News This Week In New Music (9th March 2013)

The age of anonymity is over. Or at least, the weird spell we had when an artist’s identity was more important than the music itself seems to have disappeared. Some Neu staples remain masked talents, but it doesn’t matter. The artists featured in this week’s new music round-up used to hide behind an online veil, but each step they take reveals more about why they’re making music. We mean that in the sense that it’s not about the celebrity aspect. It’s about the artistic vision being realised. And make no mistake, SOHN and Kate Boy’s respective visions are becoming more vivid and exciting by the day.

TRACK OF THE WEEK
SOHN - Bloodflows


It’s been a few months in the making, but our favourite producer is about to play his first shows ever in sunny Texas for SXSW. ‘Bloodflows’ - and pretty much every other track he’s revealed to date - will likely turn the sweaty vibe, Doritos stuck to shorts, into something chilling and gripping in a live setting.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Kate Boy - In Your Eyes


We should really know how to apply the term ‘D.I.Y.’ considering our site name. But many associate the phrase with bedroom bands, self-releasing cassettes and getting by on basement shows and tight-knit friendships. Kate Boy are D.I.Y in the very strictest sense. This new video is self-directed, self-produced, all the handiwork has been overlooked by the slick, Scandi-pop sound they so gleefully sport. It’s so glossy and free of flaws it must have had outside influence, you think to yourself. But Kate Boy are one of a kind, a band with purpose and perfect application.

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK
Ancient Mariner


Have you ever put on a Midlake record and gone for a walk in the woods? It’s weird. It’d be like travelling up to space with Chvrches ringing in your ears. It’s music realising itself in the perfect environment. We’d trust that Denver’s Gabriel Jorgensen has tried the experience himself, not least when writing the tracks for his new Ancient Mariner project. Country dweller or not, his music entices you to the point where even in the city sprawl, some old school paganism never feels far away.