The Belgium duo of Soldout are completely stirring my soul at the moment, with a scintillating slice of creatively spiky kinetic electronica.
Track in question "Wazabi" lives up to it's peppery name, with a sexy pulsating bassline pounding to a metronomically kept rhythm that's interspersed with a bleating wobble and fed with neon shards of glacial cool vox.
Charlotte (vox & keys) and David (synths, drumbox and computer prog) have an alluring unconvential but slinkily grabbing dance track at their hands in "Wazabi", right down to the dipped in glow sticks shiny video.
For the most part, over the past few years I haven't exactly been in the loop with it fully on all the hits of misses of the primetime music / reality shows. So It is with fresh ears that I visit Bradley Johnson
Once of X-Factor's own put together boy band, but now disbandoned Nu Vibe, Bradley comes across seemingly as fresh faced looking as Conor Maynard. Bradley's first solo effort "Boomerang" is on the face of it perfectly pleasant sounding pop, albeit slightly average for a debut breakthough. I found it quite enjoyable nonetheless and although, not causing me to fold in big ripples of excitement, I think with a little bit more tayloring and performance experience Bradley could be in the running to produce a big wave of pop-a-licious boom at some time in the future.
Experience he might possibly begin to muster from appearing alongside the well versued in life after X-Factor Olly Murs and the top flight of British boy bands The Wanted at Love Luton Live on July 6th & 7th.
It's been about a year, since London's newest a-buzz duo "Bluebell" began to tease interest across the blogosphere.
The pop making team of producer / songwriter Charlie Westropp fronted by singer / songwriter Annabel Jones have been quick to gain acclaim for their electrifyingly shiny and rousing electro pop that takes in experimentation and spits it back out in a euphoric and appealing fashion. It's had the blogging crowd drawing paralells to acts like Marina and The Diamonds, Florence and The Machine, La Roux and Ellie Goulding, I would personally add The Good Natured in amongst the comparables too.
However, to be circled around some of pop's finest quirky pop makers on your first steps out, well that isn't a bad foundation to be finding yourself in now, is it!
Bluebell's debut single is a double A sided triumph of melodious alternatively leaning electro pop that provides edge and experimental grit whilst being enwrapped in a heady cocktail of pulsating dance rhythmn on "Normal Heights".
The singles A-sided partner "Cinderella" dives into the full-on pop pool of brilliant wonky pop with a splash of colour and spirtied vocal vibrance that bounces off a pleasantly synth heavy and pulsating La Roux-esque wall of sound.
It's quite the perfect synth soaked little gem of pop to be beginning the week with.
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