slow down – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:27:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png slow down – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 Three for Free https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1614-2/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1614-2/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:27:11 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1614 September 17th 2012

Vices – Human Being

Hotly tipped alt indie act Vices will release their new EP, Hotel Monsoon, this autumn. Their story goes like this ‘We played all up Sunset Boulevard at the Viper Room and Roxy. Then one guy, Jeff came down to a show and wanted to record us immediately.’ Human Being goes like this.

Poolside – Slow Down

Gotta love a bit of daytime disco. See if you love this, by L.A. based DJ / producers, multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, Jeff & Filip, aka Poolside.

We Are Lost Boys – T.W.O.T.W

It stands for The Way Of The World. They are not actually lost, but from Reading. This is the video, and you can download it for freeeee.
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]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1614-2/feed/ 0 The Standards – A Slight Distraction https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-standards-a-slight-distraction/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-standards-a-slight-distraction/#respond Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:29:01 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1398 Released September 4th on Schnapps House Records

Pop needs more bands like this. Not skinny jeaned clad hipsters. Not young upstarts suddenly starry eyed. Not meaningful and morbid ‘thinking’ bands. Straight up exciting songs from a bunch of mates who know how to use their instruments to great effect and  for great sounds.
Debut album A Slight Distraction has been bubbling up inside The Standards for a while now. The sharp observations and soothing contemplations that strike through these ten songs have evolved over countless gigs and years. This means that copious influences, from life and music, abound and make the pervading genre other that of a mature and pithy gaze at life.
There’s the summer fair sound of Resignation Waltz,  the wind in the hair chorus of  Speed Up, the Jarvis lilt to the vocals on  Mice, the Franz Ferdinand beat opening Slow Down (which you can get for free here) and the lamenting yearning of Drowning, When You Found Me which breaks into a very noughties dance beat complete with oohs, and the almost 80s Romantics chord finishing off She Came To The City.
Neil Winspear‘s voice is that of an outsider brought to the party, and the whole album is wrapped in that delicious pop gloom, a slightly off kilter reality that makes the sound tangible. Everyone from The Independent to FHM, BBC 6 to Feeling Gloomy have lent their support to The Standards, and if you like what you hear, remember to come down to It’s All Happening Fridays on October 26th at The King’s Head, Acton.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHn1zSfNPDU]

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