Following the announcement that Jarvis & co. are to rip through their nonchalant indie rulebook at next year's Primavera Sound and Wireless festivals, a sombre rework of The Wave Pictures' Now You Are Pregnant recalls memoirs of sangria-stained weekends in Barcelona many, many moon cycles past.
The Wave Pictures - Jonny Helm Sings - 01 Now You Are Pregnant by Freeman PR
Blackbird Blackbird has been chirping up amidst the swarming flocks of ambient post-dubstep impresarios enthralling the blogosphere of late, and his reinterpretation of Warpaint's Undertow, the highlight of their irrevocably deluding debut LP proper The Fool is fairly sumptuous.
Warpaint - Undertow (Blackbird Blackbird Remix) by Hypetrak
The first release to be lifted from Ghostface Killah's forthcoming long player The Apollo Kids, Together Baby, is archetypally compelling, and amidst lyrics of skateboards and Tony Romo reference, packs a bunch that'd floor Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder, et. al in a single left hook.
Ghostface Killah - Together Baby by Hypetrak
Speaking skateboards, kickflip king Lupe Fiasco returns with this Super Lupe Rap, stripped of glammed-up, swish production values as his ego continues to inflate, now establishing a parallel between he himself, "a pioneer, not a parody" and a certain Clark Kent.
Lupe Fiasco - Super Lupe Rap (Produced by Soundtrakk) by Hypetrak
Post-indie torch bearers Fiction return with Phyllis, sounding forever more like Yannis swigging from booze-infused coconuts on lapping shores of El Guincho-indebted tropicalia.
Phyllis by Fiction Music
Keeping things suitably ethnic, whilst controllably eccentric are Truckers Of Husk, whose Awesome Tapes From Africa sounds like a safari in search of Graceland chugging along to the sound of a frenetic Dr. Rhythm.
Truckers of Husk - Awesome Tapes From Africa by TLOBF
Alongside a wispy cover of Neil Young's Needle And The Damage Done, Laura Marling's troubadour-esque take on Jackson C. Frank's Blues Run The Game, produced by Mr. Jack White, adds another string to the snow-soaked serenades of I Speak Because I Can.
Laura Marling, 'Blues Run The Game' by Tim Chester NME
And if Tuesday's grey and Wednesday looks to follow in the same vein, it could be worse - you could be Kanye West, plummeting further into insanity week upon week just as Dante descended to the deepest, darkest recesses of hell, last week voluntarily performing an a capella take on Gold Digger on a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to New York. Still flying first class, however...
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