waves and mirrors.

ELLIE GOULDING

perhaps it's just the endless flowing chiffon, but it feels like there's almost a Florence and the Machine eerie joyfulness to Ellie Goulding's OUTRAGEOUSLY GRAND new track.
pretty amazing how her voice lights up such simple melodies. 

trying to figure out what's so deep about this song, when the synths and rhythms are so simple and shallow. it's probably because ellie goulding is a unicorn.

prepare yourselves for what looks to be an extremely satisfying sophmore album. 
October 9th. 
start the countdown.

cheers and waves.

i tip my hat to you miss.

yes indeed.
miss KATY B is seriously channelling the queen herself, Robyn, in this sensational acoustic version of her smooth and pumping drum n bass track, Broken Record.

i like her yellow socks.

and you gotta commend a woman who can sing such a difficult and beautiful love song over the white background noise of another festival performer.

her mini horn section is perfectly discreet. as a sax player myself, i gotta agree that damn it's hard to play that quiet. 

approved.

reminds me of a gal named ROBYN.
when she first transitioned into the fancy electro-pop-bot sound of her first independent record she kept it real by still performing her old teen pop hits. 
She masterfully transformed the 90s anthem Show Me Love into a shy, curious and twinkly acoustic number. 

what a woman.

gotta love a gal who can still sing her teen one hit wonder like she loves it. 

viva acoustelectronica.

beatz in a box

so plan b recently ploughed out a lovely cover of tinie tempah's pass out. dope.

to all those who don't see musical complexity in electronic music....

look at how many layers it takes to recreate it acoustically. 

we got a little reggae vibe, a mad faith sfx grime beat, some sassy backup singers and a drummer puttin in work. for me the highlight of his performances are always...

FAITH SFX

... his mad beat boxer who's simply the bee's knees.

saw them perform in newcastle earlier this year, and of course they played this cover right after tinie had performed--i dare say they schooled him.

and i scratched FAITH SFX's belly when he crowd surfed. 
tee hee.

while we're here beat boxing, i should probably bring up devlin's acoustic sessions with ed sheeran. this one's even got wretch 32.


i've long since been in love with wretch 32's british/dancehall/grime swag... 
just love his tone of voice.

at the end of the day, beat boxing is the acoustic drum machine. 
acoustictronica? i'm down.

and just to top things off with a beautiful piece of man, Frankmusik's hidden skills always astound me. Sometimes his music is almost too poppy, sometimes the videos to his most beautiful songs are uncomfortably perverted, and mostly he'll just break your heart.

on that note, happy christmas little animals.

if you forget how to celebrate or the scroll function on your computer is fried, i'll direct you towards a big festive pickled christmas.