Every Sunday evening, Charlie Ashcroft counts down the Amazing Chartacross the UK’s national DAB network on Amazing Radio. Here he is to give us the very latest lowdown on the last week’s movers and shakers from amazingtunes.com…
Arguably one of the catchiest songs in rotation on Amazing Radio at the moment, our new Number 1 is an upbeat, memorable track which channels the spirit of MGMT and Passion Pit alongside an appreciation for an undeniable pop hook.
Congratulations to Manchester band Swiss Lips, who’ve risen four places with their track U Got The Power to claim the crown from Jethro Fox this week, fresh from signing their first ever record deal!
“What about New Entries?” I hear you cry. Well, in terms of brand new arrivals inside the Top 20, we’ve got three of them this week. The highest comes from Friends at Number 13 with Friend Crush, a few notches ahead of a couple of recent singles from Dry The River and We Have Band to complete our rundown.
Click here to see the Amazing ChartTop 40 in full. Then find out if Swiss Lips can make it two weeks at Number 1 by tuning in to Amazing Radio on Sunday from 5pm!
Presented by Ruth Barnes, The Other Woman is the only radio show in the UK with an all-female playlist.
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This week we kick off the show with this creepy-as-hell track from Brooklyn duo, er, Creep! Featuring the ethereal vocals of Holly Miranda – an excellent singer songwriter in her own right.
We feature an interview with Portland musicianLaura Gibson whose album La Grande has just come out on City Slang. She played an over-subscribed gig at The Social in London a few weeks back where we caught up with her – in the middle of the bar! Nowhere to go, so it’s a bit chaotic. We talk about writing the album, getting it out there and feeling bloody great about it all.
Then there’s new music from Canadian solo electro artist Grimes, Oslo’s Philco Fiction, soon-to-be-pop-sensation Natalie McCool, cooler-than-thou New Yorker with her finger in many musical pies Frankie Rose, the brilliant Class Actress and more…
This neon, electro-pop beauty comes courtesy of San Franciscan two piece, Midi Matilda. The track above, Day Dreams is playful from the first note before it grows into a pounding clatter of rhythms and soaring falsetto vocals.
We’ve also included the video below which was shot by the guys in the band. It was first filmed in the studio and then projected onto thousands of surfaces around San Francisco and Berkeley. The video was then created using stop-frame animation using 3,300 photos. Pretty sweet.
Following a big musical movement, there is always the inevitable fallout of imitation. Endless and often painful imitation. In the wake of post-dubstep there has been many a James Blake copy. However, sometimes artists get it oh-so-right; taking influence and making it entirely their own. SEASFIRE are just such a band. Capturing intimacy in the haunting and melancholic beat and matching it with a clean and more immediate vocal.
An assault of fuzz almost threatens to disrupt Falling before dropping back into eerie minimalism. It just adds to the tension of the track. Always hinting to grow larger, SEASFIRE thankfully restrain themselves and the result is a superb display of mature and beautiful song-writing.
Falling is the first official offering from the band and is released at the end of February. You catch them live at Communion Presents live at Notting Hill Arts Club on Sunday 5th February 2012.
Festival season is peeking its sunny head out of the dull, grey winter with the first festival announcement of the year! The Camden Crawl is the UK’s definitive urban multi-venue arts showcase. Taking over Camden’s legendary arts venues between Friday 4th & Sunday 6th May 2012, 1 ticket will get you access to over 300 bands, artists and other performing artists.
Kicking off the festival will be Death in Vegas who launch the opening night marathon at Camden’s historic KOKO venue on Friday 4th May
Camden Crawl’s evening line-ups are selected by a committee of esteemed music industry tastemakers, including radio DJs, club promoters, journalists and record labels. The dazzling 2012 evening live music line up will be hosted by the following venue curators.
1234 / ARTROCKER / BACKSTREET / BIG CHEESE MAGAZINE / CLUB FANDANGO / DROWNED IN SOUND / FACT / FEAR & RECORDS / FLOWERPOT COLLECTIVE / LANTERN SOCIETY / LAST.FM / LIFT OFF / THE LOCAL / MISTAJAM / MODA / MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS / NIALLER9 VS. ON THE RECORD / OLD BLUE LAST PRESENTS / ROCKFEEDBACK / ROUGH TRADE SHOPS / RWD MAGAZINE / SEXBEAT / SUMMER SUNDAE WEEKENDER SWAY / URBAN NERDS / THE WEIRD & THE WONDERFUL
Every Sunday evening, Charlie Ashcroft counts down theAmazing Chartacross the UK’s national DAB network onAmazing Radio. Here he is to give us the very latest lowdown on the last week’s movers and shakers fromamazingtunes.com…
Hello! Plenty of action around the upper reaches of the Amazing Chart this week, with Liverpool-based songwriter Jethro Fox having climbed to the top of the pile with Beforeafter four weeks inside the Top 20. As with previous Number 1 songs in 2012, it has the kind of effortless, summery feel which has us dreaming of the warmer months with the year barely a month old.
Los Angeles producer Dreams slips a place from last week’s top spot, while Work Drugs have made a big leap into the Top 3 from last week’s Number 9 placing. Elsewhere in the Top 10, Swiss Lips, Foe and The Collectable Few have all rocketed into the Top 10 having had New Entries last week.
On a final, remarkable note, the entire Top 5 this week are available as free downloads from amazingtunes.com. Fill your boots here.
Clickhereto see theAmazing ChartTop 40 in full. Then find out if Jethro Fox can make it two weeks at Number 1 by tuning in toAmazing Radioon Sunday from 5pm!
