Take It In!

"One Life Stand", Hot Chip's fourth studio release is scheduled to be released in February 2010. First single "Take It In", is an excellent sneak peek at what the album has to offer.

On first listen, the track has a dark vibe to it, sprinkled with the trademark electronic-synth combination that always leave me in anticipation for more. Being the usual contender in my end-of-year best list, looks like there will be no exception for the band this year. Awsome stuff.

Hot Chip - Take It In

Metronomy's 'Like A Version'

Triple J's 'Like A Version' is probably the Australian version of Live Lounge. Metronomy was touring down under for Parklife Festival not long ago. A cover song choice? Nothing is more apt than the Australia's most hyped band of the year - Empire Of The Sun which just did their first live show in Parklife as well. And so Metronomy did their own version of We Are The People, grab it below.

Metronomy - We Are The People (Empire Of The Sun cover)

Phrazes For The Young

Whoa the long-awaited Phrazes For The Young is finally here. From the first two tracks '11th Dimension' and 'River Of Brakelights' that were previewed prior to the release, we already knew it would have some electronic elements in Julian Casablancas' solo debut, there was also the country-tinged 'Ludlow St.' with a banjo solo and the electronic folky 'Tourist'. Nevertheless with Casablancas' distinct vocal, we still could hear a hint of The Strokes in the tracks. Casablancas never dissappoint, this is the album all The Strokes' fans must lay their hands on. This is rad.

Julian Casablancas - Ludlow St.
Julian Casablancas - Tourist

Julian Casablancas - River of Brakelights

The release date of Phrazes For The Young has been postponed! It’s not due out until November 3rd, which it's a shame. To compensate this, Jules is kind enough to post a track off his official site.

Titled “River Of Brakelights”, the track starts off with an unusual gangster rap opening, before leading to the chorus of usual glorious Julian distinctive vocal - ”Getting the hang of it/ Timing is everything", over a rush of driving guitars and rapid drum work. Awesome stuff.

From the sounds of it, Phrazes For The Young is likely to be a heavily electronic album. Oh well what isn't nowadays? Looking foward to it very much.

Julian Casablancas - River of Brakelights

Time To Pretend

I stumbled across two covers of MGMT's Time To Pretend lately. It has been awhile since this summer anthem hit the dancefloor in 2008, so it was a bit of an odd song choice to cover at this moment. Kaiser Chiefs covered the song on Radio 1 Live Lounge, and Ricky Wilson changed some of the lyrics, it was pretty hilarious. Whereas Paul Dempsey's version is an acoustic one, nice and simple.

Kaiser Chiefs - Time To Pretend (MGMT cover)
Paul Dempsey - Time To Pretend (MGMT cover)