Must be something in the water in Australia at the moment (and I must be drinking too much of it). My day-to-day playlist is dominated by Australian artists across every imaginable genre:
-Indie rock (Atlas Genius)
-Electronic pop (Flume)
-Electronica/soul/beyond classification (Chet Faker)
-Hip-hop/rap (Iggy Azalea)
To that list, I’ve recently added Emma Louise. ‘Freedom’ -as the title suggests- is a heady pop piece that sings like an ode to misspent summer nights -“We’ll drink too much and smoke too fast and waste our love chasing black”. Ironic, given how far away my life at present is from that archetype.
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TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM - OUT MARCH 22
EMMA LOUISE // DEBUT ALBUM // VS HEAD VS HEART
November can’t come soon enough. But if they fucking kill Natalie Portman in this…
Thor: The Dark World trailer UK — Official Marvel | HD (by MarvelUK)
If you’re creating the soundtrack for a film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, you can do a whole lot worse than calling upon two singers with arguably the richest voices at the moment -Lana del Rey and Florence Welch- and adding the modern day king of nouveau riche and ostentation, Jay-Z.
Let’s face it: this Lana track is bloody brilliant (especially this orchestral version). Even some of the toe-curling lyrics -“Oh that face, makes me want to party” Really?- does nothing to dampen the fact that EVERYTHING about the track befits the opulent and magnificently dramatic story it is created to accompany: cresting strings, tolling bells and that voice; that weird juxtaposition created by a voice clearly at the height of its youthful rigor but weighed down by a mournful world-weariness.
This is probably (definitely) making my list of 2013’s best songs. Don’t even get me started on the Florence + The Machine track.
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The Great Gatsby soundtrack out May 6 (international) / May 7 (US).
Pre-order on iTunes and get Young & Beautiful right away:
Deluxe: http://smarturl.it/GatsbyMusic
Standard: http://smarturl.it/GatsbyMusicSD
Film in cinemas May 10 (US) / May 16 (UK)
Not sure what’s most impressive:
1) She’s a Stanford educated white girl from an affluent suburb of Chicago.
2) She managed to get both Felix Cartal and Danny Brown involved with this track (although I’m not too hot on Danny Brown’s contribution).
3) Her flow.
Upon closer consideration, 3 is the clear winner.
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I want very badly to hate this. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I do regard this with a special sort of contempt. Except I don’t. It’s one of those bewildering moments when you decide to mix cottage cheese with hot sauce and anchovy paste but decide after the first bite that the mixture isn’t deadly. And it can’t be attributed to superior editing or effects either. In fact, both songs are remarkably preserved in their essence.
I’m very confused about the way I feel right now.
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• Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
• Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
Alternative download link: http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/4428136/file.html
Wow, thanks folks!
I should point out carly_rae_reznor had the idea, I just cobbled them together.. http://www.reddit.com/r/mashups/comments/19m1nt/a_request_for_which_i_lack_the_technology/
