UK duo Erol Alkan and Richard Norris have put their spin on the Midlake single. Taking it from Fleetwood Mac-ian breeziness to smooth electro warmth and goodness.
It’s an example of how a subtle remix can be just a sweet as an insane one.
Just a damn fine remix, really. And now that it’s pointed out, I can hear the fleetwood mac-esque part, too (the percussion, I think).
Anyway, it’s track 1 - from the Midlake album ‘The Trials of Van Occupanther’. Edit : I just listened to track 1 from that album that whole album and it’s different; no huge build-up and just generally shorter and more compacted, like a radio edit. Damn.
The rest of the album is generally nice also; it sounds a lot like Kings of Convenience, and sometimes a bit like Muse. Both are great.
Quin sent me a link to Gin’s Myspace Page a few days ago and it was sitting in a firefox tab, having been forgotten. Each time I started firefox, though, this track would play and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from..
Here is like, a little bit of stolen copy from the MySpastic page.
Gin Wigmore is a distinctive singer/songwriter, whose sound is driven by a startling voice; her delivery succinctly described by a critic as ‘whiskey and dry’ and whose self-penned songs provide a refreshing new take on life as a ’20-something’ and yet relate across the generations.
Geographically, Gin tracks from Auckland to Buenos Aires to Sydney. Vocally she runs from Macy Gray to Blondie to Edith Piaf. Musically she moves between Feist and Broken Social Scene to Neil Young and Fiona Apple, while lyrically she moves from sorrow to sunshine.
