Yeah, this debut record from London’s CRIM3S is from back in 2011, but it’s finally available for fans in digital format on bandcamp. And I’m a huge fan of the sinister sounds, dubbed-out echoes, and industrial creep of their song “HOLES”. You can follow CRIM3S at facebook, and tumblr. — David D. Robbins Jr.
Cody ChessnuTT is back, and he’s doin’ work. The neo-soul master’s last LP was back in 2002, the marvel “The Headphone Masterpiece” — a sprawling, deep and spiritually honest lo-fi double album he recorded in 1997 while trying to wrap his head around life, love, and youth — living in his mother’s house in Atlanta.…
This album has been a long time coming. It’s still a bit hazy, but I do remember somehow running into the music of Canada’s James Lamb via writing about musician Miss Emily Brown. Lamb’s track “Date With a Wrecking Ball” was the track I first heard, although in a slightly different format. The unadorned melodies…
Okay, so this video for Wise Blood’s “Loud Mouths” was up on Tuesday and then it wasn’t. Now it’s premiering at Spin.com. Truth is, it was already posted by NME.com and The 405 before it was taken down by the former and the vimeo vid went blank for the latter. That’s usually a sign the…
Love this collaboration between CSLSX and Stockholm duo I Break Horses. The track is called “Violent Sea”, and there’s also a video for it which you can watch below. You can also get a free MP3 download of the song at soundcloud courtesy of CSLSX. — David D. Robbins Jr.
Watch a new video for Maribel’s song “You Bring the Sadness” (feat. Emil Nikolaisen of Serena-Maneesh) from off the band’s latest record, “Reveries”, a tantalizing album that exists somewhere amid the realms of film noir, fantasy fever dream, and the strange allure of David Lynch. It’s cinematic and atmospheric as it both consoles and makes…
A Their Bated Breath favorite, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun, has a new video out for her track “Worship”, which also features low-key guitar maestro José González on vocals. The song is part of her latest record, “It All Starts With One”, out May 1 in the U.S. “Worship” is a ghostly track, the lyrics and…
A new video from Girls for their woozy, slide-guitar track “My Ma”. It’s a track from off their wonderful 2011 record, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”, available via True Panther Sounds. “My Ma” is the third video from off the record, following “Vomit” and “Honey Bunny” videos. “My Ma” was directed and edited by Aaron Brown…
Memoryhouse (aka duo Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion) have posted their latest record, “The Slideshow Effect” (released today), up for streaming courtesy of Sub Pop. Take a listen to the record below. You can follow the band at facebook and on twitter. Memoryhouse will be playing in a couple of upcoming Iowa shows too: March…
A new video from Francis for “Traktor”, a song from off the band’s 2012 EP “This Must Be Blood”, which was released February 27th via Strangers Candy/Playground. You can follow Francis at facebook. — David D. Robbins Jr.
“The Holy Hour” finds 10 DIY groups, from Gathered Ghosts to Setting Sun, covering 10 classic Cure tracks. Some of the bands stick to the script, others change it up, and yet others keep the basic foundation of the song while putting their own stamp on it. Check out a couple of my favorites Cure…
Watch the new video for Kansas City’s Soft Lighting’s track, “Humble”. The song is a beautiful piece of layered electronic beats, synth and falsetto. The song seems to stretch itself out, elongated, like slow time: “Said, hang on / For how long / The hours were in it / Are marked by the minutes /…
Two Their Bated Breath favorites, Rainbow Chan and Oliver Tank, were flown to Reykjavik, Iceland last year by FBi Radio as part of what the station called the Northern Lights Competition. After cutting hundreds of entries down to six finalists, the voting went to the public, and Oliver Tank and Rainbow Chan won. The two…
Julia Stone posted a calming 4-song EP called “Let’s Forget All The Things That We Say”, which you can stream at soundcloud. These songs will be on the forthcoming album “By The Horns” out May 2012. She also has a video up now, for the EP title track, which you can watch in the vodpod…
Noosa is the newest project of New York artists Sky Barbarick and Matt Buszko. And they’ve released a new single, “Fear of Love”, the title track to an upcoming EP. It’s also a pretty dance track with a sweet groove and spacey synth-pop melodies. It’s right in the wheelhouse of fans of Everything But the…
Ducky (aka Morgan Neiman) posted another EP, “The Whether”, composed of four tracks, one of which (“Like Rain”) was released as a single on bandcamp earlier this year. This record follows on the heels of 2011’s experimental “Boys Club”, and the exquisite two-song “Killing Time/Your Ever After” — the former named one of the Best…
Sweet. A very simple, but cool new video from Lower Dens for their slow-burn single “Brains”, from off the upcoming LP “Nootropics”, which will be released on CD, double LP, and digitally on May 1st in North America and April 30th throughout the rest of the world via Ribbon Music. The video was directed by…
A new video from Gonjasufi for his track “The Blame” off his recent LP release “MU.ZZ.LE.” out now via Warp Records. — David D. Robbins Jr.
Still Corners have a new video for their lithely beautiful track “Endless Summer”, a breathy and floating cut off 2011’s “Creatures of an Hour”. You can purchase the record here at Sub Pop. — David D. Robbins Jr.
By David D. Robbins Jr. | Their Bated Breath Xiu Xiu “Always” (Polyvinyl Records) Release date: March 6, 2012 It could be said Xiu Xiu and lead singer Jamie Stewart wear weird like a badge of honor. This is a band that loves to wallow, giving morbidity a kind of religious reverence. Let’s face it, Xiu…
Here’s a new video from Soviet Soviet for their track “Contradiction”, the opener off their 2011 release, “Summer, Jesus”, which you can stream at bandcamp. The video was directed, edited and produced by Roberto ‘RUP’ Paolini. You can follow Soviet Soviet at facebook. – David D. Robbins Jr.
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