As many of you are well aware, The Sounds have returned with a third album (get it here). I have two favourite tracks from it, one is No One Sleeps When I’m Awake, the other is Beatbox. Both are high powered fighting-marching songs, that’s what I like about them. Especially the latter, it got me associating to Wagner combined with Rocky movie soundtrack. That’s the new wave rock part of the summer atmosphere. Chicago’s Hey Champ guys made a remix for this one. Now the remix is summer smoothness. I’m very surprised about the direction they made this song go. I mean, it’s such a perfect fit with a totally different soundscape. It’s relaxing, a bit funky, some Prince, even MJ (who’s alive btw), bit of soul and rnb… How is that possible? Hey Champ guys know the answer but if I were them, I’d keep the secret to myself. Going to follow them from now on, they are up in our alley with their synthy electro and indie. I kinda like these summer tracks. Summer in itself is sweat, the gas-smelled heat of the city, headaches, ugly people barely dressed and other wonders. These tracks make it look cool. I mean they are constructing the summer everyone wishes for and they conjure up tween memories which are romanticized and unreal to begin with. This is the fantasy summer and it only exists in the songs, books, etc.

The Sounds - Beatbox [mediafire] // [ysi]

The Sounds - Beatbox (Hey Champ remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

The new Cansei de Ser Sexy, CSS for you coder types, has been whipping around and it’s allright, especially considering how poppy friendly and ubiquitous the previous album was. The tracks might not make many club waves to begin with but as background to the ‘easy listening soundtrack to your lives mid-2008′ it should fit just nicely. I’m curious to see if any emerging Brazilian talents like The Twelves or Database will have a patriotic go at re-edits.

Probably what strikes me the most about the new tracks is how similar some sound (especially Left Behind, in melody, and vocal) to that the Sounds album from two years ago. Threw one of them down below for comparison.

And it should be noted our all time fave CSS track (remixes and otherwise) remains the stellar Kill the Noise edit we blawgged about a while back HERE.

Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS - Believe Achieve [zshare] // Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS - Believe Achieve [ysi]

Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS - Left Behind [zshare]  //Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS - Left Behind [ysi]

The Sounds - Queen of Apology [zshare]  // The Sounds - Queen of Apology [ysi]