Track Of The Day – Foxes – “White Coats”
Last week our “Track Of The Day” feature shone the spotlight on a fair bit of electro pop, these weeks theme seems to be being drawn to a species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the
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Track Of The Day – Jethro Fox – “Echo”
We are currently running the vast VPME Empire from our sick bed, sympathy is of course obligatory, you can therefore anticipate less words this week ( which may come as a relief to many ;
Track Of The Day – Sarabeth Tucek – “Time To Go”
Here’s a free download from Sarabeth Tucek, which is an out-take from her second album “Get Well Soon” ( and also the VPME’s album of the 2011). As you’d expect it’s sparse, haunting beautiful and
Track Of The Day – Shy Around Strangers – “Never Look Down”
Shy Around Strangers are a new (ish) band from NYC who combine thundering bass, chiming guitars, swirling keyboards and the smoky whiskey cracked vocals of Emily Powers to great effect. Vocally Powers is somewhere between
Track Of The Day – Musique Le Pop – “Time Changes”
This is a bit of a gem, a spellbinding, shimmering, swirling electro-pop nugget from new Scandinavian trio Musique Le Pop. “Time Changes” sashays onto the dance-floor, spins you around by your lapels, plants a lipstick
Track Of The Day – Alice Jemima – Taking It Out
Alice Jemima is an 18 year old singer songwriter from Newton Abbot, Devon whose songs convey an easy charm and demonstrate a well schooled ear for melodious, delicate, understated pop. There’s a youthful, innocent joy
Track Of The Day – Dead Mellotron – “Stranger”
Dead Mellotron’s “Stranger” ticks all our musical boxes and despite lasting less than three minutes achieves a measure of soaring epicness that some bands never even get close to over the course of an entire
Track Of The Day – Poliça – Lay Your Cards Out
Poliça are a formed around the artistic nucleus of Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson, two members of a Minneapolis collective known as Gayngs. Much play has been made with regard to the synthetic manipulation of Ms Casselle’s voice, but
Track Of The Day – Hillary And The Democrats – “Let’s Play Kubb”
The ladies have dominated the VPME’s “Track Of The Day” feature this week” so its time to redress the balance [slightly] with a track from Hillary and the Democrats. Despite the name they are neither
Track Of The Day – I Am Harlequin – “Wild One”
I Am Harlequin is the creation of multi-instrumentalist Anne Frier, who we are told spent her early childhood in East Germany. Now in our experience many avant garde artists from Germany are often, well, how
Track Of The Day – 2:54 – “You’re Early”
This is just so f***ing great!! If Warpaint and Curve collided in some sort of musical wormhole, 2:54 may well have been the result. Formed by sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow 2:54, make the sort
Track Of The Day – Laura Welsh – “Ghosts”
Today we have a free download from a young, unsigned singer songwriter from Staffordshire. Apparently she’s previously performed as Laura and the Tears and “Hey Laura” but now she’s settled on the more formal Laura