Neu This Week In New Music (1st June 2013)

Everyone’s a touch disorientated what with festival season hitting full steam. The moment you settle down into a rhythm and get back up-to-date with new music happenings, you’ll find yourself in some grubby hostel room in a godforsaken city for another three-day fest, or in the centre of a boiling tent that feels like it’s going to set alight if you stay inside a second longer. But every festival needs a soundtrack, and the following provide their own, warped backing to whichever style of hedonism you choose to embark on this summer. They also happen to be the best things we’ve heard this week:

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Chvrches - Gun


These guys are faultless. It’s almost as if Chvrches have been hiding away writing flawless, dark-laced pop tracks for the past several years, digesting everything from Prince to the Knife and so on, and stuffing them into this long-awaited debut album. Few first works have been as anticipated as Chvrches’ opening long player, and ‘Gun’ is further proof that it won’t be lacking a speck of pop golddust. ‘The Mother We Share’ hasn’t yet been topped, but it’s more a glorious base on which these Scots have built upon.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Wise Blood - Rat


This guy is a badass and he wants you to know it. People are comparing this ‘Rat’ video to Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, just because Chris from Wise Blood is riding a bike and chewing gum and smoking and bowling and wearing a smokes t-shirt and rawr, he’s the kind of guy you’d want to associate yourself with just to up your own cool rep. Not everybody could pull this off: Imagine Chris de Burgh trying to show his street cred in such rebel-like circumstances. The ‘Lady in Red’ would not be impressed.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Lolawolf
Wanna Have Fun by Lolawolf

This debut track from Lolawolf just glides by like a fleeting view from a train. So if you don’t pay close enough attention you’re a goner. You’re blind to the grit and venom residing underneath the top layer’s happy glow. The Brooklynite is angry, a running mantra of ‘get out of my house’ being about as to-the-point as they come. So many layers, alternating emotions, running in line towards one smooth-as-hell endpoint. It’s a smart, unforgiving debut track, the work of someone with something special up their sleeves.

Lolawolf’s debut single is out digitally via Innit Records next month.