When Saints Go Machine - Kelly
I don’t wanna be the boy who cried awesome (I do hate most things) but these Danes were absolutely incredible last night. One of the few truly exceptional new bands of 2011. Their album Konkylie is likely to be in Drowned in Sound’s top ten of the year (Spotify it). Musically, it’s a bit like The Knife, TV On The Radio, Hercules and Love Affair and that sort of fare but it’s all about his netherwordly voice: Antony’s oil painting wibbling but with Tracy Chapman’s haunting husk. Maybe it’s the way his voice hangs atop pixelated grooves but something about it is Boy George’ish in the best possible way.
