Here's a small sample of what this month's had to offer already, some tracks surfacing this year already have been brought back into focus, this summarising a listening that vitalises each scene into the summer of 2014.
'Solo Dancing'-Indiana
The overload of brooding vocals to embark with the varying blub of this record is indenaibly a sub pop/indie lux to listen to over and over. The introductory intimacy of Indiana completely whisks the record away over an increasing tempo keeps it at an extremely intriguing wavelength to discover from the Nottingham artist. As she floats over," Solo dancing watch me as I go" (cue the echo) it gives even an underground club scene enough groove for graceful hip sways to the bassline. Could you think of it as a blunt yet warm additive on pop? To my ears it sounds far more speculated than any other singles wading in the chart gutter. Take the fact that Indiana has already taken to the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2013 but more recently this week has been in to Radio 1 for Phil Taggarts Late Live Lounge performing covers of Gorgon City as well as staging her work into the soundwaves. A truly experimentalist yet soul awakening track is surely enough to cut out the speakers this summer.
'You Stressin'-Bishop Nehru
I heard this around two months ago from Annie Mac's night slot on a Friday night which wasn't quite so jam-packed with bass drop mosh anthems. Instead around 11pm I stumbled across the radio to discover a gently throbbing beat smothered on top of Bishop Nehru's 'Very often I'm tossing rapper portions/barely lost in life's exhaust,it's often false coughing." he effortlessly flows through the elegant hook that is signature of Disclosure's backing sound.But even in his own production on singular records like 'mobb dizzle' his rich background blubs keep a consistent,recognisable style. The refrained echoes falls almost in perfection to the out leading hook, could it be the heartbeat of rap that sustains the circulation round this summer? For certain it has the warmth to follow through.
'West Coast'-Lana Del Rey
Not that anyone hasn't heard this gleaming single already. But lets take it back to step 1. Only two years ago the 'Born To Die' Era was an infectious sticky solution pouring out anthems such as the cataclysmic cry of 'National Anthem' or indeed the wondrous stretch of 'Video Games' from the New York vocalist who we were soon to see as a pandemic of chart topping. However, 'West Coast' lies within a whole new evolution for Lana. Take the opening distilled riff ringing into lyrics, "On the balcony I'm saying move baby move baby I'm in love" it could be the same 'rock n'roll groupie' style that she strives through. But considering the momentous bridge that entangles this song on its perfected whisk it brings an unfamiliar twang of unrevealing, it can only put me for one back on the sands of Venice Beach gasping for more of the prolonged scent this record oozes out. Rather then the squeezed, sugar coated spoken layout we're used too, Lana empties out the demons of a dazed and tempting path to lead into her upcoming album, 'UltraViolence'. Take this record as the indefinite come down track on many an evening ( for instance late this June after her Pyramid Stage slot).
'Yosoko'-Loom
A slamming, face frontal wave of refreshing dirt punk from the frontman and band who's distant relations lead back to The Horrors. You wouldn't mix the two up on those boundaries though. The band have been knocking around a fair few corners for the past half year as a brutal blister swamping up the punk scene. Take the aggression of the sharp intro which carries Tarik Badwan's chorus as a pounding headache with the distortion in full swing. It heavily meets the gruff and doom of what Loom proceed in their verses.
'Killer Bangs'-Honeyblood
After picking up the mention of the BBC's most anticipated Return of Rock this year, their recent release has almost a celebratory kick of progression for the band. Compared to earlier tracks like 'Kissing On You' and 'Bud' it provides an even more solid and perhaps mature sound. The verses dive into the same viscous strums and beats we're used to but when they sing, " Buckle down got to start your career/the one you've been working so hard for." it justifies the band's thrust for energy even more. Honeyblood for sure have been buckling down to carry some fast momentum into their future. And yes for any other fringe bearer out there, this record shakes your bangs out incomparably.
'Feel Safe'-All We Are
Front covering many website and magazine columns, this Liverpool threesome are creating the same synthy buzz that brought Warpaint onto the scene. Their most mentioned record so far, 'Feel Safe' it gloats over picky riffs combined with the trance of docile climatic of their hooting vocals. It gives their sound a disco infused bounce to the dissection of this song and although it sounds like the DJ's spun some of the choruses on repeat it makes a further whizz of swaying nature.
'Moaning Lisa Smile'-Wolf Alice
THE rawest gut wrench of a single that Wolf Alice have produced so far. Just one scratch of Ellie Rowsells vocal chords piping,' Scrap the blues if the blues don't work/ Flash your teeth though the inside hurts.' can send you seething for the root of this song. In which lies between the heavy spit of bass and the steady thrash over-layering the song into a reverb-readied solo crashing back into the fierce roar putting the steel lining to seal Wolf Alice's build up as literally sublime.
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