Gentle Friendly - Ride Around Shining

by RCRDLBL on Thu, 2008/11/20 - 6:07pm

London duo Gentle Friendly’s DiY pop has needed to be lo-fi so long you fear discomfort in slicker sonic surrounds, fascination with Sizzurp-quaffing Lil’ Wayne or not. Still, there’s something oddly poignant and ceremonial about "Ride Around Shining", which starts off sounding like Yoni Wolf’s Why? and ends up loitering somewhere between Crystal Castles’ most cherished moments and the woozy drift of Arch M, David Morris’ warped vocal brilliant light rippling out across a melange of toy keyboards and misfiring lasers. More resolved is "Ride Symbols", which we posted at RCRD LBL back in spring. It’s one of four tracks that will appear on Gentle Friendly’s awesome debut 7”, out on Monday (24 Nov) through No Pain In Pop.

Sounds Like: Baby Venom, Joe Meek, Dan Deacon

 

Exclusive Download: Gentle Friendly - Ride Around Shining

 

Previous Downloads: Gentle Friendly - Ride Symbols

Gentle Friendly’s RCRD LBL Page

Share on Facebook

    Post new comment

    The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
References to Artrocker refer to content created before 21st October 2011 and are to be considered archived in light of the trademark registration of 'Artrocker'.

Rabbit, Rabbit All Day Long...

Top 5 Downloads

  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...

  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...

  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...
More MP3s

Latest News

  • New Crystal Castles in 2012

    New Crystal Castles in 2012

    *Crystal Castles (http://www.absolutepunk.net/crystalcastles)* plan to release a new album (http://beatsperminute.com/news/crystal-castles-plan-new-album-for-summer/) thi...

  • Spot-On: PK (streams)

    Spot-On: PK (streams)

    PK are one of those young acts with the gift of sounding timeless and established, like they could've opened for David Bowie in 1981 or Death Cab for Cutie in 1999 o...

  • New band of the day – No 1,173: Mozart Parties

    Boasting a budget version of the wall of sound, James Bennett's music is haunted by the Spector of past pop erasHometown: Kirkby Lonsdale.The lineup: James Bennett (vocal...

  • Mozart Parties to make debut London performance on November 24

    *Mozart Parties* aka singer-songwriter *James Bennett* released his debut single this week on Merok Records (home to early releases from *Klaxons, Crystal Castles, Salem,...

  • THE NME AWARDS TOUR HITS THE ROAD

    THE NME AWARDS TOUR HITS THE ROAD

    The infamous *NME Awards Tour* is back for 2012 and ready to showcase the year's most exciting emerging music talent. Renowned for giving the freshest new acts their fi...

Have You Read?

  • Behind the Scenes with: YER BEAUTIES

    After 3 hours sleep I found myself in Glasgow Airport buying an overpriced tuna cheese melt and iced coffee combo for breakfast, after being given a ticking off for bringing a half-empty deodorant...

  • jonnythefirth - Modern Fever EP

    Modern Fever – the debut EP offering from one-man-band Jonnythefirth is a five track, distorted western-riffed beastie.

  • My Tiger My Timing - I am Sound vid

    New vid from My Tiger My Timing. ‘I Am Sound’ was released earlier this week on Silver Music Machine. The band are also playing a few UK dates in the next couple of weeks

Photos

  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.

  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.

  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...

  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  

  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

Blogs