Skiddle Stereo Selections - Friday 25th September

Image: Sun Club

Tensions have heightened in the office after a reshuffling of desks this week. If any of our fellow colleagues from external departments are reading this, you may have taken our glossy new monitors fellow but you'll never overthrow our Spotify dictatorship. 

Giving you a slice of what's been blaring from our new found settlement, we've plucked out five of our favourites to bolster your weekend listening. 

Blaenavon 'Hell Is My Head' 

A google search reveals Blaenavon is actually the name of a Welsh Town in the valleys; it also happens to be the name of a band slipping us with belting indie numbers far-flung from the occasional 'baaaah' of our woolly compatriots. 

'Hell Is My Head' drafted from the trio's upcoming Miss World EP via Trangressive paints a sprawling canvas of the bands capabilities. Catapulted by hurtling guitar riffs, meandering rhythms and blaring power chords, lead Ben Gregory's vocal resonates supremely as the track unfolds like an iridescent supernova. 

Ben Smith

Sun Club 'Summer Feet' 

It's the second in line from Sun Club's wackily titled debut album The Dongo Durango and our office dig it. Whatever Dongo Durango means, it's as stupidly catchy as each sea sprayed guitar hook that drifts handily around this Baltimore beach ball. 

Rick James 'Give it to me Baby'

Is this the most ridiculous music related story of all time, word of someone dressed as Rick James committing a robbery? The great man himself said "cocaine was a hell of a drug", something Pusha T has referenced multiple times in his career, so maybe it's not that much of a surprise someone has done this.

Either way, silliness aside, we had a full on office party to the funk overlord when the news broke. This stone cold anthem got the biggest whoops of the lot. They just don't make 'em like this any more.

Jimmy Coultas

Benjamin Damage 'Pulse Width' 

All good things must come to an end. That cliché is often true when it comes to some of our favourite record labels - 50WEAPONS being one of them. They announced earlier this year that Benjamin Damage would be delivering the final album instalment in the form of Obsidian. 

Filled with melancholic and ambient tracks including 'Pulse Width', the album is a fitting finale for the end of Modeselektor's imprint. Read our full review of the album here. 

Becca Frankland

DJ Zinc feat Ms Dynamite 'Wile Out'

A favourite in sets of the UKG elite, 'Wile Out' is one of the best examples of how Zinc shifted the bass from DnB to the garage side of house music. Originally 'Blunt Edge', the track was given a welcome vocal twist from Ms Dynamite-ee-ee.

We caught up with the man himself ahead of Pier Jam this weekend, where Ms D is also making an appearance but unfortunately according to him it won't be together (sob). Maybe next time. 

BF

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