The Accessories - Accessorize EP (2010)

The Accessories é um trio de College Station, Texas, formado por Josef (vocals), Kyle (bass, guitar) e Barrett (drums). O som vagueia entre rock, funk, hip-hop e/ou rap. Eles estão lançando seu EP de estréia, Accessorize EP.

The Accessories - Accessorize EP (2010)

1. Don’t Say Goodnight
2. Bad Man
3. 54
4. Countin Down

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Dum Dum Girls: “Jail La La” / “Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout” [MP3]

O grupo Dum Dum Girls é formado por Dee Dee (lead vocals, guitar), que convidoua as amigas Jules (guitar, vocals), Bambi (bass) e Sandra Vu(drums, vocals). O som de Dee Dee e suas amigas remete aos girl groups dos anos 60 e aos primeiros punk rockers. Elas estão lançando seu debut, intitulado I Will Be, via Sub Pop e produzido por Dee Dee e Gottehrer Richard (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Go's e, mais recentemente, The Raveonettes). I Will Be não é lo-fi, nem muito polido, são pouco menos de trinta minutos com onze canções, é um tributo curto ao amor, ao divertimento e a forma de pop clássico das girl groups dos anos 60 e aos primeiros punk rockers. As doces/amargas canções “Jail La La” e “Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout” foram disponibilizadas para 'free download'.

MP3: Dum Dum Girls - “Jail La La” [MOV]

MP3: Dum Dum Girls - “Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout” [MOV]

MP3: Dum Dum Girls - “D.A.L.” [Zoo Music EP, 2008]

RELEASE:
Dum Dum Girls / I Will Be
Released: March 30, 2010

I Will Be is the debut full-length by the Dum Dum Girls. Produced by Dee Dee and Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes), I Will Be is neither lo-fi nor too polished. Just under thirty minutes with eleven songs, it’s a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the ’60s girl groups and early punk rockers.

TRACKS:

It Only Takes One Night
Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout
Oh Mein M
Jail La La
Rest of Our Lives
Yours Alone
Blank Girl
I Will Be
Lines Her Eyes
Everybody's Out
Baby Don't Go


ORDER: I Will Be

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Ghostkeeper - “By Morning” / “Like Moose Do” / “Well, Well, Well” [MP3's]

Ghostkeeper, banda de Calgary, Canadá, formada por Shane Ghostkeeper, Sarah Houle, Jay Crocker e Scott Munro, produz música crua e eletrizante, uma colcha de retalhos coloridos de coração blues, pop e estranhos barulhos. Eles esão lançando seu segundo álbum, Ghostkeeper, o sucessor de Children of the Great Northern Muskeg, disco de 2008. Experimente três das melhores músicas do novo Ghostkeeper, “By Morning”, “Like Moose Do” e “Well, Well, Well”.

MP3: Ghostkeeper - By Morning

MP3: Ghostkeeper - Like Moose Do

MP3: Ghostkeeper - Well, Well, Well



RELEASE:
Ghostkeeper : Ghostkeeper
2010 | CD/LP/Digital

With their second album Ghostkeeper delivers an extraordinary marriage of noisy blues and pop in a complex and textured sounding recording. Revealing his Northern Alberta origins, the distinctive voice of Shane Ghostkeeper cuts through the serpentine knots of intricate guitar and thumping cave rhythms that punctuate the songs. The result is a mysterious, unusual and nuanced voice, infused with Mississippi roots and traditional folk idioms, invigorated with an ever-shifting collage of characteristically inventive and deliciously off-kilter experimental blues and psychedelia.

Reviews:

"An early dark horse candidate for album of the year."
- I Heart Music

"4.5/5 Stars"
- Metro News

"Like Leadbelly turned Metis trickster."
- Globe and Mail

"Promises to stand out amongst a busy field of new releases in 2010."
- Exclaim!

"Just an amazing record."
- 5/5, See Magazine

"Invites and defies comparison."
- Eye Weekly

"Back porch freak roots?"
- Chartattack

""An understated lo-fi song collection that is at times loose, raw and off-the-cuff."
- Ottawa Express

Track Listing:
1. Tea and Cree Talking
2. By Morning
3. Don't Come Knocking
4. Haunted
5. Metis Running
6. Like Moose Do
7. Baby Girl
8. Well, Well, Well
9. Piggy backin' (do cost you no money)
10. Spring Fever


Order: Ghostkeeper

Links: myspace | facebook | flemisheye


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Ed Motta - Piquenique (2009)

Depois de Poptical, Ed Motta ao Vivo, Aystelum e Chapter 9 a Trama lança Piquenique, décimo álbum da carreira de Ed Motta. A obra, como bem descreve Ed, é um presente ao seu público, já há muito tempo ansioso por um trabalho mais pop. As canções que compõem Piquenique foram escritas a quatro mãos e marcam a estréia da parceria entre Ed e Edna Lopes, casados há 18 anos. A única exceção é a faixa “Nefertiti”, uma parceria com Rita Lee.

Narrativa de quadrinhos, humor, cinema noir e amor são temas de canções como “Pé Na Jaca”, “Nicole Versus Cheng” e “A Turma da Pilantragem”. Essa última, dueto de Ed Motta com a cantora Maria Rita que ganha também uma versão remix no formato Álbum Virtual.

Mas essas não são as únicas surpresas. A faixa título conta com a participação de Marya Bravo, famosa nos anos 70 por dar voz ao single “Cremogema”. A produção do trabalho é assinada por Ed com a co-produção do músico Silvera. A masterização foi feita por Herb Powers Jr., considerado um dos melhores do mundo.

Piquenique traz 12 faixas e é uma safra tão popular, bem humorada e dançante quanto àquela da época do Manual Prático. Talvez mais. E quando um artista como ele grava uma determinada obra, é porque representa realmente aquilo que vive e sente no momento.

[João Marcello Bôscoli]

Ed Motta - Piquenique (2009)

1. Minha Vida Toda com Você
2. Mensalidade
3. Pé na Jaca
4. Carência no Frio
5. A Turma da Pilantragem
6. Piquenique
7. O Mestre e o Aprendiz
8. Nefertiti
9. Compromisso
10. Bel Prazer
11. Nicole Versus Cheng
12. Tanto Faz

DOWNLOAD via Álbum Virtual Trama

Links: Site | MySpace | Facebook | Twitter

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The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio [MP3]

The National está liberando gratuitamente, Bloodbuzz Ohio, o primeiro single de seu novo álbum High Violet, o quinto na carreira da banda, que será lançado em maio próximo.

MP3: The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

Links: americanmary.com | highviolet.com | myspace | twitter | facebook | ilike | pandora | lastfm | 4ad | musicasocial

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Kleenex/Liliput - “In A Mess” [MP3]

Kleenex foi uma banda de punk feminino de Zurique, Suíça formado em 1978 e teve várias formações. Em 1980, o grupo mudou seu nome para Liliput (devido às pressões da empresa Kleenex) e continuou sob essa alcunha, até seu fim em 1983. A formação clássica da banda foi Lislot Hafner (drums), Regula Sing (vocals), Marlene Marder (guitar) e Klaudia Schifferle (bass, guitar), a única integrante original que permaneceu em todas as formações.

Está sendo lançado o álbum Live Recordings, TV-Clips, and Roadmovie CD/DVD. O CD possui duas apresentações completas ao vivo: Kleenex live in Biel in 1979 e Liliput live in Zurich in 1983, que incluem algumas canções nunca antes lançadas. O DVD inclui documentário de sua turnê européia em 1982, Roadmovie, bem como performances ao vivo da banda na TV suíça.

MP3: Liliput - “In A Mess” [Live]

Estas duas músicas seguintes são da compilação dupla Kleenex/LiLiPUT, de 2001, que reúne todo o material gravado pelas duas bandas.

MP3: Kleenex - “Ain't You”

MP3: Liliput - “Étoile”


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Love Is All - “Kungen” [MP3+VIDEO]

Love Is All, quinteto de indie-pop-punk de Gothenburg, Suécia, formado em 2005 por Josephine Olausson (Vocals, Keyboard), Johan Lindwall (Bass), Markus Görsch (Drums), Nicholaus Sparding (Guitar, Vocals) e James Ausfahrt (Saxophone, Keyboard). A banda está lançando seu novo e terceiro álbum, Two Thousand And Ten Injuries, o primero pelo selo Polyvinyl Records. O primeiro single do disco já foi liberado, “Kungen” dá uma uma boa idéia do som do grupo.

MP3: Love Is All - “Kungen”


VIDEO: Love Is All - “Kungen”
Director: Josephine Olausson


RELEASE:
Love Is All
Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
Released: March 23, 2010

Two Thousand And Ten Injuries is an eclectic collection of pop melodies, anchored by New Wave and punk rock rhythms, that are as refined as they are unpredictable. Highlights of the 12 track set include the art punk urgency of "Bigger, Bolder," the lilting pop of "Never Now," the Slits-like reggae of "False Pretense" and the classic New Wave rallying cry found in "Dust."

Two Thousand And Ten Injuries was produced, recorded and mixed at the band's home studio, Bananaflux, during the summer of 2009 by Love is All and Wyatt Cusick (ex-member of The Aislers Set and Trackstar).

All told, Two Thousand And Ten Injuries successfully manages to be Love Is All's most adventurous, and dare we say, accessible, album yet.

1. Bigger Bolder
2. Repetition
3. Never Now
4. Less Than Thrilled
5. Early Warnings
6. False Pretense
7. The Birds Were Singing With All Their Might
8. Again, Again
9. Kungen
10. A Side In A Bed
11. Dust
12. Take Your Time


ORDER: Two Thousand And Ten Injuries

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Serena-Maneesh - “I Just Want To See Your Face” [MP3 / VIDEO]

Serena-Maneesh, banda new wave de Oslo, Noruega, formada por Tommy, Ådne, Hilma, Øystein e Emil, está lançando seu novo e segundo álbum, S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor, via 4AD, e o primeiro single é “I Just Want To See Your Face”.

MP3: Serena-Maneesh - “I Just Want To See Your Face”


Video: Serena-Maneesh - “I Just Want To See Your Face”
Director: Neon & Sons + Rockadee

Confira a capa e as faixas de S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor:

1. Ayisha Abyss
2. I Just Want To See Your Face
3. Reprobate!
4. Melody For Jaana
5. Honeyjinx
6. Blow Yr Brains In The Morning Rain
7. D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D
8. Magdalena (Symphony #8)

Ouça S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor completo:



Links: serena-maneesh.com | myspace | facebook | twitter | 4ad

team9: Golden Oldies [Mixtape: Mash-Ups & Remixes]

team9, projeto de mash-ups do produtor Neil Mason, chegou ao fim mas, antes, deixou uma grandiosa despedida, um mixtape com o melhor que ele produziu durante mais de uma década, são 31 faixas (separadas) entre mash-ups e remixes.

team9: Golden Oldies [Mixtape: Mash-Ups & Remixes]

The full tracklisting is:
Eleanors in my head (The Beatles vs Queens of the stone age), Push your hands up (The Sugababes vs Ottowan), Kick me out (Artic Monkeys remix), Supermassive Black Hole (Muse remix), La La her madly (The Doors vs Goldfrapp), My lifestyles going nowhere (Beastie Boys vs Cut Copy), Run to feel it (Bryan Adams vs The Jacksons), About a girl in my dreams (Depeche Mode vs Nirvana), Champion Cellphone (Beck vs Fatboy Slim), Clash Machine (The Clash vs Hard Fi), Confused Imagination (John Lennon vs The Temptations vs Jim Morrison), Crazy Times (Prince vs Gnarls Barkley), Enter Never Never Land (Metallica vs INXS), Heard it in '79 (Marvin Gaye vs The Smashing Pumpkins), Jelly Breath (Lemon Jelly vs Destinys Child), Lovecats Rock U (The Cure vs Ashanti), Me against the monkey / Musics gone to Heaven (The Pixes vs Madonna and Britney), No Name Army (Alicia Keys vs Elvis Costello), Stepping Away with it (Electronic vs Ciara), Paul and Heather (The Beatles vs Various others), The Doorbell Encore (The White Stripes vs Jay-Z and Queen), Greenday Massacre (Green Day vs The Eagles), LSD (Beatles Lucy in the Sky remix), Hide your love away (Beatles remix), Waterfall (Stone Roses remix), Only a lullaby (The Cure vs Ashanti).

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Happy Birthday - “Subliminal Message” / “Girls FM” / “Too Shy” [MP3's]

Happy Birthday foi formado por Kyle Thomas, aka King Tuff, (principal compositor, vocal, guitarra), que chamou seus amigos Chris Weisman (guitarra, baixo, vocal) e Garbus Ruth (bateria, vocal), em sua cidade natal Brattleboro, Vermont. Eles estão lançando seu debut, Happy Birthday, via Sub Pop. O resultado são belas canções pop com forte acento indie e as deliciosas jóias “Subliminal Message”, “Girls FM” e “Too Shy” são a prova disso.

MP3: Happy Birthday - “Subliminal Message”

MP3: Happy Birthday - “Girls FM”

MP3: Happy Birthday - “Too Shy”

RELEASE:
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Released: March 16, 2010

Happy Birthday is Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff), Chris Weisman, and Ruth Garbus. They formed in November 2008 to play one show at the punk-space “Tinderbox”(RIP), in their hometown Brattleboro, Vermont. Kyle needed a band to play his new pop songs because he was too scared to play by himself. They enjoyed playing with eachother so much that they decided to keep doing it.

Kyle sings and plays lead guitar. The songs are mostly his, but the band arranges and finishes them together. He is also a painter and drawer and loves top 40, shoes, texting, comic books, etc. Ruth Garbus plays drums and sings. She also makes her own music and art. Chris Weisman plays “inverted-tuning” guitar, bass, and sings. He makes 4-track songs, enjoys reading and writing, and is a guitar teacher.

TRACKS:

Girls FM
2 Shy
Cracked
Perverted Girl
Subliminal Message
Eyes Music
Maxine the Teenage Eskimo
I Want to Stay (I Run Away)
Pink Strawberry Shake
Zit
Fun


ORDER: Happy Birthday

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Delorean - “Stay Close” [MP3|VIDEO]

Delorean é uma banda espanhola de indie elctro pop com toques de alternative dance e balearic beat, formada em 2000 por Ekhi Lopetegi (vocal, bass), Tomas Palomo (guitar), Unai Lazcano (keyboard) e Igor Escudeo (drums). O quarteto passou a ganhar mais projeção com Ayrton Senna, EP de 2009 e com remixes para bandas como The xx, Cold Cave e Franz Ferdinand. Eles estão lançando seu quarto álbum, Subiza, via True Panther. O primeiro single é “Stay Close”.

MP3: Delorean - “Stay Close” [via matablog]


Video: Delorean - “Stay Close”
Directed by Weird Days.

RELEASE:
Delorean
Subiza
Released: 9 March 2010

Barcelona's Delorean mine a territory between dance music and independent pop, producing a sound that is distinctly theirs. This is the record it took Delorean 10 years to evolve into, a fusion of dance music (including their native Spanish Balearic house) and contemporary pop music. The dance-club rhythms and airy melodies they've toyed with in the past are fused and textured, making for a deeply obsessive, hypnotic album that retains the easy appeal of great pop music. Looking at 30+ years of club music history with fresh eyes, Delorean have made an album that is dense and soulful. Our first listen to Subiza was exhilarating, every subsequent listen is a revelation.

1. "Stay Close"
2. "Real Love"
3. "Endless Sunset"
4. "Grow"
5. "Simple Graces"
6. "Infinite Desert"
7. "Come Wander"
8. "Warmer Places"
9. "It's All Ours"


ORDER: Matador Records | True Panther Records

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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round [MP3]

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti está atualmente finalizando seu novo álbum, Before Today, que sai do forno no próximo junho. A banda que tem em sua atual formação, além do protagonista Ariel Pink, Gilmore Kenny, Sperske Aaron e Tim Koh, está soltando o primeiro single do disco, Round and Round, para download gratuito.

MP3: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round

Links: arielpinkshauntedgraffiti.com | myspace | 4ad

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jj - “Let Go” [MP3+VIDEO]

jj, duo suéco formado por Joakim Benon e Elin Kastlander, que transitam entre tecnopop, indie pop, electronic, balearic beat etc. O debut foi o single “jj n° 1” no início de 2009, alguns meses depois lançaram seu álbum de estréia, “jj n° 2”, agora é a vez do segundo álbum, “jj n° 3”, via Secretly Canadian. O primeiro single é “Let Go”, mais uma delícia de tecnopop.

MP3: jj - “Let Go”


VIDEO: jj - “Let Go” [MOV]
Directed by Marcus Söderlund.

Links: lastfm | wikipedia | secretlycanadian

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Harlem - “Gay Human Bones” [MP3]

Harlem, o trio de Austin, TX, formado por Coomers, Curtis e Jose, que está lançando seu segundo, ‘Hippies’, em abril próximo, acaba de liberar uma segunda faixa disco, intitulada “Gay Human Bones”. A primeira foi “Friendly Ghost”.

MP3: Harlem – “Gay Human Bones”
[via matablog]

RELEASE:
Hippies is the second longplayer from Austin's hardest working troublemakers, Harlem. As demonstrated by numerous self-booked tours including stints at SXSW and CMJ, Harlem have a reputation of making club gigs seem like living room shows (and living room shows feel like club shows).

Hippies harnesses this energy in its 16 blasts of pure pop energy with a new dimension of songwriting that is as tightly masterful as it is true to a joyfully frantic primitivism.Recorded at the Distillery in Costa Mesa, CA with the assistance of Mike McHugh, Hippies is more refined and cleaner record than it's predecessor (the self released Free Drugs) with a classically iconoclastic sound that in eras-past, was achieved by The Gories, The Standells, Dead Moon, The Kinks and The Pixies. The songwriting and vocal duties on Hippies are evenly shared by Coomers (nee Michael Coomer) and Curtis O'Mara —who switch between guitar/vox and drums on stage (and off) alongside newly-added bassist Jose Boyer. Harlem is set to tour vigorously across the nation and play the shit out of SXSW.

Preorder: ‘Hippies’

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Aloha - “Moonless March” [MP3]

Aloha, banda norte-americana de indie rock com pitadas de experimental pop, formada por Tony Cavallario, Matthew Gengler, Cale Parks e T.J. Lipple, com mais de uma década de carreira, está lançando seu sexto (ou sétimo) álbum, Home Acres, via Polyvinyl Records. O quarteto está liberando o primeiro single do disco, “Moonless March”.

MP3: Aloha - “Moonless March” [from Home Acres]

Conheça também outras músicas de álbuns anteriores:

MP3: Aloha - “Your Eyes” [from Some Echoes]

MP3: Aloha - “All The Wars” [from Here Comes Everyone]

MP3: Aloha - “Summer Away” [from Here Comes Everyone]

MP3: Aloha - “Let Your Head Hang Low” [from Sugar]

MP3: Aloha - “Protest Song” [from Sugar]

MP3: Aloha - “Liberty” [from That's Your Fire]

MP3: Aloha - “A Hundred Stories” [from That's Your Fire]


RELEASE:
Aloha
Home Acres
Released: March 9, 2010

Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007) with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldly stepping out of the shadows.

Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, with the band’s slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge moments. But even as the energy surges, Aloha casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience and attack with equal measure. Lyrically, Home Acres tries to sort through the wreckage of the Great Lakes region and a way of life.

Left abandoned “waiting for a getaway car that never came” in the record’s arena-rock-by-way-of-Silver Apples closer “Ruins,” we’re left to think that maybe we ought to have dreamt bigger and fought the urge to disengage. A suggestion that Aloha has taken to heart for its biggest, brightest record to date.

1. Building a Fire
2. Moonless March
3. Microviolence
4. Searchlight
5. Everything Goes My Way
6. White Wind
7. Cold Storage
8. Blackout
9. Waterwheel
10. I'm in Trouble
11. Ruins


ORDER: Home Acres

Links: aloha.com | myspace | tumblr | twitter | polyvinyl


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Pantha du Prince - “Stick To My Side” (ft. Panda Bear) [Four Tet Remix] {MP3}

Hendrik Weber, também conhecido como Pantha du Prince, Panthel e Glühen 4, é músico, produtor e DJ germânico de música eletrônica. Ele lançou em fevereiro passado, seu terceiro álbum como Pantha du Prince, Black Noise, do qual sai agora o 12" EP para a música “Stick To My Side”, com remixes de Efdemin, Lawrence e Four Tet. “Stick To My Side” tem vocais de Noah Lennox (Panda Bear, Animal Collective).

MP3: Pantha du Prince - “Stick To My Side” (ft. Panda Bear) [Four Tet Remix] [+mp3]



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The Besnard Lakes - “Albatross” [MP3]

The Besnard Lakes, banda de Montreal, Quebec, Canadá, formada por Jace Lasek, Olga Goreas, Kevin Laing e Richard White e que pratica um mix de rock psicodélico e progressivo com clima indie pop, está lançando seu terceiro álbum, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, via Jagjaguwar, que liberou gratuitamente o primeiro single do disco, “Albatross”

MP3: The Besnard Lakes - “Albatross” [MOV]



Conheça também a bela “And You Lied To Me”, do álbum anterior:

MP3: The Besnard Lakes - “And You Lied To Me” [from The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse, 2007]

RELEASE:
THE BESNARD LAKES
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Released: 03/09/10

There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, dishonor, love, hatred all seen through the eyes of two spies, fighting a war that may not be real. One follows the other as they receive coded messages and spread destruction. The city is burning, and it's to the benefit of music obsessives everywhere. Once again, the husband-and-wife duo of Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek has crafted a majestic, sprawling vision of guitar bombast and captivating pop experiments.

The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night calls upon the influence of ELO and finer parts of the Alan Parsons Project in its orchestration. Still helped by the Ghost of Beach Boys Past, the album is more Dennis Wilson than Brian, and more Peter Green Fleetwood Mac than Lindsay Buckingham. That said, standout track "Albatross" has all the swagger of a Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac classic or Roy Orbison reimagined as a rollicking, snakeskin-booted Mazzy Star -- dousing it all in gas and throwing the match as we hear its tale of Vancouver's skid row and its inhabitants.

The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night was tracked and recorded on Breakglass Studio's latest acquisition, a 1968 Neve germanium mixing console rumored to have been used to record portions of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. The album also introduces some new instrumentation for the band: 12 string guitar, flute, omnichord and mellotron. With the aid of Besnard members Kevin Laing on drums and Richard White on guitar, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night is a dense, ambitious recording, experimenting, as always, with the studio as instrument.

The album is a dark bliss-out that folds the eerie guitar epics of the Montreal band's breakthrough into a wall of affected drones and atmospherics, but with a toughened immediacy and grit that gives the form a much-needed shove over the cliffs, making for a haunting, provocative swan dive into the crushing tide.

"The Besnard Lakes make music to get lost in, a rapturous sound that invites comparison to the dense studio recordings of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys." - Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune

"The dark heart of Canada has landed, burning within the psychedelic dirge-pop of this husband and wife-led Montreal Collective." - Uncut

SONG LIST:

Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt. 1: The Ocean
Like the Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt. 2: The Innocent
Chicago Train
Albatross
Glass Printer
Land Of Living Skies Pt.1: The Land
Land Of Living Skies Pt. 2: The Living Skies
And This Is What We Call Progress
Light Up The Night
The Lonely Moan


ORDER: The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night

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White Hinterland - “No Logic” / “Icarus”

White Hinterland, duo indie pop de Portland, OR, formado por Casey Dienel e Shawn Creeden. A dupla está lançando seu segundo álbum, Kairos, via Dead Oceans, e os primeiros singles são “No Logic” e “Icarus”.

MP3: White Hinterland - “No Logic”

MP3: White Hinterland - “Icarus”

MP3: White Hinterland - “No Logic (Alan Wilkis Remix)”


Video: White Hinterland - “No Logic”


Video: White Hinterland - “Icarus”

Confira a capa e as faixas de Kairos:

Icarus
Moon Jam
No Logic
Begin Again
Bow & Arrow
Amsterdam
Thunderbird
Cataract
Huron
Magnolias


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Violins - Greve das Navalhas (2010)

O Violins está de volta com mais um possível grande álbum, trata-se de Greve das Navalhas, que será lançado no mesmo esquema do anterior e belo A Redenção dos Corpos, disponibilizando um faixa por dia no site da banda, começando com “Um Só Fato”, disponível desde ontém, 7 de março, até o dia 17 próximo, todas as 11 faixas do disco estarão disponíveis numa qualidade de 320kbps em mp3. Por aqui, iremos linkando as faixas dia a dia.

1. Um Só Fato
2. Comercial de Papelaria
3. A Fila
4. Tsunami
5. Morte da Chuva
6. Reinvenção da Roda
7. Sinais de Trânsito
8. Mapa Incerto
9. Do Tempo
10. Fluorescente
11. Roda da História

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The Morning Benders: “Promises” / “Excuses” [MP3's|VIDEO's]

The Morning Benders, banda de pop rock formada por Christopher (vocals, guitar), Julian (drums), Timothy (bass) e Jonathan (guitar, keys), está lançando, finalmente, seu álbum de estréia, Big Echo, via Rough Trade, foi preparado e depurado cuidadosamente em anos de trabalho e, pelo jeito, a banda conseguiu o que queria, um excelente trabalho. Aprimeiras faixas liberadas são “Promises” e “Excuses”, excelentes.

MP3: The Morning Benders - “Promises” [+mp3*]



MP3: The Morning Benders - “Excuses” *



MP3: The Morning Benders - “Cold War (Wallpaper Winter Remix)” *









RELEASE:
The Morning Benders
Big Echo
Released: 9 March 2010

'big echo' is an album made to be played loud. it sounds great on headphones. the band that made it is called the morning benders. they recorded the album in san francisco and mixed it in brooklyn. chris chu and chris taylor (grizzly bear) produced it in eleven days. on the twelfth day they rejoiced. there are ten tracks on 'big echo' which the morning benders think is best length for an album. it should also be said that 'big echo' is made of some of the most glorious anthemic pop music you'll hear this year or any year - think a mix of weezer, neutral milk hotel and beach boys. on rough trade.


ORDER: Big Echo


[* via Stereogum]


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