Tomorrow, Kate Bush will be releasing the album 50 Words For Snow. Of course, she already had an album release earlier this year, but this album will be the first LP of completely new studio material since 2005’s Aerial. “Wild Man” is the first track to drop from the
The Burial of the Dead by Axel Thesleff On his debut album, Axel Thesleff is doing a lot with a little. The music’s self-produced sound didn’t exactly stun my ears, but the creativity and ambition shown in tracks like the one above did. The 12-minute “the Burial of
Elder is a Massachusetts rock band, and 2011 saw the release of its sophomore album, Dead Roots Stirring. It’s out now via MeteorCity, and the song above comes from it. Even though this track, “Gemini,” feeds into a few stereotypes for this genre, I can’t help but find
A video for the track “Fridge Note,” which comes off the new Dimlite album, Grimm Reality. It’s out now via Now-Again. Yeah, the track is a bit weird, but that’s what makes it so attractive to me. The manipulated vocals and noisy, bouncing synths stick in my head
A music video for a track from the new Black Lips album, Arabia Mountain, which I actually handed a copy of to Mick Jagger for the lulz. This video seems like it’s for the lulz, too. Check my review of Arabia Mountain here.
A new track from hip hop mystic Gonjasufi. It’s titled “Nickel and Dimes,” and it’s set to appear on the dude’s forthcoming album, MU.ZZ.LE. It’ll be out on Warp Records on January 24th. This release will surely be a change of pace from his
A new track from New Haven, Connecticut’s own the Mountain Mover’s. It’s to be released via 7″ this year along with two other tracks on the Car Crash Avoiders label. Two more 7″s will follow in 2012 on the same label. The music pulled together in
Dam Mantle is the solo effort of Glasgow producer Tom Marshallsay. I caught this track as the 405’s “Track of the Day,” and it’s not hard to see why. The first and obvious observation to make is that this track is a bit of a departure from the
Though King Krule’s debut EP is kind of undercooked, some of the tracks and ideas here are pretty stunning. Can’t wait to see what this UK singer-songwriter brings in 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
Aside from a few new sounds, Crystal Stilts really hasn’t progressed its sound past In Love With Oblivion. But for fans, that may not necessarily be a bad thing. WATCH THE REVIEW
