AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); The Nerve Mixtape With The Kooks The Brit-poppers share their secret seduction playlist with us. by Hugh Harris In support of their third album, Junk of the Heart, The Kooks are coming to America for a run of sold-out shows with Foster the People. We asked guitarist Hugh Harris to make us a romantic seduction mixtape; the glorious results are below. Check out this Spotify playlist of their picks. 1. Mason Jennings, "Big Sur" This is the best possible start to any compilation — "Just let the disc play." I had this opening a tape for my girlfriend. We've been together six years, so something must have worked. AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1", {soundFile: "/files/media/features/MixTape_Kooks/1.mp3"}); 2. The Mummers, "March of the Dawn" This reminds [...]...
- 5/3/2012
- by Hugh Harris
- Nerve
The Kooks' new album is influenced by Beck and film director David Lynch. The British indie rockers have been watching and listening to the works of the alternative U.S. musician and avant-garde filmmaker in a bid to move away from the shiny guitar pop they are famous for, and have employed more "eerie" synthesizers for their third album.
Singer Luke Pritchard told radio station Xfm, "Personally I've always had a real thing of keeping it really organic but this album we're quite Beck influenced in a way, using loops - live drum takes but looping it - and I've got quite obsessed with this David Lynch-y eerie synthesizer thing."
Luke, who is joined in the band by Hugh Harris, Peter Denton and Chris Prendergast, also said it has taken the "Always Where I Need to Be" rockers a while to settle on the sound of the record, which is due next summer,...
Singer Luke Pritchard told radio station Xfm, "Personally I've always had a real thing of keeping it really organic but this album we're quite Beck influenced in a way, using loops - live drum takes but looping it - and I've got quite obsessed with this David Lynch-y eerie synthesizer thing."
Luke, who is joined in the band by Hugh Harris, Peter Denton and Chris Prendergast, also said it has taken the "Always Where I Need to Be" rockers a while to settle on the sound of the record, which is due next summer,...
- 12/8/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
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