Eoin Butler's guide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams
THE KNIFE
Colouring Pigeons Rabid Records***
This sparse instrumental is a taster from Tomorrow, in a Year, The Knife’s upcoming electro-pop musical about the life of Darwin (seriously). It won’t have anyone dancing in the aisles, you’d have to say, but then that’s probably not the point. www.youtube.com
WHITE DENIM
I Start to Run Full Time Hobby****
Unhinged power rock from the Austin, Texas trio: this single from their acclaimed Fits album even has an equally deranged video to match. Check it out at www.youtube.com.
KILL KRINKLE CLUB
Little Men/Lakes Toy Ship Records ***
Double A-sided debut single from twee Irish-Swedish electro-folk duo Kill Krinkle Club, who will perform at the Electric Picnic and the Dublin Fringe Festival later this summer. An album, The Night Was So Quiet It Hurt the Boy’s Ears, follows in the autumn.
REVEREND AND THE MAKERS
Silence is Talking Wall of Sound **
Urgh. It’s not a good sign when bands start reviving old musical movements you barely remember the first time around. This one- man Madchester revival is as predictable as the inevitable nu-nu-metal revival of 2018. What quantity of hallucinogens must one ingest in order to make the trite “feeling love is paramount” mantra (which “Reverend” – and professional Artic Monkeys mate Jon McClure – repeats about 36 times here) appear meaningful and profound? God alone knows.
CALVIN HARRIS
Get Ready for the Weekend Fly Eye **
The consensus on Calvin Harris fanpages is that the chorus to this track goes “I’m going to put on my shoes and I’m ready for
the weekend". Having listened to it upwards of a dozen times, however, I remain adamant that the words vocalist Mary Pearce sings are "I'm going to find Zeus and I'm ready for the weekend". Either way, it's a shameless retread of the turgid Acceptable in the '80s.
