New Noise: March 2010
presents
New Noise 03/10.
Here are some acts that are releasing things soon and are new and excellent. Some are new in the sense that hardly anyone has heard of them before, others are new in the sense that after some people knowing about them they are finally getting on with it. They are all worth a lot of your time.
Diana Vickers
We’ve watched The X Factor on and off since the beginning but it’s fair to say that we’ve never really liked any of the contestants. Harsh but if you watch it you’d understand that most X Factor contestants blend in to one frustrating, blubbing, Whitney-shrieking bore. From the off Diana Vickers was labelled as someone “who has great taste in music, teenagers will love her” by Simon Cowell. This sort of recommendation by Simon might usually be treated with disdain and a raised eyebrow from our corner but we did love her, and we argued with people over her, because she did stand out mostly because she had an unique voice and when she sang it really did seem heartfelt. A year and a half on and she’s ready to release a single, ‘Once’, in April and it’s more than we could’ve ever hoped for her.
Once
The Golden Filter
No this isn’t a blog post from 2008 coming back to haunt you, The Golden Filter are still bubbling under but will finally be releasing their debut album, Voluspa, next month. A sublime girl/boy discopop duo making cool and clever music loved by blogs but unknown to most normal people, hopefully with some solid releases they will become more well-known and well-loved by a wider audience. Hide Me is their lead single, also released in April.
Hide Me
Japayork
The name Japayork comes from the fact that he’s lived in Japan, he’s lived in New York, heeee’s JAPAYORK. As a talented graphic designer, a good looking man and someone who makes very good, personal synthpop he is immediately a target for jealous people from all over the world. He made the video himself for his single Our Now and he is supposedly signing a big and proper record deal soon which will hopefully give him a boost to help him reach his full potential.
Our Now:
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment label’s sole female signing, is a completely mesmerising performer. She features on many collaborations at the moment and is the best bit in every one of them, and often the only good bit which mostly works in her favour to highlight her talent. She’s an excellent rapper and performer but also a hilarious one from the lyrics to the faces she pulls. Her debut single ‘Massive Attack’ is set to be released this month.
Itty Bitty Piggy:
Penguin Prison
Penguin Prison’s music has been on constant rotation with us for a while now from his excellent remixes to his own stuff and his own stuff remixed by other people too. He’s releasing a 7″ single The Worse It Gets/Something I’m Not and we’ve seen The Worse It Gets get called the A side, Something I’m Not get called the A side and that both are the A side in AA side bonanza. It doesn’t really matter because you’ll be able to hear both songs, both are streaming on his MySpace, both are very good.
Something I’m Not
Our review of Hurtful (Penguin Prison Remix) and a free download of Something I’m Not.
As for us, we’re doing well.
I was never especially taken with Diana Vickers but ‘Once’ is indisputably great.