LIQUORICE by Azealia Banks
With the beginning of the year we return to
one of our favorite new artists of last year and based on the quality of this
single, she is likely to have a hugely successfully 2012 as well. Following on
from the party anthem that was 212 Azealia Banks and Lazy Jay have used British
producer Lone’s, Pinapple Crush to make a rap track with a very distinctive UK
feel. Full of acid house and old school rave samples and sounding like a bunch
of Top Man attired, well groomed
and white shoed sexy RnB heads have walked into an illegal warehouse rave, this is
Azealia Banks with Liquorice.
Next up we have the annoying catchy remix one
of the most annoying songs of last year, which had nothing to do with the
quality of this song itself, just everyone’s tendancy to overplay it. Stripping
back Rhianna and Calvin Harris’s We Found Love to something, that at times,
barely resembles the original, Star Slinger’s remix is a glitch fest which lets
face it, is a lot more fun.
A new single from Cat Power next, which was
first brought to my attention because I saw that Pilipino boxing great Mani Pacquiao
was in the video. After a few minutes however I find myself no longer concentrating
on Mani punching that bag but drifting away to somewhere completely different,
carried by that mystical vocal and wonderfully simple but affective
reverberated guitar sound, great punchy (get it?) percussion as well. This is available
from www.catpowermusic.com for a small fee, all of which goes to good causes.
On now to another track with an beautifully
mystic vocal, juxtaposed with punchy percussion, this track by the Weeknd, sounding
like the same group of well groomed, sexy RnB boys we discussed earlier, have
now wandered into a church and discovered something all the more divine and
holy. I find the Weeknd walks a very fine line between being incredible and being
something you would normally be ashamed in admitting to liking. It is the
excellent production values that keep it on the cool side of the fence and for
that, The Weeknd and Montreal, is my Frontier Sounds Singles Selection of the
week.
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