Available in iTunes: Issue #3 Discosalt Magazine
Today’s suggested listening: Forer – the self-funded, second EP from Steel Phantoms. Following up their eponymous debut, the unsigned, Brooklyn indie trio deliver yet another solid, sometimes quirky, no-frills progressive indie rock album. Expect crisp guitars, beautifully layered vocal harmonies, masterfully placed moog and a subdued intensity and introspection reminiscent of The Modern Lovers and Wolf Parade. Support the good fight! and download or stream the full album right HERE.
Mysterious 80′s synth lord Teeel wrote a bunch of songs back in 2008 under the alias “mimeo”. The album is an exploration into creating electronic music. At the time, he was still learning about synthesis and using different techniques to compose music, hence the name “the experiment”. You’ll hear hints of TEEEL mixed with downtempo and chill electronica. Enjoy this free download. [DOWNLOAD]
The lost notebooks of Hank Williams were discovered after he died in 1953. Jack White, Bob Dylan and a bunch of other artists have gotten together to complete the collection of previously unheard songs, adding a little lick of their own style with a lot of Hank’s raw energy to make The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Stream the standout track “You Know That I know” from White Stripes frontman Jack White HERE.
Paper Crows show you how to make paper crows. The instructional video is put to the sounds of “Gone”, the B-Side track to their upcoming single “When Friends Survive” which you can listen to here:
Paper Crows – When Friends Survive by Paper Crows
Stream Geoffrey O’Connor’s soaring and arch pop statement, Vanity is Forever, now! The album will be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 27th via Chapter Music but you can give it a listen today and dare to be hypnotized. Make sure to check out the very David Lynch, Twin Peaks soundtrack reminiscent “Thing’s I shouldn’t Do”.
PRE-ORDER VANITY IS FOREVER HERE
Also, listen to these previously released tracks off the record:
Geoffrey released a remix EP of “Whatever Leads Me To You” as well, including reworkings by Expensive Looks, Lawrence Arabia, and WORNG. All the remixes can be downloaded here for free.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has come a long way since 2005, when the DIY group first recorded and released their debut album all out of the apartment of bassist Tyler Sargent.
The band is back now with their third album Hysterical, marking their best work to date. ”Hysterical Balances the exuberance of the band’s first album with beauty and reflection, most notably in “In a Motel” and “Adams Plane.” But it wouldn’t be a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah record without that bounce; that “grab your buddy and dance with unhinged joy” emotion that’s all overHysterical. It’s feeling I thought we’d lost, but that the band has once again found, just in time.” (NPR Music)
You can stream the new album in it’s entirety on NPR’s First Listen by following the link below:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=140226001&m=140227904
Brooklyn based rapper Richard Rich just put out Get Your Money Vol. 2: Sick & Tired, his 4th product in a little over a year. Sick & Tired is yet another hand-crafted and perfected piece of work that is accurately described as full of “classic/quirky rap instrumentals, motivational messages, obscure rock samples, introspective thoughts on the human condition, hood ass shit, bittersweet hope”. I’m sticking with hood ass shit.
Richard Rich’s vocals cut through the instrumentals like a knife delivering witty and intelligent yet often silly and fart-jokey rhymes that leave you wondering “Is he really serious?” But given the quality with which he delivers you know he must be.
A while back we posted a write-up on DJ/Producer Max Tannone that included his collaboration with Richard Rich on Selene, a splicing of samples from Clint Mansell’s original score for the Duncan Jones film MOON.
Listen to Get Your Money Vol. 2: Sick and Tired below:
With lush guitars, and hushed vocals The Morning Clouds are the perfect soundtrack for a foggy drive. The Morning Clouds consists of Josh Wambeke, who’s best known for his work with a band called Fell. Wambeke’s upcoming release Wasted Youth Blues EP is self produced and recorded, showcasing one complex and lush piece of work. Although Wambeke slinks into a bedroom-pop aesthetic on The Wasted Youth Blues, there’s still enough cosmic dust left over from Fell’s travels to the edge of the universe to coat The Morning Clouds’ songs and cast an ethereal shimmer over that comfortably familiar classic pop framework. Just like the Ramones roughed it up with punk and JAMC’s C86 aesthetic yanked it into the new wave, The Wasted Youth Blues filters the sound through Wambeke’s spaced-out sensibilities. The Morning Clouds first release through Lefse Records is the gem-worthy EP.
Lefse Records will be releasing the debut EP Wasted Youth Blues on October 11th from Denver’s The Morning Clouds.
[MP3] The Morning Clouds “The Wrong Things”
http://www.lefserecords.com/tracks/TheMorningClouds-TheWrongThings.mp3
[Stream] The Morning Clouds “The Wrong Things”
http://soundcloud.com/viciousbuzz/the-wrong-things-1/s-1hgUA
Our favorite Halloween party house band, Team Genius have a new EP, of pop songs, aptly titled, well, ”Pop Songs” coming out on the 23rd. You can give it a listen right here, then come out and support the band this Friday (8/19) at Mercury Lounge for their record release show with opening band Quiet Loudly.
We have a new remix for you from Papercutz: This song is a remix of the title track from Jason Grier’s and Ramona Gonzalez’s (aka Nite Jewel) “Heart Shaped E.P.” Jason Grier is also sharing the first proper release from his (anti)love duets series. The new Heart Shaped EP collects five songs Grier penned for Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel, including studio versions of much blogged-about tracks “Heart Shaped Rock” and “Nothing Nothing”, plus four previously unheard jams. The 35 minute EP zeros in on “smash hit” grooves of the high broadcast age. Post-freestyle, slam jam, and daytime drama soundscapes wash over alien musings on love.
I think the Fader put it best this morning re: Danny Brown’s new XXX mixtape: “It’s like if Louis CK was younger and slightly, slightly less cynical and rapped”.
Get it at Fools Gold Records now.
