Arguably (just by me) the best band indie-pop band to come out in the last decade, Annuals, release their first album in nearly 5 years.
Pick up their album "Time Stamp" on Bandcamp for a small fee of 8 bucks.
Of course, you can download it for free like every other music junky on the planet.
But be aware that the band went broke making this album.
How about we give them some money back for what they've given to us.
Just sayin', You will not be disappointed.
Hailing from upstate New York, Coast Jumper engulfs its listeners with reminiscent sounds of a washed-out beach boys harmony and new-school California indie-pop.
The album exudes a certain tension that suggests that I pick up and move to a different place.
All in one quick motion. This is not a bad thing.
Best consumed on your late-night drive home from the beach.
After you trudge your tired feet through the hot sand and into the parking lot.
After you brush away the final drops of your Bourbon into the dirt and start your ignition.
You're on your way home but you've got miles to go.
Squeeze the wheel and hypnotize yourself with the nearest tail light.
Learn the songs, sing the chorus.
Coast Jumper is here to keep you company.
Feel Flows~
*Pick up Coast Jumper's first album on Bandcamp for free!
Find a better deal than that, I dare you.
... Link listed below.
Ben Caplan's voice is the product of a smokers cough and a desire to be different. The album ranges anywhere from a crowded room to the sounds of a desolate hallway. Extensive and vast, Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers sing rugged and romantic ballads about the peeling away of feeling and the wasted years spent in the wrong direction. But as each song comes to it's epic end, and as each instrument introduced in the beginning is re-infused in a blended mess of perfection, we find a sense of truth and understanding. Reminiscent of an early Tom Waits, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers may just be the next BIG thing. Feel Flows~
After countless years of reunion shows, a nasty breakup, and a whole lot of press about a possible album, My Bloody Valentine has finally released their follow-up album to 1991's acclaimed, "Loveless".
The album was released last night via the inter-web.
Coincidentally, the internet was running really really really (really) slow last night.
....now we know why.
Pick up the album from the band's re-established website >>> Here
Disclaimer: If you like old MBV, you'll like new MBV
(Even if said enjoyment is the product of a guilty pleasure you're never willing to admit.)
There's a vague sense of clarity here.
Like they knew what was going to happen when two minds collided.
But it happened anyway.
Because music is about reformation through destruction.
The Revival Hour have started a large riot,
where knowledge meets hyper-insanity.
Where booming choirs meet soft high-pitched pianos.
Where crowded rooms meet the emptiness of a man's (desperate to understand) soul.
The Revival Hour is nothing short of spectacular.
Their music brews and cooks until it over flows and pops the lid directly off of your mind.
And while you're picking up the broken pieces that is your head,
they are building more elaborate variations of their music.
Like an uneasy tide, tracks fade out only to pull you back in.
In an age of plastic Rock N Rollers and aggressive pill-junkies, The Revival Hour is Restless, stunning, and truly a magnificent work of art.
LIYL: The idea of things working out the were they were supposed to. ***PHOX UNBLUSHING was recorded in one take, mistaken lyrics, wonky notes and all, over the course of the last 5 days of May, 2012 Feel Flows~
Their award winning album "An Awesome Wave"
is still being played on both sides of the Atlantic,
even months after being released.
...And there are no signs of that slowing..
"My name is Daniel McBride, 17 years of age, and Ablutophobia EP is the result of 9 months on-and-off recording in a tiny little studio I've managed to set up in my bedroom. I composed and performed all the songs by myself, borrowing various instruments to try and live up to the ideas I had in my head - an endeavour that saw me teach myself cello and euphonium, simply because I'd decided they were essential to the song. Feel Flows~
LIYL: The Oh Hello's, Of Monsters and Men, Coldplay, and Beirut
Step outside the box youve trapped yourself in,
to a crowded hallway.
Change the steps you take to walk,
to a slow hop.
Change the broken home alternative rock,
to a vast landscape of indie folk.
and you have Racing Glaciers.
Their songs build, glow, build, and refract.
In that order.
LIYL: Sufjan Stevens, Lost in the Trees, and Andrew Bird "Half Moon Run is a talented young trio from Ottawa, Ontario and Comox, British Columbia. It was in a practice studio situated in Montreal’s Mile-End district, through the hardships of time constraints and flatlined bank accounts, that the trio bonded and created their unique sound, fusing together the restless elements of indie, pop and folk with beautiful rhythmic harmonies, delicate guitar lines and a hint of warm electronica" -Band Website ~Flows Feel
Ryan Gosling was bored and decided he'd make a movie.
then he thought,
"shit, why don't I write the soundtrack as well"
....
So he gathered a childrens choir and wrote an album.
In fact, he loved the album so much,
he decided never to make the movie.
But the album will never die.
Promise.
LIYL: Lost in the Trees, Matt Pond PA, and Elvis Perkins
There are times,
when the only thing you want to listen to is something that will make your heart do a backflip.
Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, maybe Animal Collective.
Something heavy and fearless.
Hailing from the same record label (Domino)
we have a completely different sound than expected.
Conor Obrien, who's original band hit stardom with one album,
sunk himself into a comfortable chair and wrote another masterpiece.
Yes, it came out a while ago.
No, i dont care.
Yes, i want you to trust me.
Its like..
If dat Sufjan Stevens shit I had,
met up with dat Dodos shit I had a lil bit ago..
and they had a baby.
Then those babies somehow met and they fucked.
This would be the shit they'd produce.
