indie
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New song and video from Vancouver indie pop act Destroyer, from the album Poison Season, out August 28 via Merge. Anthony’s rave review of the project’s 2011 effort Kaputt:
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Wavves x Cloud Nothings by Wavves X Cloud Nothings Here’s a collaborative full-length from Nathan Williams (Wavves), the vanguard of Cali surf punk, and post-hardcore darling Dylan Baldi, of Ohio’s Cloud Nothings. The album was produced by Williams and his brother Joel (who comprise the instrumental hip hop
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While the songwriting isn’t amazing, Mutilator Defeated is easily the Oh Sees most diverse and high fidelity record in a while.
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Get Olde Second Wind by Crying I don’t know whether the point with Crying’s sound is to send people on a uniquely nostalgic trip back to the 90s, provide the weirdest backdrop for vocalist Elaiza Santos, or even a secret mission to get the world head banging to
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These guys are almost here, I promise. The anticipation for their debut album brings to light one simple truth: Viet Cong know how to build hype the right way. A strong EP, quite a few scorching singles, and most importantly, quality music have the collective music world drooling for their
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Deerhoof compliments one of the most unsettling and noisy tunes on their latest record with a strange video about interconnectedness. We seem to have a few twin-like characters who share pain in the same way a one-way street shares traffic. Whatever happens to one seems to impact the other, and
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https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/the-dodos-competition-2/s-WHF19#t=0:00 Indie-rock duo The Dodos have had a nice little trajectory, breaking through with their second record, Visiter, and following that up with nicely produced variations on their themes, with slightly hit-or-miss results: 2009’s Time to Die was a little forgettable,
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OH MY GOD! STOP BEING SO MEAN TO ALL THOSE CARS! HEY, YOU! HEY! QUIT IT! NO, DON’T SMASH ‘EM! NOOOOO! WHYY? C’MON, MAN! QUIT IT! Deerhoof‘s latest album is titled La Isla Bonita, and it just dropped via Polyvinyl Records.
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New York’s Parquet Courts–or Parkay Quarts as it is stylized here–have a somewhat spotty past with me. While I really dug 2012’s Light Up Gold, I felt left out in the cold on their last record, Sunbathing Animal. But because I’m a fan of Andrew
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DFA 1979 returns with a likable followup to their debut full-length.
