Getting That Poppy Buzzed

Last year I got into a record by psych instrumentalist Imaad Wasif (you can read about it here). This has been in the pipeline for a while now, but Narnack Records is ready to release Electric Flower onto the global populace. Formed by Josh Garza (of Secret Machines) and Wasif, Electric Flower is preparing the release of their debut self-titled EP a week from today. They are quick to stress that this is NOT a side project - it is first and foremost their main day band. They met during the filming of an episode of Top of the Pops (this was when Wasif was a touring member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The friendship and now musical partnership has coalesced from there into something that is very exciting indeed. Eastern infused drone psych rock malaise, anyone? Ill gladly overdose on it.

It will be available digitally and on limited foil stamped, red 10-inch vinyl (tasty - and only 500 copies available, get in there!)

Electric Flower - Four16

Ghosts Fit These Sisters

Im mega slow on this one - whilst we showed you the first single 'Highway Scratch' a while back, Sisters' Ghost Fits has been out since September on Narnack. Whoops! So I wont go on and on here. All Ill say is that whilst this is no masterpiece from this fresh duo, it nonetheless is an infectious longplayer full of unhinged guitar pop gems, living in the same neighbourhood as No Age but opting out of prowling the streets for eating copious amounts of sugary sweets and bouncing off the walls, practising their best nonchalant singing in the mirror before scissor-kicking off their fire-truck single beds and powersliding across the bedroom floor, oblivious to the carpet burns such an audacious move has inflicted on their kneecaps.

Sisters - Glue

Sisters - Here It Comes

Spectral Sisters Make A Lot Of Light Noise

Sisters are about to drop their debut LP Ghost Fits (Narnack Records, who have put out stuff for The Fall, Thee Oh Sees and Guitar Wolf, amongst others) late in September. The New York duo look set to continue on the snotty, boisterous ramshackle noise trail with this one, if sixth track 'Highway Scratch' is anything to go by. They certainly have a lot of fun banging pots and pans together, and want us in on the joke. Which is great. I like that bands like Sisters and Japandroids and their ilk can embrace the fun, the hilarity, the exuberance of being young, and somehow instil that into their songs, which then lands into your ear, regardless of ages, and lays eggs of youthful malaise, frivolity and angst into your brain.

Sisters - Highway Scratch