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  • irishtimes.com - Posted: May 20, 2010 @ 10:13 am

    New Music – James Blake, Solar Bears, Cloud Control

    Jim Carroll

    The latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. All recommendations for future New Music picks welcome below.

    James Blake

    There are currently a couple of record labels arm-wrestling for the right to release this London producer’s debut album. Listen to the lush electronic, dubby soul on his EPs for Hessle, Hemlock and R&S and you too might want to join in the chase.

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    Solar Bears
    From Dublin and Wicklow, John Kowalski and Rian Trench are currently applying the finishing touches to “She Was Coloured In”, their forthcoming debut album for Planet Mu. “Children of the Times” is a lovely example of their pastoral electronica and soundtrack smarts.

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    Cloud Control

    The sumptuous melodies and delightful thrills of songs like “Gold Canary” and “There’s Nothing In the Water” are reasons to cheer this Australian band’s debut album “Bliss Release”. Indie gems a go-go from the Blue Mountains.

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    • 6 Comments

    1.
    May 20, 2010
    12:48 pm

    Second the Cloud Control tip, wonderful band. Themselves and Belles Will Ring popped into my inbox within days of each other. From the same neck of the woods, literally!

    Comment by hugger
    2.
    May 20, 2010
    12:58 pm

    i don’t know why but james blake leaves me really cold for some reason.
    i’m much more excited about the actress album.
    have a look for “Lost” which is a re=work of a various productions tune from last year.
    yearning, heartache techno.

    Comment by clom
    3.
    May 20, 2010
    2:03 pm

    hugger – More Aussie acts to check out! I tell you, the amount of really decent stuff from down under in the last year or so has been astonishing – Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Little Red, Middle East and now Cloud Control and another great band called Tame Impala. Go Oz! Mmmm, maybe I need a trip there to check it out for myself….

    clom – will check that out right away, thanks

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    4.
    May 20, 2010
    2:14 pm

    loving that Solar Bears tune, nice to see fellow Wicklow people doing well

    who was the last one? the Australian fleet foxes? like it :)

    Comment by petee
    5.
    May 20, 2010
    3:16 pm

    You can add Ned Collette and Dappled Cities to that list Jim! And one track from the Temper Trap!

    Comment by hugger
    6.
    May 20, 2010
    5:32 pm

    Another great Aussie group for that list Jim; The Parking Lot Experiments. Bunch of kids in melbourne currently working on their debut album… http://www.myspace.com/theparkinglotexperiments

    Comment by flynnduism

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