A Random MP3 Trilogy
After Deerhunter’s Microcastle leaked, I only listened to it a few times and put it away. I rarely listen to advanced copies because I hate getting used to an album when it is not the final, finished product and I don’t want to be too tired of an album by the time I can suggest a link to buy it to you blog readers. But since I’m told that Microcastle is now available on itunes, I decided to start digging into it hard. Together with the Weird Era Cont companion album floating around on the interwebs, the two make for an epic triumph (Although I’ve been trying to save getting deep into Weird Era until it gets more fall/winter to get the full experience as intended). All weekend long at the beach house, we had a daily, serious Microcastle jam session. It was sort of like a religious experience.
It has been brought to my attention that we have been “kinda riding their jock a bit” lately, but I say we haven’t been riding their jock enough. Right now, not only is Deerhunter the best band in this city, but they may be this entire continent’s best band of the last two years as soon as this thing drops for real. You haters out there need to get on the bandwagon. My fav song from Microcastle:
Deerhunter : Micocastle : Nothing Ever Happened
These days I get a ton of promo emails to check out tracks or artists, and while I do my best to give them all a legitimate shot, often that isn’t the case. But persistence combined with great music is hard to ignore, and I finally started looking deep into the mp3s sent to me from an act called Immuzikation. Alfredo Lapuz Jr. is an Athens, Ga based musician who is involved with the acts Collective Efforts and Velveteen Pink, and most notably to me, does blog song mash-ups under the name Immuzikation. I’m a sucker for both a clever mash-up and savvy use of aggregators, and he is a master of both. Here’s a little something by him combining Santogold with Atlanta exile Treasure Fingers:
(BONUS: get a remix of a song by The Death Set from Treasure Fingers here)
And while we’re talking aggregators, I decided for the final track on this trilogy, I would go randomly grab the number one hottest track on elbows.ws and see if it was cool. It turned out to be a band I’ve never heard of from Brooklyn, Ny called School Of Seven Bells doing a song called “Conjur”. They are the newest project from Secret Machines‘ Benjamin Curtis. Their debut album, Alpinisms, is due out at the end of October. The song itself turned out to be pretty sweet and I’m looking forward to listening to their album. See, the blogosphere’s wonders never cease:
School Of Seven Bells : Conjur
- Posted by Davy Minor on September 4, 2008 at 4:01 am
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October 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
se eu ñ acorda amanha saiba q eu te amo!!!!!!!!!
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October 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
se eu ñ acorda amanha saiba q eu te amo!!!!!!!!!
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A Random MP3 Trilogy
Lately I have been going through a serious Animal Collective kick. They have always been a band that I really liked, but now something has sort of clicked for me and I just can’t get enough. I’m starting to really lean towards considering them the best band to come out of this decade. Their entire discography is in my heaviest of rotations right now, but today’s obsession is Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Here’s a track from it to help you jump on the bandwagon:
Animal Collective : April And The Phantom
I’ve also been warming up more to The Dodos‘ Visiter lately. At first it struck me as too much of an Animal Collective ripoff, but now that I have been getting to know the language of that sort of music better, I can appreciate what The Dodos are doing. They are surely AC influenced, but they do some interesting stuff with those inclinations:
Final Fantasy dropped two tracks on the Internet today from two forthcoming EPs. If you are unfamiliar with FF, he is violinist/singer Owen Pallett, best known for his affiliations with Arcade Fire, and you should snatch a copy of his 2006 He Poos Clouds. One of the EPs will be reinterpretations of music by fellow Toronto musician Alex Lukashevsky and the other is a collaboration with Beruit. More info here, but jam a track from the latter:
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 26, 2008 at 11:55 pm
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Marnie Stern in the studio earlier this year.
So the first track today is the Marnie Stern single from her upcoming sophomore LP, This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That out October 7th. I absolutely loved her debut from last year, so I’m pretty excited.
Another female who had a great album last year was Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes. There is a The Cure cover by her rolling around the Internet from a forthcoming The Cure tribute album featuring acts like Jesu, Kaki King, and Indian Jewelry. More info on it here.
Finally we’ll end with some local love, as Treasure Fingers just released a single of “Cross The Dancefloor” complete with four remixes of the essential booty shaking song. While I’ve been hearing this song for forever in the A, it is currently blazing through the blogosphere since coming out officially. You can snag it up here, and jam one of the remixes here:
Treasure Fingers : Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike remix)
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 14, 2008 at 9:03 am
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The cover of Of Montreal’s forthcoming Skeletal Lamping
So we’ll start off with the new Of Montreal track floating around the series of tubes. They will be at The Tabernacle November 8th, which is my birthday, so I’m pretty excited. The ninth studio album from Athens’ greatest, Skeletal Lamping, drops October 7th, and here is the closing track:
Dan Deacon has a split 7″ coming out with fellow Baltimorians Future Islands, a cool band that I Guess I’m Floating hipped me to. Order the 7″ here.
Finally, one of the members of Bradford Cox’s touring Atlas Sound group was Portland, Oregon’s Adam Forkner, who does a project by himself called White Rainbow that I am jamming constantly right now. I’m really into “looping music”, and he is a master as far as I am concerned.
Adam Forkner at the Drunken Unicorn
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 6, 2008 at 4:03 am
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Grizzly Bear debuted a new song on Letterman last week from their forthcoming album due out spring of next year. I think when it’s all said and done, these guys will go down as one of the greatest bands to ascend from the “blog-era” of music. On a side note, right now Insound is offering some great limited edition shirts, hoodies, and posters from artist Jason Munn for 20 different bands including Grizzly Bear. Here’s the vid and mp3 for “Two Weeks”:
Chicago’s Maps And Atlases have dropped another really great EP recently that I have been jamming hard. You & Me & The Mountain is a short and sweet 17+ minutes of prog-meets-math-meets-indie rock that is definitely worth picking up. Enjoy the opening track:
I don’t really talk too much about hip-hop around these parts, mostly because its rare I come across new hip-hop albums I absolutely love very often these days. I guess I just don’t know where to look to find the good good, but I certainly enjoy quality rap when it hits my ears (yo, suggest me some!), and the new Lil Wayne album, Tha Carter III, is one of the best I’ve heard in the last few years. That’s not to say over time it will necessarily hold up against the elite, classic hip-hop albums of the genre’s earlier history, but it’s pretty damn good. Here’s a jam that cracks me up:
- Posted by Davy Minor on July 30, 2008 at 3:46 am
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Here are a few of the hott tracks rolling around the big series of tubes:
There’ a new Beck album produced by Danger Mouse about to hit stores soon. Rumours say it could suddenly drop from the sky like In Rainbows or the new Nine Inch Nails albums, but not necessarily for free. It is tentatively titled Modern Guilt and is supposed to have a ’60s psychedelic feel. I’ve even heard rumours that Cat Power appears on it. I’m excited:
Beck : Chemtrails
Ratatat is another great artist with a new release dropping this summer. Everyone I know has fallen in love with these guys since their 2006 Classics blew up. In addition to creating high quality, crowd pleasing original instrumental jams, they do some stellar remixes, Volume 2 of which you can download for free from their myspace. LP3 hits stores July 8th, and here’s a preview:
Ratatat : Shiller
Finally, I have been jamming the new Islands album, Arm’s Way, hard since it came out yesterday. It certainly has its share of flaws, of which most everyone reviewing is paying a lot of attention, but there are a plethora of amazing things going on that have me hooked. Just like how many people who loved the Unicorns didn’t like the direction Islands took things originally, many people who were really into Return To The Sea may not have wanted them to go they way they did for this one, but if you take it for what it is, it kicks some major ass. They just did a Daytrotter session, including a Brian Eno cover, that you can check out here, but here’s a really different version of “The Arm” from it:
Islands : The Arm (Daytrotter session)
- Posted by Davy Minor on May 21, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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So I feel like posting a few random tracks. I bought The Breeders‘ new album, Mountain Battles, the day after it came out and so far I don’t really know what to think of it. At moments I love it and others I want to turn it off. It feels like it is in another world from how I remember Title TK, which reminds me I need to jam that one again. I may end up totally falling in love with this one, or I might stop listening to it and never think about it again, but regardless, this song is great:
The Breeders : Mountain Battles : Bang On
Sonic Youth recently reissued their 1988 Ep Master-Dik, which I hadn’t heard before this. I picked it up, and it is really cool. Here’s a little cover from it:
Sonic Youth : Master-Dik : Beat On The Brat (The Ramones)
Finally, our very own Eric Guenther (From Exile) has started a music blog where he is releasing original music for free. The latest installment is a remix of a youtube video we had on here a couple of weeks ago that is really hilarious. He even dubbed in a badass guitar solo at the end. Check it out:
Southwest Dekalb Drum Majors : Bitch You Ride The Marta Bus (Eric Guenther mix)
- Posted by Davy Minor on April 22, 2008 at 10:49 am
