~pretty music~

So, this [and by this I mean that vision of beauty you should see above this] is a acoustic recording of a band named Bastille, and it's good. Really good. I don't really know who to compare them to but they're fronted by a guy called Dan who's also a producer, after a few messages back and forth about his music as well as listening to their tracks on soundcloud on repeat for a few hours, I'd come to the conclusion that they are truly wonderful. They've also gained a bigger following due to their appearance on the Made In Chelsea playlist with the songs Flaws and an instrumental Sleep Song [which I got very excited about. The prospect of a song I hadn't heard, which later just turned out to be a dome and wasn't released with the Laura Palmer EP] played later in Season 2. Anyway, as far as I can tell, Made In Chelsea has been their most promienent exposure to a wider audience but seriously, if you've missed out on them, listen to all three origional songs on their soundcloud.

• Flaws; This song is very electric-y but as soon as the vocal starts it just gets rlly emotive and dreamy and with the harmony in the bridge it's just a really floaty song that [I think anyway] seems really relatable. A good song to mope/cry/walk/do anything to. 
• Laura Palmer; This song was originally influenced by the death of the young girl Laura Palmer [good Twin Peaks themed songs, well done etc] and it's really powerful, a strong heart-beat-like drum beat is repeated throughout and gives it a really passionate feel along with the beautiful vocal. The lyrics are lovely too, just listen too it, I can't imagine you won't love it.
• Icarus; This songs was originally released as the b-side to the Flaws single and this is the song performed in the video above, again a repeated beat throughout, this time split, but again another passionate song with lovely emotive lyrics and again a beautiful bridge. 
• I think in all these songs there's just such a nice marriage of beautiful lyrics with Dan's voice which is then juxtaposed with the rough rhythms throughout the songs and I feel they just all go together beautifully. 

So yeah, in conclusion, listening to them will make your life better; start by listening to the three track I've spoken about, then if you like them, on the links on their soundcloud there is a link to their webpage, inviting you to join their mailing list and as a result giving you a free download of a new song. If by this time you're a fan, buy their EP, it's in iTunes now, do it. I promise you you'll love it if you like the other songs.