Kaiotic Music is incredibly excited to announce that one of our Florida favorites, SALES, will be joining Brooklyn’s Florist, Small Wonder, & Told Slant for an amazing show at The Paper Box this summer, in association with The Le Sigh and The Epoch. RSVP Here and get your tickets here.
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Finally, X priest X has released their debut EP, Samurai. With one brand new track, Enemy Mind, closing out the EP, the Floridian duo completes a unified and cohesive project, and creates an identifiable and established sound. Watching them flourish from the release of the first single, Samurai, nearly a year ago, into a band that’s getting the right press around an amazing artistic endeavor is one of the most satisfying and exciting experiences for a fan and writer. Listening to the EP over and over again certainly doesn’t disappoint either- an anticipated debut that satisfies on every level from a duo that has a very special brand of pop, with a surprising amount of darkness and desolation for such a sunny sound. This is my pick for who to watch in 2014. File next to BREAK OUT ARTISTS.
Why do you think Dark Sun was cut from the EP? Check it out below:
X priest X does it again with the new cut from the debut EP Samurai (out on April 15th via Emotion). The track they’ve debuted today, Sophie K, is in perfect synchronization with their focused sense of style- an emotional, dense yet hollow, 80s revamp on pure Pop. Given that it’s the week before they release their EP, and that this is the fourth single the Floridian duo has released, I suspect they are building their audience and their sound. It’s a fulfilling journey to observe, from their captivating debut track, Samurai, to their follow ups Dark Sun and stand out track Isn’t It So. If these are the tracks that comprise the EP, then keep your ears to the ground, for the vibrations are a hint of the rumblings to come.
Kaiotic Music loves Florida bands. Two in particular. One of which may be coming to NYC to do a show very, very soon 🙂 But the other tropical muse is X priest X (what say you we get them up here, too?). X priest X releases today a new track, Isn’t It So, following two of my favorite things to emerge in 2013- Samurai and Dark Sun. This is all leading up to the debut EP Samurai, out April 15th on Swedish label Emotion. Madeline Priest and David Kazyk make up the lo-fi synth pop duo, pairing a textbook indie muse with a sensible and emotive producer- Madeline is the kind of leading lady 2014 clamors for, bringing to mind Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) and Lindsay Pitts (GEMS). This new track itself establishes their style further- celestial (and yet purgatorial) 80s pop with a dark edge. Just like the raw messages slithering around playful and infectious production, Madeline Priest cautiously demonstrates her true emotions, among fuchsia and pink filters. Confusing, beautiful, catchy, and original, X priest X has stuck with me for many reasons, and if this isn’t the project that catapults these two to a life as career musicians, I’ll be damned.
Keep an eye out for the EP, for a New York live show, and for aural infections.
Florida has this weird sort of vintage tacky allure, and the music coming out of it is equally as satisfying and perplexing. It’s the anti-New York- ironically enough given so many new yorkers go to die there- even in its music scene it’s so anti-scene, and so much of it is pockets of artistry that have developed independently, creating some of the most original material to hit the web. Aside from overlapping projects X Priest X and Dromes, the most exciting music is coming from duo SALES, comprised of Lauren Morgan and Jordan Shih. The first track to capture my attention was Renee, a release from last summer, but with Chinese New Year (and the steady stream of releases between the two), SALES has placed the second hinge on a consistently high quality and steady debut. Especially on Chinese New Year Sales goes a little The Drums meets Best Coast, with more dreaminess than The Drums, but similar signature guitar riffs, and with the catchiness of Best Coast with more original melodies and lyrics. SALES is what I’d listen to lying on fake sand with a plastic palm tree, but somehow it’s also incredibly alive.
I’m already a fan of florida based X priest X, and now producer Chandler Strang is putting out some solo work amidst remixes. His track Speechless is a delectable synth-pop slice, incorporating a more modern sound than his approach with Madeline Priest. A little Toro y Moi meets Millionyoung, the clear production and dreamy synth accents are like an escape and an accent for a sunny winter day. His production chops are undeniable- he has an ear for modern sounds that aren’t devoid of feeling, capable of producing something you can dance to or smoke to. Personally looking forward to what else sunny Florida has to offer (did anyone ever thing there would be a pocket of indie pop exploding there?).
At the end of this past summer X priest X came buzzing out of sunny Florida with the track Samurai. What was great about the song is it managed to utilize the shallow sounding production of 80s electroclash to create a pop track with depth. The production sounds like synths funneled through a styrofoam cup, with a tiny lady dancing and singing at the bottom. Continue reading
Luke Temple’s newest solo attempt, ‘Good Mood Fool’ (out on Secretly Canadian today), begins with Hard Working Hand. It feels like 40s blues meets 80s pop, with a funk undercurrent. Lyrically it’s a-typical of what exploded out of a booming economy built around hardworking men (It’s all very mid 20th century). Continue reading
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