Echo Lake - Young Silence video. First Microsoft Kinect made music video ever!

Echo Lake - Young Silence from Dan Nixon on Vimeo.

Novella.

I don't know much about Novella but they seem pretty good for a band that's only just recorded the demo's that are up on their Myspace. Master of ranting revelry Princey Illustrated turned me on to them via good old Twitter.

This band are a four piece from London all lo-fi spaceyness and female vocals over chillwave dreams. Chugging guitar, tons of reverb and shoe gaze sensibilities From what can be pieced together from the two songs available its good stuff!

They have a few London gigs coming up and one playing at the Offset Festival in September!

Worth checking out as they could blow up big anytime!

Summer Camp.

Summer Camp - Ghost Train (viral) from Paddy Power on Vimeo.

Summer Camp might possibly have the most hip Chillwave name ever but they also have a great sound. They are also from the UK not the USA which is a change. It seems to be a side project of quirky folk rocker Jeremy Warmsley (who also shares a name with my old landlord which always confused me!) and one Elizabeth Sankey.

Its a bit Beach House and also bit twee but also a bit jerky and folky and definitely its own sound. Nice stuff. They are doing a loads of festival dates this summer so try and check them out!

Lemonade Dance Part and Echo Lake!

So.. news about my last post, Blissed Out is actually a collaboration between Bye Bye Blackbird and Atlantic At Pacific which has now changed into another project called Lemonade Dance Party! This too will soon be renamed as, according to Atlantic At Pacific, it was a drunken mistake!

It might seem a bit weird blogging about a project that will soon change into something else but when the music is this nice it just seems right.

I think what I'm trying to say is keep an eye out (and an ear) for what these bands do next, because it can't help but be going somewhere great!

Closer to home than LA this time and you should also definitely listen to Echo Lake, a four piece based in East London that deliver an epic wash of lo-fi, brimming over with reverb and shoe gaze based ambiance.

Coming from the same place as Real Estate, Beach House and Porcelain Raft more than the synth based world of say Neon Indian, their song "Everything is Real" will take you away on a balloon ride over hipstermatic landscapes of colliding continents and distant sun splashed rivers. Great stuff.