Every week TOW is lucky enough to pick two songs for Tom Robinson’s brilliant BBC 6 Music show, the spot goes out every Monday morning at around 2:30am. Here are our picks for the this week:
Pick 1 – Warpaint – Billie Holliday
TOW loves a band that spells out words in songs, especially when the word is ‘Billie Holliday’, who the band call the most ‘bad ass singer who ever existed’. Warpaint are four girls who make experimental art rock – the Los Angeles natives call it psychedelic, mellow dramatic, popular song and oddly – ghettotech. But actually yes we agree! Jenny, Emily, Theresa and Stella have got some celeb friends too, like Heath Ledger (RIP), Billy Zane (what a legend!), Josh Klinghoffer (new RHCP’s guitarist) and John Frusciante (former RHCP guitarist). Frusciante also mixed their fantastic Exquisite Corpse EP for Manimal Vinyl. They’re signed to Rough Trade now and play the Great Escape Festival in Brighton next weekend, get to it!
Pick 2 – Kellarissa – Tiny things
Ok so you can’t SEE much in this video but you get the jist of Kellarissa’s rather smashingly unique sound and gorgeous voice. Head to her myspace and listen to Tiny Things, that’s our favourite. You may remember we blogged about Fanshaw a few weeks back, well Kellarissa is from the same stable – Mint Records in Vancouver. Larissa Loyva does everything herself usually using a synthesiser and vocal loops, LOTS of reverb and says she ‘asks eternal questions’ disguised as pop songs. If only this stuff would make it to the charts! It would boggle their tiny minds (evil cackle…) Flamingo is Kellarissa’s debut album, head to Mint Records to buy it.