First up is Fool's Gold performing their single "Surprise Hotel" off of their upcoming self-titled debut album dropping in your laps on September 29th.
Pitchfork Magazine just reviewed the song, calling it "a gloriously busy bit of life-affirming Afro-pop that takes no issue with demanding that you take it for a beachside bike ride. The band rotates around Luke Top and Lewis Pesacov and also enlists friends and colleagues that include members of Foreign Born and Glasser. On a self-titled debut brimming with them, 'Surprise Hotel' is a whirling dervish of a cut delivered with charm, grace, and maximum two-stepability. Light yet bracing polyrhythms anchor an addictive little high-register guitar line that loops and wiggles on and off the beaten path, perfectly coupled with Afro-funk bass stylings and buttery bilingual coos (yes, Top sings in English and Hebrew). With music this immersed in wide-ranging global and regional influence, you'd fear Fool's Gold's music might come over as empty pastiche, but no worries. Worldly and warm without being cloying, 'Surprise Hotel' more than surprises: it prevails."
Check it out here...
Next up, straight from today's Aquarium Drunkard Sirius XMU show, is the lovely duo Pearl Harbour. Their song "Sunburn"--which you'll have to check out on MySpace--is some serious melodramatic acid pop. Makes me wish summer was just starting all over again...
