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Our Discontent Since Salem officially closed down Summer '09 with their anti-beach jam Frost, a chill has spread throughout the internets. Luke Jarvis, the lascivious young fellow behind the sordid Sexbeat record- and -party machine has teamed up with some dudes from Hush Arbors to create a band whose name helpfully explains the type of jams you will be listening to and the optimum season required to appreciate said jams. Their rad debut album, Blood In The Coffin, is out soon and look, they write songs about Kevin Arnold's girl's skeleton. Awesome. Winter Drones - Winnie Cooper's Bones [mp3] [Buy] Winter Drones - Two Long Weeks Part 2 [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 30/09/09 Thermostellar Bomb #20 After a little break, D2P is back at FADER. This week, Hyperdub's solar surfers, Darkstar. Posted by: Scott 29/09/09 After The Fall Here is something special. If you've ever stared broken-hearted from a train window as frowning forests fly by then you already know what it sounds like. Phoenix usually soar, but this is full of sorrow. Banhart adds his own tear stained vocals and stretches the original's melancholy middle eight into something poignant. Natalie Portman, you have a lot to answer for. Phoenix - Rome (Neighbors with Devendra Banhart) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/09/09 Modern Life Is Rubbish Tonight we bring to a close our two day festival of Awesome Producers Remixing Mediocre Songs. Here the amazing Kwes pushes drums down a stairwell and pulls sense through a keyhole. Screaming Lights dudes, "the 21st Century is a modern whore" is not a good opening gambit, but look! Kwes made the name of his remix look like a ghettoblaster. That's pretty cool. Screaming Lights - 21st Century (Kwes./[o=o]. Rework) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/09/09 The Alchemist We're not suggesting Gold Panda is the kind of dude who touches himself, but he clearly has Midas-like powers so you never know. Here he fondles berserk Bergenites Ungdomskulen into an explosive disco frenzy. Ungdomskulen - Idunno (Gold Panda Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 23/09/09 A Space Odyssey A long time ago in a city far, far away... Midnight Juggernauts watched Space Camp and a dream was born. But these Australians did not become astronauts, instead they travelled the intergalactic audiowaves evolving into a kind of Hi-NRG, zero gravity Tears For Fears. A limited 7" will be released soon by our ace pals at Acephale. Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 22/09/09 Live Forever Nanotechnology is not a word you hear very often in songs, but as you can see from the picture, German Measles are not regular dudes. This ramshackle paen to perpetuity is taken from their new EP, Wild, out soon on the eternally excellent Cap Tracks. German Measles - Eternity [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 21/09/09 Inside Story Jacques Audiard's new movie Un Prophete is the anti-Shawshank, a brutal and eloquent prison saga about what you really learn behind bars. The soundtrack is amazing too. From it, here's Jimmie Dale Gilmore's serene stab at a standard. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Mack The Knife [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/09/09 321 : No Age [Photo by The Amazing Stacey] Thanks to the awesomeness of No Age approximately 85% of bands now sound like they record inside untuned televisions using upturned skips as a microphones. They are fathers of the Summer Of Rad and as such, the last 321 of summer. (Let's just pretend today is the last day of summer). We spoke to Dean about OMD, medical marijuana and motherfuckers. [Continues...] No Age - You're A Target [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 17/09/09 Competition : Win Tickets For Metronomy Concert Metronomy = awesome. Male Bonding = awesome. Your Twenties = awesome. Drums Of Death = awesome. So a night full of awesome at The Forum tomorrow night (18/09/09). We have tickets to give away. Email us now if you'd like some. New Metronomy EP is out on Monday. BUY IT. Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Joakim Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 17/09/09 Jack Of All Trades Any song that begins with an alarm-fuelled yawn chorus and ends with a cheery good night is all right with us. Austin's Fach Idiot fill the space between with whispered seducto raps, weird spoken samples and whirling, freshly flipped classic soul, suggesting they're anything but one-trick ponies. fach Idiot - Darlin' (I Melt) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 15/09/09 Dungeon Master What's that, tiny battle-weary elf guy? Your gigantic feet hurt? You're about to reach the crest of a cloud-cloaked mountain range and you need a suitably epic and ancient score? Meet the amazing Among The Bones, he will hook you up. But steel yourself, little dude. Your quest continues and this is only part one of a projected trilogy. Among The Bones - An Altar For Serpents And Vermin [mp3] Posted by: Scott 14/09/09 Who's Afraid For last week's D2P I spoke to the wonderful Othello Woolf about auto-tune and stuff. Posted by: Scott 14/09/09 321 : Tune Yards Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus who we went to see in Paris the other day. Her one-woman sampling-assed, ukulele-owning, Aretha-by-way-of-Sister-Gertrude-Morgan show is amazing. You should try and see her this week and next across the UK. Check out her crazy album BiRd-BrAiNs and look forward to the next which we are told will be "like Mary J Blige, but crazy." After the jump Merrill schools us on DROC, fairy houses and shape notes. [Continues...] Tune-Yards - Sunlight [mp3] Posted by: Scott 11/09/09 999 Bombay Bicycle Club look like nice, clean indie boys, but they don't sound like it here. Paul White sucks them into his hall of mirrors and spits out a macabre mob of wild-eyed, doom-stepping stalkers. [Note to all nice, clean indie boys: get Paul White to produce your album.] Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet (Paul White remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 09/09/09 Devil's Music As this song roars out of the blocks it's easy to imagine Not Cool as a band possessed. But as they thunder wonderfully through their 79th awesome rhythmic change it's clear the beast in these dudes just needs to be exercised, not exorcised. Get their limited-edition single now. Not Cool - Wonderful Beasts [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/09/09 Cool World Just when we were starting to worry about the lack of quality oompah music sung by wacky cartoon Euro-munchins, here is Barcelona's brilliantly named Internet 2 to plug that Godi-shaped gap. Get the album here. Internet 2 - El himno de la biosfera terrestre [mp3] Posted by: Scott 08/09/09 321 : Spectrals On Saturday we went to the awesome Offset festival. We can't remember any of it, but we do know we arrived too late to see Spectrals, a wonderful one-man wall of sound from Leeds. We are idiots, learn from our mistakes and revel in his bombastic surf-psych throughout October when he plays shows with The Big Pink, Sick Alps and Cro codiles. Here is a track from his new EP on Suplex Cassettes. It rules. We spoke to him about Diana Ross, swagger and doo-wop. [Continues...] Spectrals - It's OK (Not To Be OK) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 07/09/09 Always Right We would've posted this creepy slice of crepuscular Eurotech by Denton's Customer based on the title alone. Its awesomeness is just a bonus. Customer - Ghettosex [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/09/09 Bleed To Death HEALTH - Die Slow In which HEALTH go boomtime with a slick clip featuring all the things we love like hot models/crowd surfing/multiple Buddhas/formation dancing that looks like slow marching/slim microphones/fringes combined with hoodies/giant vinyl pictures of Japanese women/toll phone lines/and blood, lots of blood. Awesome. Posted by: Scott 04/09/09 321 : The Drums Some bands are so busy running around dark beaches they only have time to give the briefest of answers to our 321 questions. The Drums are one such band, but like their punchy, uber-rad surf anthem, these answers prove there is no direct correlation between size and potential for awesomeness. [Continues...] The Drums - Let's Go Surfing [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 03/09/09 Faraway, So Close "Heart racing. Shooting straight up. In bed. 3:30pm. It's hot. The fan isn't working, and yesterday, the AC exploded. If you get out of bed you have to get out of bed. To get out of bed you have to get out of bed." This is the beginning of a mail from Tearist's awesome Yasmine Kittles. She's talking about their claustrophobic fever dream Closest Furthest, a piece of conceptual punk-art wrapped in unsettling honesty. "This song happened exactly the way I sing it," she says. "Every line." Tearist - Closest Furthest (Home Alone Edition) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 03/09/09 321 : Perfume Genius We don't know if Perfume Genius's chick on the side said she got one on the way or if he near cried when he got that phone call, but his brittle, baleful ballads contain countless other confessions. Alone at his piano he sings about sex and death like Sufjan with all the pep punched out of him. After the jump he tell us about "a wet dream with Freddy Krueger in it." [Continues...] Perfume Genius - Mr Petersen [mp3] Posted by: Scott 02/09/09 Crash Override We have just gotten a wake-up call from the Nintendo Generation. This is Computer Lab's world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. Yes, they are criminals. Their crime is that of curiosity. Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Spandex: it's a privilege, not a right. Hope you don't screw like you type. Hack the planet. Computer Lab - Zero Cool [mp3] Posted by: Scott 01/09/09