That’s the sound of a heart, like a clock. Mine was on overdrive this morning but I came out with a drivers license out of it so it was all well worth it. I’m doing yet another LOTP post as I can’t stop loving them. In my opinion, LOTP is the Klaxons of 2008. Not so much hyped at the moment (I’m basing that on the fact that I don’t have 20+ LOTP remixes compared to “Atlantis to Interzone” alone) but they will all hype hype hype x10 verrrry soon. Also their clip for their latest single “Heartbeat” is probably my favourite music clip thus far of anything I’ve seen in 2008.
LATE OF THE PIER - HEARTBEAT
There’s a Hot Chip remix floating around but my pick of the bunch is the Zongamin remix (I wouldn’t call it _that_ much of a remix if you get my drift…). Buy the 12″, CD single or the 7″ at Juno homies.
New Late of the Pier AA-sided single featuring ‘Space and the Woods’ and ‘Focker’ to follow from the success of ‘The Bears are Coming’. ‘Space and the Woods’ is co-produced by Erol and LOTP and is somewhat greatly polished to when we heard it long long ago (the 7″ was out May last year!!). Nevertheless, it’s still kick-ass.
But what makes me just ooze and froth at the mouth is their epic track “Focker”. I tried to find a thesaurus to come up with some other words to describe this track but failed in the search. Ahem, .. so the best I came up with is: specatularadazzlingreatremendoussss. Recorded in the same session with Erol, you know it’s good.
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve is the tripped out love child of producers Erol Alkan and Richard Norris. If you love your 70’s psychedelic rock as much as I do, you’ll dig what these guys pull together, they enhance all the classic sounds from the era including horns, percussion, and wind instruments and chop it up in one giant bong all for us to inhale. They have released a bunch of remixes for artist such as the Chemical Brothers, Tracey Thorn, Midlake and just recently Goldfrapp and Late of the Pier. Amongst the remixes the pair have also released 4 mini-albums entitled Birth, Spring, George and West, each one providing a journey into strange soundscapes and colorful samples, perfect for those seedy sunday afternoons!
