Come pick 'em up
15 09 2007
Wild Strawberries is the new song from Nick Littlemore and Pete Mayes aka Pnau and my god is it good.
When Australian music blog Who The Bloody Hell Are They? posted it yesterday, I was hooked. It’s light, it’s clean, it’s fun and best of all it thumps like an absolute bitch.
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Can’t wait to hear the rest of their expected-November-release album. When it comes out. In November.
Now if you’re like me and waiting is something other people do, you should be gladdened to know Nick and Pete have been beavering away on their own side projects…
Nick has been recording as Teenager with Pip Brown formerly of Two Lane Blacktop (now of Ladyhawke) and this union produced debut album Thirteen. Thirteen is a seriously good album. I mean REALLY good. It’s got quite a lot going on but it never goes so hard out you swiftly find yourself pushed into hating it. Instead it gives you just enough to love and enjoy it. Liquid Cement is the first track off this varied and balanced album.
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Teenager – Liquid Cement [ buy ]
For his sins, Pete has been part of The Hate Game (formerly known as Vendettas). Both incarnations used to have myspace pages but American men in their 30s seem to have hijacked their virtual real estate. That was of course not before they released a great track called Running. Running is another gem I happened upon thanks to Who The Bloody Hell Are They? (I hope you’ve learned by now that this is a blog you really should follow) and for a track that swims in similar waters to a lot of the indie rock coming out of Australia right now, Running kicks along at a clip I find hard to resist.
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