2009, Upset the Rhythm
01. Pinocchio; 02. Happiness of Being Twice
Stream Pinocchio and other tracks on MySpace.
You can download the live versions of the tracks over at WFMU.
Buy.
2009, Upset the Rhythm
01. Pinocchio; 02. Happiness of Being Twice
Stream Pinocchio and other tracks on MySpace.
You can download the live versions of the tracks over at WFMU.
Buy.
New album by White Denim, a follow-up to last year’s excellent Exposion. Not as good on first listen, but hey, that’s just the first impression.
“…An exhilarating rush that channels garage rock, psych, hardcore, classic rock and much more besides, Fits achieves what Crystal Antlers’ ear-splitting Tentacles didn’t quite: the spasmodic appropriation of multitudinous music styles into three-minute epics…”
Whole album is available for stream here. You can check out the new video for I Start to Run on their official site.
Radio Milk How Can You Stand It
I’d Have It Just The Way We Were
SOUNDS LIKE
Tropical poppy bliss. “All we have to do is nothing at all under the sun.” Lovely.
Befriend him and tell him how awesome he is on MySpace.
2009, Captured Tracks
01. Slow Room; 02. Anywhere
2009, In the Red
01. Waiting; 02. Splitting
You can listen to 2 new tracks below.
Slow Room
Splitting
2009, Night People
01. Castle Walls; 02. Ghost House; 03. Ramen Blues; 04. Vapor Trails; 05. Song For Joseph; 06. Surf’s Up; 07. Black Out; 08. Sugar Water; 09. Evening Gown; 10. Deep End Of The Pool; 11. M’ Lady Moth
Jeans Wilder is the guise of San Diego’s Andrew Caddick.
SOUNDS LIKE
Hazy lo-fi bedroom pop. A pretty accurate description from his Myspace page – “Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what’s next.”
Get Antiques here.
2009, Loci
01. Untitled; 02. Untitled; 03. Untitled
The project of Karl Bauer, violin + vocal + other instrumental music + electronic processing.
SOUNDS LIKE
…He toured with Animal Collective last year. A great follow-up to 2007′ Memory Theatre. In his own words, “After 3 years I have finally completed what I think is my best record, Of Bonds in General, which will see a small run of 200 CDR’s this week via Fusetron, Volcanic Tongue, and maybe a few other places, and then finally a proper LP courtesy of the wonderful Catsup Plate records sometime this summer. Digital Download will also be available.”
Axolotl @ Myspace.
Untitled 03
Edit: Removed on request. “…there will be a proper, mastered mp3 download available in a couple months. I really want people to hear it proper.”
2009, Not Not Fun
01. Psychic; 02. Dead Horses; 03. Night Court; 04. Prisms of Fame
Super group with members of Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Magic Lantern, and Fantastic Ego.
SOUNDS LIKE
“NNF’s loosest cannons return to the recording fray with, Psychic, a blown-out briar patch of basement garage fantasy masquerading as obscurist protest funk–and the band’s first vinyl statement. Recorded in Eagle Rock on a ‘last legs’-style four track, the EP’s four songs are jacked deep in the red, with fuzz bass, wah shrapnel, vocal sloganeering, and drum racket all fighting for tape room.”
2009, True Panther Sounds
01. Apply; 02. Glad; 03. Learn; 04. Apply (Tanlines remix); 05. Glad (Lucky Dragons remix); 06. Learn (John Talabot remix)
SOUNDS LIKE
“…Kate Bush using the rhythmic influence of Arthur Russell and the emotional inflections of Karen Dalton. She uses her voice as an instrument in ways that continually stun us”, says True Panther. We say weird and ethereal.
So we caught up with Patrick Flegel from Women a couple of nights ago at one of their shows and decided to ask him a couple of questions.
NC: Almost a year has passed since you released the album, the new stuff that we heard tonight, is that going to make it onto an EP or are you working on your next album?NC: How long have you been playing together?
Pat: Mat’s my brother and the other guys I’ve known since I was like in grade school so a really really long time…
NC: Awww…
Pat:It’s adorable! [makes a face]
NC: How long did it take you to find the sound you wanted?
Pat: Erm, I don’t know if we’ve got it yet [laughs]. We need our own sound guy and new gear and stuff. We’re planning like a whole phase two of the band that would be totally different. We’re planning on overhauling the whole operation.
NC: You played the Primavera festival?
Pat: Yeah!
NC: How was that?
Pat: Oh, that was fucking amazing! I saw Sonic Youth and Neil Young, and the Vaselines and… all the bands that were excellent so… It’s nice to see how good the bands are and then you know how good you have to be.
NC: Have you ever played to a big crowd like that before?
Pat: Not really, it was pretty crazy.
NC: You usually play smaller venues…
Pat: Well, it varies, like, sometimes we’ll play in front of 15 people somewhere in Ontario or like, I don’t know, two thousand people if we’re playing a show with Mogwai or something.
NC: Do you like it better in Europe or in America?
Pat: Europe for sure!
NC: Really? A lot of bands say that, why is that?
Pat: Well, first of it’s like a more interesting place to be, just as for walking around down town, the architecture… Also, the people are way, way nicer. The people are just really nice to me, and they really love music. It’s fun.
We talked some more afterwards and found out that the album cover is actually a picture Pat cut out from a Chinese medical textbook. Their merch was ridiculously cheap so we bought up everything.
Check out the rest of their tour dates at their MySpace.
2009, Paper Bag Digital
01. Youth Tunes; 02. Tambourine; 03. Imaginary Friends; 04. Venom; 05. Last Call
SOUNDS LIKE
Yet again, some murky, noisy lo-fi pop. “Little Girls’ sound is driven by ‘youth and nostalgia’, says Josh who has been creating and playing music since his early teens. His influences come from the 80′s no-wave post-punk scene and the early 80′s golden era of hip-hop…” I don’t really hear that hip-hop influence, but youth and nostalgia are here. The title brings to mind certain 90′s noisy twee band…
Tambourine EP is out now, you can get it here. Previous release, Thrills 12″, is sold out, unfortunately. Little Girls @ Myspace.
2009, Self-Released
Experimental noise rock band from Montréal, “two guitars, drums and insane warbling”.
“This was our limited edition (80 pieces) 14 minutes Spring tour tape.” You can download the whole thing here. Band Myspace.