New England electronica producer White Mountains remixes a track from Choongum’s latest EP, Explorations. The original version, which was laden with some pretty heavy and distorted walls of low-end sound, gets cooled down with some airy synths and what sounds like a straw broom dragging against a stone floor.
At the beginning of April, I blogged a video from an up-and-coming psych rock outfit from my neck of the woods. These guys like to keep things instrumental and slightly anonymous. There’s not much to know about the group at this point–outside of the fact that their members
Fans of beyond-bent rock, heads up! The Bewitched Hands–also known as the Bewitched hands on the Top of Our Heads–aren’t just all about peace and love, despite a pretty catchy sound. The French band’s track “Work,” this cut from their new EP of the same name,
Is this for real? Stream piece of Tyler, The Creator’s next album, Goblin, above. Look for it on May 10th via XL.
On Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes improve just about everything that they were doing on their last album. Keep in mind the key word here is “improve,” not change. Yes, the band is still walking down the same path they were on their previous LP, but they’re much further down
MP3 There’s something about the music of Chateau Marmont that reminds me of some of my favorite Kraftwerk songs. Maybe there’s a modern dance feel to the music on their latest compilation–which is a set of 3 EPs released over the past 3 years–but the vocoder,
When it comes to the Alaskan band Portugal. The Man, I’d say my fandom is very, very casual. I’ve only loved one of their albums, truly: Censored Colors. The rest just aren’t my cup of tea, I guess. But I’d attribute that to the adventurous nature
Hercules by Kin As Kin, electronic artist Yung Hui explores sound’s dark side through drones and bleak synths. What backing up these sounds much of the time are hip hop beats, believe it or not–but a verse over his tunes just doesn’t seem appropriate. His latest album,
In a short series of instant messages via Gmail, I learned a lot about Connecticut music producer Derek Piotr. Every now and again, he loves to partake in some Dolly Parton. Oh, yeah, and he also despises synthesized tones–or maybe he’s got a love-hate relationship with tone in
Is anybody else getting hot looking at this album cover? Of course, I feel that way because this is going to be the next Washed Out album. I don’t know what you were thinking, but whatever. It looks like electronic artist Ernest Greene’s solo efforts will be getting
