Track Of The Week

I always find that at this time of the year, everything gets noisy. The office is noisy, traffic is noisy, life is noisy. This isn't noisy.

Track of the Week

/She gave it all, you gave her shit
She coulda done, just anything
Or anyone, cause she's a goddess
You never got this
You put her down, you liked her hopeless
To walk around, feeling unnoticed
You shoulda crowned her, cause she's a goddess
You never got this/

BANKS - Goddess

I swear to God, BANKS is my spirit animal.

Sleek and haunting, this debut release took my life over for weeks. She's obsessive and sultry and I can't get enough.

Because every women is a fucking goddess. 

Love Always,
Nicole

Track of the Week

GUYS!

This song is my fucking jam right now, holy shit. 

Think for yourself.
You have to be willing to cut against the grain and get the distance from your peer groups.
And not only that, but you have to have a habitual vision of greatness.

BOOM. Truth fucking bomb and then DANCING.

Olympic Ayres - Control 

This duo is for the pleasure-seekers and the trouble-makers. Irrefutably catchy dance beat that makes you want to drop everything and take a road trip. Sun-soaked and highly dance-able have put these guys way way up on my radar.

Even though the song is about not being in control, these guys are definitely in control of their fucking disco revival.

Love always,
Nicole

Track of the Week

In honour of my bestie leaving me in t-minus: one month, I have decided that this week's track of the week will be an ode to our friendship.

The Virgins - Hey Hey Girl

I have memories driving through Melville with dodgy people, doing dodgy things, listening to this album. Because it was literally the only thing we listened to for a year.

I know that The Virgins are for some reason hated, like this is an actual quote from NME - "These feckless wasters are destined for the ninth circle of hell. where they'll be frozen in the icy lake of Cocytus while The Might Boosh band play in the background, their heads in the mouth of Lucifer (who is, in this fantasy, Henry Rollins), their backs forever being skinned by his claws." They however also said this, "despite all this, this album is jam packed with pop hits; the most vomit-inducing shamelessly hipster band we've ever clapped eyes on might have well made one of the hits of the summer."

Needless to say, even though my best friend is leaving me to start a gang in Cape Town called Metaface, where he'll be leader and they will call him numero uno, I will still have this album and free accommodation in Cape Town. So, it's not all bad.

Love always,
Nicole.

Track of the Week

I'm not sure what's happened, but looks like we're going to have a Track of the Week that's on time. This is what I believe to be known as a miracle of fucking note. 

Since you (the reader) don't know me aside from this blog, you will not know that I am extremely susceptible to crushes. You know how some people are more susceptible to getting the flu like every week, exactly like that.  It appears to be happening again, fucking hell. 

So this weeks track of the week... 

I'm Into You (Moneyneck Remix) - Chet Faker

The perfect balance of romance and dance music, so that you're like kind of sad but also you can dance yourself clean of these fucking dumb feelings. 

Love Always, 

Nicole 

Tracks of the Weeks (Again)

So I've done it again, and I'm just going to blame it on the fact that my internet is fucking around and I got a new job.

Sorry,

I'll be better, probably.

Anyway, just be happy, 'cause two new tracks of the week.

Black Space (T. Swizzle cover) - Our Last Night

These guys are always on top form when it comes to their covers, so I suggest you check those out as well. 

King - Years & Years

I am not exaggerating when I say that these guys can do no wrong. Pretty much every song these guys have released have been on point. They are easily my favourites at the moment - but I will go into more detail about that in a post coming soon.  Also, the music video is SO phenomenal. 

Till next week. (Maybe) 

Love always,

Nicole. 

Tracks of the Weeks

So, I kind of just realized that it's been two weeks and no track of the week. Which is crazy, like how has it already been two weeks?! Time is fucking nuts.

Anyway, this just means a double dose.

I've had my mind on something for awhile. More accurately; someone. I think sometimes we take people for granted, not like you treat them badly, you just don't realise that they mean something, like they're not necessarily a huge part of your life but as soon they're gone, you're like what the fuck? I'm an idiot, you' are so important, you are so integral to my being, I fucking miss you.

So that's my head at the moment, therefore here are the two tracks of the week:

Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love 

Ryan Hemsworth - Snow in Newark (with Dawn Golden) 

I think they both speak for themselves. 

Love always, 

Nicole 

Track of the Week

Hello Internet hombres!

Firstly, I would like to wish you all a happy new year! Yay 2015. Love, light, blah blah ❤️

Secondly, here is your track of the week...

I had a lot of songs in mind for this week, and for some reason all of them, how do I put this politely... are fucking depressing. So, so wonderful but depressing none the less and I am not here to dim your new year glow.

But then it hit me, I listened to this song earlier today and it's just the right mix of chill and happy that is needed to begin a new year.

JUST LISTEN OKAY..... I'll wait.

CLICK HERE CAUSE COOL MUSIC WILL APPEAR

This isn't really what I'm used to reviewing, so bare with me please. Uniquely spare on vocals (as in this is the first song I've ever posted without vocals - diversity, yay) yet somehow manages to remain rich. It's pretty contemporary in it's playfulness but comes across as something not from this time. It kept me interested in a hypnotic sort of way, I think the best way to describe it is as an ethereal experience.


Reminder: new genre, I tried, sorry if I just sounded like an ignorant twat.


Love always,
Nicole

Track of the Week

So, this is awkward.

My first post in 7 months.

I didn't die, in case you were worried.

In order to ease myself back into the blogging world after my absence, I've decided to do a 'track of the week', where (as implied) I will be blogging about a track of my choice, every week. It may be old, new or blue. It's just going to be a song that gets me that week. So like, enjoy it or whatever.

This week's track is...

Drum roll...

                                                               You - The 1975

I've recently become so obsessed with The 1975 that I've found myself searching through themed tumblr pages and their past interviews - and I don't do this because I can't get enough of their dreamy lead singer or whatever but I'm actually just so obsessed with this dark enigma of a band equipped with dangerously catchy pop tunes and deadly serious lyrics. After 'Chocolate' came out, I refused to listen to them because I am a music snob and I did not want to be a part of anything that features in every 13 year old girl's indie 8tracks playlist. 'You' changed everything. Lead singer, Matty Healy said in an interview that he wants their music to bleed into people's lives, and I think that's how they won me over. It was in the background of my life one day and then I just wanted to keep hearing it in the background. 

It's beautifully subtle, in the best shoegazing kind of way. Listen carefully, and you can hear every 13 year old girl's heart breaking as Matty sings about asking another girl to dance. I will happily be dancing by myself to this song in my dimly lit bedroom (the only way to dance to any song if you ask me). 

Love always, 

Nicole