[Resonance FM #25] Baklu, Gelatin Kids, Grimes, Elvis Depressedly, Lonesome Ghost, Evenings, Crystal Stilts

This week’s This Music Wins on Resonance FM goes out at 6.30pm (GMT), and features, amongst a sprinkling of top new songs from around the world, the demise of Coma Cinema’s Elvis Depressedly moniker, an increasing trend headed by Rawkblog, We Listen For You and now Turntable Kitchen of creating a monthly vinyl club, and lastly some excellent electronica from Baklu, Gelatin Kids and Grimes. Also the new song from Crystal Stilts’ forthcoming EP Radiant Door.

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DOWNLOAD: This Music Wins #25 (MP3)

1. Baklu - Dobre Myśli (MP3)
2. Gelatin Kids - #1 Downer Girl (MP3)
3. Grimes - Oblivion (MP3)
4. Elvis Depressedly - Crazier With You (MP3)
5. Lonesome Ghost - Seashell (Link)
6. Evenings - Babe (MP3)
7. Crystal Stilts - Dark Eyes (MP3)

New Music: Lonesome Ghost - Seashell

You may remember Dallas four-piece Lonesome Ghost’s February touch down with a four-track package ’None Of These Songs Are About You Or Anyone You Know’. Seven months on, people are hinting at a Summer’s worth of recording on the way. For now we can only speculate, and bask in the sunshine of the excellent ‘Seashell’, a standalone single encompassing the development of a distanced, dreamy sound - a subtle development of the sporadic, naive and occasionally audacious surf melodies of their debut. 

‘I wrote your name on a seashell, but it broke when I fell’ is the first audible lyric to seep from the woozy falsetto harmonies and relentlessly crisp guitar riffs, and this floats and hovers above the mix right through to the end of the song. There’s even a couple of crisp vocal and guitar breakdowns and subtle tempo shifts as ideas slowly slip in and out of the mix. Keep up with these guys here, here and here. Grab ‘Seashell’ below.

Lonesome Ghost - Seashell (MP3)

Spring-time jams and crisp Fender guitar tones from Dallas band Lonesome Ghost on their February released debut EP ‘None of These Songs are About You or Anyone You Know’. The first track from this inventively titled release, ‘Golden Cage’, is pushed as far and as loud as it can go, with winding euphoric pop melodies subsiding ever so slightly vocals elated with that idiosyncratic pop nostalgia fellow teen Avi Buffalo made his name with. Unsure as to whether the potentially coincidental tribute to four twenty which the second track makes is intended or not, but an interpretation as such would certainly not go amiss with ‘My Dear’ as it slowly and dreamily unfolds. The theme continues, but never quite reaches the sanguine emotional heights of its opener; ‘Love Is A Dream’ perhaps coming closest with its rattling post-punk melodies and positively frenzied bass-lines, attached below.

They cite their influences as “anything that’s happy”, quoting specifically bands like Toro Y Moi and the Beach Boys as inspiration, though if you listen carefully their music can take on a more raw and contemporary surf pop format echoing bands like Spectrals, Real Estate and Wild Nothing. They recently put together an exclusive mix for Crack In The Road blog which clues us up a little more on where their influences might lie with its reference to the above plus a few other notables - Coma Cinema, Shimmering Stars and Ducktails to name a few.

Certainly Lonesome Ghosts’ EP is a buoyant debut which is sure to tug at the heart-strings of many with its desperately chill pop style, for many months and years to come. This kind of fiercely infectious three minute formula just doesn’t get old, and pumped up with the kind of expressive vocal and lyrical delivery heard here, the band are sure to take on a decent devoted following come their next release.

Lonesome Ghost - Golden Cage (MP3)

Lonesome Ghost - Love Is A Dream (MP3)