News This Week In New Music (1st December 2012)

We enter the final month of the calendar year with new music’s relentless output showing no sign of halting. Of course, new music is never going to stop. Head to Soundcloud on December 25th and even then something is going to pop up on your feed (it might be a dubstep remix of Katy Perry, but it’s still by definition new music). We’re more explicitly referring to the quality of output. Sifting through all the week’s tracks, videos and fresh faces this week we were encountered with a ridiculous amount of little triumphs hinting at big things to come. Here’s our pick of the bunch:

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Tourist - Your Girl



It was a pretty ridiculous decision to make: Deciding between the hazy, divine tones of The Soft’s new song and the returning effort of a certain Will Phillips. Both have unveiled new tracks as previews of future EPs and both have clearly upped their game. The former is of a more distinct, late-night atmosphere, while Tourist’s ‘Your Girl’ could go hand in hand with just about anything. It is both immediate and slowly more engrossing as each second passes.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Blackeye - Spin



Blackeye do brilliantly to set the scene, here. The scrappy handwriting on lined paper, the skateboard footage, the VHS-fisheye style of recording - every inch of this is screaming “this is who we are, and we’re just a little bit cool.” Self aware but charming all the same, it matches the bubblegum ‘90s pop revival sound bit-by-bit.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Pick a Piper


I imagine we’ll be hearing a lot more from Brad Gaber’s new project in the next few months. The Caribou drummer has been working on this for a while, but it’s beginning to take shape, with an album release imminent. ‘Lucid in Fjords’ could be mistaken for a new Gold Panda cut were it not for the sudden entrance of Ruby Suns vocalist Ryan McPhun. Ryan’s one of many collaborators on future material, we’re told. This all sounds vaguely reminiscent of Sinkane; a project with roots in Caribou and other projects that went to take on its own form and lease of life this past year. If Pick a Piper comes anywhere close to Sinkane’s remarkable output, we’ll be satisfied.