For The Record: February

Albums:
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. (Album Of The Month)
Crystal Stilts- Alight Of The Night.
Lily Allen- It's Not Me, It's You.
Sky Larkin- The Golden Spike.
Morrissey- Years Of Refusal.
Empire Of The Sun- Walking On A Dream.
N.A.S.A- Spirit Of The Apollo.
The Joy Formidable- A Balloon Called Moaning.
Dark Was The Night- A Red Hot Compilation

Download These

The Pains... 'Young Adult Friction'
Lily Allen- 'The Fear'
Sky Larkin- 'Fossil Eye'
Morrissey- 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris'
Empire Of The Sun- 'Walking On A Dream'
N.A.S.A- 'Gifted'
The Joy Formidable- 'Whirring'

Tracks:
The Soft Pack- Nightlife. (Single Of The Month)
Little Comets- One Night In October.
School Of Seven Bells- Iamundernodisguise.
Telepathe- So Fine
Fever Ray- If I Had A Heart.
Eugene McGuinness- Fonz

Worst Release Of The Month:

U2- Get On Your Boots.

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Telepathe- 'Devil's Trident' (XIII Foals Mix)

Foals drummer Jack Bevan has got his blistered hands on Brooklyn banshees Telepathe and turned them into techno house behemoths. His remix of 'Devil's Trident' is a seven minute tour de force equipped with juggernaught beats, howling sax and droning, hypnotic vocal loops.

You can hear it here- Listen

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Telepathe- 'So Fine'

Brooklyn's hypnotic synth duo Telepathe begin their assault on 2009 in earnest with the release of the Dave Sitek produced 'So Fine'. The video directed by Katherine Nolfi is a kaleidoscopic walk through the girls life taking in Thriller style street dance routines, toasted marshmallows, supermarket waltz and a late night house party.

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Telepathe- 'Dance Mother'

Attention name droppers, there is only one act who should be on your lips in 2009 and that's Telepathe. However these two black clad Brooklynites are far more than a hipsters wet dream as the outstanding 'Dance Mother' proves.

By melding the bands previous drone heavy output with New York demi-God Dave Sitek's pop centric production a glorious medium has been achieved and one of the first great albums of the year has been created. 'Dance Mother' warps, evolves and impresses with every passing second. From the big beats on album opener 'So Fine' through to the reverb heavy loops of 'Chrome's On It' the pace is set early on. Something tells me that Telepathe will get compared to Crystal Castles by the media however they transcend Alice and Ethan's 8-bit punk and put more emphasis on hypnotising the listener than blugenoning them. Large chunks of the album are a mix of ambient landscapes and bold hip-hop tinged beats. 'Devil's Trident' stand out as a key track as well as the bouncy 'Lights Go Down' and mesmeric closer 'Drugged'.

Effortlessley cool and nonchalent it's easy to assume the core members of Telepathe both know and don't care how good their forthcoming work is. 'Dance Mother' lends itself well to remixers and should keep Hype Machine busy all year with various bedroom re-worked off cuts, there is already a fantastic remix of 'Devil's Trident' by James Rutledge. The album is due for release on January 26th on V2.

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