The xx haben das beste Debüt-Album einer britischen Band seit Franz Ferdinand veröffentlicht. Damit lösen sie Passion Pit als Temporär beste Band der Welt® ab.
The xx haben sich in diesem Sommer heimlich und auf leisen Sohlen zum Hype musiziert. So zurückhaltend und eingekehrt wie ihre Musik ist, haben sie ihr formidables Debüt-Album nicht an die grosse Glocke gehängt, sondern ihre Schaffenskraft sprechen lassen. Und die hat es gewaltig in sich. Die minimalistisch gehaltene Mischung aus R&B, New Wave und Shoegaze gepaart mit Melodien für Millionen macht The xx locker zur Temporär besten Band der Welt®.
Begonnen hat der Siegeszug von The xx aus Südlondon mit zwei Covers, einer Neuinterpretation vom Chartbreaker “Teardrops” von Womack & Womack und “Hot Like Fire” von Aaliyah.
The xx – Teardrops (Womack & Womack-Cover)
> Foto-Credit: Caiusp
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Sorry, a little late getting this up today. My Old Kentucky Blog Radio is on SIRUS XMU right now. Channel 26 on SIRIUS & channel 43 on XM. Tune in again at Midnight EST tonight for the replay...Sugar and Gold - Do It WellJustice of the Unicorns - McCarren PoolStarfucker - Pop SongRa Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks (Passion Pit Remix)Chairlift - Le Flying Saucer Hat (live on MOKB radio)Chairlift - Bruises (live on MOKB radio)Chairlift - Planet Health (live on MOKB radio)Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Poirier Remix)The Robot Disaster - Guitars Are Overrated (Neo Tokyo Remix)Little Boots - New In Town (Emil & Friends Remix) Titus Andronicus - Titus AndronicusYuki - Fondling PoolPterodactyl - DecemberTigers and Monkeys - Loose MouthCFCF - you hear coloursBlack Lips ft. GZA - The Drop I HoldAriel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - FlashbackBusdriver - Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)the xx - teardrops (womack & womack cover)Woodhands - I Wasn't Made For FightingWoodhands - Dancer (CFCF Remix)Woodhands - I Kissed A Girl (Katy Perry cover)Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine (live on MOKB radio)The Antlers - Cold WarWoods - Rain OnEat Skull - Stick To The FormulaUUVVWWZ - Shark SuitThe Intelligence - Thank You God For Fixing The Tape Machine--------------------------------------------------------Official Site | MySpace | More MP3s | eMusic | Subscribe To RSS Feed | Follow MOKB on Twitter
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Our weekly Sirius XM Blog Radio show airs today at noon Eastern (and again at midnight) on Sirius XMU. This week's episode features brand new music from White Denim, Acrylics, Vibes, the Field, SALEM, the Big Pink, and more. You can listen online with a free trial here. Check this week's playlist + some mp3s after the jump...******************gorilla vs. bear blog radio :: april 301. white denim :: mirrored and reverse2. dirty projectors :: stillness is the move3. vibes :: night court4. neon indian :: deadbeat summer5. the outcasts :: loving you sometimes6. white denim :: heart from us all7. acrylics :: molly's vertigo8. glasser :: glad (delorean remix)9. animal collective :: daily routine10. the big pink :: velvet (gang gang dance remix)11. neon indian :: i should have taken acid with you12. the intelligence :: thank you god for fixing the tape machine13. phoenix :: lisztomania (classixx version)14. bullion :: time for us all to love15. a mountain of one :: lie awake16. dum dum girls :: it only takes one night17. the mayfair set :: already warm18. night control :: don't try19. kurt vile :: beach on the moon (recycled lyrics)20. woods :: rain on21. grouper :: heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping22. the xx :: teardrops23. jeremy jay :: love everlasting24. burial :: archangel25. money addict :: life, money, and drugs (diplo remix)26. SALEM :: ohK27. the field :: the more that i do28. basement jaxx :: raindrops******************
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Et dans les bras, un plein panier de produits frais, piochés sur quelques blogs anglo-saxons de tendances comme Gorilla vs Bear, You ain't No Picasso, 3 hive, etc. Avec une mention spéciale pour Harlem Shakes, l'album du moment (toute la hype ne parle que d'eux... une image un peu dommageable de "Next big thing", pourtant, c'est très bien !). :: Harlem Shakes : Strictly Game :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1248461868.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1248461868.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Technicolor Health (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: The XX : Teardrops :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1576441559.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1576441559.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Reprise de Womack & Womack. Un album annoncé pour le courant de l'année. [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Ancient Crux : In Teen Dreams :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1221849924.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1221849924.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'EP Interracial Coupling (janvier 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace <object height="364" width="445" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X8nRxsTgzA&hl=fr&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X8nRxsTgzA&hl=fr&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"/> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/></object> :: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip : Thou Shalt Always Kill :: Extrait de l'album Angles (mai 2008). On sort des clous de la nouveauté 2009, mais je viens de découvrir. Ça tiendra bien une semaine sur mon iTunes. [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Harlem : Come Back Jonee :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/415955171.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/415955171.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Publié sur leur page Myspace (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Devo : Come Back Jonee :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1421173195.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1421173195.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (août 1978). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Bishop Allen : The Ancient Commonsense of Things :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/2014348550.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/2014348550.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Grrr... (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe :: Point Juncture, WA : Kings Part II :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/02/943204055.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/02/943204055.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Heart to Elk (février 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe avec l'ensemble de l'album en écoute -f2, pour le rapport du mardi ## BONUS D'UN PRODUIT MIS SUR LE MARCHÉ EN 1977 MAIS TOUJOURS FRAIS ## :: Wire : Ex Lion Tamer :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1628123008.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1628123008.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Pink Flag (1977). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe :: Wire : Fragile :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/1518392841.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/1518392841.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Pink Flag (1977). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire]
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Et dans les bras, un plein panier de produits frais, piochés sur quelques blogs anglo-saxons de tendances comme Gorilla vs Bear, You ain't No Picasso, 3 hive, etc. Avec une mention spéciale pour Harlem Shakes, l'album du moment (toute la hype ne parle que d'eux... une image un peu dommageable de "Next big thing", pourtant, c'est très bien !). :: Harlem Shakes : Strictly Game :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1248461868.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1248461868.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Technicolor Health (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: The XX : Teardrops :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1576441559.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1576441559.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Reprise de Womack & Womack. Un album annoncé pour le courant de l'année. [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Ancient Crux : In Teen Dreams :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1221849924.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1221849924.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'EP Interracial Coupling (janvier 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace <object height="364" width="445" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X8nRxsTgzA&hl=fr&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X8nRxsTgzA&hl=fr&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"/> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/></object> :: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip : Thou Shalt Always Kill :: Extrait de l'album Angles (mai 2008). On sort des clous de la nouveauté 2009, mais je viens de découvrir. Ça tiendra bien une semaine sur mon iTunes. [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Harlem : Come Back Jonee :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/415955171.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/415955171.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Publié sur leur page Myspace (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Devo : Come Back Jonee :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1421173195.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/01/1421173195.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (août 1978). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace :: Bishop Allen : The Ancient Commonsense of Things :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/2014348550.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/2014348550.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Grrr... (mars 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe :: Point Juncture, WA : Kings Part II :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/02/943204055.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/02/943204055.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Heart to Elk (février 2009). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe avec l'ensemble de l'album en écoute -f2, pour le rapport du mardi ## BONUS D'UN PRODUIT MIS SUR LE MARCHÉ EN 1977 MAIS TOUJOURS FRAIS ## :: Wire : Ex Lion Tamer :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1628123008.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/01/00/1628123008.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Pink Flag (1977). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire] [+] Myspace // Le site du groupe :: Wire : Fragile :: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/1518392841.mp3" width="200" height="20"><param name="movie" value="http://static.20minutes-blogs.fr/backend/blogs/images/extras/dewplayer.swf?son=http://riot.20minutes-blogs.fr/media/02/02/1518392841.mp3"/><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/></object> Extrait de l'album Pink Flag (1977). [MP3] Save as // Alt Link [Mediafire]
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[photo]Our friends at Beggars recently sent over some extremely promising new demos from four 19-year-olds from South London called The xx. The group recently signed to Beggars imprint Young Turks, and these wistful slow-jams are basically the exact opposite of all the noisy lo-fi stuff I've been posting lately. The Womack & Womack cover is especially recommended:mp3:the xx :: teardrops (womack & womack cover)the xx :: stars (bedroom demo) The xx's first 7" will be out soon, with a debut full-length to follow in September.*************elsewhere:Thanks to commenter Rob Z for pointing out this relatively decent quality recording of new song "Ready, Able," from Grizzly Bear's BAM show over the weekend. Also, "Colorado" sounds incredible with the full orchestra.*************
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… Some of this puffs-of-smoke confusion seems easy to explain. —many are technically insolvent, or “upside down,” as they say in the household-mortgage sector—but have not yet been forced to reckon fully with their insolvency. I heard a senior Administration official remark that seventy-five per cent of the country’s banks are probably upside down. - The New Yorker, 2/27′09.
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” It’s delicate ”
01. Calexico - Victor Jara’s Hands
Carried To Dust (Quarterstick, 2008)
02. Gravenhurst - She Dances
The Western Lands (Warp Records, 2007)
03. The Shins - New Slang
Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop, 2001)
04. The XX - Teardrops (MySpace)
(Demo, 2008)
05. The Sea and Cake - New Schools
Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey, 2008)
note: This list seemed like a good idea yesterday morning. It was suppose to be “best of this week”. But let’s be honest, I only listen to less than 8 albums, so it’s hardly best of anything except that’s all I have the chance listening. They are happy accidents tho’. The Calexico, Gravenhurst and The Sea and Cake albums are very well done and worth owning. The kind that I load to CD and leave it alone to play in weekend while reading news and marveling about the collapsing planet. In other word mellow “indie” rock. Soundtrack of our time. whatever indie rocks means. Enjoy.
image: Vogue Nippon March 2009
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Our weekly Sirius XM Blog Radio show airs today at noon Eastern (and again at midnight) on Sirius XMU. This week's episode features brand new music from Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dum Dum Girls, the Mayfair Set, DOOM, Vivian Girls, and more. You can listen online with a free trial here. Check this week's playlist + some mp3s after the jump...******************gorilla vs. bear blog radio :: feb. 261. yeah yeah yeahs :: zero2. phoenix :: 19013. VEGA :: well known pleasures4. cassie + lil wayne :: official girl (CFCF remix)5. the mayfair set :: desert fun6. the bitters :: warrior7. the splinters :: splintered bridges8. white denim :: let's talk about it9. jeremy jay :: love everlasting10. nite jewel :: weak 4 me11. the XX :: teardrops12. SALEM :: redlights13. dum dum girls :: brite futures14. dum dum girls :: yours alone15. the mayfair set :: already warm16. burial :: archangel17. 2000F & j kamata :: you don't know what love is18. DOOM :: lightworks19. DOOM :: that's that20. j dilla :: walkinonit (phaseone remix)21. dead prez :: hip hop22. lykke li :: after laughter (wendy rene cover)23. wu-tang clan :: tearz24. DOOM :: angelz (feat. tony starks)25. pete rock & cl smooth :: T.R.O.Y.26. the golden filter :: hide me27. weird tapes :: the heavens28. quiet village :: free rider29. memory cassette :: body in the water30. woods :: the dark31. eternal summers :: fall straight back32. dum dum girls :: jail la la33. vivian girls :: lake house******************
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HOT CHIPTRANSMISSION (JOY DIVISION)WE HAVE BANDWEST END GIRLS (PET SHOP BOYS)THE XXTEARDROPS (WOMACK & WOMACK)
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You’ve seen loads of these lists already no doubt but hopefully this is a little bit different. It’s incredulous how many music journalists and critics just pick their ones to watch artists for the coming year off lists sent out by labels and PR companies. It’s extremely lazy. Sure Little Boots, La Roux, Lady Gaga (Incidentially, ‘Just Dance’ is one of the most infectious pop tunes I’ve heard in an age and probably the only recommendation I’ve ever got my The Script and Westlife loving sister bless her), Passion Pit, Florence and the Machine, White Lies et al deserve a mention but not on nearly every list surely? Here’s a mammoth list for you. So forward into Nialler2009 we go…
Solid Gold
Solid Gold are a hook-laden, little known (for now) Minnesota synth-pop band who recently opened for The Ting Tings on their US tour. An album called Bodies of Water is just out and the more I listen the better it gets. I just grabbed their album from eMusic. Expect more from me on this one. Plus, this picture…
Solid Gold - Get Over It
Rubberbandits
They started out making hilarious prank phone calls (Hearing Aid is amazing) but these days these mysterious Limerick types are making even-more hilarious songs like the wonderful ‘Bags of Glue’ which was a favourite of last year. ‘Too Many Gee‘ should be an Irish g-funk anthem and ‘Up Da Ra’, well… listen for yourself below. They started gigging recently but expect 2009 to bring more live appearances from the chancers who wear Mace bags as masks and sniff deodorant through their jumpers. Chalk it down…
Rubberbandits - Up Da Ra
The Knux
Two brothers from New Orleans who reside in LA and whose Remind Me In Three Days album sounds like Stankonia-era Outkast played with guitars. Rah Almillio and Krispy Kream are signed to Interscope in the US so expect their brand of rap to infiltrate over here this year.
The Knux - Bang Bang
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion, AC’s ninth album leaked on Christmas Day. Due out next week, it’s far and away the band’s opus with the ever-expanding possibility that mainstream acceptability beckons. What AC have created is their own sonic world, indebted to yes, the Beach Boys and a long way from their early lo-fi and frankly nauseating work. Merriweather is the sound of a band hitting a new plateau in both songwriting and creativity. Oh and it sounds frickin’ amazing. ‘Summertime Clothes’ is my favourite track today. More thoughts here and Darragh’s thoughts are always worth a read.
Some tracks on the Hype Machine.
Black Milk
A Detriot hip-hop producer who used to make beats for Slum Village released Tronic, his latest LP in late 2008. The Detroit / Slum Village connection means he has been compared to the late great J Dilla and it’s not too much of a stretch on the evidence of the tunes from Tronic which has been called hip-hop album of the year in some quarters.
Black Milk - Bounce
Zomby
Released on Hyperdub, the same prestigious label that houses Burial, Zomby’s music is kinda wonky dubstep-tinged electronica. He looks and sounds bonkers. His recent EP is great but he’s also made an album called Where Were U in ‘92?, an ode to ’90s rave featuring euphoric piano and ravey vocal samples. As I said, BONKERS.
Zomby - Spaceman (from Zomby EP)
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly bear debuted just enough material to leave me salivating for a follow-up to Yellow House. ‘Two Weeks’ was premiered on Letterman and blew any song that Fleet Foxes had out of the water while Daniel Rossen’s ‘While You Wait For The Others’ was featured an another TV show and his own Department of Eagles LP proved another winner.
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (live on Letterman)
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Gran Casino
What’s this? A 13 piece band from Dublin and somehow no-one in this small city I’m acquainted with knows any of the members? Madness. The band kindly sent me their Sun Music EP a month or so ago. It’s fucking great. It’s kind of an upbeat rabble-rousing orchestral rock racket. They’re playing Crawdaddy on the 28th of January.
Gran Casino - One Chance
Theoretical Girl
AKA Amy Eleanor Turnnidge from Southend, England who has just signed to Memphis Industries, so expect an album soon. I bought her last single in Tower for 99 cent. I’m sure her stock will rise this year.
Theoretical Girl - Another Fight
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Sholi
Recommended by Pedro, this four-piece rock band with a free-jazz tourettes-like drummer from San Francisco. They’ve recorded their debut LP with Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and it’s out in February. The songs are in Persian for the most part.
Sholi - Herjat (cover of a Googoosh song)
Free Blood
We featured these guys on a podcast in November 2007. They looked like two people with no knowledge of musical instruments who just shouted into microphones but there’s more to them than that. More please.
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Alela Diane
Lovely folk songstress from Nevada City. ‘White As Diamonds’ is taken from her forthcoming album To Be Still.
Alela Diane - White As Diamonds
Wavves
Noisy, distorted surf-guitar scuzzy rocker. This year’s No Age or Times New Viking? Maybe. Find out for yourself on the 10th of February in Laverys. Belfast and the 11th of February Upstairs in Whelan’s.
Wavves - So Bored
Grouper
Hippy dippy, airy-fairy ambient folk music from Liz Harris from Portland, Oregen. Quite beguiling and about as strangely beautiful as the album cover above for Dragging a Dead Dead Up A Hill recently released. I got it from eMusic again.
Grouper - Heavy Water / I’d Rather be Sleeping
The XX
Nice new-wavey lo-fi indie-pop from London. Not much info on them right now but there are solid pop songs on their myspace including this.. WOAH cover of WOMACK AND WOMACK!!
The XX - Teardrops
Marina and the Diamonds
Do I have to mention her again? Awesome.
Paavoharju
Like the cross-section of two beautiful radio transmissions, this Finnish outfit dabble in the weird and the strange. It sounds broken but it works wonderfully. Their recent album Laulu Laakson Kukista is the one to get.
Paavoharju - KevÃtrumpu
Mount Kimbie
- Wonky, dubby electronic music from London. EP dropping next month on Hot Flush. Appears in a chunk of a mix from Electronic Explorations and a Mary Anne Hobbs mix.
J*Davey
Erykah Badu crossed with Gwen Stefani? Yeh that works… Or as they have it “baby-making music for 22nd century robots”.
J*Davey - Slow
Of course, there are loads of other releases to look forward to from the likes of Villagers, Dan Deacon’s Bromst, Beirut, M.Ward, Malajube, Temper Trap, Final Fantasy, Peverelist, Dent May, Phaseone, Stricken City and Amazing Baby to name a few. Check out my column in Friday’s Irish Independent for more. No, you?
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