"Early Bird" quickly transitions between haunting organ sounds and quick swipes of guitar, the former more in the vein of neo-psychedelia and the latter more like garage-rock. A lovely meshing of vintage sounds, to be sure, much like contemporaries in the vein of Ariel Pink. Lotus Feet show comfort in their influences only to a certain extent though, as their musicianship is apparent in itself.
There has been an unprecedented amount of disruption to this site over the last couple of weeks, caused by a hectic release schedule at Song, by Toad Records which prevented me preparing in the slightest for going away to the Fence Collective's Homegame Festival, rattling through two sessions in the day and a half I was back in Edinburgh, and then buggering off to Austin for SXSW. I can only apologise, and thank you for your patience and Dylan for his assistance, otherwise the whole universe might well have imploded. One of the best things about this site, [...]
Every so often I come across an album that perplexes me AND entertains me. This is the case with Vancouver's Abernethy and his The World Outside The Window LP (out via Spinning Gold Records). ... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
abernethy weaving hope and despair 2009 (française version) Donc. Faisons court à nouveau (etc...) pop nostalgique lumineuse, le voyage d'hiver mène, une fois, le printemps passé, à l'été, n'est-ce pas ? ...Bande son de l'été n°14: abernethy (englikhtonian version) So. Let's cut it short again (etc...) Luminous nostalgic pop, the winter journey leads, once spring's away, to [...]
The guilt of not going through the promo folder in our mailbox has been hung around my neck for the last weeks. There are lots of sincerely sent promos waiting for action, alongside x5 auto sent by attention hungry PRs who never check what we publish. That results in other stuff being lost in the mailbox as the amount easily escalates to hundreds in a week. Anyways I'm trying to clean up the mailbox for the umpteenth time, and I'll start with the indie/pop/rock selection. Dance / electronic stuff to follow soon. + [...]
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[The Curfew Breaker] Concert-Goers is a series aiming to outline all the people you're bound to bump into at a concert. Admittedly, I've fallen into some of these categories. Chances are you've been guilty of being one of these people too. As much as we typically hate these people, it's just not a concert without at least one of them present. The curfew breaker is soooooooo lucky. She got to stay up late tonight after spending hours begging her mom (perhaps the wandering cougar) to watch this show. [...]
The World Outside The Window is the forthcoming second album from Vancouver's Abernethy. The record is set for a July 14th release.Abernethy spins a swirling synth ambience throughout the album. Leaning almost entirely on electronics and computer generated sounds, Abernethy gives the music an otherworldly aura. in fact, songs like "Zelda" verge on the realm of Sci-fi/fantasy. Album closer "
Is there a means to stone the wind as recompense for blowing/ put out a fire with only a sense that there really should be no fire? Fresh out of my mailbox, courtesy of the good people at Spinning Gold Records, the new Abernethy album College Grove . Joseph Abernethy's sophmore effort is, if nothing else, original. Listening through the tracks, I've had a really hard time pegging the album down to a specific genre. Other reviews have called it "indie folk" or "space [...]
BARR - "Half of Two Times Two (Newer Version)" It would be nice if I agreed with anything he were saying, and it would be cool if I were as hopeful as this melody, but that's why he's playing the song, right? Instead the melody is like drinking rich chocolate liquid, or walking on light-up sidewalks, or flying. And instead I hear the lyrics like a foreign language, their cadence instead like running my finger and thumb along a paper covered in staples, all stapled in a row, as if 100 were stronger than 1. And my ears are pretending [...]
Obscure Sound
Song, by Toad
Pasta Primavera
So the wind won't blow it all away
undomondo
Both Sides of the Mouth
Snob's Music
three pints and a towel
Said the Gramophone
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Death Grips - Hustle Bones (Official video)
Kindness - House
Friends - "Mind Control" (Official Video)
Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko
TOURS – Grand Lux / Drift About
Diplo Remixes Sleigh Bells
ACL 2012: Lineup Leak?
YACHT Covers The Velvet Underground & Nico
Fixers: Really Great World (Chad Valley Remix)
