Lemonade - Pure Moods EP (2010)

Good summery EP. "Lifted" is on the summer mix I made for myself (probably will post on Last.fm or here). Quite the good dance/beat music.

AWmusic:

"Lemonade is a three-piece band who recently moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn. Their most recent effort, the five song EP Pure Moods, sounds like a Caribbean acid trip, warping steel drums, horns, and xylophones into a funky electronic jamfest.

Within the electronic genre, Lemonade finds a unique niche and gets down to work. The sound is hard to pin down, adding tropical instruments over more conventional melodies to create something new and interesting. The songs are all long; none is shorter than four minutes. This length makes melodies and riffs get a bit repetitive, but it’s almost a soothing repetition and one that doesn’t get annoying. A few personal favorites: ‘Lifted’, which features a xylophone, steel drums, a giggle, and an odd “dropping-a-heavy-object-into-water” sound. Like I said, a hard sound to pin down. Another favorite is ‘Sunsplash’, a grooving, laid back jam that uses a Loony Tunes-esque “boing” as percussion.

Pure Moods is something new. It takes “Caribbean Inspired” in a whole different direction. Instead of adopting the melodies, they take the Caribbean instruments and go in their own direction with them. Definitely an EP worth checking out."

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Kele - The Boxer (2010)

Kele, better known as Kele Okereke, the lead singer of the British alternative band Bloc Party, debuted his first ever solo album, The Boxer, on June 22nd for the Glass Note Label. Bloc Party are currently “on hiatus” which has given Kele time to experiment and create a body of his own solo work. Those who are expecting a more “alternative” sounding album in the same vain as a Bloc Party album, such as Silent Alarm, are in for a surprise. The Boxer is best described as a dance/electronic pop album. Kele really distances himself from what most people know him for, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I personally like it when an artist isn’t afraid to dabble and experiment in genres out of his or her “comfort level”. That being said, The Boxer is a decent debut for Kele, but the album is somewhat inconsistent, there are tracks that really just blend into one-another without anything really sticking out such as “New Rules” and “All The Things I Could Never Say”. On the other hand, I really enjoyed “Tenderoni”, the first single off the album, “Rise” which is more downbeat than some of the songs but has pretty powerful lyrics, and "On The Lam” which has a beat that is almost trance inducing. Although The Boxer can be inconsistent at times, I would suggest giving it a listen, if not for only a few good tracks. This is a solid step in the right direction in a promising solo career, especially with Bloc Party being on hiatus.

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