To start, I'd like to show some love to The Chalets and The Dead 60's who both recently announced their departure from the music world.
The Chalets incredible song Theme from Chalets was a superb summer anthem for me last year, a perfect pop-rock band with loads of vocals, loads of attitude and loads of potential. Think The Subways but Irish and cute. The Dead 60's skill at catchy ska songs was evident in the infectious Riot Radio, a highlight of my Reading festival last year The band also had success with Loaded Gun and You're Not The Law but a lack of commercial success and creative differences spelt the end for the Leeds band. Check out the respective songs a la playlist.
On to brighter things, during the intermission of another win for the Caps last night, I was doing my usual internet scouring for something new to listen to and i stumbled across two albums that instantly grabbed me. 
To start, Frou Frou is the original Imogen Heap project, the singer known for her fame for Hide and Seek, the scary vocal-autotune ridden song from The OC. I first took notice of Frou Frou after their incredible song Let Go on the Garden State soundtrack with its swirling drum beat and the smooth strings perfectly complimenting the hectic but hazy scenes on screen. The album is about love, not having it, letting it go, being in love, the hole nine yards. By some miracle, the alum avoids being cheesy due to Heep's bittersweet lyrics and the darker production. However, this does get repetitive as the album loses pace track by track. A good try but failing to repeat the success of the lead single. See for yourself on the left.
Another new addition is the french trio Telepopmusik with their debut Genetic World. I've been reading a very interesting book on the development of the French Disco and Rave cultures (High-brow I know) and as such, my interest in French electro has increased a lot. This seems a silly thing to be interested in, "its only computers, they all sound the same". Well they don't. As with e
verything the French do, its smooth, its sophisticated and its very very good. Telepopmusik are Daft Punk on a comedown. The similarity to Daft Punk's disco beats, choice of synths and sometimes even the structure is uncanny but that is the French sound and its glorious. The tracks mix between soulfull, echoey vocals that are reminiscent of Morcheeba and Groove Armada to vocoder heavy, processed vocals without seemingly no effort, the songs creating space for another superb instrument. I went through a heavy stage of ambient music and as my love for electronic has grown, Telepopmusik are the perfect crossover, drawing influences from their French Disco counterparts, Dubstep and Trip-hop to create a dark, brooding album whilst remaining in the boundaries of easy listening. Thoroughly worth listen, on the playlist as always and the video for lead single Breathe is below. Definately worth 4 mintues of your time.
verything the French do, its smooth, its sophisticated and its very very good. Telepopmusik are Daft Punk on a comedown. The similarity to Daft Punk's disco beats, choice of synths and sometimes even the structure is uncanny but that is the French sound and its glorious. The tracks mix between soulfull, echoey vocals that are reminiscent of Morcheeba and Groove Armada to vocoder heavy, processed vocals without seemingly no effort, the songs creating space for another superb instrument. I went through a heavy stage of ambient music and as my love for electronic has grown, Telepopmusik are the perfect crossover, drawing influences from their French Disco counterparts, Dubstep and Trip-hop to create a dark, brooding album whilst remaining in the boundaries of easy listening. Thoroughly worth listen, on the playlist as always and the video for lead single Breathe is below. Definately worth 4 mintues of your time.
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