This Week In New Music (6th September 2014) • Neu • DIY Magazine

DIY’s gone new bands crazy this week with the announcement of our first ever tour, headlined by two very exciting names: Flyte and Shy Nature. They’re joined by Blessa, Menace Beach and Telegram for a special London one-dayer in London and given the names we’ve yet to announce, this is going to be one wild celebration in all things new music. To serve as a warm up, we’re focusing on the past seven days, bringing together the best track, video and discovery of the week. All three of these emerged at the beginning of the week, and they’ve embellished themselves in the conscience ever since.

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

TRACK OF THE WEEK:Cloud Castle Lake — A Wolf Howling

Dublin’s Cloud Castle Lake definitely fidget in their sleep. Put together in the same recording studio, nervous energy bounces off the walls. Tense and teeming with life, everything the trio have put out to date sounds like a nagging thought that’s about to explosively evolve into an enraged scream. It’s a little bit like Thom Yorke pacing around a stage before kicking into his traditional freakout dance, only slightly more sinister. ‘A Wolf Howling’ contains a) howls b)wolf-like cries and c) enough spiralling synths to send the whole thing off into space. Their output so far’s been uptight, deadly serious and bordering on terrifying, but given how brilliantly this song evolves, they represent the marking of a potentially special band.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK:BEA — We’re Like the Hard Born

Let’s not kid ourselves - Dutch artist BEA’s video probably wouldn’t be in here if it didn’t have a singing, animated dog. In what will eventually go down in history as the year of the ‘doge’, ‘We’re Like the Hard Born’ arrives in perfect time. Beyond the shaved eyebrow, the eyeballing and the smoky, impressionable scenery, this video belongs to the dog. It comes out of nowhere and it steals the show. If every music clip included a cameo like this one, MTV might still be showing videos 24/7.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK:California Carpool

Bit-by-bit, California Carpool’s debut collection of demos has made more and more of an impression. Stamped in the same woozy, dream-tastic quality as staples on the Captured Tracks roster (Beach Fossils / DIIV), ‘beach dreams’ gives off frustration and escape in one swarming package. Best of all is ‘only u’, which sports the kind of riff everyone’s holding out for Zachary Cole Smith to pen for his second record. Guitars overlap and hog the spotlight, while murmured, reverb-drenched vocals don’t particularly matter. Isaac Ide knows how to balance emotions on a pin, and his first set of songs go leaps and bounds beyond the ‘promising’ bracket.

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