Radiohead treats and exciting indie-electronics!

Elite Gymnastics.

July isn't the busiest of months music-wise, but the guys over at Gorilla vs. Bear don't seem to be lounging in their beach chairs just yet, and a few cool tunes showed up at theirs the past few days. Most interesting is 'Hanging On', by Active Child, taken off his forthcoming debut album, You Are All I See. It's pretty epic, and has got more muscle than a lot of the Balearic-inspired stuff that's around these days.


Minneapolis (yuck) outfit Elite Gymnastics have just put their entire new EP, Ruin, up for free download - in two versions, just to make it a bit more extraordinaire. 'Omamori' was the tune that caught me onto it, and I'm downloading the lot now. Sounds pretty promising! 80's-inspired electronic rock seems to be on the catch-up both sides of the Atlantic right now, with this tune sounding more than anything else like NME hype outfit The Naked And Famous.

Radiohead.

I have neglected good old Radiohead, who've premiered some brand new tunes as of late, including 'Staircase', which has got lengths more zest and raunch than anything on The King of Limbs. Speaking of that weirdly beautiful 8th full-length of theirs, a pair of cool remixes have surfaced - that's Caribou doing 'Little by Little' (reeeally sweet!!) and Jacques Greene doing 'Lotus Flower'. These are apparently the first of a series of remixes of The King of Limbs tunes. I wonder if anyone will do 'Feral'?


Bombay Bicycle Club is an interesting wee outfit, that have flown under my radar for quite some time, but 'Shuffle', which is their new single off their forthcoming release, A Different Kind of Fix, which will be their third full length in as many years, all on Island Records, sounds like something that might edge them closer to my listening habits. It's decidedly cheerful, and deliciously British.


Finally, Björk is back, and will release her much-discussed iPad-album Biophilia this fall. This will be the seventh album from this ever-young amazon, following the intriguing and belligerent Volta from 2007. I'm not so sure how I like the drum'n'bass finish on lead single 'Crystalline', but it sure is nice to have this provocateur back in the mix!