Animal Collective are back with a new 7inch single titled ‘Honeycomb / Gotham’ featuring two brand new songs. The ‘Honeycomb / Gotham’ digital bundle is available digitally now at http://smarturl.it/AC_Honeycomb - and the physical 7inch is available to pre-order now on the Domino Store with instant MP3 gratification of both tracks. Pre-order the single at http://www.dominorecordco.com/honeycomb. The 7inch will be available via Domino on the 26th of June and will also be available in stores later this summer.
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The newest Hot Chip track is a shifting classic house track that takes a few definite stages in building up to a typically Hot Chip-ian climax. Key changes, Joe Goddard’s wispy voice and the ever-improving production values on this make it a slick preview of the new album ‘In Our Heads’ (coming out 11th June) although it maybe takes a couple of spins to get into and love.
More info here: http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/02-03-12/in-our-heads/
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Lovely new teaser for the upcoming Dirty Projectors album, a follow-up to the epic Bitte Orca. This track, Gun Has No Trigger, has only three elements really: an erratic but driving drum rhythm, Angel and Amber’s heavenly backing vocals and David Longstreth’s wild musings. So it all fits together quite nicely. Quite nicely indeed.
(only marginally) more over on http://www.dirtyprojectors.net/
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Every Summer, Every Spring by GASHCAT
Holy ruddy bejesus. Two tracks into this album and I’m enraptured. The Neutral Milk Hotel comparison is unavoidable but GASHCAT deserves praise in their own right. If you’re a Mangum man, you have to check out this album. Buy it from their bandcamp here.
shared from exfm.
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An, as always, transcendental new track from Sigur Rós - taken from the forthcoming album, valtari, which will be released in late May.
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Any Little Way by The Explorer’s Club
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Any Little Way by The Explorer’s Club
This is one of my favorite tracks from The Explorer’s Club’s new LP, Grand Hotel. Not unlike the High Llamas, these guys take mad cues from the Wilsons. At barely a minute, this track reminds me of the short-form Beach Boys tracks like “Meant For You”.
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Loving this track from Canadian almost-all girl group, Chic Gamine. With four equally skilled vocalists and a tight rhythm section they create a fantastic new-soul sound and on Closer they just draw you right in.
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Friends are one of the hotter post-SXSW acts (allegedly). On I’m His Girl you have a sweet tune, ready to buy over here: http://luckynumber.bandcamp.com/album/im-his-girl
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Medicine is the second track on ‘The Wild Youth’ EP which came out last autumn by Daughter, the moniker of Elena Tonra whose beautiful, ethereal voice lights up this track.
You can buy the EP here: ohdaughter.bandcamp.com
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Bright Moments is basically Kelly Pratt, a multi-instrumentalist who has played with Beirut, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem. He is primarily a hornster (if that is the technical term) as a touring musician but in his solo work he’s managed to create a dense and interesting sound that’s as grandiose as any of his contemporaries. The full album, Natives, is available already and I highly suggest you pick up a copy, if you have the means.
I may or may not be in love with this one song.
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Gorgeous new song and video from Lightships. If this is the first, I can’t wait for more…
(via Lightships – new project from Teenage Fanclub’s Gerard Love | Eardrums Music)
Quite the stellar combination - James Murphy, Andre 3000 and Damon Albarn - and quite the stellar track. This Gorillaz release came out a week or so back (via Converse?) but has been burning for a while. The video is also well worth checking out. Take a look at that and more over on http://play.converse.com/blog/2012/02/23/doyathing/.
