Remarkable, take a listen and tell me that Wild Nothing is the work of one man? The idealisation of one man? Impossible. Phenomenal. A truly beautiful record resonates with a broken heart on spring evenings in London. Grab this and enjoy. Oh, and yes I feel a bit dirty following the work of another breaking blog, but hey. Love you Staceface.
The record is released on June 1st via the unbeatable Captured Tracks
Life is as it is. Hunt it. Touch it. Feel it. Embrace it. Hold on to it. Never let go. 96 hours. I miss love. I do not welcome heartbreak.
I maintain this band is the most exciting musical project in the world right now; and has been since SXSW last year when the band came of age. The remixes continue to flow with some radical productions. The Gold Panda remix is similarly incredible and available on the 12″ via City Slang this week (buy here)
MP3: HEALTH: Die Slow (Clark remix)
MP3: HEALTH: In Heat (Javelin remix)
There is nothing left to say
JOCKS. Somewhat akin to our foster child. We have nurtured his early mixes through this blog and now he has matured into his sound, we champion him. And we will continue to champion him, while we finish off the Easter chocolate.
MP3: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: These New Knights (JOCKS Remix)
Jamaica. Ex of Poney Poney. Produced by half of Justice and some dude who vibes out in the studio with Daft Punk. Rumoured to be remixing the much lauded Hurts (hear their new single at Pinglewood). Album out in August.
Sometimes we get emails addressed to ‘Kurt’. Would you believe?
The WHB record is a thing of beauty. Gohan is slowly but surely becoming one of my absolute favorite remixes. Clocking in at just over 6minutes 40, it shakes and rattles until the vocal kicks in. Tech house with a vocal essentially the technical skills of Gohan feel pretty incredible already and I can’t wait for his solo material to drop eventually. What determines a good remix? Context? Management of vocal and melodic hooks? Technical ability? Tick, all present and correct. The kid is on fire.
This is a very special pie, crammed with good things. The perfect way to make it is with a whole jointed chicken from which you (or your butcher) have stripped and diced all the meat, and made a stock with the lightly roasted skin and bones. But you can cheat with free-range chicken pieces and a free-range chicken stock cube. Serves eight.
150g fresh morels, or 50g dried
80g butter
220g pancetta or bacon, cubed
4 small leeks, washed, halved and finely sliced
2 tbsp groundnut oil
The meat from a 1.5kg free-range chicken, cubed
60g plain flour
1.2 litres chicken stock, hot
150ml white wine
200ml double cream
2 tsp Dijon mustard
12 spring onions, trimmed and cut into 4cm pieces
4 tbsp chives, finely chopped
3 tbsp tarragon, finely chopped
3 tbsp chervil, finely chopped
Flaky sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
375g packet puff pastry
1 egg beaten with a little water, to glaze
If you’re using dried morels, soak them in hot water for 30 minutes and drain (save the liquid).
Warm the butter in a pan over a medium heat. Sauté the pancetta until browned and transfer to a bowl. Reduce the heat and sauté the leeks until softened. Add the fresh morels (if using) and sauté until they take on some colour. Add them to the pancetta bowl. Increase the heat, add the oil and brown the chicken pieces in batches, then transfer to a plate.
Add the flour to the pan and stir for a couple of minutes. Pour in the stock (or a combination of chicken stock and morels’ soaking liquid) and wine. Simmer until thickened. Stir in the cream, mustard, spring onions, chives, tarragon and chervil, then add the pancetta, leeks, morels and chicken. Season, simmer gently for five minutes and leave to cool.
Heat the oven to 180C/350F/ gas mark 4. Taste the filling, adjust the seasoning if necessary, then tip into a large casserole.
Roll out the pastry so it’s a little larger than the top of the pot. Brush the outer edge of the cooking pot with egg wash and press a strip of spare pastry around the outside rim. Pop on the pastry lid and press it against the edge to seal.
Brush the pastry with egg wash, cut three slits in the top and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Cook for 45 minutes, until the top is golden and puffed up.
MP3: Penguin Prison: Something I’m Not (Luxury Living Remix)
MP3: Penguin Prison: Something I’m Not
MP3: Penguin Prison: The Worse It Gets
I can’t wait for the start of summer, I am bored of grimy East London evenings - i lust for the long summer nights on bicycles with preddy girls and summer fruits. Until then something rather lovely from Hyener (pronounced) which feels like the Cure and a little XX in the vocal with a tad post punk. I love it. The band look pretty rad and there are more tracks to download from their audio page here hyener.co.uk
Damn i love Florence Welch.
