This Week In New Music (21st March 2015) • Neu • DIY Magazine

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.

Basically every single act in the world was (and currently remains) in Austin, Texas. Judging by the SXSW hype-o-meter, it’s no surprise that Girl Band and Hinds are on the edge of every taco-stained pair of lips. We’re also hearing really good things about Ryn Weaver’s sets, which conveniently couple up with the announcement of her debut album, ‘The Fool’. Back home and thousands of miles away from Texas bars, we were also treated to Nai Harvest’s new call to arms, the announcement of a debut album from curious electronic duo Rainer, and a new song from lo-fi champ Shunkan.

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

THIS WEEK IN DIY PREMIERES:

This week we gave debuts to new Wolf Alice (the dreamy ‘I Saw You (In A Corridor)’, recorded in an actual corridor, by the sounds of it). Simplicity defined, it’s the complete opposite of chart-bothering storm ‘Giant Peach’, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive.

Low budget bedroom recordings were on the agenda for Sulky Boy, an exciting act based in Brighton and associated with fledging new label Echochamp. We premiered ‘Balkan Baby’, a song desperate in its romantic intentions but great all the same. Lazy Day previewed their forthcoming Record Store Day release with a heady dose of fuzz, ‘Portrait’, and FatCat signing C Duncan echoed The Proclaimers (not musically, mind you) by travelling thousands of miles on the lovelorn ‘Here to There’. We also gave an introduction to Swedish slackers Magic Potion - their “bass tutorial” of a video for ‘Deep Web’ was more disturbing than a first visit to 4chan, to be honest.

Wolf Alice, Sulky Boy, Lazy Day, C Duncan, Magic Potion

Lion Babe’s ‘Treat Me Like Fire’ is the kind of body-shaking triumph to define an entire year - unveiled back in 2013, its shelf life tops most head-turning first works, and its follow-up more than warrants the wait. ‘Wonder Woman’ isn’t some off-the-cuff budget number. Pharrell’s at the production helm, twisting and contorting the face of pop right before our very eyes. A club banger with its shoelaces untied, this is a loose-footed, shape-shifting blast of guts that shatters expectations. Lion Babe are the real deal, then.

TRACK OF THE WEEK:

Pale Honey are all about the pendulum swing. They’ll go from perfect quiet to total rage in a sudden shift. Based in Gothenburg, Tuva Lodmark and Nelly Daltry’s game might seem simple, but on ‘Youth’ in particular, their flit between two extremes takes some serious topping. With a debut out first week of May, what’s next is a series of hyped-to-the-hills European shows.

Round-up This Week In New Music (21st March 2015)

DIY picks out the best new music discoveries from the past week, including Pale Honey and Lion Babe.

THIS WEEK IN DIY PREMIERES:

Wolf Alice, Sulky Boy, Lazy Day, C Duncan, Magic Potion

TRACK OF THE WEEK:

Lion Babe — Wonder Woman

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK:

Pale Honey

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