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CAVE – PSYCHIC SUMMER

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

2009, Important
01. GAMM; 02. Made In Malaysia; 03. Encino Men; 04. High, I Am; 05. Requiem For John Sex; 06. Machines & Muscles

“Chicago’s Cave have returned with their distinct blend of momentum rock and it is, fittingly, their most fully realized disc yet. Tighter, funkier, spacier and more driving than anything they’ve done, this is the group at their best, concocting neo-Krautrock grooves that perfectly soundtrack the continued and colorful descent deeper into the new millennium. (…) Mixing equal parts Can and Stereolab with a grooving and cruise-worthy psychedelicism propagated by the likes of Funkadelic…”
Buy it. Myspace.

Encino Men

Requiem For John Sex

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

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BLACK PUS – 0:ULTIMATE BEAT OFF

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

2009, Diareaharama
01. Beat A Path Up Pattern Mountain; 02. In The Temple Tantrum full; 03. River That Ran Too Far

Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer.

SOUNDS LIKE
In his own words – “ugliest cd yet”. In some last.fm users’ words, “sounds like an upside-down nuclear explosion in a hurricane with some boulders flying around”. Yes, that’s a tag.

River That Ran Too Far

Buy 0:Ultimate Beat Off here. Black Pus Myspace.

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RAINBOW ARABIA – KABUKIMONO

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

2009, Manimal Vinyl
01. Holiday in Congo; 02. Haunted Hall; 03. Kabukimono; 04. Harlem Sunrise; 05. I Know I See I Love I Go; 06. Omar K (Ghosts On Tape remix); 07. Let Them Dance (Brenmar remix)

Mini-album Kabukimono was recorded by Butchy Fuego (These Are Powers, Pit Er Pat) and it’s due July 27th. It features five new songs and two remixes – one from Brenmar (Bill Salas from These Are Powers) and one from SF’s Ghosts On Tape.

SOUNDS LIKE
Middle East Gang Gang Dance. “More varied in color and tone, Kabukimono finds the group expanding on the template laid down with their debut The Basta equally inspired by Sublime Frequencies comps, Factory Records, Congotronics adding many new tropical, african, eastern flourishes to their latest material.” Two new tracks below.

Holiday in Congo

I Know I See I Love I Go

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WARM CLIMATE – EDIBLE HOMES

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

2009, Stunned Records
01. Lost Teeth/Organ Donor; 02. Cave In; 03. Edible Homes & Gardens/Synth Pads For Homeless; 04. Devine Souffle & The Southern Approach; 05. Motion Picks Glaze; 06. Gross Polluter

SOUNDS LIKE
“It’s nearly impossible to describe just where exactly this ride takes the listener except that it’s a rich amalgamation of rock, classic pop, free jazz, dance, drone, tribal noise, broken toys, and psych riffing that testifies to Warm Climate’s versed knowledge of sound in its myriad of cultural forms.” Pretty interesting record.

Devine Souffle & The Southern Approach

Buy it. Warm Climate @ Myspace.

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NOBUNNY – RAW ROMANCE

Monday, May 25th, 2009

2009, Burger Records
01. Your Mouth; 02. Oh Cody; 03. Mask’s On; 04. Monster Kiss; 05. Apple Tree; 06. Hippy Witch; 07. I Am A Girlfriend (demo); 08. It’ll All Come Back to Haunt You; 09. Tonight You Belong to Me; 10. Mess Me Up (live); 11. The Gutter; 12. Vicious Circle

“One of the many personalities of Okmoniks drummer and Sneaky Pinks founder Justin Champlin, Nobunny (with and without the Fabulous Flys) is a Tucson-founded, Oakland-based, bunny-faced act specializing in 60s-style garage rock and pop.”

SOUNDS LIKE
Guess what? Lo-fi garage rock. For those of you who haven’t had enough of lo-fi pop yet, here’s some more…
Get it here. Nobunny on Myspace.

Monster Kiss (Golden Boots)

I Am a Girlfriend (demo)

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FLOATING ACTION – FLOATING ACTION

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

2009, Park The Van Records
01. 50 Lashes; 02. Marie Claire; 03. To Connect; 04. Unrobbed; 05. Edge of the World; 06. So Vapor; 07. Don’t Stop (Loving Me Now); 08. Cinder Cone; 09. Cinder Cone (part II); 10. Dying Punch; 11. Could You Save Me; 12. Say Goodbye; 13. Tide of Green; 14. Pills to Grind

“…drawing comparisons as diverse as Motown to the Carribean, Seth Kauffman returns as Floating Action.”

SOUNDS LIKE
“He invokes those classic, soul staples of deep and penetrating bass lines, simple but ideal and perfect lyrics about the troubles of love and jingling guitars. He gives you the jitters and the absolute sway is all his.”
That whole summery sound has been pretty happening lately, but now that summer’s almost here we can truly enjoy it. Get the album at their Myspace.

Marie Claire

Cinder Cone (Part II)

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VUK – THE PLAINS

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

2009, Johanna Kustannus/Pyramid
01.Flint in The Pines; 02. The Arms of Spirits; 03. Red-beard; 04. Accidental Mermaid; 05. Gramophone and Periscope; 06. Barefoot in Arizona; 07. Kiss The Assassin; 08. All My Worries; 09. The Plains

“27-year multi-instrumental Finnish-American Emily Cheeger, an ex-Dirty Projector (she sang on The Getty Address, did various singing percussion from 2002-2005), who currently plays a pump organ (and half a dozen instruments) while belting out vocals that can be beautifully fragile and beautifully taunting and, in general, always straight-up powerful.” [MORE]

SOUNDS LIKE
Freak folk White Chalk-era PJ Harvey. “…emotional bouts with death-gospel drama, esoteric organ-and-harmonium requiems, percussive chants and unbridled, youthful whimsy.” Get The Plains here. Vuk Myspace.

Red-beard

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LIECHTENSTEIN – SURVIVAL STRATEGIES IN A MODERN WORLD

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

2009, Fraction Discs/Slumberland
01. All At Once; 02. Postcard; 03. Sophistication; 04. By Staying Here; 05. Wallpaper Stripes; 06. Roses In The Park; 07. Reflections; 08. White Dress; 09. The End

Liechtenstein are an all-girl indie pop band from Gothenburg, Sweden.

SOUNDS LIKE
Shop Assistants, Talulah Gosh etc. + The Slits. Post-punk/twee. Or, how they neatly put it on their Myspace page, “sounds like: 1984″. Two tracks from the forthcoming mini-LP:

By Staying Here

Wallpaper Stripes

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COLD CAVE – CREMATIONS

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

2009, Hospital Productions
01. Sex Ads; 02. I’ve Seen The Future And It’s No Place For Me; 03. Always Someone; 04. An Understanding; 05. First Fit; 06. Heavenly Metals; 07. Poison Berries; 08. Roman Skirts; 09. Gates; 10. Cursed By The Cross; 11. Mag Dreams; 12. In A Cave; 13. Love Lets Go; 14. Chrissie Sally; 15. Of All The Summer Murders; 16. Hummingbirds; 17. Rainbow Girls; 18. Love You Forever; 19. Swallow The Sun; 20. E Dreams

Cremations is a collection of early demo, live and unreleased tracks from Cold Cave. Available here.
SOUNDS LIKE
Tags: electronic, darkwave, minimal, synth-pop, experimental, cold wave. “…Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, Industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings…”

Gates

Chrissie Sally

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FRUIT SAND – THE RENAISSANCE

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

2009, Clinic Tapes
Didn’t get any info on this, except that it’s due some time this summer.

SOUNDS LIKE
No Age and Wavves. “Lately, there’s been a growing trend in noise pop/psuedo-punk/60s throwback mixed with trash culture/shitgaze or whatever. (…) Rather than fuzz, Carter’s songs are buried in midrange thrash and the guitars saw through the mix, blasting into your ear canal with blunt force. (…) It’s pretty damn impressive stuff, considering that his focus on texture makes contemporaries pale in comparison…” As for the new songs, they seem a bit catchier than previous stuff.
Get We Came from Our Parents here. (It was also featured on ill-formed.)
Myspace page. Two new tracks below.

Not Another Singer

Think Positive

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STORM & STRESS – UNDER THUNDER AND FLOURESCENT LIGHTS

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

2000, Touch & Go
01. The Sky’s the Gound, the Bombs Are Plants, and We’re the Sun, Love; 02. An Address That Was to Skip Ahead of the Gallop of Its Own Sperm and Eggs; 03. Meet Me in the Space They Stare at Leaving Their Seat During a Show; 04. It Takes a Million Years to Become Diamonds So Lets Just Burn Like Coal Until the Sky’s Black; 05. The 1st Our Lady of Burning Thorns; 06. O, When My Lady Comes; 07. The 2nd Perpetuate the Beautiful; 08. And Third and Youngest, Unnamed; 09. Forever, Like Anti-Oxidants (Listen to the Sound Our Cells Make)

“That was the band of Ian Williams from Battles after he left Don Caballero.” With Kevin Shea and Erich Emm. The band is getting some attention again after being mentioned by Bradford Cox in P4k’s 5-10-15-20 recently.

SOUNDS LIKE
Some good math rock/free jazz. “Beefheartian free-jazz drums fall down stairs. Guitars are plucked and strangled. Tentative vocals recall Gastr Del Sol, mumbling absurd William Burroughs cut-up lyrics.”

Meet Me in the Space They Stare at Leaving Their Seat During a Show

The 2nd Perpetuate the Beautiful

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