Midnight World Pop Scout-9: Airlines, Honey Pies, Alpine, Deadly Winters

Our weekly exploration of pop music of various genres from around the world.

I think we're all ready for some "Island Disco", aren't we? Well, Airlines is banking on it (please ignore the bad pun). And where would you expect to find the perfect merger of chill island tranquility and disco? Why, Los Angeles of course, where crafting fantasies is both art and industry.

Below is the entirety of the EP Visions that was released earlier this year.



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And since we're in a fun mode, and an island mode, and headed west anyway, why not check in with Australia. Tonight, the island continent presents The Honey Pies. The Honey Pies are four guys who describe their style as pre-post-rock, or, as they explain "Combining the unassuming guitar pop of the 50’s and 60’s with some of the fuzzier, kookier rock of the 90’s and pre-apocalypse". Here is their video for the song "Don't Mention the War" (which I expect is a Monty Python reference, and that earns points in this blogger's world):



Of course, being a diligent reader, you probably can't avoid noticing the frequent use of Gary Busey's visage in the video. I know how exciting that is for all of us, but the band provided the following notice: "PS. Obviously we want to avoid any unnecessary confrontation that might arise as a result of this video, so please, if you are friends or friends of friends with Gary Busey, please don't let him know about this video. We are fucking terrified of him."

If you want to check them out further, you can stream their album Think of England here:



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Staying with our island these, we now present Alpines -- a London-based group. They use the term night pop, but I've also seen their style described as electronic dubstep.

"Drive"


"Ice and Arrows"



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Let's end with some acoustic music from further north on the same island: Edinburgh's The Deadly Winters. The four members are Masters Gregory Jones, Graeme Chyla, Michael Edie and Christopher Blair. The band writes that they formerly were a rock act but are transitioning to "story based music". The song is "Tura Mae" and it is available free at the Bandcamp link below:


"The Liar and the Thief"
The Deadly Winters - The Liar and the Thief (demo) by The Deadly Winters

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