Funeral Party - NYC Moves To The Sound Of LA: Oooh yes, let's kick things off with some ass-whooping dance rock. Just as much fun as Lions At Your Door and other dirty rock poppers.
Take that, New York City!
Ideals - Love Song: So many years later and the waves of The Cure are still being felt and enjoyed by fresh new generations! Fabulous.
Lille - Tall Shoulders (Todd Buchler Remix): The heavy bass pounding acts as a sarcastic counterpoint to the angelic echoed out voice. Hey, I'm at least amused.
Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix ft Aristotle Pop A Bottle): Finger snaps! Yes, we need more finger snaps in indie rock!!! The new Local Natives is hot, and this remix just cements things.
Loch Lomond - Wax and Wire: This one goes back to the 2006 album "Night Bats", but come on people, I can't listen to everything the moment it comes out. I'll always be discovering older stuff that is just as fresh and important today.
Well ok, this is more old-timey than bleeding edge, but really, you are the victims of my whims and whimsy.
Monarchy - Black The Colour Of My Heart
Monarchy - The Phoenix Alive: woah woah woah, hold the phone! These are kind of sort of awesome! Perfectly-based morsels of disco pop genius, I do declare. A bit happy, a bit mopey, and totally worth the indulgence.
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (Odd Year Remix): wow, I haven't heard this classic in so many years! thank goodness for crate-digging producers bringing us back the 80s gems for the kids these days.
Ra Cailum - Existence: Sexy chopped vox and a plodding chill IDM beat? Don't mind if I do.
Sam Billen - To Kingdom Come (Passion Pit cover): And it starts! There is bound to be many more Passion Pit covers on the horizon, and oh I welcome them graciously.
Hard to hit with the same power as the original, but oh so fun.
Scorn - Take Someone's Eye Out: New Scorn for 2010!!! The album is "Refuse; Start Fires" and while I love Mick Harris with all of my heart, you know that with any Scorn release of the past decade you're just get sometimes amorphous darkcore breakbeats with a few standout tracks.
Well, this album is a bit beyond the previous one, and this track here for me is the take-home scorcher to be had.
Sleigh Bells - AB Machines (French Horn Rebellion Remix): The funny thing is, this distorted remix almost sounds like it cleans up the sound.
Either way, we can now take the distorted breaks goodness of scorn and move in to the totally fun pop realm! yay!
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People (Classic Rock Version): He's back! It's what you've all been waiting for! If last year's BQE album of contemporary classical didn't quite get your rocks off, and the Dark Was The Night track was just kind of annoying, take note!
Sufjan is back in strong form, with a new LP on the horizon. But first, he has a new EP. Well, it's SIXTY MINUTES, but it's still the "All Delighted People EP". Hell, the main single is 12 minutes by itself.
Anyways, all that matters is that if you love Sufjan, time to get back on the wagon. And he's even biting Simon & Garfunkel instead of Angelo Badalamenti, thank god!
Tanya Tagaq - Fire; Ikuma ft Mike Patton
Tanya Tagaq - Tategak
Tanya Tagaq - Want ft Buck 65: I only recently got this 2008 album, because I just recently saw her perform (inexplicably) at Folk Fest. "Auk/Blood" is kind of all over the place, but a must if you are a fan of avant-garde vocalists.
If you love Yoko Ono and Mike Patton when they get textural, or Tzadik mainstays like Makigami Koichi or the gutteral side of Keiji Haino, you'll probably really be in to this.
Tomoko Kaneda - Warunai Fever: OMG WTF IS THIS? I have no idea how I stumbled upon this but it is insane. And awesome.
Apparently it's the theme song from an anime titled "SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever", which itself is a fabulous name.
But I'm over 30, I haven't watched anime in many many many years. Glad to know it's still got some zany shit going down.
Two Door Cinema Club - Come Back Home (Radio Edit): And let's end things with the new single from Two Door Cinema Club! Perfect.
THIS WEEK'S TRACKS
Funeral Party - NYC Moves To The Sound Of LA
Ideals - Love Song
Lille - Tall Shoulders (Todd Buchler Remix)
Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix ft Aristotle Pop A Bottle)
Loch Lomond - Wax and Wire
Monarchy - Black The Colour Of My Heart
Monarchy - The Phoenix Alive
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (Odd Year Remix)
Ra Cailum - Existence
Sam Billen - To Kingdom Come (Passion Pit cover)
Scorn - Take Someone's Eye Out
Sleigh Bells - AB Machines (French Horn Rebellion Remix)
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People (Classic Rock Version)
Tanya Tagaq - Fire; Ikuma ft Mike Patton
Tanya Tagaq - Tategak
Tanya Tagaq - Want ft Buck 65
Tomoko Kaneda - Warunai Fever
Two Door Cinema Club - Come Back Home (Radio Edit)
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