News This Week In New Music (24th November 2012)

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TRACK OF THE WEEK
Peace - Wraith



Like a group of rebels forming their ranks, I’m already beginning to see a backlash forming against Peace. That’s all well and good. There are elements of Britpop to their tracks (nothing wrong with that); it’s easy to envisage the ladrock crowd lapping up this sort of sound come festival season next year. But ‘Wraith’ defies all of this. Sure, it packs a hefty chorus, but it’s the odes to house, funk, and the guitar licks - all far from standard fare - that manage to satisfy a reluctant snob like myself.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Fun Adults - Sap Solid



Isn’t this just divine? One distant gaze at the new Fun Adults video and you’re likely to look back on your Primary school years with regret. Why didn’t you take up art with a passion? What happened to all of those Spiderman drawings you used to trace? The sponge painting of trees you made in Year 2 that hung up in your kitchen wall - where did that go? Fun Adults put the art in smart, adding gorgeous visuals to the equally precious ‘Sap Solid’ track.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Tallows

2012 DEMO by Tallows

Tallows is the project of two Oklahoma City residents who wrote songs together this past summer, before eventually expanding into a full band, with all intention to record a full-length. Their 2012 “demos” are more fully realised than most rough cuts, with obvious references paid to The Shins and The Pomegranates in the vocalist’s unique delivery and the sheer, unhindered immediacy of this experimental alt-pop joy. It makes you want to run round the streets with a beaming smile. Or maybe that’s just the coffee.