NYC

Thanks to the interest on No Age and Vivian Girls this year our love with lo-fi rock/pop is rekindled.

Vivian Girls‘ 22-minute self titled debut is hot cake right now (or was a month or so ago you know I can’t keep up with the kids) and not because Pitchfork told us so. Ok, I gotta admit that I first read about them via pitchfork, yet unlike most of the stuff I read and never check I jumped on Vivian Girls because I love this microgenre.

Been listening to Mill Pond’s Luke Temple with his second full length called “Snowbeast” for some time and Brooklyn based guitar/banjoist & songwriter straight away charmed me with his frail falsetto voice and exceptionally versatile songwriting I should say. Temple’s indie pop/folk has many elements of psychedelia and prog which moves “Snowbeast” apart from all the American guitar folk artists.

I got to spill my guts, NYC’s Marnie Stern is my new obsession with her furious debut “In Advance of the Broken Arm” on Kill Rock Stars. Just as you think every musical aesthetic has been covered, someone comes along and shows you that the human creativity has no bounds.

“You might smell like vanilla, but you’re still a gorilla!” …
One of the best chorus hooks I’ve heard recently, thanks to Kudu on Ilhan Ersahin’s Nublu label. This is a raw electropopish dance track with Sylvia’s clever vocal line and lovely melody that carves itself instantly in your mind.