This is the second in a number of blog profiles we’ll be doing over the coming months, where we highlight some of the best new music being shared by some of the finest UK music blogs including DrunkenWerewolf, The Von Pip Musical Express, God is in the TV, and The Metaphorical Boat.
God Is In The TV (or GIITTV to their friends) is one of the early web music ‘zines to emerge out of the UK, and I followed them even before we got the ‘ole Walrus up and running.
Bill has been running the show since 2003 and through the site’s reviews, features, and interviews I’ve fallen in love with a whole slew of acts I would otherwise probably never have heard of. They also review TV shows and films over there, but we’re going to focus on the music because… well… that’s what we do.
So without further ado, here’s five acts we’ve loved from GIITTV in recent months:
Shura – Touch
Shura is a new type of song writer. Emotive without being clichéd, accessible without being commercial
We say:
Shura is effortlessly sweet without being saccharine in the best 80s-influenced slow jam we’ve heard in a long, long time.
Sea Stacks – Glassy-eyed
A consuming slice of tenderly arranged melancholic pop…soured seductively in the wintry whisper of head bowing strings and primed in the kind of forlorn majesty that’s liable to hang heavy on your heart strings.
We say:
A sublime slice of rich melancholy, that lets the tears roll and the mid slip away
Rue Royale – Every Little Step
[Rue Royal are] forged from addictive bitter-sweet harmonies, delicate guitar plucks and a patchwork quilt of percussion
We say:
The soft and soulful Rue Royal embrace the difficulties of change and bare their soul in the beautifully personal Every Little Step
Kate Tempest – Marshall Law
Kate Tempest has no problem mixing up classical English with the phonetics of a gutter snipe. But this is what we’ve come to expect from someone who spent as much of her youth at rap battles as she did spoken word nights.
We say:
Producing both a spoken word and full blown UK hip hop/grime record within six months, Kate Tempest has become a powerful voice of the disaffected streets, ready to take on the establishment with her unique style of linguistic dexterity
RedRacer – Put It Out
‘Put It Out’ distils the basic essence of southern boogie, metal and Little Richard into one quick-fire blast of pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll.
We say:
Growling, old school rock’n’roll that needs to be played aggressively loud and proud