I've heard Big Pink's name thrown around over the past several months, but besides the Gang Gang Dance remix of Velvet that a friend sent to me last month -- which is hot but sounds very different than the original -- hadn't given them much time...until tonight.

I'm listening to the original version of Velvet and, for some reason, I think I've heard it before, but thought it was Panda Bear. Or maybe I'm just mixing it up with something else. Either way, the song is sick and now that I've listened to it 5 times, the Panda Bear connection (vocals for sure) is there, but the Big Pink have a much harder rock n roll edge that accompanies their drugged out, ethereal vocals. If you haven't listened to this track yet, do it now. I'm pretty much obsessed.

So who are Big Pink? According to the Guardian: they're Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell from London and are London's hottest new stars.

The Big Pink may take their name from the Band's debut album but there is nothing rootsy or remotely Dylanesque about this London duo's music. In fact, their roots reach back only as far as the late-80s and early-90s, to the days when Madchester-era baggy disco and Thames Valley shoe-gazing ruled the waves and waived the rules with regard to fusing drone-rock and dance rhythms. There are elements of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualised's trance gospel on their debut single Too Young to Love, of My Bloody Valentine's brief foray into nightclub territory on their Andy eatherall-remixed epic of noise-dance, Soon, even of Happy Mondays' "religious" rhythmic rock classic, Hallelujah.

The Big Pink's music may be shrouded in mystery, all phased FX and wraithlike vocals, but they have done one or two things in their young lives, and have collaborated with one or two people, that may already have caught your attention. They're one of Klaxons' top friends on their MySpace. They opened for TV on the Radio in the UK and have supported Crystal Castles.

Damn! Read the full article here. Make sure to check out their MySpace, where you can test drive songs, and their official site, where you can listen to Velvet, signup for their newsletter and get the Gang Gang Dance remix, and watch videos. Don't forget to check out 4AD's site, where you can get more info on their forthcoming single Stop The World, which will drop on 06.29.09.