Thursday 18 February 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POOP.

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Brother and Sister duo – 20 year old Milky and 18 year old George Downes
have been writing and recording music together since 2008...

“Their sound is a mix of electro-synth and keyboard sounds along with live percussion, wind instruments and Milky's distinctive, harmony vocals.”...They're so homemade it makes me yearn for apple pie: They made the music video for their second single, out in March 2010, Getaway Train, - a story about finding a magic ticket. Milky also made her own animation video for the song and G-man (George) uses a keyboard he bought for £29, which can only play three notes at a time. noice.
The name 'Muchuu' comes from Milky's love of all things Japanese and means to be in an ecstatic delirious trance. Granted, they’re a little bit obsessed with Pokemon and on their website you can play Pacman, Tetris and Asteroids and other classic arcade games, but their twee/cute ness has actually been described as "Enya meets the Ting Tings”, which kind of makes me a little sick.

Here's a beautiful cover mashup of Bat For Lashes’ Daniel + La Valse D'Amelie (from the film Amelie):



They're due to release their album ‘Adventure We Go’ a.s.a.p.

.x.

2 comments:

Joey said...

I love this band so very much. Think they manage to balance being cutesy without being overly-saccharine.

Polly Ester said...

totes ma goats! .x.