Neu This Week In New Music (26th October 2013)

It’s around this time of year that new bands take the plucky next step and announce their debut album. There’s already a first work from Arthur Beatrice on the cards, with the formidable Young Fathers also announcing their debut earlier this week. Their ‘Low’ track stands out as a frightful reminder of just how big an impact their first work could have. For the others mentioned in this week’s new music round-up, debuts are a long, long way off. But after CMJ-praise for New York’s Wet and following one of the most closely-watched debut songs in yonks from Priests, bloodthirsty fans will already be hungry for full-lengths. We suggest that, like Young Fathers, they take their sweet time.

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

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Young Fathers - Low


Maybe it’s some unsuccessful attempt to steer away from the fear factor, maybe it’s just a band being playful, but Young Fathers’ latest track comes off all cutesy and sweet for its opening 20 seconds. The whole thing could’ve come out of a pokemon level soundtrack. And all of a sudden the words ‘Imma take a shit in your palace’ come out of the blue, Young Fathers’ remarkable knack for being both disturbing and exciting re-igniting in one terrifying moment. Swinging from colourful verses to a percussion-filled chorus that roots straight for the dark abyss, this is the Edinburgh trio’s all-thrills mentality epitomised.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Wet - You’re The Best


When critics come out of the woodworks, Wet’s music is probably going to be accused of being a bit, well, wet. ‘I’m still lonely when you hold me’ runs an opening lyric, before sweet high-pitched guitar notes send ‘You’re The Best’ into a sleepy, half-tropical sway. It’s like sipping on sweet chocolate milk. A bit wet? If you say so. Either that, or it’s music from the depths of someone’s heart being projected in a clever, technical, sugar-sweet routine. The video’s not bad either, basking itself in the city lights of the ever-awake New York.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Prints


The first split-second of ‘Work This Out’ sounds like it’s seen the light after years spent in the behind of Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’. Things soon progress, baby-steps sending 90s grunge into stirring, 60s-infused territory. Whoever’s behind Prints knows exactly what they’re doing. Loved up on Velvet Underground and, you guessed it, the best bits of ‘OK Computer’, this is the debut to rival all others.