This song has been getting a lot of plays around here. As is wont to happen after I make a mix, I start searching for music that is a little slower and perhaps more melodic. I have found that perfect mix in The Big Pink‘s “Velvet”.
I just found out about this electro-rock group from London, England, but they have already won the NME Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act.
“Velvet” is a huge and enveloping song. It sounds like something that M83, Oasis, and …And You Will Know Us By the Trial of Dead would make if they were all locked in a room for a weekend watching movies from the 90s. Makes sense to me.
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DOWNLOAD: The Big Pink – Velvet
BONUS: This Deloreon remix adds a bit of The Tough Alliance to that previous mixture of bands and any sound that can incorporate anything close to what The Tough Alliance sound like is a good thing to me. Expect less epic-ness and more dreaminess.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:31 am
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