This Saturday, as part of Record Store Day, Radiohead released two new songs titled “Supercollider” and “The Butcher”, the last two remnants from the King of Limbs sessions, and highly likely the last material the band will churn out this year. While Supercollider is very laied back and chilled, “The Butcher” simply blew me away with its haunting instrumental, stellar percution and an implacable as ever Thom Yorke. The two tracks are out now at…
Stomping beats and a synth line which could even wake up the ’80s from the dead, describes Jesse Ruins’ indescribably fresh “Dream Analysis”, in what’s the most anthemic track I’ve been granted to hear from a while now. Details are pretty scarce on the artist, but from what I understand he/she’s based in Tokyo and will soon have (1st May) a record out on cassette/vinyl via Japanese label CUZ ME PAIN. [MP3] Jesse Ruins -…
Justin Vernon’s second full length studio installment has long been awaited, as anticipation grows ever thick in the wake of the release of “For Emma, Forever Ago”‘s follow-up. Reports have it Bon Iver’s sophomore yet untitled release will be out this June, although a shroud of mystery is wrapped around the project, fact amplified by a recently unveiled teaser video. The very short 50 seconds video features interesting instrumentals overlapped by Vernon’s unmistakable haunting vocals…
Album name: In Love With Oblivion Artist name: Crystal Stilts Genre: Noise Pop Released: April 11, 2011 Label: Sumberland Records/Fortuna POP! ZME Rating: 7/10 Website: myspace.com/crystalstilts You remember the 2003 film Lost In Translation don’t you? Yeah. Fantastic wasn’t it? Too flippin? right it was! The film was directed by Sofia Coppola and starred the greatest actor (although perhaps not technically) in the history of American cinema: Bill Murray. Fact. If you can also remember…
Alex caught up with Manchester’s Help Stamp Out Loneliness, a promising dream pop outfit whose debut album is slated for release on May 9th. Read, listen and order. Help Stamp Out Loneliness by Help Stamp Out Loneliness 1. I’m very excited to finally get to know you guys a little better. So band members, please introduce yourselves! I would really appreciate it if each of you could give us his/hers specific character description in no…
Mainly due to frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s focus on solo projects in the past few years, there’s been little insight, let alone new material, surfacing from the Icelandic dream-pop experimentalists. Sensing this, who knows, Sigur Ros has uploaded to its SoundCloud a slew of new unreleased tracks, like demos, alternate versions or rare lives, which never made the final studio draft for one reason or another, but which are now up on the web for your…
TV on the Radio will release their new album, “Nine Types of Light”, next week and wouldn’t you know it, you can stream all the ten tracks entirely for free down at Rhapsody (with your 25 tracks trial account and granted you’re on an US ip, of course). The follow-up to the exquisite Dear Science will land officially on April 12th via Interscope Records. For a quick feel of Nine Types of Light, check out…
Album name: Rolling Papers Artist name: Wiz Khalifa Genre: Rap Released: March 29, 2011 Label: Atlantic/Rostrum ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: wizkhalifa.com I’m about to defend a Wiz Khalifa album. Well, kinda. For the few of you who haven’t navigated away, hear me out. WK is a an average rapper at best, no one – myself included – is going to argue that. But the key to appreciating any song by him is to understand that…
Yup, the new FF record can be streamed at the ‘official’ site of the band’s forthcoming album, Wasting Light. I’m currently five tracks in and, ya know what, the choice to track the record to analog was a good one. A great one, in fact. It just sounds so fucking pure. In addition, producer Butch Vig got some seriously heavy performances outta these guys; they needed it. And the Alan Moulder-helmed mix sounds wonderful. Apart…
The fairy tale screening of Red Riding Hood has been stirring a lot of waves recently, none that will probably find any echoes past 6 months from now, but nonetheless Twilight fans will definitely devour this up. And although I have little faith in the movie itself, I find the soundtrack much to my interest, being scored by Brian Reitzell (30 Days Of Night, Beginners) and Alex Heffes (State Of Play, Inside Job). Joining them…
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