Good Stuff released 7th February 2011
Vision of Trees – "Sometimes it Kills"
Wow – what a fantastic track! Vision of Trees jokingly dub their music as psyche R&B meets tribal goth, although truthfully this music doesn’t really have a genre to be tightly associated with. It certainly has heavily electronic content mixed with indie influences, and has the classic girl/boy combo with soft, ethereal female vocals. Thick, undulating, modern synth timbres rotate through this track, sub-merging the listener in a beautiful, subterranean aural landscape. It is gently and totally captivating. I cannot wait to hear more from this promising duo.
Bad Stuff Released 7th February 2011
Diagram of the Heart – “If I Were You”
A number of music magazines, including Q and Pop Justice have raved about these guys, hailing their “euphoric electro-pop” as marvellously innovative and interesting. Sorry, but it just simply isn’t. The duo have only been active for a year, yet their video and music production is so suspiciously slick and positively dripping in money that it completely lacks any personality. I’m always a bit wary of acts that record labels pour money into upon signing – acts that they think are really “on-trend” often tend to be very watered down and about two years out of date. Like this band. Their music is a very bland, bad cash in of the current indie-pop-electro combinations, with dated 1990s synth timbres that should not have been revived.
See this post at HCE at http://t.co/4449dMv
