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An Imaginary Portrait "Don't leave me, Diane. No, it's not a mask. I can be your Jacob now. I did this for you..." MASKS - I Covered Myself In Fur [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 19/03/10 Nevermore oOoOO - Seaww (directed by Daniel Lopatin) In which our favourite vowel fanatic steps further into the shadows. Out now on Emotion. Posted by: Scott 16/03/10 321 : Tanlines Troublewazzawazzalone. We love happy songs about sad stuff, especially when those happy songs allow us to use words like calypsophisticated. Or socadelic. Tropicool? That's enough. Tanlines are two dudes from Brooklyn whose music is so bright and shiny, staring at it will make you sneeze (but only if you are awesome enough to have ACHOO syndrome). We spoke to Jesse Cohen from the band about Stalin and Robert Palmer. [Continues...] Tanlines - Real Life (Basic Needs Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 16/03/10 The Flower Of My Secret According to Braeley Whaley his new EP is about "taking too many drugs in the desert with my friends, beating up Jesus and eventually dying from thirst." Orff-some. Braeley Whaley - Floriculture [mp3] [Free] Posted by: Scott 14/03/10 The Peach Pit Sometimes amazing things happen. In years to come your grandchildren will ask "where were you when Luke Perry covered the Beverly Hills 90210 theme tune?" (RIP Scott Scanlon.) Luke Perry - Brenda-Vision [mp3] [Via] Posted by: Scott 11/03/10 Days Of Being Wild Stricken City - Animal Festival The awesome Stricken City are back to make mischief of one kind and another. In this brand new video for a brand new song a forest grows and grows and grows until the ceiling hangs with branches and the walls become the world all around and a waterfall tumbles by. From today you can download a free four-song EP from their website. Let the wild rumpus start. Posted by: Scott 11/03/10 Funny Ha Ha When I was 9 I invented my first joke, something about John Lennon dropping some eggs and saying yoke oh oh no. My gags haven't improved much since. Maybe these great Danes grew up being equally unhilarious, after all their new album is called Eggs. At least they had the good sense to ask dude de jour Caribou to remix this song. He's turned it into an amazing shiny rocket ship. I bet Caribou invents great jokes. Oh No Ono - Eleanor Speaks (Caribou Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/03/10 In The Night So Still [Photo: Paul Rosales] Today's Big Love love-in continues with a peek at another forthcoming release, this time a 7" from LA's Pearl Harbor AKA the band we have been daydreaming about. It's limited to 300 copies. Buy one and your life will be 45% more awesome. Pearl Harbor - Slivers Of You [Stream Only] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 09/03/10 I'll Build You A Kingdom [Photo: Mark Quines] There are many cool things in Japan (like this and this and this and this) but perhaps coolest of all is Big Love, the best little record label in Tokyo. Their next release is a split 7" from our pals Small Black and Cali dreamers Young Prisms. Get it while you can. Young Prisms - Eleni (Live) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 09/03/10 321 : Infinite Body Because of the angle this photo was taken at you can't see Kyle Parker's torso curling around the globe then trailing off into space past Venus past Mercury past the sun and out out out forever, but trust us, it is. He told us about his old cat and happy songs about sad stuff. [Continues...] Infinite Body - Drive Dreams Away [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/03/10 Carpe Diem I read somewhere that Jeremy Jay cites John Hughes' movies as a songwriting influence. In that case this song, the b-side of his new Sexbeat single, is the morning after the end credits roll, when the dork walks down to Shermer High after hooking up with the hottest girl in town. Hell yeah. It's on for forever. Jeremy Jay - This Is Our Time [Stream Only] [buy] Posted by: Scott 05/03/10 Pound For Pound Over at FADER my Dollars To Pounds column continues. Recently I've spoken to the amazing Actress, the vivacious Visions Of Trees, the delightful Django Django, and this week, the very nice Veronica Falls. Veronica Falls - Stephen [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 04/03/10 Blue Crush Things we are into, but don't mention often: bands with the word babe in their name. Happy afrobeat guitars. Songs about aquatic creatures that don't sounds like the bleeding insides of a whale's diseased nightmare. Bubble baths. Percentage of these things fulfilled by the jaunty MOR folk-pop of Babe Shadow's Sea Serpents: 75%! Babe Shadow - Sea Serpents [mp3] [via] Posted by: Scott 04/03/10 321 : Glasser Glasser songs sound like ancient tribal lullabies. Had the Vikings been lucky enough to hear her soothing melodies they wouldn't have done all that raping and pillaging. They'd be in Norway sipping fruit tea and practicing pilates. Here she answers our 321 questions and gets a galactic makeover from the always amazing Astronomer. [Continues...] Glasser - Tremel (Astronomer Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 01/03/10 His Black Fathoms If you put these guys in the middle of a candlelit room, then gently placed your fingers on them, would they deliver doomy news from the darkside? The second half of this song is a clue. Out soon on Clan Destine Records. Ouija - Sarah Tonin [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 26/02/10 321 : Psychobuildings If you're a patron of the best places then you probably know Psychobuildings and regularly jam their agitated machine funk, even though they have existed for less time than the cheeseburgers we will eat for lunch. This band is so fresh and new and rapidly evolving that if you watch them for an hour their hair will grow three metres. Lead dude Peter LaBier told us about the Mac, Shaq and... medieval diaphragms. [Continues...] Psychobuildings - Dirty Rainbows [mp3] Posted by: Scott 25/02/10 Schwarzschild Wormholes If we were to answer our own 321 questions then 'many mansions' would be a good wish. Even better would be 'sparkly portal (from our sofa to Nandos)'. These astral travelling dudes have a split 12" with Truman Peyote out soon on The Whitehaus Family Record. Many Mansions - Sparkly Portal [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/02/10 Beachy Head (Photo by Kate Moross) If you haven't already heard the fuck-fuelled noise of Comanechi's awesome Crimes Of Love album then we recommend you pick up a copy now (you might want to wear gloves). Here our favourite Blondes drag Dalston's dirtiest duo down a light-yearlong k-hole, to a land where octopus-dudes play piano on the beach and neon unicorns frolic in a sea of lasers. Comanechi - Close Enough To Kiss (Blondes Pebble Beach Mix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/02/10 321 : Dam Mantle Like our feeble minds, Dam Mantle's patchwork songs balance precariously on the brink of collapse. They always seem to be almost falling apart, until stretched seams reveal their intricate stitching. This is his third appearance here in as many months so we asked him to do the 321. From his forthcoming Grey EP, here is a polished new version of Yoghourt. [Continues...] Dam Mantle - Yoghourt (ft. Julie Augere) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/02/10 Love Hurts Lonely Galaxy makes falling in love sound like the worst kind of torture. We worry that getting it wrong this time will finish him off for good. But there is hope. A fragile, twinkling glockenspiel. It's going to be OK, Lonely dude. An EP full of these heartsick jams arrives soon, delivered by those heartbreakers at Transparent. Lonely Galaxy - Time [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/02/10 321 : Kingdom Kingdom may not be clairvoyant, but there is something visionary about his hyper hybrid brand of sassy avant-bass music. Our pals at Acephale are releasing a lustrous, limited-edition 10" that you can order now, and Acephale alumni, CFCF provides this glacial two-step refix. After the jump Kingdom talks Mimi and Baby Girl. [Continues...] Kingdom ft. Shyvonne - Mindreader (CFCF remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 19/02/10 In The Age Of Wonder Our dude Radiant Dragon says his latest twilight lullaby is about, "mountains, mist, and a girl." So a bit like The Dark Crystal then, but with fewer puppets. Look out for an album later this year on his own DIY label, Cloud Factory. Radiant Dragon - Preseli [mp3] Posted by: Scott 15/02/10 Addicted To Love [Pic: ilovehotdogs] Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. For Valentine's we got you this sad and lovely Elliott Smith cover by Cymbals Eat Guitars. Don't shoot it all at once. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Ballad Of Big Nothing (Elliot Smith cover) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 14/02/10 Friction Burn At a recent show, the smaller, blonder half of Pinglewood declared that Friendly Fires sound like, "a chase scene in a Chevy Chase movie." There is no higher praise. St Albans' finest are nominated for British Breakthrough Act at this year's Brit Awards and you should vote for them. If you don't Pixie Lott might win and nobody wants that. In a move of sordid mutual gratification the band covered Holy Ghost and the native New Yorkers fervently reciprocated. The resulting 12"s will emerge soon. [The last half of this post was brought to you by Chatroulette.] Friendly Fires - Hold On (Holy Ghost cover) [Stream only] Holy Ghost - On Board (Friendly Fires cover) [Stream only] Posted by: Scott 11/02/10 All In Together Now If you want to save yourself from 12 months of experimental grammar and bad jokes about band names (ie reading this blog) then buy the amazing new compilation from Paradise Vendors Inc and Italian Beach Babes. It's like someone recorded everything related to the word awesome then turned it into a limited edition 12". This Spectrals song reminds me of a dream I had about vampires drowning Phil Spector in a bath of gin. Spectrals - It's Very Kind Of You To Put Up With Me [mp3] Posted by: Scott 09/02/10 Trees Lounge Sunderbans and Pinglewood both have names inspired by Bengali words, but while Sundarban is Bengali for 'beautiful forest' and refers to an actual beautiful forest, Pinglewood means 'tatty bloghole.' Here, Chris from the lugubrious trio remixes their song Road Kill, making it less about being squashed on the motorway, more about snoozing the day away. Sunderbans' debut single is out soon on Young & Lost Club. Sunderbans - Road Kill (Chris Sundbans Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 09/02/10 Roar And Storm Our pals at Family Time have put together an amazing new 12" compilation, featuring some of our favourite weirdos: Deep Sht, Blessure Grave, Trudgers, Ancient Crux and many more. From it, here is Twin Lion's sinewy tribute to the 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry Grey and his daughter, Lady Jane Grey. (We made that last bit up.) Twin Lion - The Greys [mp3] Posted by: Scott 05/02/10 All That Glitters The last time we caught up with these bright young things they were called The Mono, which is a bit like being called The Glandular Fever. If their old name referred to a lack of colour, then the new one, The Shimmer, adds a bit of sparkle. Here they glimmer darkly on the b-side to their debut single, out soon on the aptly named Hit Club. The Shimmer - Lover Void [mp3] Posted by: Scott 04/02/10 Fighting Talk I've neglected to mention my FADER column of late. Recently I've spoken to the amazing Mazes, the startling The Sticks, and the excellent Egyptian Hip Hop. For some reason I asked them all about fighting. Probably because I've "got a lot of guts". . Posted by: Scott 01/02/10