The Juan Maclean recently announced the release of DJ Kicks. Aaand the new Juan Maclean track called ‘Feels So Good’ was just made available for free download! It features Nancy Whang on vocals and a droom loop from Jerry Fuchs. Maclean’s DJ Kicks is due out on April 27, pre-order here.
We mentioned the California boy/girl duo Dazzle Ships awhile back and offered some demos for download. Now they have an official release out on Family Time Records. Least Resistance 7″ is out March 30, you can pre-order it here. Here’s the title track off of new 7″:
Caribou‘s new song gets remixed by Nite Jewel! And of course it’s good. ‘Odessa (Nite Jewel remix)’ will be on Caribou’s forthcoming Europe-only single. Swim is due April 20 on Merge/City Slang, you can pre-order it here. Download the original version of ‘Odessa’ and watch the video here.
Orchard Thief is a Minneapolis-based one-man project. Sam makes “music for when you need to take a deep breath” and “music for morning routines and getting home after work.” He also says that the Orchard Thief songs are about growing up and having feelings. Well, so be it. Grab some fine hazy lo-fi jams below. They’ll be featured on the upcoming split release with his roommatePawlic.
Brooklyn’s lo-fi pop band Beach Fossils did a session for Insound’s new studio session series. The band played four new (!) songs from their upcoming debut album. And they sound promising. The album should be out sometime soon on Captured Tracks and Woodsist. Watch the “multi-camera, high-quality videos” and download one mp3 over at Insound.
Watch the new Emeralds video for ‘Geode’ from their s/t LP released last fall on Wagon/Gneiss Things. The video was made by Joseph Raglani. Some “liquid light/light refraction projections”:
2010, Bathetic Records Cs 1 – 01. †; 02. oOoOO – Cold; 03. SLEEP ∞ OVER – Your World Is Night; 04. TERMINAL TWILIGHT – The Fire Of Love (Fire Mix); 05. S U R V I V E – Chem Trails / Cs 2 – 01. oOoOO – NoShore; 02. SLEEP ∞ OVER – Come Wander With Me; 03. TERMINAL TWILIGHT – Air; 04. S U R V I V E – Omniverse
Bathetic Records released a rad new limited edition 2xCS compilation with mini-booklet. It’s a four-way split by oOoOO, SLEEP ∞ OVER, S U R V I V E and Terminal Twilight. Get Dark as Nighthere.
Vacation Dad sent over his new song “about two roommates that are in love with each other but they both have girlfriends so they can’t express their feelings to one another so they both get real fucked up on dayquil and die in a bathroom”. What I hear is a nice Person Pitch-esque jam, but alright. Here you go – ‘Dan and I Drank Dayquil’, a “kind of a Romeo and Juliet thing but way gayer”.
Watch the new video for ‘Seaww’ by San Francisco’s mysterious oOoOO, made by Daniel Lopatin. The song is taken from the oOoOO/White Ring limited edition split 7″, out now on Emotion.
Toronto experimental post-rockers Holy Fuck announced a new album last week, and now one of the songs has been made available for download. Snatch ‘Latin America’ mp3 below. The follow-up to 2007′s LP is called Latin and is due May 11 on Young Turks/XL.