Danimals

On first listen I was like: "yeah its ok". Then it popped up randomly in my itunes ten minutes later and I thought: "woah, what is this? It's amaaaazing". And now after 37 or so listens I am totally hooked on the Danimals sound, after not giving them much thought for the past year or so. Danimals was once the side project of Sherlocks Daughter member Jonti Danielwitz and is now a quartet and probably the next big thing to come out of Sydney.

In keeping with their heavily music based marketing (think UncharTED and 6 beers of separation), Tooheys Extra Dry picked one Australian band to fly to New York and work with John Taylor (Duran Duran), Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs), Sean Lennon (son of John) and Santigold. Oh yeah, and the track was to be produced by this dude called Mark Ronson, who was responsible for selecting Danimals because he reckons they are "one of the most interesting things" he's heard in a while with awesome beats and "harmonies like the Beach Boys". He's not wrong. It's dreamy. It's complex. It's poppy. It's happy. It's brilliant.

Danimals-Fox (mp3)

My Drive Thru

First heard this track on the radio when it was very new and was immediatly intrigued because the announcer mentioned it was to be used in an add campaign for a shoe brand. But because it was a government run station, they couldnt' say which shoes! Such a concept made me think of Nike straight away, and I pictured these guys in some hectic hi-tops. I actually got a bit of a shock when I learned it was actually Converse, as I don't really associate the brand with large scale advertising. Regardless of this Santogold, Julian Casablancas (lead singer of The Strokes) and Pharrell Williams are so incredibly talented and cool as individuals, that once put together they would have had a very hard time making a bad song. To be honest, the track took a few listens to fall in love with it...but now that love is very very firm. Now we just have to patiently wait for Converse to drop the music video which is anticipated to be freaking awesome.

Pharrell, Santogold, Casablancas-My Drive Thru