New Music: Keep Shelly in Athens- Flyway

By now, you can tell I am am big fan of Keep Shelly in Athens. "Flyway" is the fourth song I have posted this year and the third since July. Not much more I can say except I wish September 17th would hurry up and come so I can listen to their full debut album At Home. Meanwhile listen to their latest below:

At Home is out September 17th via Cascine.

New Music: Some Minor Noise- Aeroplanes + Coffers

Toronto boy/girl electro duo Some Minor Noise are going to get obvious comparisons to Crystal Castles, the most famous male/female electronic duo from that city. The pair uses the same expansive electronic sound and dark lyrics as their contemporaries, however singer Jayne Void's voice is far more relaxed than the screechy Alice Glass. Listen to their two new songs "Aeroplanes" and "Coffers" below:

New Music: Frightened Rabbit- Radio Silence

I am looking forward to seeing Scottish indie pop group Frightened Rabbit in concert when they return to Toronto in October. Their ever increasing popularity requires them to play bigger venues every time they come here, and I think this might be their third concert in Toronto in the past year.

The band recently announced that they are following up the wonderful Pedestrian Verse with a new 5 song EP titled The Late Night, Death March (already released in Britain). “Radio Silence” is a great new song from that release. The mini album will be out September 10th in North America.

New Music: PINS- Get With Me + Lost, Lost, Lost

Over the last few years the U.S. has spawned many indie lo-fi all girl groups, most notably The Dum Girls and Vivian Girls, but that trend tended to stay in America and we never heard this style of music from any artists from overseas...at least until now. PINS is a British band that  could be mistaken for one of those aforementioned American bands. The band shares the same post punk fuzzy and angular guitar sounds and mixes it with 60's girl group harmonies. Take a listen to the songs "Get With Me" and "Lost, Lost, Lost" below:

PINS will release their debut album, Girls Like Us, September 30th via Bella Union.

New Music: Young Galaxy- Crying My Heart Out

Montreal synth pop band Young Galaxy last spring released Ultramarine, one of my favourite albums of the year, so far. The LP contains a collection of some of the best indie pop tracks of the year including what I believe is the song of the summer. Seriously, YG's "New Summer" is way better than "Blurred Lines" or that Daft Punk song everybody is into.

Now Young Galaxy are poised to release a deluxe edition of the LP on September 24th via Paper Bag. There will be a bunch of extras including this song “Crying My Heart Out”, a dance pop song that has New Order written all over it.

New Music: Sundays- World We Own + Hope It's Enough

Introducing Sundays, (not to be confused with 80's indie pop band The Sundays) a Vancouver electro soul artist who has just dropped her first two singles "World We Own" and "Hope It's Enough". The music is intimate and the voice is very beautiful and even though her music is more stripped back, Sundays has all the ingredients to follow in the footsteps of up and coming indie stars Grimes and Lorde.

Sundays will release her debut, self-produced EP Eros & I in the near future. Meanwhile, download, lay back, and take in the two beautiful new songs below:

Five Star Songs: Sisters Of Mercy- This Corrosion

Seriously....go see the movie The World's End. It may not be the best movie of the year but is sure is the most fun. It might also be proved to be the best soundtracked film of the year and if you are fan of British music from the late eighties and early nineties this is a must see movie. I think I counted at least fifteen songs throughout the film plus a couple more over the end credits, including tracks from The Soup Dragons, Teenage Fanclub, Suede, The Sundays and The Housemartins, plus major scenes revolving around Primal Scream and the Sisters of Mercy.

The lead character in the film named Gary King -played by Simon Pegg - is a forty year old slacker who wants to relive his early years by gathering up his old friends and going on a pub crawl bender. The first scene in the movie revolves around Primal Scream's "Loaded" which is a track that starts off with the sampled lines "Just what is it you want to do. We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time." that is taken from the Peter Fonda film The Wild Angels. This happens to be the King's philosophy in life and plays a another part in a scene later in the film.

The character Gary King is also a big Sisters of Mercy fan and sports the band's T-shirt throughout the film. Although, Pegg's character is proven to be pathetic for being a forty year old man who never grew up, his style of wearing goth clothes still made him look pretty cool.  The one Sisters of Mercy song in the movie is "This Corrosion" and it doesn't appear to the end credits.

You can read a great interview with the movie's director, Edgar Wright, regarding the soundtrack at Indie Wire.