Tracks of the Week – 8 October 2011

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Matthew Britton is our human blog-music aggregator, kind of like Hype Machine but with feelings and shit. Every week he goes, puts on his rubber gloves and trawls the darkest sewers of Soundcloud, reporting back to TLOBF with his findings. Sometimes he strikes gold, sometimes just faeces, but one day, maybe, just maybe, a band covered here will play an actual gig in front of human people. We continue to live in hope.

Few people know real hardship. Bloggers do. This week, that fact was hammered home in a harrowing fashion – for the space of two days, Soundcloud was down. Starved of buzz and without the prospect of some new bleeps from some bedroom producer in Norway, it’s yet to be discerned precisely how many blogs died and how many hits were lost. Many wannabe tastemakers were forced to take refuge on bandcamp, with reports of some going back to loot what is left of myspace. In an isolated incident, one man was seen looking through the latest bands on reverbnation.

In a week that will live long in the memory for all the wrong reasons, these are the best tracks that could be savaged from the wreckage.

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Sun Glitters – Too Much To Lose (Slow Magic remix)

A man who is essentially his own cottage industry of buzz, Sun Glitters hardly needs the help to win over that key demographic of skinny white boys who illegally download music, but Slow Magic lend a hand anyway. It’s more glo-fi than chillwave, if it’s possible for that sentence to make any sense whatsoever, and Slow Magic – who are constantly chopping and changing where they want people to believe they’re from – seem to be stepping further and further away from their peers with each new track.

Sun Glitters – Too Much To Lose (Slow Magic Remix) by Slow Magic

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Toto and the Bad Eggs – Little Naked

This one slipped under the radar somewhat – the same week that Brown Brogues played a sell-out show at Manchester’s Castle and nearly ended up destroying the whole place, work by a supergroup including the duo dripped out. One of Sex Beet was involved, whilst Jerry Tropicano features on vocals. It sounds dirty, like they’ve all got mud underneath their fingernails and have just started on the whiskey sweats, but that’s what you’d expect really.

Little Naked by Lost Lost Lost

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Ghost Outfit – Tuesday

The support act on that aforementioned Brown Brogues bill, Ghost Outfit announced their debut single this week. Sways Records are putting it out and, bizarrely, it was played on Soccer AM. Quite what the lads watching made of a track that is pure noise pop is difficult to guess, but maybe it’ll stop one or two of them listening to Kasabian. Let’s not hold out too much hope.

Ghost Outfit – Tuesday by sways

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Teenhäze – My Girl

Carrying on a theme, the Sex Beet quarter of Toto & The Bad Eggs – Luke – has recently moved to Stockholm, deciding to use that transition to start up yet another project for bedroom writers to get excited about. Described as ‘pop’, it’s nothing of the sort, even having a mildly – whisper it – grungey feel to the whole production whilst largely sticking to lo-fi.

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GUIDES - This

The latest over-enthusiatic bedroom producer who’ll absolutely fill your soundcloud stream (when it’s up) with tracks you slowly fall in love with. By the time this is published, it’s likely he’ll have added to the 2 tracks he’s uploaded in the past day, and there’ll be another banger for people to bang on about. Joy.

“This” by GUIDES

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Pyrenees – Hiden (demo)

After getting hopes up that there might be a decent dance track about Leeds United’s forgotten defender Martin Hiden, it seems that Pyrenees simply made a spelling mistake rather than wanting to evoke the glory days of a team that everybody hates. Still, even without this being an ode to an Austrian international, it’s a track worthy of attention – the kind of thing that would be played on a shit movie as someone joyrides to a party before crashing into a wall and dying horrifically, covered in fake blood.

Hiden (DEMO) by pyrenees

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Matthew Britton runs a blog called The Pigeon Post and contributes to the music-blogger supergroup Lost Lost Lost.