News This Week In New Music (30th March 2013)

While everyone drowns in chocolate or lives to see another day, we’ve gone and searched back through the past seven days in new music to grab a glimpse of the best bits. That’s not to dismiss every other newly emerging piece that we lauded praise on, but the select few mentioned below hit us right in the very gut. They stood out through sheer force, all united in sounding entirely different to everything else out there. Three distinct pieces, these ones. But together they form a gloriously bright insight into the coming months.

TRACK OF THE WEEK
Majical Cloudz - Childhood’s End


Many a music listener first heard Majical Cloudz through a Grimes recommendation, or via. various collaborations between the two artists. But if you’re new to Devon Welsh’s tracks, try and imagine becoming accustomed to a musician who’d shroud himself in hazy production, before, all of a sudden, forcing through the fog and announcing himself as a true force. In an odd split-second, Welsh will sing like a talent-show contestant, his voice clear and true. Then he’ll turn a track like ‘Childhood’s End’ - a new taste of debut album ‘Impersonator’ - on its head, spin it round several times and turn a bellowing cry into something deeper, more emotionally-strained and tugging. Majical Cloudz’s music is, arguably, more ‘emo’ than anything that defined the Panic! vs. Fall Out Boy era. Lyrics like ‘your father, he is dead’ are determinedly cutting. Just like the defining bands of said age, it’ll doubtless split opinion. But we’re siding with Welsh’s mournful melodrama. Because it’s prized and precious.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Father Sculptor - Lowlands


I doubt you know many people who walk up to the fridge, grab a litre of milk and pour it all over their sorry faces. Talk about a bad housemate. And that stuff’s getting more expensive, you know? Not that we’re questioning the art direction for Father Sculptor’s latest clip for ‘Lowlands’. We did premiere the video after all. The song’s message about losing your grip on the world is coupled nicely with the customary milk shot and the static imaged television screens.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Los Porcos


It’s still difficult to gather just how tongue-in-cheek this project is and whether its respective members are in it for the long haul. Los Porcos could be a means of tiding us over until FAMY release some more material, or until further word gets out about the WU LYF split. But we’d gently recommend that those involved in this project keep up the hard work. The two unveiled tracks to date give off such a fresh exactitude - a studio quality few incoming bands come close to - that every spoiled, music-obsessed brat across the country will be demanding more. ‘Do You Wanna Live?’ sounds a little like David Byrne getting his mitts round Earth, Wind and Fire’s ‘September’. While ‘Jesus Luvs U Baby’ is in a league of its own.