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LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION FULL
That particular one is called 'Was Leo Tolstoy An Idiot?', although there are others available, such as 'Dear Bergstein' and 'Science Camp'.Īnyway - as is becoming increasingly common, Dev and Domino have decided to stream the full album for a few days before its release, on SoundCloud.
It's the follow-up to 2008's Falling Off The Lavender Bridge, which was his first solo full-length release post-Icicles, and it also comes with a collection of short stories, one of which has been published online by our friends at The Quietus. He returns with a new record, Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You on February 15, through Domino. The songs are, by turns, witty, eccentric and often oddly moving: the lovelorn “Midnight Surprise” is his epic, 10-minute voyage into hook-laden power-pop “No Surprise” is a Fleetwood Mac-inspired tribute to his mother Wendela “I Could Have Done This Myself” a bittersweet memoir of losing his virginity while Roddy Frame would kill to be able to once again write songs like the jaunty, tragi-comic shuffle “Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk”.The time has probably already passed where Dev ' Lightspeed Champion' Hynes is now more 'famous' for his work under that name that anything he did with the slightly more aggressive Test Icicles. Devont Hynes also known as Blood Orange and formerly Lightspeed Champion, is an American-born English singer, songwriter, record producer and director. Recorded in Omaha by Saddle Creek’s resident producer Mike Mogis, it’s about as far as you can get from the boisterous electroclash of Test Icicles, recalling an improbable hybrid of Wilco, Aztec Camera and Todd Rundgren. You can immediately tell when an artist is going through a Queen phase. It’s fitting that this debut contains at least half a dozen exquisite songs that could work in any idiom, although Hynes’s default setting – Americana-tinged acoustic rock, peppered with major-sevenths and flecked with the subtle use of pedal steel, strings and woodwind – suits his material perfectly. Some for himself: Testicicles, Lightspeed Champion and some for others: Basement Jaxx, Florence & The Machine, Theophilus London, Solange Knowles, Cassie.
His personal taste has always been a much broader church – Broadway musicals, 80s hair metal, thrash punk, country, hip hop – and he claims to “obsess over songwriting to the point where I hear the song rather than the genre”. Conceptual conceits aside, Lightspeed Champion's 2010 sophomore effort Life Is Sweet Nice to Meet You finds Hynes and producer Ben Allen ( Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, Christina Aguilera ) delivering a robust, melodically rich, and lyrically complex album that goes well beyond the bedroom Baroque pop of his 2007 debut Falling Off the. Galaxy of the Lost, the debut EP from ex-Test Icicle Dev Hynes, is a far leap from the musicians previous effort. He remains best known, however, as guitarist in the agreeably silly electro punk trio Test Icicles, who amicably split up last year because, as Hynes puts it, “we never really liked our music”. The Houston-born, Essex-raised, Dalston-based maverick has called himself “Dev Metal”, “IVed” and “Nigga Bullshit” formed a glam metal project called the NLS Crew, collaborated with Michigan’s Whirlwind Heat, and joined an indie, ahem, supergroup called Naked Babes. Hynes released two indie rock-inspired albums under the stage name in the late 2000s. Discover all Lightspeed Champions music connections, watch videos, listen to music. This list is also comprehensive of productions credited to his given name, Devont Hynes. The discography of British singer, composer, songwriter, producer and author Dev Hynes consists of work with groups like Test Icicles and solo work produced under the aliases Lightspeed Champion and Blood Orange. Devonte Hynes‘ CV reads a bit like a Mighty Boosh parody of east London’s incestuous indie world. Lightspeed Champion is the former stage name of musician Dev Hynes. Lightspeed Champion - Samples, Covers and Remixes on WhoSampled. Hynes performing as Blood Orange in 2011.
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