New music round-up This Week In New Music (21st February 2015)

DIY rounds up the week’s premieres, tracks and new discoveries - featuring Tei Shi and Crows.

Words: Jamie Milton
21st February 2015

DIY and Neu’s new music round-ups arrive in two forms - first there’s all our Have You Heard’s from the past week, where the biggest tracks get another seal of approval. Then there’s This Week in New Music, where Neu takes a look at the early days excitement; debut tracks that turned heads; brand new discoveries; premieres that landed first on DIY. All that stuff.

This week we’ve been focusing on tonight’s big new music extravaganza, a triple-bill of ace bands for London Roundhouse Rising. Girl Band head the trio, backed by The Magic Gang and Hooton Tennis Club. We spent the week getting to know every act involved and paying introduction to some of the most exciting new acts around.

Elsewhere, attention’s been diverted by bearded wizards (Jack Garratt’s ‘Chemical’ track), bold Scandinavian punks (Yung, and their ‘Nobody Cares’ video) and something from those shores of a completely different ilk - Aurora’s new ‘Runaway’ song. This week’s new music round-up couldn’t go without once again mentioning the fact that you need to listen to Diet Cig’s debut EP right now.

THIS WEEK IN DIY PREMIERES

Tei Shi, Robyn Sherwell, Maui, Telegram, Beach Baby, Simmer, Peluché

This week we gave debuts to brand new (fresh out the oven, best left to rest for a couple of minutes) bands and a couple more established acts. Tei Shi stole the show with her hypeworthy remix of ‘Bassically’ from HONNE, a duo fast becoming this country’s most talked-about newcomers. Telegram are familiar faces too. The nostalgia-nodding force decided to head to Dan Carey’s South London studio and record a track in 24 hours - the result was Speedy Wunderground’s superb ‘Inside Outside’ release.

Anyone looking for their fuzz fix could find solace in MAUI, a London act giving nods to Blur right when their heroes arrived back on our doorsteps. Debut single ‘Slide In’ takes the fun route into the spotlight.

DIY also premiered Beach Baby’s ‘Ladybird’, an instant call-to-arms arriving right ahead of the group’s first live date, supporting Jungle in Paris. No pressure, chaps. They were joined by Peluché, a group who somehow manage to put the words “jazz influence” and “really very exciting” into the same sentence. As the week closed, we looked ahead to Robyn Sherwell’s bright career by debuting ‘Tightropes’, a suitably risky new track.

TRACK OF THE WEEK

Crows - Pray

There’s enough in Crows on record to get excited about, but just imagine the thrill of ‘Pray’ multiplied tenfold. That’s about half of what you can expect from seeing this four-piece live, as they flex and strut from one tiny stage to higher climes. ‘Pray’’s the closest they’ve come so far in replicating their hypnotic live pull, and with that in mind this is easily up there as one of the biggest statements of intent to arrive from a UK act so far this year.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK:
Bo Rocha

“This is it / just me / with my instincts,” sings Bo Rocha on her blaze of glory debut track ‘Tangerine Flake’, the kind of song that’d prefer to go out in a flash of chaos than a simmering out effect. The London producer tries everything, from fancy synth tricks to layer-upon-layer of dramatic vocals. Throughout, where one feat isn’t quite pulled out, another steps up to the plate. There’s endless potential in Bo Rocha - it’s difficult to keep up.

Tags: Tei Shi, Features, Neu