Tag: Elefant Records

Super World Indie Tune Of The Day – Tennis Club deserve a big break.

Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 15.06.2019: ” Vodkas” by Tennis Club. Anette rushed into the office, brandishing a pink LP in the air. “What the deuce is that?” I exclaimed. She whacked it onto the turntable and replied: “It’s the new disc from Tennis Club, it’s ace”. As the first bars of “Vodkas”…

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Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: We love the Domino effect

Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 05.06.2019: “Domino” by Le SuperHomard featuring Xavier Boyer. SWIT loves LeSuperHomard. We love Tahiti 80 main man Xavier Boyer too. We love them both for similar reasons, their dedication to the creation of classic pop, their mastery of melody and, of course, their ineffable sense of style. Très…

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Super World Indie Tune Of The Day – Le SuperHomard spring into winter

Le SuperHomard – Springtime. Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 19.11.2018 What better way to welcome winter that with a blast of Spring sunshine? Here is “Springtime” by longtime SWIT favourites Le SuperHomard. Is it their best song yet? Quite possibly. Swoon to the melody, the dreamy vocals and the sixties-infused sci-fi-vibes. It was…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #6

Monster Monster – yes ladies and gentlemen, we’ve super-sized our Super Sounds Abounds just in time for July, it’s like a Whizzer And Chips bumper summer special with two flakes! Polartropica – “Golden Soul” It’s been a while since we heard from Polartropica, but now Ihui Cherise Wu, for it is her, is back with…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #5

Good afternoon! I could be watching Morocco v Iran or listening to these ten terrific tunes – well no competition, music wins every time. Today we visit Indonesia, Norway, Italy, Austria, Catalonia, Finland, Spain, France and Sweden! Class – enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend y’all. Peonies – Haliho (Nanaba Records) SWIT favs…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #4

Another sunny day in paradise, another hot batch of tunes to add to our best of 2018, we kick off this week with KEKA – Out Of The Water Here is Fredrik Andersson a.k.a KEKA from Sweden with “Out Of The Water”, which is a dreamy, multi-layered sunshine-tinged melody. Lovely work! It does mention slaughter…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #3

Gerry’s bonged off to Barcelona for the weekend to that Primavera Sound thing and I’ve been left here sniffing my own roses. Frankly, it’s how I like it, nobody saying “put the wine away”, “put the whiskey away”, “put the crack away”, put the….you get the picture. So I can honestly say I’ve been trying…

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SWIT’S Best Of 2017 #7

The Magnificent Seventh installment of our BEST OF 2017 THE PERFECT KISS – Disconnect (Elefant Records) – The perfect tune Dog Whistle – Boro Boro Origin of the species Juniore – Antoine (Le Phonographe) Senior songwriters Gruska Babuska – Refurinn (Phonofile Pop) The night comes falling from the sky SEPALOT – Konzentrat feat. M.Lindermayr (EskapadenMusik)…

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SWIT’S Best Of 2017 Part 5

Part 5 of our 2017 Best Of- More tunes that made us act like loons St. Stephen’s Day celebrates the first Christian martyr and falls on December 26th. However, in Ireland, the celebration of the day seem to have little relation to St. Stephen himself, although there is one tale that recounts the ‘chattering’ wren…

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SWIT’S Best Of 2017 Part 1

We’ve posted nearly a billion tunes this year and they were all great to begin with, so whittling that down to the best odd 100 or so was never going to be an easy task, it is with great pleasure (at re-listening to everything again and again) and pain (at having to exclude some great…

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SWIT’s Saturday Night Ketchup

It’s getting to the end of the year when we start thinking about what made 2017 for us and there have been so many fantastic tunes over the past few weeks that’s we have not managed to cover in detail but need to be on that list of great SWIT tunes – so lest we…

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