We here at JOE.ie understand that iPod content gets old fast so each week, we bring you some of the best tracks to be had anywhere on this little planet of ours. Get downloading.
By Robert Carry
Example, Last Ones Standing, Download here (from 12 September).
British rapper Example (a.k.a Elliot John Gleave) is on his second album, but while his first offering misfired somewhat, it appears he may be on the way to finding his sound with Won’t Go Quietly. The album’s electro-pop-inspired, UK-branded hip-hop style was engineered in part by the likes of Chase & Status, Calvin Harris and MJ Cole who all contributed to bringing Won’t Go Quietly into the world.
Last Ones Standing is the second track from the album. A combination of an addictive beat and Example’s smooth delivery see this one bounce along nicely. It’s a tad pop-rap and sounds alarmingly like the opening credits of the old Beverly Hills 90210 at times, but it’s still a decent tune if you take it as you find it. Video isn’t bad either.
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Yeasayer, Ambling Alp. Download here
New York-based experiemental rockers Yeasayer have been building a following on this side of the pond for some time now, helped in part by a string of festival gigs and some decent airplay by Phantom et al. With a sound akin to MGMT, only good, the band has taken a slightly poppish tilt with their second album Odd Blood. Yeahsayer’s new radio-friendly aspect does no harm in the super-catchy Ambling Alp, and would have to be filed under best work yet.
We haven’t quite made up our mind about the video, it’s sort of weird for the sake of being weird, but we like the way the chap in the hoody goes about beating the life out of his drum. Well done that man.
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Eliza Doolittle, Pack Up. Download here
We’ll have to file this one under guilty pleasures unfortunately. Anyway, Eliza Doolittle has managed to pull a decent tune out of the bag, in large part due to the sound-barrier blasting vocal capacity of hook-singing Crush who gives her a dig out on Pack Up. It’s been getting loads of radio airplay, and with good reason.
Doolittle appears to be attempting that retro, American deep-south/Mowtown production value thing in a bid to pitch herself as either a diet version of Amy Winehouse or the female Paolo Nutini. That may be the case, but your toes will tap on this one all the same. Plus she’s got nice legs. Which doesn’t hurt.
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