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Five Songs To Hear This Week – Cold War Kids, Pale Honey, Raketkanon, Serpent Power, Lola Colt

Five Songs To Hear This Week – Cold War Kids, Pale Honey, Raketkanon, Serpent Power, Lola Colt
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Sorting through the week’s new singles and songs that have surfaced online over the last seven days, Jamie Skey (@jamie_skey) presents five songs you need to hear this week…

Taken from their long-awaited fifth studio LP, Hold My Home, Cold War Kids‘ new single Hot Coals starts off all insistently keening octave chords, like a medicated adaptation of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Pin, before stomping its way through stadium barriers everywhere with soaring orchestrations and heart-pounding melodies.

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Despite the wild-eyed tension in the riffs of Youth, Swedish art-rock duo Pale Honey remain coolly poised throughout the three-minutes of their latest single, in which fans of PJ Harvey and Sleater-Kinney will find a lot to love.

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Due to their famously bludgeoning live shows, Belgian sound bulldozers Raketkanon got snapped up by Blood Red Shoes’ seven-inch label while earning the respect of DIY production renegade Steve Albini, who steered this queasy, riff-rock behemoth. Florid is completely unrepentant in it apparent aim of attempting to melt the face of anyone who dares listen.

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Listening to the darkly psychedelic Lucifer’s Dreambox, the new single from Serpent Power, a freakishly fertile collaboration between The Coral’s Ian Skelly and The Zutons’ Paul Molloy, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d been swept up in the warped pages of some comic-horror graphic novel, whose frames are populated by phantom bogeymen, sirens and voodoo witch doctors.

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The gunslinging psychedelic rock of London’s Lola Colt seems to be imprinted with all the savage raunch of a Robert Rodriguez film. In turns lurid and cinematic, the band’s latest cut, Heartbreaker, is a swaggering concoction of spaghetti western riffs and dark menace that places them at the vanguard of noir-streaked British rock n roll.

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