Johnny Fever's Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2013

The second annual edition of this thread wherein JF and 3 or 4 other people mindmeld on the usually girl-led, mostly synth-driven, pop-not-pop music we like.

Just discovered this X PRIEST X track earlier in the evening and made a youtube for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAHbAUMHHA

There's supposedly an EP being recorded for late summer release. Hope so. She's the business!

Rebeka's Hellada album is among my favorites of the year. Here's a video for the track "Melancholia".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbOr6RRk2c

This is a little more on the goth end of the spectrum, like something you'd hear on a Sunday club night in 1986. The duo is Tempers. The track is "Strange Harvest".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcovM2QQiMU

Heloise & The Savoir Faire was sort of blip on my radar when her first album came out a few years back, but the new one is way more in line with my tastes. "Time Lords" goes crazy with some autotune, but makes it work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xSR8DKuOk

Is Rebeka the same Rebeka on the recent Mirror People EPs?

Indeed.

Then this is probably worth investigating.

The 2012 version of this thread was a favourite, by the way.

Cool. Hopefully other people will join in.

I have very vague memories of Dënver's last album, so hearing "Tu Peor Rival" and it's funkiness strikes me as something kind of different than they were doing before (but I could be completely wrong). Either way, it's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UR6kciRKVk

Empress Of returned with the Systems EP, and Lorely Rodríguez includs a couple songs in Spanish, which sound uncannily like a Latino Liz Frazier.

IAMX returned with a late 2012 release, which hasn't been mentioned on ILX (it does slip between partisan camps). I wanted to call attention to this spectacular promo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7HDfUNT9I

I came across Polish synth poppers Rebeka (above) via Portuguese nu-disco producer Moulinex, who did a remix of "Melancholia", while Rebeka's Iwona Skwarek performed vocals on Moulinex's "Deja Vu".

that X Priest X is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrjV1XExL8

that X Priest X joint is great

xpost!

I love that track by Heloise and the Savoir Faire. The vocal arrangements/harmonies are beautiful.

re: IAMX

I always preferred the Sneaker Pimps records with Chris Corner singing over the first, popular, one. They totally became a better band when they kicked out Kelli Dayton. I've still only ever heard the very first IAMX album, though. I should catch up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFrth4NFogc

MØ was a favorite (of mine, at least) in last year's thread. Here's her latest single. Album soon, presumably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bghr6HjyPcU

Tilly from Sweden, of course.

I'm into this IAMX track, btw. Gonna check out the whole lp asap.

Another newish band that ILX appears unaware of:

HAERTS - All the Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-XtBvPj0I

haerts are great - i like "wings" a ton

And, may I also suggest Little Daylight for your music consumption habit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_iWolgTR9o

I like "Wings" a ton too, so much so that I went to see them based on that song. Too bad it's their only good one (of the few that I heard).

Was a big fan of We Are Enfant Terrible leading up to and including their first album in 2011, and they're back with some new stuff. Sorta accidentally melodic cheap keyboard pop/electro. I'm not embedding the video for "Melted" in the event that eyes and mouths put in the wrong places on faces freaks anyone out (it does me, a little bit).

http://youtu.be/p-WISoCBM4Y

Kind of irritated that this girl is going by the name Sundays, since there's already a The Sundays which plays a pretty big role in my music listening life. But hey, it's a good track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93WwvKe1hg

Loving this thread! I think XPriestX is my fave so far... though the chorus could be better. And my god, this girl is so gorgeous:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6535d3cb348b7ba8d37912259f87fe5b/tumblr_mpalxsrEvE1sxiqu5o1_r1_500.gif

(sorry for the pic size :)

I'm guessing most people here are already aware of Tove Lo but whatever, "Habits" is still my favourite song (and video) of the year so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-EIvEiSHs

Yeah, great song.

A #1 song in NZ (by a 16 yr old singer songwriter), but I think it still qualifies:

Lorde - The Love Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca50eYQR58Q

Also, Fallujah had a good single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRai2lGj1j0

Fallulah, that is. Kinda fortunate/unfortunate name

song title doesn't help. at least it's not "bombed-out"?

I liked the song "Bridges" on Fallulah's first album, but the rest of it left me sorta meh. This one's pretty good, though.

Know little about MS MR's major label debut Secondhand Rapture, but lead single seems apropos to this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5DXUfX0cc

Chvrches has a new single. The accent is toned down a bit from Cranberries territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoaj1IpTbw

Came across a promising group Dræmings with a lovely alto just on the dreamy side of overwrought. They're calling their EP a mixtape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu2EKPtTTQ0

There's something very Eastern European about that "Reno" song. I wasn't sure at first, but I liked it by the end.

Recent francophone pop act from Montreal. I'm not sold on all of their stuff but I'm liking this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODjsQiNMhFo

The MS MR song could almost be a Florence track.

I posted about The Preatures in the Haim thread a while back because I think "Is This How You Feel?" has a lot in common stylistically and feel-wise as what Haim's released so far, though I think the rest of their stuff may have more of a classic rock/Lauren Canyon thing. Either way, this song still pumps my blood after 3 or 4 months in rotation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XmoroZ3zo

*Laurel Canyon, obvs

Lisa Alma from Denmark. Her album gets released in N. America next week on Minty Fresh*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF_zZpHrF98

*Yes, Minty Fresh still exists. Who knew.

I love the structure/harmonies/feel of this song by Alpine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RklMv6-M3XM

It's Helen Marnie of Ladytron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJQEf9q6go

i am loving this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vh0iP5BziQ

Glasser + Delorean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6dJETvhsNk

oh hey, that's really good!

Between the Catalonian English and the title, its a bit like springtime Disco Inferno.

Thought this effervescent morsel was worth sharing. Features MNDR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mVPvuETUE

Nice find!

Fell hard for this duo, Joy Wellboy, tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFi3lFSn0c

maybe this qualifies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfU71ZVqyMM

Here are a few more... not sure if they're in line with your taste jf but they sound like they belong in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-X2kSqMPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33mjGmfy7PA

I'm down with Wet and Mapei, but Blood Cultures was new to me. Thanks!

This is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zeP-ZQF-Ak

I love this thread. Thanks Johnny !

Eves from Australia. Swoony chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfDUZ2yriw

Pompeya's 90 has been knocking around for a couple of years but it has a very pretty new video.

http://youtu.be/coMpY8KwNco

More X Priest X from late last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJYkzd8-Dw

I'm taken with Naomi Elizabeth at the moment. She's kind of an American equivalent to a lot of the Russian performance-art homemade-electro-pop i listen to. It won't be to all tastes and i can see how people might find something like I Have Got Your Password (which has had 607 Youtube views in three months) rather grating) but i really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3VBQGPrvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rb-xpkJ18