Listen Before You Buy

Listen to and download the new track from Contrakids, “Happy Ever”, below.

Listen to and download the new track from Contrakids, “Younger”.

Listen to and download the new track from Contrakids, “All The Way Back”, which samples Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around… / …Comes Around”.

Contrakids’ latest number, “Fool”, puts the emphasis on emotional impact, slowing the pace down and bringing in a slight R&B aesthetic that complements it nicely.

More from Sydney’s Contrakids! I really feel La Roux‘s Elly Jackson sounds at her best as a sample. Usually, as a sample on a dubstep track – I’m thinking Skream‘s remix of “In For The Kill”, obviously, and Nero‘s more aggressive treatment of “I’m Not Your Toy”. Given the precedent, it’s not surprising that there’s [...]

Can I get a “huzzah”? Of course I can! Hot on the heels of last month’s “I Needed You“, Antipodean electro-poppers Contrakids have just delivered their first full EP, “Into You”. If you weren’t happy before, then you really ought to be now. It features some polished versions of their previous demo releases, “Come Over”, “Into [...]

We first featured Contrakids back in April, and in the couple of months since I’ve been watching closely for any new material. I needn’t have bothered, as they took the trouble to sling us a copy of new track “I Needed You” directly. I’m delighted to say it’s cut from the same lustrous cloth as the [...]

Auto-Tune. If you’ve always wondered what the phrase “a double-edged sword” was all about, Auto-Tune is a pretty good place to start trying to figure it out. Sure, it can make a half-trained amateur sound like Sarah Cracknell. But it can also make will.i.am sound like will.i.am. Hardly a good thing. Quite honestly, I never [...]