Fields + Palisades

The Foundry Field Recordings - Holding The Pilots/Holding The Facts [mp3]

When the disco beat kicks in, do your best to keep your eyes from rolling. The Foundry aren't taking their cues from Clap Your Hands' measured irreverence here, though you'd be forgiven for making that presumption. It's more difficult to recall, but remember Modest Mouse's "A Different City"? That's what I hear: something altogether more caustic and nervy, a big sound from something tiny. The correspondence between thrumming heart and racing mind, the verses being the latter and the visceral, winning chorus being the former. It's a feat to capture such instinctiveness and translate to a language of cymbals and strings, and The Foundry succeed brilliantly.

Visit The Foundry Field Recordings online, and purchase Prompts/Miscues here (out June 13).

Palisades - This Is How I Lay [mp3]

Laura Veirs dropped this in a recent Dreams of Horses interview, and coincidentally it also sounds like Modest Mouse. Uncannily so - check the springy, ringing notes and a pre-chorus wonderfully (if not shamelessly) evocative of A Long Drive. I must admit, my annual period of M.M. rediscovery and rekindled obsession coincides with my recent discovery of Palisades, but a job this well done shouldn't go unnoticed.

Visit Palisades online, and buy the self-titled EP here.