HOT CHIP - MADE IN THE DARK (2008)

A NICE STARTING ALBUM FOR THIS YEAR.
ARTIST``````````````HOT CHIP
ALBUM``````````````MADE IN THE DARK
GENRE``````````````INDIE ELECTRONIC/DANCE
YEAR````````````````2008

WHY:
Their last album was groundshaking and this one - well... is too. Kool people.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND ALBUM INFO:
Made In The Dark is Hot Chip’s third full length release and the follow up to their critically acclaimed album The Warning. This new installment which is released in the US on February 5 shows Hot Chip at its best; wonderfully quirky, clever, soulful and poppy. The bands sound has evolved towards a wilder, heavier electronics, though still coupled with a signature pop aesthetic. The stand out tracks “Shake A Fist”, “Ready For The Floor” and “One Pure Thought” add pure, unadulterated head rush pop into the mix. Made In The Dark also shows that the band is equally at home creating songs of intimacy and melancholy as they were dance floor-fillers.

The band come together with Owen Clarke's signature guitar and keyboard riffs, Al Doyle's high caliber musicianship and Felix Martin's programming skills combined with the considerable talents of Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor in a way making the songs even more propulsive, repetitive, rhythmical, methodical, wonky, intimate and beautiful than before.

The hipsters who found and love Hot Chip will still be lured in by their originality and inventiveness, whereas the undeniable infectiousness and catchiness of their music should bring them a wider audience.

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BETTY DAVIS - THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT (1974)

WOMAN FROM THE BOWLS OF HELL (BONDAGE ORIENTED)
ARTIST```````````````BETTY DAVIS
ALBUM```````````````THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT
GENRE```````````````FUNK/SOUL
YEAR`````````````````1974

WHY:
Black Fire Betty frum Hell thats why. Damn. No funk-woman ever got close to her. This album is a curse.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND ALBUM INFO:
A wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals even three decades after her debut, Betty Davis combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis, her husband for a year. It's easy to imagine the snickers when a 23-year-old model married a famous musician twice her age, but Davis was no gold digger; she turned Miles on to Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone (providing the spark that led to his musical reinvention on In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew), then proved her own talents with a trio of sizzling mid-'70s solo LPs....

Betty Davis' second full-length featured a similar set of songs as her debut, though with Davis herself in the production chair and a radically different lineup. The openers, "Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him" and "He Was a Big Freak," are big, blowsy tunes with stop-start funk rhythms and Davis in her usual persona as the aggressive sexual predator. On the title track, she reminisces about her childhood and compares herself to kindred spirits of the past, a succession of blues legends she holds fond -- including special time for Bessie Smith, Chuck Berry, and Robert Johnson. A pair of unknowns, guitarist Cordell Dudley and bassist Larry Johnson, do a fair job of replacing the stars from her first record. As a result, They Say I'm Different is more keyboard-dominated than her debut, with prominent electric piano, clavinet, and organ from Merl Saunders, Hershall Kennedy, and Tony Vaughn. The material was even more extreme than on her debut; "He Was a Big Freak" featured a prominent bondage theme, while "Your Mama Wants Ya Back" and "Don't Call Her No Tramp" dealt with prostitution, or at least inferred it.

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TUNNG - GOOD ARROWS (2007)

DONT SAVE YOUR BODY BECAUSE YOU WILL DIE ANYWAY
ARTIST``````````````TUNNG
ALBUM``````````````GOOD AROWS
GENRE``````````````INDIE POP/ELECTRONIC FOLK?
YEAR````````````````2007

WHY:
It is hard to say what genre Tunng is developing but all I can say is that they sound really good. This album has that "its completely complete" statement attached to it and Tunngs mix of folk-electro-popish melodies with soft porn/intimate body parts lyrics are dressing this band in a rare original outfit that seems so rare these days.

ALBUM INFO:
For their third full-length, Good Arrows, British six-piece Tunng continue to deliver the same combination of folk, pop, and indie electronica that earned the band the description of "folktronica." Lightly programmed beats and blips pepper the acoustic guitar arpeggios that give the songs their base, as Sam Genders' soft vocals layer over themselves and those of the backup singers and the myriad other instruments that twist and squirm their way into the compositions. Kalimba, hammer dulcimer, clarinet, eclectic samples, and electric guitar all manage to find their way in, but they're arranged in such a way -- gently, sparsely, deliberately -- that nothing ever seems cluttered or ornate. This is helped in part due to the attention paid to structure here, because even with the noises and distractions and long stretches of space, there's a cleanliness to the songs, verses and choruses and even the occasional hook all playing an important part in the album's overall effectiveness.

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