This Week In New Music (4th October 2014) • Neu • DIY Magazine

DIY’s ‘This Week In New Music’ round-up brings together highlights from the past week, as previously found on our go-to new music section Neu. This includes five days’ worth of Neu Bulletins (our daily new music guide) and whichever spontaneous discoveries that’ve cropped up around the same time-frame. Below, we dig into the best premieres, tracks and new artists of the week, but it’s also worth mentioning the following: Sylas’ second ever track, ‘Shore’, is as calming as they come. Palace’s new video for ‘Bitter’ makes them an even more exciting and unique prospect. Denai Moore’s hitting her stride with news of a forthcoming EP, and ‘I Swore’’s title-track caught the eye earlier this week. Plus there’s Belgian trio La Plage, who shunned earlier Phoenix comparisons with the more serene ‘Mark’.

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

This Week’s DIY Premieres:Demob Happy, Krill, Francisco The Man, Telegram

Even if Demob Happy’s new single premiered in the depths of hell, we’d attempt to pick it out. The Newcastle via Brighton outfit are getting very exciting indeed - like, close to Royal Blood exciting when they edged towards the beginning of 2014. Each song they put out is deadlier than the last, with ‘Succubus’’ DIY premiere cementing them as a frightening force, up to their knees in grubby riffs. Alongside Demob Happy, we were also thrilled to bring the new video by Telegram - which saw the DIY all-dayers cruising around Tokyo - plus a new track from Fat Possum signings Francisco the Man. That’s not forgetting the genuinely disgusting new video from Krill, who really, really like peanut butter - so much so, they snort it. Maybe save that one for after dinner.

Track of the week:Låpsley — Falling Short

“It’s been a long time coming but I’m falling short” is up there in this year’s cutting declarations, shadowing as a chorus. Låpsley’s only just hitting her stride, so unless the most ultimate strand of writer’s block stands in her way, the future’s solved. But even the most hyped-up, exciting new artists have their off days, and Holly Fletcher perfectly captures the closed curtains days, where nothing quite clicks and everything feels off. Simple to the bone, she continues to execute the deep versus high vocal transition that first caught the eye, but she’s come on leaps and bounds as a songwriter in the past few months, and that’s way before we’re even considering a debut album. Look out, world.

Discovery of the week:Cristobal and the Sea

Multi-national, widely-inspired London outfit Cristobal and the Sea have been making music for the past couple of years, but latest track ‘My Love (Ay Ay Ay)’ represents something of a watershed moment. It refines their scattershot, all-everything-ever attitude into an actual, bellowing, brilliantly accessible song that could’ve been dug up from a tribe ritual in the furthest corner of Earth. Yeasayer mastered this approach to a T on their debut album, before reaching outwards for a weirder take on pop - Cristobal and the Sea sound primal, pure and untouched, a band only just seizing the day.

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