Any artist is obviously free to choose whichever website they want to premiere their new album, but I honestly feel perturbed by Sleigh Bells' decision to use The Times. It must be noted that this is not a game The Deli is involved in (we deal with emerging acts, not with established ones), so this feeling is not generated by envy, but I guess by some kind of solidarity towards other music blogs. All blogs survive because of advertising, and advertising is supported by traffic. An album première by Sleigh Bells means a decent amount of traffic for any music blog, but for the NY Times, it means ALMOST NOTHING (because its web traffic is about 200 times the one of - say - Pitchfork). So you may think that since the newspaper's site has so much more traffic, the promotion will be more effective for the band, right? I doubt it. The announcement of the Sleigh Bells release is at the bottom of the NYT homepage where hardly anybody reads anything, and it will probably go away by the end of the day. I wish artists would stick with their favorite music blog for stuff like that. Blogs provide constant exposure for these bands at no cost to them; it would be nice if they could reciprocate when they have the opportunity. Rated: not very cool.
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Which of these acts should be The Deli's next NYC Artist of the Month?
We've always been big fans of Luke Temple, and it's good to see that, together with the Here We Go Magic crew, the man is keeping at it with increasingly beautiful records and videos. The band's new album "A Different Ship" (stream it here) will be out on May 8, and betrays at least a partial return to Luke Temple's more intimate and melodic sound from his solo repertoire - in this regard, lend a ear to "Hard to Be Close," "Alone but Moving" and "Over the Ocean". This is welcome news for fans like us who always thought that in most HWGM material Luke's noteworthy songwriting skills seemed a little sacrificed on the altar of textural experimentation. This doesn't mean that the band's signature hypnotic, impressionistic sound is lost - it's just that these two elements work together better than they did in past records, and this is what makes this album one of the NYC highlights of the year so far. Indeed, this collection also features songs more in line with the band's past releases ("Make Up your Mind", "I Believe in Action"), which follow on the steps of brainy-pop icons like Brian Eno and The Feelies, but there's definitely a balance here, also betrayed by the almost perfect alternation of melodic songs and less traditional ones.The just released video of "How Do I Know," telling the story of a rejected dancing robot that ends up revitalizing an older man's appreciation for life, seems to reflect on this brain/heart, mechanic/organic dichotomies and somehow bring them to unity. - PDG
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