Katy B - Lights On (Gigamesh Remix)
Katy B’s debut album has already done plenty of damage in the U.K.—top 10 singles, plus a Mercury Prize nomination—and on September 13, On A Mission finally premiered stateside via Columbia Records. The pint-sized dubstep queen is armed with 12 club-ready pop tracks, including her hit single “Lights On,” which gets the remix treatment here from dance music producer Gigamesh. Accentuating the catchy beat, Gigamesh turns up the tempo and adds another layer of energizing bass that strikes a perfect balance with Katy’s smooth, R&B-influenced vocals.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden (Joe Goddard Remix)
It doesn’t matter what anything is if it’s dead. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs? Totally bodacious DEAD astronauts. Immensely talented DEFUNCT acrobat troupe. Incomprehensibly hot MUMMIFIED army of mind-blowing CADAVEROUS babes. I like that Orlando Higginbottom, the guy behind TEED, has an appreciation for absurdity and self-defeat. It makes my experience of his music more enjoyable, because it makes me think that it’s sprung from a real brain, rather than the empty skull of some cartoonish muscle-dance guy wearing shades in the club so he can only see in black and white. I can’t imagine Orlando or Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard—who turns “Garden” into a contemplative, colourful slice of geek-house here—wearing sunglasses. I can’t even really imagine them in the club, but that’s okay, because it’s self-defeating, and as we’ve already discussed, I’m totally enormously into that.
Rev. Lonnie Farris - Peace In The Valley
If you’re sick of a sterile digital world and want something more raw and time tested, Tompkins Square is a label that has you covered. One of the best reissue imprints around, their new set This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM 1957-1982 is an engrossing hodgepodge of little-known soulful gospel singles compiled by Yeti Magazine founder/editor Mike McGonigal. Check this cut “Peace In The Valley” by Rev. Lonnie Farris. It’s otherworldly yet so natural, with dry, clopping drums, spiritual torch song vocals and a steel guitar part that sounds like it could have been played with a piece of broken glass.
PUJOL - Mayday
In many ways, Nashville’s PUJOL is relentless. Notching ten releases over the past two years, including a recent Jack White-produced turn, he rips through the sort of sweaty, high-energy garage rock that keeps the true spirit of thrashy rock music alive. It seems PUJOL is so comfortable going extreme that he’s naming his Saddle Creek debut, Nasty, Brutish, And Short, after one of the biggest OGs of all: Thomas Hobbes. Get ready to spazz October 18.
