Disclosure have released visuals for their song, "When a Fire Starts To Burn". The song is the second track on their debut album, "Settle" and follows a rapture storyline, where the chruchgoers get more than the Holy Ghost at this sermon! If you can get past the creepiness of it all, it's quite entertaining.
Now that you've watch that, you can stream the album in its entirety before it's released June. The album includes the hits "Latch", "White Noise" and "You and Me", all which have peaked in the top 20 of the UK singles chart. Enjoy!
Friday, May 31, 2013
Katy B "What Love Is Made Of" Music Video
Alt-dance empress Katy B has come back stronger than ever with the first single from her second studio album. "What Love Is Made Of" takes Katy out of the clubs and continues the 90s dance track that was instilled when she released the "Danger" EP late last year. The video puts her on the streets with hardcore racers, drifters to be precise. This could have been an excellent tie-in with the new "Fast and The Furious" in the UK rather than that dreadful 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa record. Check the vid below!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Dxts "All'at Noise"
I have been following Dxts since I began blogging two and he consistently makes music that I don't want to delete every time I receive a press release about it. He is prepping a release later on this year and I finally got my hands on a song that will most definitely be on the project. Dxts reminds me of rapper Freddie Gibbs on this track, called "All'at Noise", and as I always, he reminds me of pre- "808's" Kanye West. Check the track out and make sure you support the artist by buying his music.
Graded Song: Exo "Wolf"
Chinese-Korean boy band EXO have been in SM Entertainment's basement since their promotions wrapped up almost a year ago for "MAMA" and "HISTORY". While SM rolled out comebacks for Super Junior-M, Girls Generation, two for SHINee and even gave a digital single to BoA, EXO was still hibernating.Then the teasers started rolling out a few weeks ago and EXO-tics flipped their shit . Unexpectedly, the boys' album leaked in full, including the title track "Wolf" and the dance practice video.Out of respect for them, I waited until their M/Vs were released before I did this write-up, but the time has come. Has it been worth the wait?
EXO - WOLF
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The fact that it took them so long to release this brilliant comeback single...I can't! I honestly felt like I was going to be overwhelmed with all twelve of them trying to sing on one song, but for some reason it worked. The track has a eerie tribal feel to it. Like one of those scenes in a horror movie where someone is about to be sacrificed. The yeah's and the pre-chorus could have did with some more enthusiastic vocals. I also thought that the song was going to be heavy on the faux-step much like SM did with Super Junior-M's "Break Down", but they kept that to a minimum and allowed their vocals to shine. I mean, those high notes...
Final Grade:A
SM has released dance videos for both the Chinese and Korean versions of the song (I'm more biased to the Korean version) and features the boys transforming into wolves while pulling off some choreo on a set. I have to admit that the dance is cool and kind of awkward, especially towards the end. Also, SM couldn't shell out for better special effects for the transformations? Or real wolves? Either way it's decent. Still waiting on the drama version though.
Korean Version Chinese Version
EXO - WOLF
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The fact that it took them so long to release this brilliant comeback single...I can't! I honestly felt like I was going to be overwhelmed with all twelve of them trying to sing on one song, but for some reason it worked. The track has a eerie tribal feel to it. Like one of those scenes in a horror movie where someone is about to be sacrificed. The yeah's and the pre-chorus could have did with some more enthusiastic vocals. I also thought that the song was going to be heavy on the faux-step much like SM did with Super Junior-M's "Break Down", but they kept that to a minimum and allowed their vocals to shine. I mean, those high notes...
Final Grade:A
SM has released dance videos for both the Chinese and Korean versions of the song (I'm more biased to the Korean version) and features the boys transforming into wolves while pulling off some choreo on a set. I have to admit that the dance is cool and kind of awkward, especially towards the end. Also, SM couldn't shell out for better special effects for the transformations? Or real wolves? Either way it's decent. Still waiting on the drama version though.
Korean Version Chinese Version
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Ellie Goulding "Tessellate"
Ellie never fails to impress with her covers. The British songstress pairs up with Chiddy Bang's Xaphoon Jones yet again for a cover of Alt-J's indie hit, "Tessellate". Her voice does wonder over the relaxed R&B-esque instrumental and puts listeners in a more chill mode than the original, which still slays. Why wasn't Xaphoon on any of the Halcyon tracks? They clearly make magic whenever they are in the studio, so why don't they use that and make some serious coins? I petition that he produces something for album #3! Listen to the cover and watch the video for Alt-J's original below!
Ke$ha "Crazy Kids" Music Video
Ke$ha's "Warrior" era is still floundering. While her debut album had gone platinum and spawned numerous top ten singles by this time, the princess of trashy pop has yet to even go gold and only one of her singles have hit the top five, but could have been #1 if it wasn't for the Sandy Hook tragedy. Instead of releasing summer smash "Supernatural" or fan-favourite "Thinking of You," she goes in the opposite direction and releases "Crazy Kids". To make matters worse, she remixes numerous times and chooses will.i.am (who is overexposed as fuck now) to be on the single, which does nothing to help her. Now we have the video and it's just as crazy as the song.In the video, K-dollar is at a weird house party where she rocks braids, shaved eyebrows and flashes an all seeing eye and a warrior like dress similar to the one Britney Spears wore in the "Scream and Shout" video. will.i.am makes an appearance (which looks like it was thrown in at the last minute) as a scuba diver. Do you think the video lives up to the hype around the song?
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Jennifer Lopez Perfoms "Live It Up" at Britain's Got Talent
Jennifer Lopez has been putting in some serious work promoting her newest single, "Live It Up". The song screams generic summer hit, but that's ok, J-Lo is one of the few people who can get away with it. She's also stepped up her live act game this time around. Her performances at this year's American Idol finale and the Billboard Music Awards have garnered praise for the energy, choreo and her live vocals. Now she's is giving Europe some love by performing on tonight's episode of "Britain's Got Talent". She recreated her Billboard Awards performance sans the Pitbull feature and the red leotard and gorilla arms (there are in black now) and easily gave it her all. She pretty much killed it and I feel like this was better without Mr.Worldwide's presence. Check the video below.
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