Elena Tonra’s band, Daughter, have released the first track, “Love”, from an upcoming EP “The Wild Youth”. It’s a song about love and being left behind. “I can’t forget it / Though I’ve tried / I know you regret it, love / Told me so many times / But I still wonder / Why you…
The opening single, “This Fall”, off Big Tree’s sophomore release, “This New Year”, is a mix of gracefully romantic lyrics, mellifluous melodies, peaceful harmonies and changes of pace. The quintet that make up this band, originally found their roots in jazz classrooms, and you can hear it in the polish and acumen of their sound.…
About three weeks ago, Brooklyn’s Bell posted a live recording of a cover of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” on soundcloud. I downloaded the track, and thought about posting it then, but the recording quality was a bit spotty. Well, seems it doesn’t matter now, because in its place, Bell went ahead and recorded a…
It’s been two years since Swedish songwriter Sarah Assbring released her record “Love Is Not Pop”, under her music project name, El Perro Del Mar. But she’s back with a new single, “What Do You Expect”. It’s a pretty dubstep throwback with spoken-word verses and a dance-club feel. She wrote the song, with the recent…
Listen to a new song from Los Angeles’ noisepop quartet Mezzanine Owls, called “Obstacle”. It will be one of two songs on the “Obstacle/Tethered To The Fountain” limited-edition 7-inch out October 11th via JAXART. Only 250 records will be made, so pre-order your copy quickly. “Obstacle” is a beautiful blending of light and shade, hazy…
MGMT are the next group to become a part of the “LateNightTales” series, which has featured Trentemøller, Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, Jamiroquai, Nightmares on Wax and many others. It’s a series that invites artists to dig deep into their collections, influences and loves to come up with their own compilation. Each compilation includes one cover…
By David D. Robbins Jr. | Their Bated Breath Album: AA Bondy “Believers” There just aren’t many songwriters like AA Bondy. He’s a poet of the nighttime, walking around with the weight of the world. His new record, “Believers”, proves once again he belongs to a short list of America’s lyrical wanderers, artists who seem…
Porcelain Raft posted a cover of Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” on bandcamp. But it’s more like a re-working, than a straight cover. Yeah, the melody is there. There’s a familiarity we all have to the songs of “Nevermind”. Porcelain Raft buries the vocals in echoed reverb, drags the song into a kind of hazy…
Swedish artist Summer Heart (aka David Alexander) has a new video for “The North” thanks to videographer, Alexa Drayi. The track was part of Summer Heart’s seven-song LP, “Never Let Me Go”. It’s about as laid-back a sound as you’ll hear. Listen to “Hold On” below. It’s the title track to a two-song record posted…
Florence and the Machine follow up the track, “What The Water Gave Me”, with the lead single, “Shake It Out”, both of which are featured on the upcoming LP “Ceremonials”. The album will be released in the UK on October 31 on Island Records and in the U.S in November on Universal Republic. Stream the…
Yellow Ostrich is one of my favorite finds of the past couple of years. Just love his harmonic inventiveness. Here’s his first official video, for his lead single, “WHALE”. It’s from Alex Schaaf’s debut full-length “The Mistress” available now on Barsuk Records. In an archived Their Bated Breath post, I called this record one of…
It’s Warren Hildebrand’s (aka Foxes In Fiction) birthday, so he’s feeling pretty good. So good in fact, that he posted an alternate version of a song from his 2010 cassette release, “Swung from the Branches”. It’s a re-working of the blissed-out “Jimi Bleachball”. Here’s what Warren posted at his tumblr site: “It’s my birthday and…
Here’s a new video for The KVB’s doomed track “Nightmares #2”, off the upcoming eight-song cassette release, “Subjection/Subordination”, via Clan Destine Records. It’s stopped being a surprise how much good music comes out of Clan Destine, whether it’s The KVB, Party Trash or the inimitable Ela Orleans. Watch/listen to the video above, with its bizarre,…
Fresh off her second Mercury Prize win last week, PJ Harvey has a new I-Tunes Session up, featuring a mix of seven songs and a 24-minute interview. The session was recorded in April at East West Studios in Hollywood, California, and features songs from 2011’s “Let England Shake” and older tunes like “Angelene” and “Down…
The prolific Steph Thompson just released the second record she made in a collaboration project called Toy Camera with Drew Harris (aka Germany Germany). The new EP is entitled “Blissful Youth”, a breezy chillout record consisting of five tracks. Harris sculpts cascading synth, blips, and dreamy textures around Steffaloo’s echoed pretty vocals. You can download…
Belle Arché Lou is made up of two brothers, Alexis Paul on classical guitar/loops and Wesley Paul on vibraphone, carillon chime and cymbals. The two create dreamy, mysterious ensemble instrumental pieces that wander, morph, and crystallize. It’s as if their music begins as shapes and contours, elaborate sketches that stretch out into seemingly improvised directions.…
Here’s a new beauty, “Song & Dance”, from Peggy Sue’s forthcoming record, “Acrobats”, out October 25th in the U.S on Yep Roc Records and available today in the UK and the rest of the world on Wichita Recordings. Follow the band at tumblr here. Read an archived Their Bated Breath posts about Peggy Sue here.…
I can’t say I know much about the artist, rEMi, but using a sample of Foals’ “Red Socks Pugie” sure caught my ear. Here is an exclusive new single entitled “Twistin’ It Up”, from the Australian hip-hop artist , featuring Stealing O’Neal frontman Chris Scott. Adding that Foals sample gives the song a little bit…
Brooklyn five-piece, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, have made some remarkable songs in the two albums previous leading up to their new work, “Hysterical”. From the Talking Heads-like “Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)” to the bouncing “The Skin of My Yellow Countryteeth” and the electro-explosive “Satan Said Dance”, with its hard-driving piano chords,…
Download Los Campesinos!’s “By Your Hand”, a song off their forthcoming album “Hello Sadness” at the band’s label, Wichita Records here. “Hello Sadness” is the group’s fourth studio record. The album was created in Girona, Spain — and the label describes the record as “an honest, bare bones documentation of breaking up and trying not…
Cheyenne Marie Mize will release a new six-song record, “We Don’t Need”, on vinyl and digital on November 8th via Roaring Colonel Records. This record is a sea change for the Louisville singer-songwriter, who moves from chanteuse to soulful rockin’ mama, more akin to Carrie Rodriguez and Amy Correia. The lead single, “Wishing Well”, is…
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