Here are the 20 most popular blog singles on New Music United in December 2012:
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We No Who U R (2012)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will release new album Push the Sky Away on February 15 next year, but fans can get a taste of the band’s 15th album when opening track We No Who U R becomes available via download on December 3. Coming four years after he recorded Dig Lazarus Dig!!! and eight years since the Bad Seed’s 2 CD release Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, Push the Sky Away “just seems new, you know, but new in an old-school kind of way,” according to Cave. The Bad Seeds line-up has changed dramatically since forming in 1983, but Cave has again recorded with Warren Ellis (Dirty Three), Jim Sclavunos, Martyn Casey and Thomas Wydler with Conway Savage also providing vocals on the new album. “I enter the studio with a handful of ideas … it’s the Bad Seeds that transform them into things of wonder,” Cave says. “Ask anyone who has seen them at work. They are unlike any other band on earth for pure, instinctive inventiveness.” Produced by Nick Launay (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Grinderman, The Living End), the album was recorded at La Fabrique – a studio based in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France. Songs on this album, including Wide Lovely Eyes, Water’s Edge, Jubilee Street and the closing title track, were written and recorded over the course of almost a year. [Source]
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The Bootleggers feat. Ralph Stanley – White Light White Heat (The Velvet Underground Cover Version) (2012)
In the end, they employed the services of renowned musical curator and producer Hal Willner, who had the good sense to let Stanley sing the songs in his own way. The result, particularly on White Light, White Heat, is pure gold. “Hal got in touch with Lou Reed [who wrote the song], who was working in a studio down the road in LA. We played it to him and he was just blown away. It was an amazing moment.” [Source]
The Bootleggers feat. Mark Lanegan – Fire And Brimstone (Link Wray Cover Version) (2012)
3Things became even more surreal when they hooked up with [veteran Ralph] Stanley and his guitarist on Skype. “Ralph is a serious guy and his guitarist is even more so. We asked him to cover Link Wray’s Fire and Brimstone and he did it in 3/4 time, with a swing, because that’s what he knows. So, there’s Warren and me trying to explain that we want it in 4/4 time – rock’n'roll. Ralph is saying nothing and the guitarist is just looking at us as like he wants to string us up. It was like: ‘Who the hell are these freaks telling Ralph Stanley how to sing?’” [Source]
Dirty Three – Rising Below (2012)
Legendary instrumental trio Dirty Three boldly break cover in February 2012 with a remarkable new album, “Toward The Low Sun”, on Bella Union records. Toward The Low Sun is the product of the most ceaselessly creative period in the band’s career, in which Jim White, Mick Turner and Warren Ellis have relentlessly made music in different permutations and locations around the globe. No other Australian band has ever impacted on international music in such a subversive fashion. This is a band that exists within itself and outside of itself, generating a massive (and massively influential) body of work.
