• MP3s: Summer tunes
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Atlas Sound - Walkabout (feat. Panda Bear)
On “Walkabout,” the first song from his upcoming album Logos (Oct 20, Kranky), Cox sings along with Noah Lennox, What did you want to see/ What did you want to be/ When you grew up, and generally seems to be focused on moving on, becoming an adult, or at least acknowledging that he can’t be a child anymore. The song samples the bubbling keys of “What Am I Going to Do” by the Dovers, as inspired by some tour bus song games between Cox and Animal Collective, and reflects that song’s simple and beautiful pop, with Cox and Lennox’s signature soft layers. If Logos is in any way as good as this song, we will not need much else in the fall. (The Fader)
Wavves - Mickey Mouse
The tag to Nathan Williams most recent blog post—about finishing Resident Evil Vol 4000—is “I have no life.” This was also the apparent tag to every song he ever recorded, at least until he played them for other people, though he might say that driving forever, playing a show, drinking, sleeping maybe and repeating, is less of a life than an Xbox narrative. Maybe bored but not enough to write a song about it, Williams posted “Mickey Mouse,” an undulating, unused demo on his blog. It sounds like Panda Bear, the drums in Guitar Hero and spit. (The Fader)
Toro y moi - Timed Pleasure
It would seem that South Carolinian Chaz Bundick is already making a strong play for "best of 2010," as his project Toro y Moi is releasing not one, but two albums that year, and every advance track that he's put out there so far is strikingly impressive in style and execution. "Timed Pleasure," is a dreamy lump of ketamine disco, that's slated to appear on Toro y Moi's cassette, Body Angles, forthcoming on Mirror Universe Tapes. Also, don't forget the "Blessa" 7-inch due in October, and of course, those two LPs due out in 2010 on Carpark. (Gorillavsbear)
The Big Pink - Dominos
The Big Pink - Dominos (Gang Gang Dance Remix)
Previously named as one of BBC's most likely breakout acts of 2009, UK duo the Big Pink are set to release their full-length debut A Brief History Of Love this September via venerable indie outpost 4AD. The first single from the eleven-song, self-produced LP is "Dominos," a catchy mid-tempo groover that pulls shoegaze and noise bits into a fat backbeat in a way that might recall previous gig-mates Secret Machines. (Stereogum)
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
In a similarly dreamy realm as fellow Columbia, South Carolina multi-instrumentalist and friend Toro y Moi, Washed Out, aka Ernest Greene, gets us ready for a chilly summer (or July Language, if you're thinking Belong) with the woozy ambience of "Feel It All Around." It's like a more insular Quiet Village until the vocals start and draw you a few steps closer, but the ending fade makes the whole thing disappear before you get a chance to burrow in deeply enough. This fleetingness is maybe part of its charm. (Stereogum)
Memory Cassette - Surfin Sail A Whale Version
New Jersey dream-beat project Memory Cassette (aka Memory Tapes) has a collection of remixes called Calls & Responses coming out on the The Acephale imprint. It includes reworkings by the likes of CFCF and includes this blissful, lush retake from Sweden's Sail a Whale. (Pitchfork)
Best Coast - Sun Was High So Was I
Best Coast is Bethany Consentino of Pocahaunted, and while there's maybe something of that lo-fi drone funk outfit in her newest work, Best Coast is clearly a sea change for Consentino, one whose waves she's riding on a pop surfboard. (Prefixmag)
Memory Tapes - Bicycle Horrors Cosmic Dub
It was just last week we were telling you about Memory Tapes (aka Memory Cassette, aka Weird Tapes, aka Southern NJ resident Dayve Hawk)'s fully remixed (and downloadable) Calls & Responses EP. Now the gothy Trent Reznor-approved and Mercury Prize-nominated UK garage rockers the Horrors have done a "Cosmic Dub" remix of "Bicycle," the first single from Memory Tapes' forthcoming full-length Seek Magic. They've increased the precipitation, reduced the vocals, and made it spookier. (Stereogum)
• Video: Tradition in Transition: A Postcard from Cali (TRAILER)
Tradition in Transition - recorded in Cali, Columbia - is the upcoming album from Quantic and his Combo Barbaro. It sees Will "Quantic" Holland mining the lesser-tapped musical sources from the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa and fusing those rediscovered psychedelic, experimental and rhythmically rich sounds of the past with deep funk and soul elements and folkloric vocal styles. This exceptional longplayer gives life to an explosive sonic snapshot of an ever-evolving musical landscape, played out by a carefully assembled international cast of musical creators.
myspace.com/quanticmusic
• Preview: The Dodos - Time To Die
San Francisco duo, The Dodos return this autumn with brilliant new album, ‘Time To Die’. The follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed sophomore effort ‘Visiter’, ‘Time To Die’ is the band’s third long player and produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Built to Spill).
The Dodos’ wildly percussive style is still centred around the two key elements of punchy percussion courtesy of Logan Kroeber and the Fahey-infused finger-picking of frontman Meric Long, but ‘Time To Die’ introduces one major addition to the Dodos’ creative core: Keaton Snyder, a 21-year-old music school dropout who plays a mean vibraphone.
“After Visiter, we had a lot of options for which direction to go,” says Long, “But I knew we wanted to make a rock record. Being an acoustic band—primarily, at least—sort of works against this idea, but Phil’s production showcased that side of our band.”
“The vibraphone is pretty crazy and loud,” adds Long, “and if you put it through some effects, you can make it sound like a guitar or synthesizer. It still has that element of something you’re hitting, though, which is central to how Logan and I play our instruments.” wichita-recordings.com
Outstanding! (8/10)
myspace.com/thedodos
dodosmusic.net
• Preview: Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying?
For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd official album by Mount Eerie.
A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver’s NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal. Like these influences, WIND’S POEM also drifts back and forth between a “dream world”, where the wind screams about fleeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.
The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie’s only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear.
One of the best albums 2009 ! (9/10)
pwelverumandsun.com
• Album des Monats Juni: Nadja - Numbness
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitar, vocals, drums, piano, flute) and Leah Buckareff (bass, vocals, violin) from Toronto, Canada. Their sounds have been called “ambient doom”; music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock, experimental, and neo-classical. They have released numerous albums on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, The End Records, and Conspiracy Records and have toured extensively throughout the world including appearances at noted festivals like Roadburn, FIMAV, and SXSW.
“Numbness” is a special collection of tracks, compiled by Nadja themselves choosing “shoegaze-oriented” tracks among their vast previous titles. Most of the tracks were originally released on very limited vinyls or rare compilation albums. Among the 6 tracks, total time of over 70 minutes, there are two vocal-centered tracks which reveals the influence of My Bloody Valentine. The last track “Numb” is an amazing 21 minute drone noise track as if synchronizing dark psychedelia of Mono and Mogwai. A perfect compilation for Nadja beginners to Nadja freaks. Packaged in a special cardboard sleeve. Just Awesome! (7.5/10)
8
Omar S - Just Ask The Lonely (ReIssue)*
7.5
Nadja - Numbness (Reissue Compilation)
Rick Wade - Harmonie Park (Reissue Compilation)
7
Mirko Loko - Seventynine
The Most Serene Republic - Words Are Something Else
Various (OST) - The Limits Of Control
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Boduf Songs - There Is Something Hanging Above
Gossip - Music For Men
Tiny Vipers - Life On Earth
The Boats - Words Are Something Else
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
6.5
Various - Cocoon Compilation l
Max Richter (OST) - Henry May Long
Pillowdriver - Sleeping Pills
No Neck Blues Band - At 6 A.M. We Become The Police
Jamie T - Sticks n Stones EP
Pelican - Ephemeral EP
Windmill - Epcot Starfields
Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound
6
Vladislav Delay - Tummaa
Taylor Deupree - Live1: Mapping
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Kevin Drumm - Alku Tape
5.5
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
*original released 2005
• Video: Death Cab For Cutie - Little Bribes
The new Death Cab for Cutie video doubles as a feel-good, triumph-of-the-little-guy tale. Director Ross Ching was simply a longtime fan of the band when he made the clip for "Little Bribes", a track off Death Cab's recent Open Door EP.
He uploaded the time-lapse-crazed clip to the web, and next thing you know, his beloved band declared his video totally official. Plus: A press release tells us Ching has been hired by DCFC label Atlantic to film another project.
• Zuletzt hinzugefügt
Neue Rubrik die irgendwie die "Audiolicious" ersetzt bzw. es mir um einiges leichter macht etwas darüber zu erzählen was ich mir so anhöre zur Zeit. Trotzdem wird es die "Audiolicious" dann und wann mal wieder geben, vorallem wenn ich genug Zeit finden sollte (was im Moment leider nicht der Fall ist).
Nun (nicht)gut. Die Rubrik "Zuletzt hinzugefügt" versteht sich eh von selber oder? Jeder iTunes Besitzer weiß worum es geht und alle Anderen müssen sich halt mal selber umhören.
Cocoon Compilation l
Cocoon ist das nicht so eine Partyreihe die Mr. Sven Väth in Ibiza vom Stapel lässt mit schrillen halbnackten Boys and Girls auf Drogen. Und ich muss euch gestehen keine Ahnung zu haben und auch keine vorherige Cocoon Compilation zu kennen, obwohl es da wohl schon sauviele gibt. Nun kennen tu ich schon einmal ein paar Artists auf der Compilation: Johnny D, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Radio Slave, Timo Maas. Schon einmal gehört: Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, EMT (mit Tobi Neumann). Was soll dieses Fachgesülze die doch keinen interessiert. House, Techno, Minimal Tracks viele nicht sonderlich inspirierend aber immer flott um die Ecke gekurvt. Klar, satt produziert und im Club ein Vermögen wert. Und Kollektiv Turmstrasse machen immer tolle Tracks! Radio Slave eher schwach um die Hüften, Timo Maas nervt, sonst ordentlich.
Moritz von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent
Basic Channel/Chain Reaction Mitbegründer, Maurizio, Quadrant. Von Oswald hat nicht nur Berlin als Techno Stadt geprägt sondern auch mir schon treibende, monotone, minimalistische Nächte im Auto auf langen, quälenden Autofahrten versüßt. Wenn man in den Oswaldschen Sound so richtig hineinkippt ist das die geilste Musik der Welt. 2008 veröffentlichte von Oswald mit Carl Craig das von Kritikern aller Welt geliebte „ReComposed“ Album, was mich nur bedingt zu überzeugen wusste. Auf „Vertical Ascent“ setzt er diesen Trend gnadenlos fort. Treibende elektronische Sound, perfekt in der Machart. Unumstößlich genial Zeitgemäß und doch seiner Zeit weit voraus.
Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
Hektische Beats gepaart mit tröpfelnden Jazz-Piano, verflucht von Bös-quakenden Bässen. Sehr vertrackt und um die Ecke gedacht. Durchaus spannend. Ich mag den stringenten, minimalistischen Delay aber sehr viel lieber.
Jamie T – Sticks N Stones EP
Kurz und knapp: Der Titeltrack „Stick N Stones“ ist sehr geil, kickt den Flow und bespringt einen unaufhörlich rammelnd. Der Rest ist ganz grosser Mist ;)
Rick Wade – Harmonie Park
Zusammenstellung seiner Werke aus der Frühphase. Habe so einiges noch auf Vinyl. Wade’s Piano Loops sind wunderbar, seine springenden Beats echte Klassiker. Detroit !!! Meisterwerke !!!
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Neuer Topact auf Warp!?! Fleet Foxes auf Elektrosound? Verschrabbelter Anticon Hip Hop? Und lustig: Passt irgendwie alles. Aber nicht die Entdeckung des Jahres wie so mancher Kritiker meint. Abwechslungsreich, verspielt, bisweilen schön.
Max Richter – Henry May Long
Max Richter ist Komponist. Er vertont Filme und das sehr klassisch, wunderschön. Viele Streicher, Klavier, einiges an Pathos. Schon mit „Waltz With Bashir“ ist es Richter eindrücklich gelungen seine ganz eigene Art an Sounds in die Bilder des Films zu verweben und eine einzigartige Stimmung zu erzeugen. Tadellos, perfekt, tieftraurig. Ganz großes Kino!!!
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