coves – and so she thinks

Coves – You're Evil

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:12:34 +0000

Opening in an explosion of euphoric dark disco, Coves new single You’re Evil bristles with rocking glitchiness and crisp dirty guitars, soaring and stomping through its three minutes with tempestuous brilliance. Beck Wood and John Ridgard wrote the new album having left Leamington Spa for London and whilst on the road with the likes of St Vincent and The Raveonettes. According to Wood, it’s aimed at ‘people that I used to know who shat on my dreams or were two faced.’ You’re Evil stomps sonically as well as lyrically on those naysayers, a hedonistic and nihilistic ode to not only following your dreams and but ravaging them. Both You’re Evil and forthcoming album Peel are released on 1965 Records on April 1st 2016, and the band will be celebrating with a show at London’s Victoria Dalston on April 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxwGd2UojM&feature=youtu.be

Some of the best tracks of 2014

admin — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:27:32 +0000

Only some of them mind, because trying to shoehorn such a deliriously rich of year of music into one succint list is, frankly, impossible.
Future islands – Seasons (Waiting For You)

Thanks to Sam Herring’s bad dad dancing on the Letterman show this rousing, triumphant and exuberant tune made its way onto my playlist – and stayed there.
Caribou – Can’t Do Without (You)

I imagine that this is the sonic equivalent of raving through a technicolor speckled marshmallow.
Wild Beasts – Wanderlust

Articulate and mature songwriting, a vehement commitment to carnal exploration and superbly acerbic lyrics -‘Don’t confuse me with someone who gives a fuck.’
Only Real – Cadillac Girl

Rolling along with the slacker vibes of rooftops down and tinnies cracked open, this song drips with the scorch of summer.
Coves – Cast A Shadow

Bristling and crackling with incendiary compulsion, Cast A Shadow is one of only many unashamedly blindingly brilliant songs on Coves’ debut album Soft Friday.
Jamie T – Limits Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncIQq1PEBss
Since the Cockney cheek of Sheila Jamie T has done some growing up, but the sounds of his experiences still sizzle with as much snarl and giddy intensity as ever.
Kate Tempest – Lonely Daze

The year poetry become popular, Kate Tempest dazzled with wit, burning her perceptive lyrics into the consciousness with her dynamic and unrelenting, textured delivery.
Little May – Hide

In their music of sweet wafting auras, expansive and earnest melodies and a fizzing dance of poignant moments and happy layers, Sydney trio Little May have beguiled hearts over 2014.
Honeyblood – Killer Bangs

Angry fuzz fuelled punk, the pulsating pace seeping out of the splurge of grubby riffs and jangly guitars – no bass mind.
Sharon van Etten – Everytime The Sun Comes Up

Her voice breaks me, her songs like skin revealing a life lived, chords like deeply formed scars and a delicate gravelly voice the whisper of luminence into the darkness, deceptively inviting.
St Vincent – Digital Witness

She pouts, struts, burning high, each glare to the crowd a jolt into a slightly seedy and decadent musical masquerade – Annie Clark is quite the frontwoman. The pulsating beats, glitchy synths and energetic disco sleekness mean that her songs are not bad either.
The Away Days – Your Colours

Indie dream pop from Istanbul might not sound like the kind of thing to make it to best of list (although again I refer you to Sam Herring) but the combination of blissful pattering drums, melodies like light winds on the neck, and heavy chords imbued with dystopian anticipation illustrate very nicely that it totally works.
Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me

Whether dancing around my room with eyes closed or wandering the lush green expanse of Hampstead Heath, I spent much of summer 2014 singing out for Archie to marry me. He didn’t.

The wireless this week

admin — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:58:55 +0000

The wonderful Drew Worthley plays us some of his inspiring and intimate tunes whilst chatting away, full of charm and intelligence. I also play the following songs…

Sky Larkin – The Day The World Turned Day Glo
Molly’s Lipps – Scars
Drew Worthley – Bone China Saviour
Coves – Beatings
The Orwells – In My Bed
Happy Families – New Forgetting
Flash Bang Band – If You’re Driving
Drew Worthley – Angel Wharf
Paint The Dark – Lariat
White Fever – Skeleton Disease
Woman’s Hour – Thunder
Virals – Gloria

Thoughts & Rhythms – October 4th 2013 by Francesca Baker on Mixcloud

Coves – Beating

admin — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:23:24 +0000

Beautiful strings and sketchy beats, glitchy synths and soaring wails, soft cooing vocals and powerful assertions, vulnerable verses and acidic cutting choruses, on new song Beating Coves have taken every genre, every sound, every tactic, every noise, thrown them together without depleting the power of the individual but making every single one greater than the some of its parts. At three minutes in we are treated to what sounds like swooning woodwind, which has no right to be there, but works gloriously. Robust and rousing, it grows into a mystifying blooming crescendo, the disintegrating relationship Beck Wood sings off dissipating into an ethereal and energetic spacey tune. Bubbling with hiss, crackling synths, its full of disintegrating snarls and giddy intensity, all delivered with cinematic sleekness. Some shoegaze, C86, dreampop, disco, goth, psychedelia, everything we have come to expect from Coves since their formation in 2011, and their debut EP Cast A Shadow which was released last year is here to full effect. Just fantastic
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