Fantastic Playroom by New Young Pony ClubThe debut album for this indie electronica band from London, England. [Electronic, Indie]
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Published: 2007-07-19
Provider: Metacritic
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Off With Their Heads by Kaiser ChiefsThe follow-up to the Leeds rock band's top selling sophomore album features Lily Allen and New Young Pony Club as guests. [Rock]
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Published: 2008-10-29
Provider: Metacritic
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Smoking Section: Ellen Page, Adam Green, Jazz & Heritage Festival Since actress Ellen Page — you know, Juno — dragged the Moldy Peaches out of obscurity and steered her flick’s soundtrack to the Number One spot, we thought we’d probe her musical tastes. “This is going to show how young I am” — twenty — “but the first intense experience I had was when I heard ‘Pyramid Song,’ from Radiohead’s Amnesiac,” says Page. “I was like, ‘How can this paralyze me?’ ” She is just as “effin’ crazy” about In Rainbows. Also on her iPod: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s cover of John Denver’s “The Eagle and the Hawk”; U.K. sensation Bat for Lashes (”The video for ‘What’s a Girl to Do?’ is sick!”); everything by Missy Elliott, Cat Power and Feist; and finally, “Ice Cream,” by New Young Pony Club (”Like, is that not slutty?”). Page, like Juno, plays some rudimentary guitar, but she won’t be putting out an album: “That would be lame. No one would respect me ever again.” * * * * Speaking of the Moldy Peaches, our hero Adam Green’s new album, Sixes & Sevens, is out in March — twenty songs stuffed into forty-eight action-packed minutes. “For my fifth studio album, I hired some Brooklyn gospel singers to give my music some class,” says Green. “It’s a comeback album with a message.” The single “Morning After Midnight” is already a hit in Belgium; he duets with girlfriend Loribeth Capella on “Drowning Head First”; and “You Get So Lucky” revives the pan flute. “I nearly crapped myself after that,” he says. “I knew that my life was never going to be the same.” Our favorite? “Getting Led,” which Green describes as “a sweet and tender song about fatalism and submission.” “People say I’m the Jewish Kurt Cobain,” says Green. ̶
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Published: 2008-02-14
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Smoking Section
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Mercury Prize Nominees: Rock Daily’s Fave NewcomersEarlier today, nominees were announced for the U.K.’s Mercury prize, which is sort of like the Grammy for Album of the Year, only with better artists and no de facto requirement that you’ve moved a million units. You already know the frontrunners, including Amy Winehouse, Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys, who won the Mercury last year. But there are some fairly obscure names on the list — like Breaking Artist Bat for Lashes. So here’s a primer for the non-Anglophiles out there: Rock Daily’s favourite Mercury newcomers. Maps Who: James Chapman, a one-man-band from Northampton, England. Sounds Like: Maps’ debut, We Can Create, is full of lush, atmospheric pop that recalls My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless — only warmer and less noisy. Fun Fact: Chapman recorded the album in his bedroom, mostly on a sixteen-track recorder. Jamie T Who: Twenty-two-year-old London singer-songwriter Jamie Treays. Sounds Like: Treays’ debut, Panic Prevention, is long on tuneful, sharp-witted character sketches and charming, ramshackle tunes built on keyboards and samplers. The album has been compared to both the Streets and Badly Drawn Boy. Fun Fact: Treays has self-released a series of mixtapes called Panic Prevention Disco, which have included songs by Primal Scream, Kate Bush and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The View Who: Scottish quartet whose debut, Hats Off to the Buskers, debuted at number one on the English pop charts early this year. Sounds Like: Bright, spiky Britpop with action-packed grooves and sweet melodies — like a more cuddly version of the Artcic Monkeys. Fun Fact: The View got initial exposure opening for Babyshambles this year after Pete Doherty saw them busking outside one of his gigs in Scotland. New Young Pony Club Who: London quintet who debuted this year with Fantastic Playroom. Sounds Like: Popwise, danceable electro-rock — something like LCD Soundsystem, or what Brit kids call “New Rave.” Fun Fact: NYPC were introduced t
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Published: 2007-07-18
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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