Hot singles here!

Ah, your dirty mind, what do you think this is, huh?

Here are a few singles I've been checking out recently.

It's been out for a while, but dan le sac VS scroobius pip "Thou shall always kill" is a rather surreal electro rant that made me chuckle and could possibly make me dance at the same time, however odd that experience may be.

I would say it definitely harks back to that funk classic,Gil Scott Heron's "The revolution will not be televised" and has some very amusing lyrics. As always though, the original outclasses and still sounds relevant and powerful today, more than 35 years after its release.


Meanwhile, Prodigy, who makes up half of fierce New York rap duo Mobb Deep, has released a new album. Check out his trippy Mac 10 Handle track that references classic Hong Kong movie Hard Boiled (辣手神探) and features everything from booze, drugs, devils, cracked mirrors and George Bush puppets, with superb funk-rock, blues informed production sampling Motown era icon Edwin Starr's "Easin' in".



Canadian singer-songwriter Feist is back with a new "The Reminder" album released worldwide today. Here in My Moon My Man she dances on escalators and blocks people, which is just plain rude in my opinion. Actually, the commuters don't seem to mind, 'cause they all start dancing with her! Sweet!

Finally, a song which I initially thought was just plain bizarre but has seriously grown on me is Battles' "Atlas". It's from Warp Records, home of electronica pioneers Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, and reflects a rock direction they took with the signing of Maxïmo Park and !!! (pronounced "chik chik chik", weird huh?). The helium vocals, cube in space theme and about 60 million effects pedals and keyboards definitely makes for cool viewing.