'Still Life' is the first track to be released from The Horrors' third album, Skying. It feels hard to believe that the group of black-clad hairspray scensters who burst forth in 2005 are the same as the people who released 2009's Primary Colours and current album Skying, so deep is their musical transformation. Before they released the jaw droopingly grand 'Sea Within A Sea' in 2009, clocking in at ten minutes long it was a breathtaking homage to the krautrock movement, it was expansive in its repetitions, beating and looping itself into glory.

New track 'Skying' is harder to place, yet feels just as momentous as 'Sea Within A Sea' was, and subtly builds upon the band's redefined pallette from Primary Colours, less juddering, less intense musically, yet still emotionally versatile. It builds slowly towards its chorus, Faris intoning 'when you wake up / you will find me' yet really climaxes with the emotive stabs of horn at its close.

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Omi Palone is Polari slang for a homosexual man apparently, which is frankly a brilliant name for a band. Omi Palone, too, are one of my favourite new British Indie bands at the moment, especially as they are working in a genre that's not really been throwing up much great stuff for the past few years. As the more interesting underground fringes seem to have moved towards dubstep's numerous offshoots, the mainstream of indie has been churning out some uninspiring dross designed to move stadiums and make money rather than move and inspire minds, and then also the underground too, has shifted into California aping lo-fidelity Dalston clique.

So as the first chords of 'Fire Escape' kick into life its like a giant sigh of gratitude that emanates from these exhausted ears. Omi Palone, make great use of their simplicity, its an uncomplicated stripping back of years of sound and acquired cliche, leaving the bare minimum of guitar, bass, drums, and a rich baritone vocal, that wraps around cymbal crashes and is stalked by the lead guitar's treble.

These three tracks are taken from their first recording, a demo entitled 'At Soup'.

At Soup by Omi Palone

Omi Palone are supporting The Wave Pictures on the 14th of July in a fundraiser for the Duke of Uke. Full information is available here

After love, songs about summer are probably the most universal. That feeling of unescapable beating sunshine, the lines of heat haze off car bonnets, the possibility that summer seems to entail. California's Crytsal Antlers approach that on new track 'Summer Solstice', recorded in the seclusion in the farming town La Punta Banda, Mexico, the track, with its gently insistent opening piano motif that is submerged by guitar like beach as the tide rolls in. A beautiful, peaceful and secluded song.