Tarot Sport is U.K. electronic/noise band Fuck Buttons sophomore album, following hot on the heels of last year’s terrific debut, Street Horrrsing. The new album sounds like a more fully realized, mature work from the duo. Songs like “The Lisbon Maru” and “Olympians” may share moments that recall their past work, but the absence of the unintelligible, scream-o vocals that pervaded Street
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For the past week or so I’ve been catching up with the new Built To Spill album There Is No Enemy, and I have to say I’ve been enjoying it a lot. I don’t mean that to sound like I’m surprised, it’s just that besides “Conventional Wisdom” I didn’t find much to enjoy on 2006’s You In Reverse. I’m not sure yet if the new album is the equivalent of their mid-to-late 90s run of clas
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With all my focus last week on running my list of favorite albums of the decade I didn’t really pay much attention to other stuff going on in the music world. So, there’s some catching up to do this week. First off is the best news I’ve heard in a while - Spoon will be releasing their 7th studio album on January 23, and it’s called Transference. Once again Merge Records has the honors. Str
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MP3 :: Easy - Pure EcstasyMP3 :: Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix) - PhoenixMP3 :: Crown On The Ground - Sleigh BellsMP3 :: Shine Blockas (ft. Gucci Mane) - Big BoiMP3 :: I Don’t Like Your Band - AnnieMP3 :: Bad Bands - Capgun Coup (original post)MP3 :: Something In Common - Free EnergyMP3 :: Twenty Cycles To The Ground - Molina & Johnson (original post)MP3 :: Trust - Old Canes (orig.
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I’ve had a lot of fun this week bringing you my 50 personal favorite albums of the past ten years. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as well, and if there are any records on this list that you’ve ignored or missed or simply haven’t heard of by all means check them out. Feel free to leave a comment as well now that you’ve seen the whole thing. Peace.------------------------------------------------
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We’re getting down into it now. Here’s # 20-11 of my favorite albums of the decade. Thanks for stopping by, and look for the top ten tomorrow.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------20. Let’s Get Out Of This Country / Camera Obscura (2006)A nearly flawless gem of a record from the co-ed Scottish group that just gets better with age. The title track, “
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Here’s the Humpday edition of my favorite albums of the decade. Check back Thursday and Friday for the final two installments. Hope you’re enjoying it so far.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------30. Fleet Foxes/ Sun Giant EP (2008)Fleet Foxes’ stunning Sub Pop debut does a fairly common thing - it mixes traditional folk sounds with heavenly vocal
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Here is "Part 2" of my 50 favorite dad-rock albums list of the past ten years. I’m not trying to be dramatic or self-important or whatever by breaking it into 5 equal segments, it’s more a result of the difficulty I always have in formatting large posts like these. Blogger can be a pain in the ass with large posts featuring multiple images, and breaking it down like this makes that somewhat ea
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This week on PHW I’ll be running a countdown of my 50 favorite dad-rock albums of the past ten years. I’m not trying to be dramatic or self-important by doing it over 5 days and breaking it into 5 equal segments, it’s more a result of the difficulty I always have in formatting posts of this nature. Blogger can be a pain in the ass with large posts featuring multiple images, and I’ve never
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AON Sessions: The Antlers, "Two" from All Our Noise on Vimeo.Earlier this year The Antlers released the critically-lauded Hospice, an album that I never really dove into despite the fact that I really enjoyed the two songs I heard from it - “Two” and “Bear”. From the looks of this beautifully shot backstage video from the folks at All Our Noise I’m probably missing out on something speci
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AON Sessions: The Antlers, "Two" from All Our Noise on Vimeo. Earlier this year The Antlers released the critically-lauded Hospice, an album that I never really dove into despite the fact that I really enjoyed the two songs I heard from it - "Two" and "Bear". From the looks of this beautifully shot backstage video from the folks at All Our Noise I'm probably missing out on something special and...
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Last month I shared the videos of an A.A. Bondy live session recorded in the summer of 2008. Here’s a more recent one recorded by The Tripwire last month, including a stripped-down, slowed-down version of When The Devil’s Loose (PHW review) highlight “I Can See The Pines Are Dancing”.In addition to his current tour with The Felice Brothers, Bondy is gearing up for a headlining run of shows
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“Trust” is the second legally released mp3 from the brand new Old Canes record Feral Harmonic, which hits stores this week. I already told you how much I’ve enjoyed this new album from the side project of The Appleseed Cast’s Chris Crisci when I posted “Little Bird Courage” a few weeks ago. “Trust” is more of the same goodness, only slightly mellower. If you like either of these so
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Here’s a couple of new ones from Austin’s A Faulty Chromosome, whose new album Craving To Be Coddled So We Feel Fake-Safe is still in the production phase. Times are tough all over, and the band has set up a unique fund-raising project through Kickstarter (which you can read all about here) to help with the mastering, design, pressing, and eventual promotion. Listen to new tracks “Bad Thing
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Just had a listen to the recent Daytrotter Session by Kristian Matsson, or, as he is better known, The Tallest Man On Earth. The set is highly recommended for fans of this really captivating Swedish singer-songwriter. You’ll find 3 songs from his excellent 2008 album Shallow Grave (including a completely revamped take on “I Won’t Be Found”, which replaces his usual buzzy acoustic guitar wi
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Here’s the video for the first single from the forthcoming 2010 album from Frightened Rabbit. More info here.Stream :: Swim Until You Can’t See LandStream :: Fun Stuff----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Seriously, who the hell saw this one coming? To be perfectly honest, when news surfaced a few months back about the new Flaming Lips album Embryonic I found myself pretty disinterested. Of course, I love The Soft Bulletin, but that was, like, 10 years ago - an eternity here at the end of the “download->listen->recycle bin” decade. Beyond a handful of great singles, I was never that into the en
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Omaha’s Capgun Coup are gearing up for the Team Love release of their sophomore album, Maudlin. Lead track “Bad Bands” is anything but. It’s a raw, fuzzy little garage-rock stomper that furthers the ramshackle attitude of their 2007 debut, Brought To You By Nebraskafish. Have a listen:MP3 :: Bad Bands(from Maudlin. Pre-order here)------------------------------------------------------------
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One of Tracyanne Campbell’s great gifts as a singer is her ability to inject a very real sadness into the bright indie-pop of Camera Obscura. My Maudlin Career has many such moments. The video for the new single “The Sweetest Thing”, which premiered on Pitchfork recently, is a perfect example. The video features wigs, fake moustaches, Simon & Garfunkel look-alikes, and a sepia-toned costume
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For the past few days and nights I’ve been catching up with the moody, minimalist pop of The xx. The co-ed U.K. band have quite the minor hit on their hands, and what I’m realizing after a few disappointing early listens is that it’s a grower. Also that a run is not the best circumstance for your initial listen. Try some isolation and headphones. Their debut, xx, is out now on Rough Trade.
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