SEVEN NOISES

Fader Magazine in collaboration with Southern Comfort have been given out a series of installments of singles, digitally for everybody and on vinyl for some lucky ones. Some previous singles include Wavves, Telepathe or Wild Yaks and in this occasion they approached Salem, the band of eternal 7 singles releases, and Tanlines, known for the New Flowers EP and several remixes they made this year. There's nothing better than receiving a present like this from a total stranger. In fact, my father used to work for Southern Comfort and I already have a set of towels, bottle openers, cocktail trays, and random merchandising so the single, still waiting to know if I'm one of the chosen ones, would match perfectly with all these things.
Salem, who recently uploaded a free mix that is scary as hell (still available for download at the Wemakeitgood website), hand out a track, Babydaddy, that is kind of sweeter in the key of their Japanese single Ohk, thanks in part to the vocals of Heather that is less terrifying than John's highly processed chants.
Tanlines, who are currently working in new material to be out soon, give us their first song with lyrics (they used vocals before, but only kind of humming). Saw, which is close to the calipso-reggeton of Bejan, the track they put out on the Kitsune Maison 7 compilation, opens new doors to their sound thanks to the use of vocals and the final result is closer to the idea of a band playing rather than two guys pressing keys in a computer.
Taking into consideration that the limited free single has a release of 500 copies and they just have down to 300 people requesting the item online I feel pretty confident to get one, although I've never been so lucky with chance.

Salem's been the band everybody's talking about for a while and they have many qualities for this to happen: A unique and original sound you recognise in seconds, only three really limited and mostly sold out 7" singles just released, a dark past and bad reputation and they hardly play live. If you put all these ingredients together you already have a myth and if you are actually any good the myth is worth. So then it's the moment to publish a very limited really hard to get only Japanese single and this is the one I'm covering here. Only 300 copies you could only get in a Japanese website impossible to understand or Rough Trade and Pure Groove in London and as far as I know I got the last copy in Pure Groove and it's been sold out in Rough Trade for weeks. So I'm sorry if you didn't get a copy but they promised in their Myspace they will put some up to sell themselves at some point. And these two songs in this singles are worth the £10 I spent on them. While the B Side, Sweat (I), is classic Salem, the A Side, OhK, is the most upbeat radio friendly happy song they've ever published (which in fact doesn't make it any of these things in comparison with something that doesn't make you wanna kill yourself) and opens new horizons of possibilities for future releases.