Saturday 26 October 2013

Jagwar Ma - Let Her Go (Jagwar's Yew Mix)


It might only be October but already the part of the Breaking More Waves brain that likes to tie things up, file, compartmentalise and generally organise our musical life is thinking end of year lists. That means our own Ones to Watch for 2014 list (already written and fully formed and now being fleshed out into a series of blog posts starting some time mid-November) and our top 10 favourite albums of 2013 list, which is just beginning to shape.

One album that is certainly a contender for that list is Jagwar Ma’s Howlin’, an irresistibly groovy mix of surf rock, psychedelic tendencies, and electronic house grooves that recalls the spirit of The Happy Mondays and the age of late 80’s and early 90’s indie dance. From it comes this track Let Her Go, one of the more guitar driven summertime beach thumpers, which the band has given a little electronic sprucing for the dance floor with a big old chunky electronic bass sound. One for hands in the air, fist pumping, hip shoving indie disco grooving – the only criticism is that it needs an extended work out rather than its criminally short two minutes and forty five seconds.

Jagwar Ma - Let Her Go (Jagwar's Yew Mix)

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