CHILL: Small Black’s “Photojournalist” is the first teaser from their upcoming album, “New Chain” set to be released through Jagjaguwar Records. It’s purposefully hazy, muddied and sweetly spacey. The soung begins with dreamy synth and sounds like drops of water in a pond set to digital electronica. Their intimate and moody lyrics, “set to rise…
CREME OF THE CROP: Producer Ryan Olson set out to make an album with Solid Gold members Adam Hurlburt and Zack Coulter, but after a move from his Minneapolis bedroom to a Wisconsin studio, the project turned into a supergroup called GAYNGS. The studio collective features over 20 musicians, including Bon Iver, Lookbook, Dessa, Megafaun,…
GOING ON A HOLIDAY: The Swedish duo of Johan Cederberg and Victor Holmberg, aka Montauk, put out a release of remixes of a new single called “Holiday”. Four bands/musicians have remixed the track this first time around (Justin Faust, Visitor, Jeremy Olander and Letting Up Despite Great Faults). But it doesn’t stop there. Montauk will…
RADIATING HIS ESSENCE: Just when you thought you’d wear out your Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Letting Up Despite Great Faults and Gaslamp Killer discs — just across the horizon comes Baths, aka Chatsworth, California’s Will Wiesenfeld. Baths is working on an upcoming album, “Cerulean”, at one of the best record labels, Anticon. (The musical…
THE SWAY OF THE SEA: Adam & Alma’s new EP “Back to the Sea” begins like a siren’s song, beckoning with two-part acapella harmony and these lyrics: “Take my hand / It’s just thinking of you / Take my heart / It feels for you.” The languid opening transitions into a dark and sexy piece…
SCINTILLATING SUBIZA: Delorean, the Spanish four piece electro-pop band, will release its first full-length album “Subiza” digitally on April 20, 2010, physically on June 8, 2010. The album is a sunny mix of dance and Balearic house music you could imagine hearing at Ibiza, with rays reflecting off tanned bodies and the Mediterranean scene aglow…
HEAD-BOBBING WITH BONOBO: Bonobo is the stage name of musician and DJ Simon Green, who will be releasing his fourth studio album, “Black Sands”, on March 29th, 2010 through Ninja Tune. Green’s new record likely will have BBC Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson drooling all over his vinyl. Bonobo blends ambient house and chill with…
LIQUID LUST: “Double Trouble Do Do Bubble” is a groove-saturated, electronica and R&B-influenced spell of fuzzed-out aquatic love. Coyote Clean Up released its massive 23-song gem online for free. This album is for lovers of chill house-styled trip-outs, with echoed vocals that make you want to get stomach-to-stomach on the dance floor. We’re not talking…
YEAH GHOST: People sometimes forget, Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker of Zero 7 really earned their way. Both started out as sound engineers, at a record company that produced the likes of Robert Plant and Pet Shop Boys. They called up an old college friend Nigel Godrich, producer for Radiohead, and asked him to send…
Beware, highly addictive: Three albums in one year? Bibio’s musical proliferation can only be matched by Joyce Carol Oates, who seems to write 10 novels a year. “The Apple & the Tooth” is his third album of 2009. Bibio (a.k.a., British music producer and mixer Stephen Wilkinson) offers four new tracks and eight re-mixed tracks…
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