Dan Snaith a.k.a. Caribou has a new album coming out. Swim, the follow-up to one of our 2007 favs Andorra drops April 20th on Merge and City Slang. The opening track ‘Odessa’ is available for free download. [via] The album was recorded in Wales and in the studio of Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys. Hmm. ‘Odessa’ sure does bring Junior Boys to mind. Download it here.
Here it is! A new High Places song! ‘On Giving Up’ will be on their forthcoming sophomore album. Also, it’s probably the first High Places song you could play in a club. We like.
Boneless is the project of Nevada’s Isaac Knight. Yesterday he posted a new song on his Myspace, accompanied by these words “that’s the album art… this is a ‘dark’ song. +shitty vocals”. Well, we like his little dark bedroom pop jams so here you go:
The L.A.-based prog-rockers Crystal Antlers have a new video for the song ‘Tentacles’, off their last year’s debut album. And guess what – it’s psychedelic.
Here’s a new remix of Atlas Sound‘s ‘Shelia’ from their last year’s excellent album Logos. It was mixed by a certain French duo called Cracks whom we never heard of before. But this is pretty good.
Off The International Radar‘s new EP features a collaboration with the Canadian electronic post-rock outfit Holy Fuck. Watch it the video for the track below. Directed by Aaron Dawson.
There’s a video for another track off the EP, ‘A Cold Mirror’. Watch it on Vimeo. The Hot Lips EP is available now from Hand-Drawn Dracula.
Trudgers are a lo-fi post-punk three piece from California who have recently released an album on Bridgetown Records. Always Crashing Heaven is the complete live recording of the bands’ set in L.A. Get it from Bridgetown Records.
Also, check out the “winter batch” – the label offers 6 releases for only 20$, including CDs by Cloud Nothings, Trudgers, Nicole Kidman, Vehicle Blues and Kevin Greenspon + Nicole Kidman. You can download the Bridgetown Records Winter Sampler for free here. Trudgers’ Myspace.
Watch the new Led Er Est video for the song ‘Something for Children’, off of their debut album Dust on Common (that we wrote about recently). The video was made by Ava Warbrick and Owen Hutchinson, and was apparently inspired by the story of Sedna, a character from Inuit mythology. Hah!
Just stumbled across this and thought I’d share. On one of her recent live shows Fever Ray performed a cover of Peter Gabriel‘s song ‘Mercy Street’ from his 1986 album So. AND there’s a solid recording of that, available for download below! There’s also a short clip of the performance on YouTube.
The Twilight Sad foray into remixing! By turning fellow Scotsmen Errors‘ new song into a Fuck Buttons sounding jam. ‘Bridge or Cloud’ is the opening track on these electro math-rock post-rockers’ upcoming album, Come Down With Me. It’s due for release 15th February on Mogwai’s Rock Action Records.
01. Absolute Body Control – Figures; 02. Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars; 03. Linear Movement – Night in June; 04. Opera Multi Steel – Ills S’eloigent; 05. Bal Paré – Palais d’Amour; 06. Eleven Pond – Watching Trees; 07. The Vyllies – Babylon; 08. End of Data – Dans Votre Monde; 09. The Actor – Lights; 10. Ausgang Verboten – Consumer; 11. Jeunesse d’Ivoire – A Gift of Tears; 12. OTO – Anyway; 13. Ruth – Polaroïd/Roman/Photo; 14. Stereo – Somewhere in the Night; 15. The Neon Judgement – The Fashion Party; 16. Land of Giants – Cannibal Dolls; 17. Days of Sorrow – Travel
The compilation was put together by Joe Daniel (Angular Records) and Pieter Schoolworth (founder of Wierd Records). It features some 80′s European minimal wave underground artists such as Absolute Body Control, Linear Movement, Ruth and others. Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1 is out February 22 on Angular Records. Get it here. You can download a “mini taster mixtape” here.
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