We’re still terrified of Entrepreneurs, but with each release he puts out, we’re finding ourselves falling for what Abeano has called his ‘intelli-tronica’. Can’t argue with that. Double A-side ‘Fuck Tactics/Bubblegunk’ stitches together the dark production of Entrepreneurs, FOE’s deranged pop and the quick wit of Ghostpoet, and based on that description, it definitely should have been a very London-based disaster but… What can we say, except that our words can’t do this anything approaching justice; so we’ll just have to call it the finest single we’ve heard all year. And it really is.
It was out yesterday via Fear & Records, fittingly on the same day as FOE’s ‘Hot New Trash’ EP surfaced on Stella Mortos. The synth-laced ‘Bubblegunk’ has been on repeat ever since the ‘U’ve Been Robbed, Joking But Not’ EP was released last year, but once you get your head around the off-kilter swagger of ‘Fuck Tactics’, it emerges as one of those rare moments in pop music where ambition and accessibility are perfectly balanced. A moment of originality and brilliance. He still absolutely terrifies us, but from, very, very far away we’re admiring everything that he’s doing. He even used a swear word in a song title, don’t tell us that guy’s not crazy.
Can pop music be terrifying? We probably would have been conservative and gone for a “no”, but… the more we hear of FOE and her concoction of terrifying horror-pop, the more we’re starting, just starting, to come around.
“Tyrant Song” is another Entrepreneurs produced FOE track and, for some more very leftfield trivia, the above video was also directed by him, and it’s also worth mentioning that he produced the rest of her EP “Hot New Trash” released via Stella Mortos on April 7th – and, lest we forget, that FOE appeared on Entrepreneur’s EP last year as well… Now, we’re not in the business of online dating, but we really think that the two should just get married and make many glorious little musical children of songs.
Not Many Experts for the world’s first pointlessly obscure indie gossip site? In other news; it turns out that Wu Lyf are actually The Feeling prescribed to double strength cocodamol and have no recollection of what has happened in the last year; all of the members of Yuck embarrassingly reveal that they are all now Laura Marling’s new boyfriend; and Marcus from Mumford & Sons tries to spill his thoughts on the matter but is blocked by the editorial team on the grounds that he has just sold far too many records.
Anyway… Err… FOE! So that last paragraph may have not really been true at all, but the one before definitely was made up of facts, and if you don’t believe us then you can pre-order the EP if you have any money, here. And as the press release does state, “the whole thing reeks of piss, death, sex and Coca-Cola”, which may sound a bit of an undesirable fragrance, but if it proves anything, it’s that FOE is most certainly plucking her influences from the most unlikely of places, and putting them together to make something emphatically her own and even, actually… original? You heard it here first.
Foreword: I’ve been out of education for so long that I think I’ve forgotten how to spell and those tricky little buggers like full stops and that so bear (bare? blurgh…) with me.
Well… I guess I sort of have to admit that I started writing this post as a reaction to the BBC’s Sound of 2011 longlist announcement, which was whenever that happened, most of the days have blended into one so I’m not too hot with months and weeks anymore which is equal parts liberating and cripplingly impractical for all of its romantic attraction. Most of the trouble is that I now live here and get paid this to do this, and clearly have been spending the rest of my time learning how to abuse wordpress to waste your time in mildly-amusing, vaguely off topic wanderings.
Speaking of abusing wordpress, if that wasn’t a satisfactory excuse then let me go for the sympathy vote – as always, always happens whenever I set foot outside of a trusty internet connection, wordpress detrousered itself and waved through a hacker of a moral-less, talentless capitalist from Slough (fair enough, he’s probably depressed). He (and we’re assuming it’s a he for stereotypical-villain convenience) thought that it would be a bright idea to trick people looking for new music on a web site into giving said music web-site their credit card details. If depressed Slough resident is reading: you could probably hack this site hundreds of times, but that is never going to work seeing as the success of music blogs is based on the fact that you can get music for free, so that plan is pretty fatally flawed from the start… Cheer up and get a job, or at least steal from the government instead of the general public. Is there no integrity left in thievery?
Anyway… Just to direct us slightly towards what this post was intending to say; yesterday the BBC shocked all in the world of music-dom by announcing the Brit-schooled woman with past chart success as a writer, and present chart success with her own song (which, as far as I can tell, is only popular because Stephen Fry made it so via twitter) as the “Sound of 2011”. Call me cynical, because I am, but… Becky who is 10 and from Milton Keynes and loves X Factor and Zac Efron could have done that for them. This gave me an opportunity to pretend that I had been waiting for the announcement to unleash my own list upon the world, but I think that that dishonesty would probably put me on a level with my friend from Slough, so, instead, have it for what it is; here is a list of artists, all of whom I love, some of whom I think are going to sell some records to Becky next year, and all of whom are well worth spending 3 minutes working out whether or not you like them. You don’t even have to put your card details in, trust me, it’s a brilliant deal.
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