Round-up This Week In New Music (11th October 2014)

DIY picks out the week’s best premieres, tracks and new discoveries. Featuring Tei Shi and Speelburg.

Words: Jamie Milton
11th October 2014

DIY’s new music round-up This Week In New Music brings together the best tracks, videos, discoveries and goodness know what else to have cropped up within the past seven days. We pick out premieres, one track and one special new find per week, but that’s not forgetting the rest in what’s been a jam-packed few days. One of the sweetest, most emotional moments came in Danny L Harle’s ‘In My Dreams’ track - cementing the fact that there’s more than two sides to the PC Music equation. There was also Happy Diving, finally announcing plans to strike the UK with their San Francisco-bred garage punk, in the form of a debut release on Art Is Hard. Good news continued with the return of Yumi Zouma and their ‘Alena’ single - the surest sign yet that their 2014 debut EP wasn’t just a lucky one-off. Then there’s Deers, with their ‘Castigadas en el Granero’ video - their best yet - and Years & Years, hedging all bets on 2015 with a shamelessly chart-ready single.

Here’s the best of what happened this week in new music:

This Week in DIY Premieres:
Kid Wave, Autobahn, Great Good Fine Ok

This week’s highlight came from Kid Wave, a brand on the brink of refining their escapist sound into something special before ‘Gloom’, the moment they perfected it. This Sweden via London group seem relatively unsung, given just how energised their take on dream pop is, all full-steam-ahead guitars and sweeping vocals from Lea Emmery. ‘Gloom’ takes their initial promise and sends the whole thing skywards.

New York duo Great Good Fine Ok offered one of the most fully-formed debut EPs in an age, ranging from giddy synth pop to, err, the even giddier kind. Autobahn crashed in on the opposite end of the spectrum, offering out a free download that’d crush all squeaky synths on sight, if it had the option - like Roy Keane with a vendetta for electro.

Track of the Week:
Tei Shi - Bassically

Disco’s still the flavour. Just yesterday evening, Marina and the Diamonds returned with a song up to its knees in a post-‘Get Lucky’ gung ho mentality for the ‘floor. It worked, and so does this slightly more subdued and sleek number from NYC-based artist Tei Shi. There’s wit and scorn flowing round ‘Bassically’, dissing dicks who “flaunt” the girls by their side. And as the message gets clearer, up goes the intensity. Bass notes throb in every direction going, and what begins as a vaguely innocent take on disco begins to morph into a beast. This is a knockout blow, a wicked game being played out in public. Tei Shi began with some stirring blog-friendly numbers - now she’s proving herself as a unique talent.

Discovery of the Week:
Speelburg

Noah Sacré’s music as Speelburg sounds like it’s extracted the steamiest, most unforgivably NSFW scene from every Hollywood film going. Fassbender’s ‘Shame’ shots, right down to the nitty-gritty Jolie x Pitt business in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ - this is wide-screened, cinematic loving we’re talking about. Debut track ‘Aubrey’ blends Jai Paul-style synth flickers with a more expansive quality, sweeping strings bursting into life alongside the coo’ing phrase “you’ve been on my mind, so long”. Take a wild guess as to what he’s writing about.

Tags: Tei Shi, Listen, Features, Neu