Musical Pairings: Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
March 11th, 2013
Admittedly, I’ve not been a Youth Lagoon fan for very long. In fact, until recently I’d pretty much (unfairly) written off Trevor Powers’ music. But that’s changed recently. After more or less immediately falling in love with the first single “Dropla” off his new album, I picked up his previous album The Year of Hibernation on [...]
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Single Serving: Halasan Bazar – Space Junk
March 8th, 2013
By pretty much all accounts, there is a lot of great stuff going on in the Copenhagen music scene these days. While a certain Danish electro-pop chanteuse has been getting a lot of attention, there are many equally awesome sonic experimentations being conducted on other ends of the indie music spectrum. Take, for example, the [...]
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Single Serving: Salt Cathedral – Take Me To The Sea
March 7th, 2013
Bogota’s Salt Cathedral are about to blow your mind. At least, “blown” was how my mind felt after digesting their debut single “Take Me To The Sea.” Built upon a foundation of clattering percussion and skittering bass, this jam just gradually builds before breaking into a stuttering, polyphonic orgy of clean sonic textures and weaving [...]
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TK018: GEMS – All I Ever / Never Age 7″
March 5th, 2013
It’s not uncommon for professional critics and music bloggers alike, myself included, to start a review by pointing out where the band’s from. I suppose (although I’ll admit to having thought about it less than I should) that we’re implying that the music is informed by the city where it was born. In fact, I [...]
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Single Serving: Empress Of – Systems
March 4th, 2013
Empress Of’s debut single “Champagne” was one of my favorite vinyl singles of last year. So I’m thrilled to see she’s prepped a new 12″ of material for Terrible Records/Double Denim Records. The first track from the 12″ is the warm and hypnotic “Hat Trick” which you can stream below. I’m sold. Preorder the limited [...]
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Turntable Kitchen’s Coffee & Toast Mixtape
February 26th, 2013
There are few things I enjoy more in life than a cup off hot coffee and some toasted fresh bread (with a little honey spread on it). In fact, if I were Radiohead, I’d write a banging song about coffee and toast and title it something like “Black Stoutz Burnt.” It’d have swirling arpeggios, harmonies [...]
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Musical Pairings: Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
February 25th, 2013
It’s easy to forget that Lonesome Dreams is Lord Huron’s debut album. After all, the band’s birth was back in 2010 when Michigan-born/Los Angeles-based songwriter Ben Schneider wrote and recorded Lord Huron’s debut EP, more or less as a solo project. A true band was formed shortly thereafter and a second well-received EP followed later that [...]
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Single Serving: Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
February 22nd, 2013
This pair of tunes pulled from Ireland’s Mano Le Tough’s new album “Changing Days” will definitely serve as the soundtrack to my Friday. The glitchy, warm ambiance of “A Thing From Above” effortlessly calls to mind the driving and rhythmic groove of Radiohead’s “Everything In It’s Right Place.” Meanwhile, “Please” is set upon a repetitive [...]
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Single Serving Premiere: Stroik – One More Time
February 21st, 2013
Brightly textured and fresh-faced clean, the latest offering from North Carolina-based songwriter Stroik is the irresistibly upbeat pop jam “One More Time.” Built upon a bouncing Yamaha keyboard framed melody the tune is all sunshine and rainbows. But, as is often the case with a good pop jam, the lyrics are far less idealistic: “I remember [...]
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Single Serving: Misfit Mod – Islands & Islands
February 19th, 2013
Mark from Brooklyn label Stars & Letters recently reached out and introduced us to a number of the artists on his label. For now, let it suffice to say that there’s a lot of great stuff there (we included tracks by two of his artists for our last mixtape), but the debut by Misfit Mod [...]
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