Who is the best new artist you’ve discovered?
Wow, as if Scott Bacon read my mind – literally. Two weeks ago when I was writing the last journal entry on my first musical memories, I thought: “I hope the next journal is to write about a new artist that we listen to.” In fact, anyone that read my previous entry would already know who I am going to talk about it since I mentioned her several times in it despite the fact she couldn’t be any further from my first musical memory. On that note, it’s kinda poetic the way (I went to scratch my head just now and accidentally brushed the “mute” button on my headphones which made a perfect stutter effect on a track transition in Trance Around the World…..**shots out like in most the mike jones like way possible** remix!) we went from our first memory to our most recent. Nice work, professor. There is beauty in everything.
Ok, so yea, how bout that Ellie Goulding? Welsh, girl singers FTW. I kinda wanna apologize. Sometimes I feel like I use music journals and blogs as an excuse to talk about girl singers…..maybe I should just change the name of my blog to “I Want a Girl Singer.” Clearly, I care a lot more about that than I do good friends and good music. But, the latter two are a close second and third, respectively. At any rate, she’s awesome. I won’t say I know a whole lot about her. I couldn’t find too much out on the inter-tubes. The couple blog posts I found about her said she had done some earlier acoustic stuff, none of which I came across. Her current incarnation is paired with producer Starsmith, who is really cool in his own right. He makes poppy disco house. Who is going to argue with that? Your mom. Well, I’ll punch your mom in the face if she doesn’t like disco house. I take my disco very seriously. Furthermore, he has been doing a lot stuff wih Frankmusik lately which is pretty cool. I really want to be in the video for Frankmusik’s “3 Little Words.” It’s just some Frankmusik and some girls dancing around on a giant keyboard. Fun.
So yea^2, back to Ellie. She has an awesome voice. It’s really unique and she is super good at singing backup for herself. Her current tracks are electronic joints without being over electronic…if that makes sense, which it doesn’t to me either. The production is sparse but really well applied. There are some awesomely placed stutter and reverse effects which really bring the overall sound together. I’m having a difficult time coming up with much else to say. For some reason, I find myself incapable of further describing the sound. My b. It’s Monday afternoon and I couldn’t be more burnt out. I have only been more burnt out once before in my life . The previous incident was right after junior year of high school. It coincided with me starting to swear, not that I swore with exceeding frequency, rather I had just never swore at all up until that point. ß run on sentence. I was a good boy and I still am, of course. Though, if this past example has taught us anything, it’s that I’m going to do something drastic. If you have any suggestions of what that something drastic could potentially be, please let me know. I’m extremely open to suggestions.
In conclusion, please go listen to “starry eyed” by ellie. It’s the best song I’ve heard since I heard Mylo’s new, unreleased track on Radio 1 back in February.
Honorable mentions to artists I’ve recently come across that I highly recommend:
Dragonette -> Canadian rock band
Shazam -> Australian disco house producer
Leonardus -> Dutch filtered house producer
Good hustle.
