The summer months came and went rather too rapidly without a care for anybodies feelings, bar those of autumn and winter. Therefore Twin Cabins should be beckoned in, quickly, to your rapidly cooling ears and minds. Because just like a can of sun and glow, they try and reach into the dark days ahead, slowly winning you over to the advantages of those falling leaves and fireworks, with just the right mixture of slow melodic bass to remind you of the lazy beach days or festival days or driving days and all that nostalgia, added together with the hazy vocals gently nudging you towards fires or forests or conkers.
They are quite a potent mixture, being easy on the ears, the flicking jangly guitar featuring so heavily in Summer Camp records finds its way nicely into the reverb of the leads mutterings and musings, hooking you with nice pop catches but still managing to keep a mysterious outer shell. Both tracks below following similar pathways to the same goal. Greatness.
Since joining the world of online music there has been one or two taboos that the me and the mouse have steered wide of. Hardcore window-licking-good dubstep and mash-ups, with the latter being the most relevant today. What Captain Cuts do so well, that sets them apart from other artists who take two or three songs and slam them together in unholy matrimony, is the cleverness and the wit behind their creations. Not since the days of Xaphoon Jones and THE number one mash-up of all time (Kanye West X Radiohead) has such imaginative juice flowed, the tracks are not just chosen due to relevance but because they actually work brilliantly together complimenting each other to the extent of turkey and cranberry sauce. The one that really got them dancing shoes pounding was 'Houdini Look Sharp' (Dizzee Rascal X Foster The People). Pause. Yeh, on paper it is odd/confusing/worrying that two tracks of such high caliber in their original form could ever contemplate working together with such gorgeous results. But there isn't any music physics that decides what should and what shouldn't work together so we find ourselves in the rather brilliant situation of being graced with brilliance.
'Houdini Look Sharp' is the simplest of the mash-ups, the songs being combined with out much fabric change from Captain Cuts but if you want yet more convincing that these guys are the real deal the life-affirming banger 'Girls On Girls' again shows the smooth moves that these guys have in their craft. Just a matter of getting that Beyonce song, 'Girls', and then introducing it Beastie Boys 'Girls'. Cue yet more funky beats and the clever contrast in lyrics and yet another completely amazing, completely authentic collision of music is formed.
Surely we can't expect any more? Until these 3 boys decide that they want to be great at remixing as well. Summon forward the best remix of the year thus far of one of the best tracks of the year thus far. We are talking the shuffle and shake of 'Manners' by Icona Pop, the boys deciding that this should be the music to fill stadiums with, with a dashing of wobble ( proving that it can be used, o so well) and a big bass line there was everything to love and nothing to hate.
Keep your ears free for their debut mixtape 'This is Your Captain Speaking' coming not soon enough. 'Houdini Look Sharp' around 14-15 minutes on Popshop 009
