It's Huw in for Zane. Let's get to it. This Hottest Record is brand new Bring Me the Horizon from their eagerly anticipated Sempiternal album. This is Sleepwalking, sounding HUGE.
Here we again, Huw Stephens here in for Zane. So tonight's Hottest Record is brand new AlunaGeorge. After the huge success of Disclosure's White Noise with Aluna's beautiful vocal sitting at number 2 in the chart, this is a quick new single from the friends who got together to make music after a chance remix bode well a few years ago. This liquid, soft yet powerful future pop/r'n'b tune sounds incredible with some interesting production pieces making it a perfect warm up for Body Music, their debut album out in June.
Hi it's Huw Stephens in for Zane for a bit. Tonight's Hottest is the brand new YEAH YEAH YEAHS. Just typing those words make me smile. The opener on their fourth album Mosquito out in April, it's another hugely accomplished track by this special New York band, back and ready to tour the world. Just press play!
Might be the next single... and then again it might not. What we do know is that it's a TUNE.
Long awaited follow up to one of last year's biggest singles...Rudimental's major debut release 'Feel The Love' charted at # 1, selling nearly 100k copies in its first week!
'Waiting All Night' features upcoming vocalist Ella Eyre who will appear on the band's sell out April / May tour (plus a London Village Underground show on 22nd Feb).
Nominated in the Best Single category at the Brits tonight.
Album is scheduled for a 29th April release.
Big remix from Hot Chip this evening, balearic, summer vibes treatment! LISTEN.
Phoenix will release their fifth album, 'Bankrupt!', on April 22nd on Glassnote Records. 'Bankrupt!' is the incredible follow up to 2009's critically lauded 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix', which sold over 1 million copies worldwide, was certified Gold in the U.S., and Platinum in Canada, Australia and France.
A string of U.S. dates will culminate in a Saturday night headlining slot at this year's Coachella, before embarking on a string of European festival performances that kicks off by headlining the Thursday night at Primavera Sound.
A good problem to have is when you have so much excitement around your early releases you feel compelled to speed up the progress of your live show. This is exactly the problem that London Grammar are facing now. For our part we play records that are good and this Hottest Record is just that. Hints of Lamb and Massive Attack put London Grammar in the same camp as Jakwob in this current crop of ethereal pop music.
Ignore everything about Hurts that you think you know and concentrate on where they stand right now, challenging themselves on this new record and no doubt each one to follow they are now considered by many as one of the most interesting pop groups the UK has. Long may it continue. This is what they do with jeep beats.
They may not be the most productive new band out there but there's an old adage, 'quality not quantity' and if that's what we're measuring this on then Haim are field leaders. Every song so far has been near perfect west coast pop rock. Now if we could just be so kind as to request A BLOODY ALBUM.
Two years after his debut album took UK bass culture down previously unimagined roads of introspection. James Blake returns with the epic 'Retrograde'. An electronic soul testament
James Blake track 'Retrograde'. Lead single from his forthcoming second album('Overgrown') 8th April 2013.
CHVRCHES today announce the release of the RECOVER EP, via Goodbye Records / Virgin Records in the UK as a digital download on 25 March (via Glassnote in the US on 26 March). The EP will also be available in the UK as a limited edition 12-inch vinyl on 20 April for Record Store Day.
Tracklisting:
1. Recover
2. ZVVL
3. Now Is Not The Time
4. Recover (Cid Rim Remix)
5. Recover (Curxes' 1996 Remix)
As fresh as a glass of soda pop on a hot summers day, Willy Moon, master of dabbling with the past and twisting it into the future in his own inimitable fashion. LISTEN.
It sounds familiar in many ways and it's reference points are all classic rock & roll attributes. A positive reflection on classics from the past gives Tribes one of their biggest songs to date and a sure fire festival hit.