Beneath the Sheets

So it’s getting slightly warmer, and only slightly. the sun isn’t going home until at least half past seven and night now but still likes to wake you up at six.
It means, summer is coming and there’s nothing better than a little bit of upbeat music to get you in the summer mood. So as the sun is coming up way to early most mornings and going down way to late most nights when I can’t sleep I find myself tapping my feet to these. (download links under song samples)

It is true, I adore Zeigeist. I don’t care if they are a complete rip off of The Knife, I don’t care if essentially they are not as good because a whole part of me likes them more than their copied counterparts.
I adore every song on their album ‘The Jade Motel’, as well as every song on their previous self titled EP. Their songs are so full of slick beats all overlaid with sexy vocals laced with a swedish accent that I can’t stop myself from wanting to dance like an idiot whenever I hear them.
‘Fight with Shattered Mirrors’ is a track from the album, and though the most underproduced song on the album is one of my favorites, the vocal layering makes my heart happy.
‘Dawn/Night’ is probably my favorite Zeigeist song of all time, wreaking of the same beats and rhythms that make ‘The Knife’ brilliant but with its very own Zeigeist spin.

Tilly and the Wall have always been favorites of mine, what with their tap dancing ways replacing the drums and their happy, jolly vocals being able to lift my spirits at any time. Along with their sweet but heartbreaking slow songs like ‘Lost Girls’ that really get you in the heart.
However, for their latest single ‘Beat Control’ Tilly and the Wall are taking their sound in a new direction, gone is the tap dancing - much to my horror at first. And in it’s place are electronic beats and 80s sounding vocals. Needless to say it is a welcome departure that has had be dancing to it for the past month. Now it is your turn.

I’m not ashamed to admit it, The Long Blondes last album dissapointed me completely. I’d heard the demo’s, & I’d loved the demo’s but the album wrecked them for me and it was something I just couldn’t get over. However, their latest offering ‘Couples’ has more than made up for my dissapointment in the last. Most noticeably the track ‘Guilt’ from the opening sounds to the ending vocals the song makes me want to tap my feet and go out and dance, and everyone loves to dance.

I probably should have gotten the embarrasing one out of the way first, but here it is now. What can I say, I adore Sophie Ellis Bextor, always have from the first moments I saw her perfect pale skin on television during my teens she jumped off the screen like a more fashionable less needy snow white. Maybe I have an obsession with females with pale skin and oversized heads but I think she’s beautiful.
Her earlier albums consisted of her very catchy and danceable singles, and a few other stand out tracks her attempts at ballads usually let me down as I feel her voice lends it self better to a more upbeat sound.
She’s had quite a spell of absense what with wedding a member of ‘The Feeling’ and all that comes with it, however she returns on a form better than all her previous attempts with ‘Trip the Light Fantastic’ which i’ve had on repeate for a while now, I won’t say I adore every song but there are a fair few stand out tracks. ‘China Heart’ is one of these songs I’m not sure i’ll ever get sick of it.

I think I first heard Ladytron when I was around fifteen, I’m twenty one now. You do the math. It however was like an audio orgasm to me, love at first hear you might say. I can’t even remember now which song was my first but I remember I adored it.
The new Ladytron album ‘Velocifero’ is a slight departure from their old sounds, but still sticks well to Ladytron routes, each song rolls out of the album and slides into your ears, unobtrusive but delightful with sexy electronics and the usual Ladytron slick vocals.
‘Ghosts’ is one of my favorite album tracks, however the ‘Toxic Avenger’ remix of the track by far surpasses the original for me - maybe it’s just because I’ve been more in a dancey mood lately, or maybe just because I feel it’s handling is better. Either way it is a delight to hear.

Enjoy!