kind in the big city of London. With releases on No Pain in Pop and fellow artist patten’s Kaleidoscope, Gwyer is making waves at gloomy basement parties near you. Her sound is one of those that you might need some time to get into, but once it nests in your ears, you’ll never want to hear anything but her clever, rhythmic loopy patterns of what some witty PR person has called ‘bath house’. Check out her new LP Needs Continuum: I’d give it more than a double thumbs up if I had more thumbs.

Container
soundcloud.com/gentledefect

Volume is crucial for the full appreciation of the rocket lift-off that Ren Schofield produces when he plays. It is a full-blown ribcage-rattling experience that will make your ears bleed and walls shake amid flashes of green light. I can exaggerate sometimes, but this is no joke: Container is an H-bomb of musical madness. It’s dark, heavy, elemental, noisy techno of the dirtiest kind that gives guitar music a massive run for its money. Get on this train before it’s too late. EP Treatment is out on Morphine Records.

Moiré
facebook.com/MoireMusic

This French term describes the funny pattern effect that appears on television screens when weather presenters accidentally wear houndstooth jackets. Moiré’s music is similarly characterised by opposing patterns of synths, abstracted vocals and stuttering repetitions that glimmer and glisten like the big digital boobies that feature in his video for ‘I Don’t Get It’. We don’t know much more about Moiré, save for the fact that he’s not French and he probably does not wear houndstooth (phew). His latest EP, Rolx, is out now on Rush Hour and it’s a belter.

Gobby
soundcloud.com/gobby-2

Gobby inhabits some pinball machine techno-monster madhouse from which he regularly releases some jaw-dropping beats that have made the blogosphere rumble with curiosity as to who this New York provocateur really is. You may have actually heard his stuff when you listened to the likes of fellow musical mischief-makers Mykki Blanco and LE1F. Hitting play may require some preparation as you get sucked into his vortex of chirpy Japanese jingles and grizzled, ambient thumps, but stick to it and everything else you will ever hear will sound bland as fuck. Signed to the notoriously cool label UNO NYC, Gobby’s just released an LP with them called Fashion Lady. You can thank us later.