Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Been listening to a lot of music just haven’t had the time to write about it, so it goes…
Beck Record Label
I’ve already done a dedicated post to it, but i’ll post a song here that I’ve been listening to the most off this excellent collection of tunes. Even though it’s a cover, this is one of my favorite songs to come out this year, a great 7 minutes.
Beck Record Label – “Grey/Afro” (cover of song off of Skip Spence’s OAR)
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Never gotten into a Gorillaz album as much as this one. They’ve always captured the imagination, but I think the reason for this one seeping in for me is a higher appreciation of Damon Albarn over the past couple years. He is defintely an auteur and doing things differently than many other artists. The album has some songs that I skip over on a casual basis, but the album is completely worth listening to all the way through. I love this song in particular because it has Little Dragon on it and the way it starts out is completely different than the way it begins. Once those synths come in it reaches its full potential.
Gorillaz “Empire Ants” (featuring Little Dragon)
Seabear We Built A Fire
I’ve been waiting for a new Mojave 3 album now for a while, just sweet, graceful, slow, hazy, folky, super melodic music (that isn’t Beach House). Well, Seabear delivers on this note, and delivers well. Sure, this could easily be tossed aside as “too light”, “too Simon & Garfunkel”, “too Iron & Wine”, “too blah”, but I can’t stop listening to it. The songs are just heartfelt and feel genuine. “Cold Summer” was almost my first choice for posting, but I think that will give the wrong impression of the difference of this album to others of its kind. So I think “Fire in Place” might be a better choice. Watch it build, and when the girls come in it changes the song into something else.
Seabear “Fire Dies Down”
Jason Collett Rat A Tat Tat
I think I’ve recently just started to appreciate the work of Jason Collett. I listen to Broken Social Scene but they were always an anomaly to me (not unlike Yo La Tengo), I could never put a finger on what they were trying to do, not easily definable. But after these more recent Collett solo albums I’ve begun to realize just how good a singer/songwriter he is. The music is always somewhat raucous and loose, hanging together by a thread, but it always has a great melody to it.
Jason Collett ” Rave On Sad Song”
Tanlines
GM sent this to me last week and I’ve been listening to it ever since. It’s got a good mix of different kinds of music in it, like an afro-beat synth-dance fusion. Afro-synth? It’s a perfect candidate for a Memory Tapes remix. Myspace
Tanlines “Reallife”
Tanlines “Real Life” (Memory Tapes remix) (via nialler)
Singles
NadaSurf “Electrocution(byBillFox)
Pretty excited about the Nada Surf covers album coming out. This is a Bill Fox cover.. yeah I don’t know who that is, but it’s good to hear something that sounds like Nada Surf, but has a more noisy production to it. The song fits their bill perfectly, I hear they keep pretty close to the original.
Woven Bones “If it Feels Alright”
I know nothing about this band, but it appeals to my inner neanderthal. Check them out.
Foals “Spanish Sahara”
Foals are sounding great on this new song, can’t wait for the new album. (via pp) myspace.
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