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The Flaming Lips drop an incredibly twisted and surreal video for the Heady Fwends track “Ashes In the Air,” which features some vocal contributions from Justin Vernon, a.k.a. Bon Iver. Check a review for The Flaming Lips’ Heady Fwends compilation below, and look out for the band’s
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Odd Renditions by Oddisee I first caught D.C. rapper-producer Oddisee when Mello Music Group sent me his mostly instrumental album Rock Creek Park. While I thought the textures and samples in his instrumentals were pretty, it was a bit in-one-ear-and-out-the-other for me, sadly. However, the four tracks on this
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The new Flaming Lips collaborative album is surprisingly cohesive and coherent despite it’s insane gauntlet of guests both big and small. WATCH THE REVIEW
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James Blake’s new EP, much like his self-titled debut earlier this year, is loaded with ideas that, to me, don’t feel completely finished. Still, the guy draws up some interesting concepts–even as he attempts to focus more on building songs on voice and piano this time around.
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Well, I just got finished with my first couple listens through this new collaborative track from James Blake and Bon Iver, “Fall Creek Boys Choir.” The YouTube channel it’s uploaded to even implies there’s a release–an album or EP, I don’t know–coming this October. Enough
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1. SBTRKT- Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon) (Objekt RMX) 2. “Sleep Rules Everything Around Me” (Fugazi / Wu-Tang Mash) 3. Bon Iver- “Perth” (Blow Oh Bootleg Remix) 4. Deerhunter- “Cool” (Pylon cover) 5. Washed Out- “Belong” (The Pillars of Creation RMX) Belong (The Pillars of Creation Remix) by The Pillars Of Creation
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On Bon Iver’s Bon Iver, the project opens the floodgates and welcomes in a sea of new instrumentation. Everything from clarinet to string arrangements are laced into these songs to widen the spectrum of sounds that were once so sparse four years ago on For Emma, Forever Ago. But
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Here we go, y’all! The album officially drops on June 21st via Jagjaguwar.
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On this new track, Bon Iver has altered the instrumentation his somber tunes soak in, but not much else. Years after For Emma has dropped, the mood as stayed roughly the same–which is a pretty great thing, to me. Sincerity, earnestness, honesty, and passion all come through on this
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One of my trusty Needle Drops turned me on to this very pretty music from singer-songwriter Lia Ices. She’s got a new album coming out on Jagjaguwar on 1/25, and you can dig on two tacks from it below. Bon Iver actually supplies guest vocals on the track
