Australian producer and multi-instrumentalist Anya Anastasia acts as her own Greek choir on her new single Burrow, a track perusing a wealth of rhytmic shifts next to her stacked vocals. It is one of those songs that defies pigeonholing, switching between leftfield indie and experimental folk, but it also contains a short burst of guitar rock, and a neo-classical cello part. If anything, it strikes a nerve that is almost primal - or as she says so herself - animal.
Jimmy Page has posted the home demo of Ten Years Gone, a track that would end up on Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album:
As a footnote to Physical Graffiti, I thought you might like to hear the original home demo, recorded in my studio at Plumpton Place of a piece of music that was going to surface as Ten Years Gone.
I presented this rough mix to the band at Headley Grange in order to do this for real. Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary and then we arrive at the song Ten Years Gone.
Seattle based garage-rockers The Darts have unveiled a video for Haunt Me, a track from their Halloween Love Songs album: "It's fast, it's loud, with the lo-fi sound of vintage organs smack in the middle of the mix. If the Cramps, The 13th Floor Elevators or The Slits had enlisted a keyboard player they might have sounded like this."
Brighton based sextet Opus Kink's signature mix of punk and jazz is all over their new single Come Over, Do Me Wrong, tackling a toxic love affair, wherein one of the involved parties gets dealt with a bad hand pretty much all of the time, but still insists on keeping the game going. The snarling vocals can't get hide the pain, with a trumpet and saxophone acting as if nothing is wrong by supplying an almost jubliant commentary on the proceedings. The video was made by Maisy Banks.
Watch Los Angeles based hardcore/alternative rock band Militarie Gun perform six songs for a NPR Tiny Desk Concert. They turned the volume down, well, just a bit.
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