Sunday Lane just released “Parliament,” the latest single from her upcoming Future Tense(s) EP.
Self-identified as a dream pop musician, Sunday Lane melds together her wistful Ellie Goulding-esque vocals with a despondently romantic (or romantically despondent?) style like Sorcha Richardson’s.
Looks like Ellie Goulding. Sounds like Marina and the Diamonds. What else do you need?
Check out “Hey Now” by London Grammar.
This is a very special post. Why?
Because it is the return of BoxSpeaker Weekly Theme Days AND also a “Music to Bone to” recommendation from my friend Stephanie! I simultaneously deem this a “Music to Bone to” and Wednesday Hump Day song!
It is Ellie Goulding and Xaphoon Jones cover of The Weeknd’s “High for This.”
Click the link above to hear it on the Neon Gold Records blog. I’ll add in an embedded player later when SoundCloud stops acting up.
This cover is so sensual. Xaphoon Jones’s extensive use of an echo effect throughout the song gives the music a dreamy, sensual and somewhat heavy feel – much like Mr. Little Jeans’s “The Suburbs” cover. I would definitely have sex to this song. Slow, sensual sex. Like a lesbian drug dream – to take a term from Sassy Gay Friend.
Also, I can’t help but think “Ellie, you ARE right when you say ‘Even though you don’t roll, trust me boy, you wanna be high for this.’ heh heh heh”
Long story short, Stephanie, awesome suggestion. Everyone else, go have sex to this RIGHT NOW!
As my older followers (those who followed me since back when I was MusicStarved) know, I LOVE ELLIE GOULDING.
I also love anything by and remixed by Chiddy Bang.
Well, this song brings both together. Chiddy Bang is just such an awesome duo like The Knocks in that both take awesome songs and make them even cooler by adding their personal touch. In this case, Chiddy Bang took most of “Under the Sheets” and then added in their own vocals.
Two of my favorite lines:
“And if you look at me, I bet I have you starry eyed” and “I make her give me one on the cheek and she ain’t over me yet, so I put her under the sheets.”
Yeah… Don’t hate me, but this totally deserves what is coming next….
#SWAG
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Happy listening!
The first thing I have to write is that I keep thinking that I have a friend named Alex Winston. Then I remember that I don’t. :/
Anyway, before I research her beyond the little blurb on Neon Gold Records‘ blog, I want to give my initial response to her song “Sister Wife.”
Alex Winston’s voice made me think of Ke$ha. I don’t mean that in a bad way either. (I know that Ke$ha doesn’t necessarily have the best reputation in the music world, and even less so in the indie music world.) It’s just that Alex Winston’s voice has that high-pitched, staccato sound that also gives her a 1999-2001 European electro, semi-trip hop (but not low and breathy enough) feel. Essentially, when I don’t think of Ke$ha, I think of various European singers such as Sia.
Like Ellie Goulding, Alex Winston has that electropop + an occasional acoustic guitar riff style.
“Sister Wife” is an airy electropop-based ballad toward Winston’s competitor for an object of affection. The heavy use of bass and floor tom beats is balanced out by the cloud of tinkering piano notes combined with stronger chord loops, the barely audible guitar riff repetition, and Winston’s high-pitched voice.
Going beyond my “First Listen” notes, here’s a few bits about her from her Wikipedia page :
Apparently, despite the very European feel of her song and voice, she’s actually from Michigan. Also, she’s working with the Knocks, a pretty big name production team that, when not making their own songs such as “Make It Better,” does tons of remixes!
I can’t wait to see her perform at SXSW this year!
Take a listen here: http://www.myspace.com/AlexWinston
