It’s so good to hear a new and beautiful, mellowed-out, neo-soul track from the feathery-voiced Guerre. The song is called “Ali”, and was posted by the Aussie label, The Finer Things at its bandcamp page. The release is paired off as a split with “Kassett”, a song by Nakagin. “Ali” follows on the heels of…
“Waste all your time writing love songs, but you don’t love me.” That’s the opening lyric to the much-hyped (after a 2011 well-received stint on Jools Holland) singer Lianne La Havas’ track, “Forget” (which has a new video), from off her debut album, “Is Your Love Big Enough?” I haven’t heard anything else off the…
Review: by David D. Robbins Jr. Album: Erik Blood “Touch Screens” (2012) Obviously, the internet has created a sea change in the music industry. One of the joys still left, is the listener’s ability to go out wandering. I was out cruising bandcamp under the term “dream pop” and ran into Erik Blood’s beautiful “Touch…
The Parenthetical Girls close out their “Privilege 12” series of songs with the fifth and final set, “Privilege, pt. V: Portrait of a Reputation”. It includes the song “Curtains”, a stellar tongue-in-cheek title for a love affair coming to end: “Under a sky of patent leather / Together just one last night / And when…
It’s DIY artists like Nima that make me wish I was more musical. Her song “Coimbra” is a sensual exploration that builds slowly, elegantly, and gently through warm synth, steady percussion, and beautifully breathy vocal utterances. The song is like a cross between Zola Jesus at her best and Sleep ∞ Over. You can download…
“Sparrow” is a new song from Brighton’s Woodpecker Wooliams’ (aka Gemma Williams) upcoming new 7-song album “The Bird School Of Being Human”, out digitally September 9th via Robot Elephant Records. It’s a beautiful and odd track, with an influence the label press release states comes from places as disparate as Dolly Parton’s “Little Sparrow” and…
A new video from noise-pop duo, Sleigh Bells, for “End of the Line”, a song from off their 2012 release “Reign of Terror”, out now via Mom+Pop. — David D. Robbins Jr.
The Oslo-based quartet Maribel have a new video out for new video out now for their song, “Pretty Nights”, from off “Reveries”, an LP out via Splendour. The sound of “Pretty Night” is languid, dreamlike, elongated like a night after a handful of barbiturates. Rebekka Von Markstein’s pretty voice is the antidote to the dark,…
Review: by David D. Robbins Jr. Album: Deerhoof “Breakup Song” (2012) Release date: September 4th Label: Polyvinyl Records Co. Full official stream here As a band, Deerhoof is like that fourth kid during the song, “Three of These Kids Belong Together”, who is off doing something directly in contrast to the other three in a…
London singer-songwriter Flo Morrissey (aka 9Mary) released a new video today for the pretty and elegiac piano ballad, “If You Can’t Love This All Goes Away”. The wonderfully conceptual video (created by her sister, Millie Morrissey) finds her swimming underwater like a beautiful sea nymph, juxtaposed with all-blue shaded clips of the singer running through…
Skye Edwards was first known as the front woman for Morcheeba, then left, and is now back again. But that doesn’t mean she’s putting away all her solo interests. Skye has her third solo record, “Back to Now” scheduled for release October 29 via PIAS. And to kick things off she’s posted a new catchy…
Fiddler extraordinaire Hannah Epperson posted a new aptly-named EP, “Home Batch”, a collection of five home-recorded and home-created songs. I’d first heard of Epperson, when she played violin with bow and pizzicato with Miss Emily Brown on the latter’s harp-led track, “World Traveller” — a song off “In Technicolour”. It was a stunning combination, dripping…
This new video for Grimes’ “Genesis” is visually entertaining, despite some of the Gaga-esque theatricality of it all. It begins on a dirt-road stretch, with Claire Boucher, dancing in front of a car, like it’s going to be the remaking of a mix between Sleigh Bells’ video “Rill Rill” and St. Vincent’s “Marrow”. But that’s…
Tokyo’s Elen Never Sleeps posted a new split record featuring the track, “White Surrender”. The album also features SUPER VHS, Taquwami, and Taquwami’s alter-ego Occult You. It’s available now via the Elen Never Sleeps label, Gay Vegan Vinyl Cassette. “White Surrender” is a beautiful follow up to the exquisite “My Aquamarine” (which you can read…
A new video for Xiu Xiu’s song, “Born to Suffer’, from off its latest 12-song album, “Always” — out now via Polyvinyl Record Co. in the U.S. and Bella Union for the UK and Europe. Video was directed by Adriana Alba. For a closer look at the record by Their Bated Breath, click here. —…
Here’s a new video for the hypnotic “Dreambeat” from Peaking Lights’ third record, “Lucifer”, out via Mexican Summer. The video was directed by Jordan Redaelli and Jason Miller. The label website calls the video a “raw NYC summer street vibe” set as a “vogue/ballroom homage.” — David D. Robbins Jr.
Pitchfork created “The People’s List” so that its readers could select or rank what they believed were the best records between 1996-2011. The set-up was pretty slick, with album covers to choose from, which you could then rank in your own personal list. If an album wasn’t there, you could write it in. The music…
Singer-songwriter Elena Tonra and her band Daughter have posted a song, “Smother”, from off their upcoming debut record. Up to now they’ve been dropping singles and EPs, like “The Wild Youth” and “His Young Heart”. The song, “Smother”, will also be out on 7-inch vinyl on October 1st through 4AD (UK, Europe & ROTW) &…
Beat Culture has a new track out now called “Orange”, and it features electronic artist NIVA. “Orange” is the first single off Beat Culture’s upcoming October 11 release “Forgive”. You can support the artist’s push to get the music onto vinyl by contributing at this link. Click here to read archived Their Bated Breath posts…
Cloud Seeding is the singles-driven project of Brooklyn-based guitarist Kevin Serra, who has so far made three tracks, one with Greg Hatem of Heart of Hearts, a second with a Their Bated Breath favorite Marissa Nadler, and the most recent song, “The Light”, a collaboration with Swiss singer Nadine Carina. The song begins with hard strummed bass,…
Check out this new video. I’m a big fan of this bewildering and pretty track from Br’er called “Sea of Doubt”, a song from the band’s 2011 record “City of Ice”. It reminds me a bit of the music of Anticon artist DM Stith, with its eclecticism. It has the feeling of an artist who…
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