Pussy Riot reportedly collaborating with members of Le Tigre

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says the Russian punks have been creating original songs and videos with JD Samson

Pussy Riot are reportedly collaborating in the studio with members of Le Tigre. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina may “at some point” record an album with JD Samson and Johanna Fateman.


Le Tigre singer JD Samson recently shared a photograph of herself and bandmate Johanna Fateman spending “a night in the studio” with Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina, and Fateman’s young daughter. After Pitchfork reported on the snap, Fateman joked that they were “sleeping on the real story, which is pussy riot collab with my five year old daughter”.


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by Sean Michaels via Electronic music | The Guardian

Bonobo review – slow-burning and seductive

Alexandra Palace, London

Popular acclaim might have been a long time coming for the introspective electronic musician, but he is adapting with gusto
Bonobo’s career is a textbook definition of a slow-burner. After releasing five albums of steadily increasing popularity over the past 15 years, the meticulous electronic musician, born Simon Green, is baffled to suddenly find himself selling out Alexandra Palace. As he freely confides from the stage: “This is nuts!”

It is all the more remarkable that he has managed this while peddling a strain of intimate, introspective electronica that appears more suited to late-night headphone consumption than rocking an aircraft hanger. Yet it’s soon clear that his layered and compelling music is far too alluring to simply get lost in the ether.

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by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian

The Mercury prize: what our shortlist would be

The Mercury shortlist is unveiled on Wednesday night. Ahead of that, our critics pick the 12 albums they want to see named by the judges

In the 22 years since it was established by the BPI and the trade body of record shops, lest we forget the Mercury prize has come in for its share of criticism. Its too safe, too worthy, too willing to reward a narrow view of British music. Wheree the metal? Why do jazz and folk albums get nominated but never win? Then theres the fact that bands and labels have to pay to enter, meaning some worthy records never get considered because even the small fee is too much for many indies.

Nevertheless, the Mercury is still the prize considered to reward music, rather than sales figures. And while every Mercury shortlist is criticised and picked over, every one has also brought to wider attention albums that might have escaped notice. That said, we know what wed want to see announced on Wednesday so heres our list for 2014.

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by Tim Jonze, Michael Hann, Gwilym Mumford, Dave Simpson, Caroline Sullivan, Dorian Lynskey, Lanre Bakare, Kate Hutchinson, Paul MacInnes, Harriet Gibsone, Laura Barton and Alexis Petridis via Electronic music | The Guardian

Five albums to try this week: Robert Plant, Tricky and more

Purveyor of ‘personal, moving songs’ on Lullaby… and the Ceaseless Roar … Robert Plant. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Interpol – El Pintor (Soft Limit)

Why you should listen: It’s been four years since the suited-up New Yorkers released their eponymous fourth album. They’re back here, minus pouty bassist Carlos Dengler, and layering singer Paul Banks’s signature baritone over lush guitar lines and stuttering drum rhythms.

It might not be for you if … This whole moody-voiced indie revival, from Editors and Interpol to White Lies, didn’t grab you between 2002 and 2009, because it probably won’t interest you now.

What we said: “El Pintor finds Interpol returning to the sleek, monochrome post-punk that caused such an impact in the early 2000s,”wrote Dave Simpson, in the Guardian’s G2 Film & Music. In the Observer New Review, Paul Mardles gave the album three stars.

Score: 4/5

From Interpols gloomy indie to Bankss debut, here are five new releases worth listening to this week

Why you should listen: Its been four years since the suited-up New Yorkers released their eponymous fourth album. Theyre back here, minus pouty bassist Carlos Dengler, and layering singer Paul Bankss signature baritone over lush guitar lines and stuttering drum rhythms.

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by Tshepo Mokoena via Electronic music | The Guardian

KOMPAKT.fm @ Musique Non Stop

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Listen: The Guardian premieres Vermont's "Majestät" Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:41 AM PST We already had some exciting news this week with the announcement of "Vermont" - the new project from Innervisions' Marcus Worgull and Danilo Plessow of Motor City Drum Ensemble fame. To be released on March 17th, the eponymous full-length will showcase a different side to their well-established artist personas, working with a restricted rhythmic pallet and lush vintage synth arpeggios to invoke a decidedly krautrockish vibe... that would also sit quite well with early nineties ambient. But listen for yourself with The Guardian's premiere of album highlight "Majestät" - check it out here!

James Blake: watch an exclusive set from the Mercury prize winner

 

Following his success at the Mercury prize last night, here's an exclusive live set from James Blake, recorded at London's Heaven earlier this year



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To celebrate his triumph at last night's Mercury prize ceremony, here's a set from James Blake. Recorded earlier this year at London club Heaven, the performance draws on work from his early cult EPs (Air and Lack Thereof, the Kelis-sampling CMYK), his self-titled debut album and Mercury-winning second, Overgrown, and ends with his signature cover of Joni Mitchell's A Case of You.

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