Monday, May 10, 2010
Die Happy, Die Smiling..
This week's song is a trippy-dippy club crawl by Maps, aka James Chapman of Northhampton, UK, who brews an alluring blend of shoe-gazing, electronica, and indie rock.Maps' work is reminiscent of the great "Madchester" years 1989-1992 when Manchester briefly became the substance-infused intersection of club music and psychedelia and the hippest place on the planet.
Maps has brightened our wan planet over the past nine months with two delicious singles, both of which are in one breath off-putting and catchy, even anthemic. The second of these, 'Die Happy, Die Smiling,' is today's musical nugget...
Here's their previous single, no video but the audio is just o lovely... I hate record labels that disable the YouTube embedding and prevent me from posting videos I am trying to recommend. Which part of 'free publicity' don't they understand, I ask you?
But below this please find some bona fide Madchester classics...
The best Madchester song ever, ever, ever. It's Happy Mondays with the arch wit and faux-sexual-menace of 'Step On..' featuring a lovely gospel-esque disco sample...
A great Madchester moment, that certainly inspired the above 'I Dream of Crystal...' It's The Farm with 'All Together Now... hippy dippy dippy doo...
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