(4AD) The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner are responsible for Dark Was The Night , a 31-track double album featuring exclusive tracks from a collection of the finest artists from (mostly) the other side of the Atlantic (Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch is the sole European), and all proceeds go to the Red Hot Organisation, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. And what an album it is. There are some stellar cover versions: The Books and José Gonzalez' flawless version of Nick Drake's 'Cello [...]
(4AD) The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner are responsible for Dark Was The Night , a 31-track double album featuring exclusive tracks from a collection of the finest artists from (mostly) the other side of the Atlantic (Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch is the sole European), and all proceeds go to the Red Hot Organisation, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. And what an album it is. There are some stellar cover versions: The Books and José Gonzalez' flawless version of Nick Drake's 'Cello [...]
Pitchfork reports that Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release It's Blitz! on April 14th! Yes! If the above cover artwork is any indication, this album is going to be kick ass. Blitz was co-produced by Dave Sitek and Nick Launay, and features guest appearances by Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio. The first single is called "Zero" - we should be getting a taste of it soon. April 14th! The countdown begins now. Gold Lion
Telepathe's Dance Mother is my favourite album of the moment, followed closely by Fever Ray, Dark is the Night, N.A.S.A. and that School of Seven Bells album I keep playing. Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais teamed up with Dave Sitek to make an electronic-pop album born out of a drone-arty background. The results are largely on the money thanks to the two girls strong melody and harmony. Their sound is dark, dystopian, menacing, literary and brash. Telepathe - So Fine Telepathe - Lights [...]
A vertiginous cyclone of spaced-out, de-constructed futuro-urban noise, Telepathe' s "In Your Line" juggles tribal percussion clatter, ambient tones and ghost-like moans to manifest the nightmarish limbo of one's unwanted single status, the conjoined vocal presence of members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais flickering in and out of the oddly attractive sonic palette, just like all the other musical elements served, to toss off disjointed couplets describing their lonesome blues. Quick to admit fault in the romance's dissolution, the girls' confess to only offering "half my time" and scurrying off when boyfriend got too close. But [...]
Dark Was The Night is the upcoming stunning new double CD set from the Red Hot Organization and 4AD . Honestly, and I never say this about compilations, let alone double records, but this thing could well be my favorite album of the year. Dark Was The Night was masterfully produced (and I'm not just saying that, this thing really is a producer's tour de force) by brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National , and it includes contributions from the following impressive roster of artists: [...]
(Co-Op/V2) The latest release drawn from the Brooklyn peripheral music scene which includes the likes of Effie Briest and Gang Gang Dance is the infinitely more accessible Telepathe. Consisting of Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais, the duo used to specialise in experimental drone pop but have now married those clear-cut sounds to a poppy affair albeit one with obscure musings on death, crime, love and killing on their debut album. With the help of producer Dave Sitek of another eminent New York group TV On The Radio, they have crafted an experimental electronic [...]
S O F I N E B E M I N E ALBUM: Telepathe - Dance Mother words: Jamie Milton How does one go with bridging the gap between too cool and too clever? Few do so with such style as the kings of the alternative scene. We're talking Dave Sitek, the figure behind TV On The Radio, ever-growing in success and the recognition they've always deserved. And despite not being the voice behind it all, his production duties have been sought [...]
MUSIC NEWS - NYC alt rockers, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have unveiled the title of their new album, their third. The follow-up to ' Show Your Bones ' (2006) is to be called 'It's Blitz' (no, we don't know who Blitz is). The album was recorded by the band (Karen O, Brian Chase, Nick Zinnern) in Texas and Massachusetts with producer/musician Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio) and Australian producer Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Midnight Oil) and is being readied for a spring 2009 release from Interscope Records.
For reasons that can only be self-destructive, the NME is pushing ahead with its Cool List. Seven years they've been doing this now, and still not learning from their mistakes - which Stereogum helpfully point out: the NME is useless as separating 'cool' from 'notorious': Before talking about NME's seventh annual cool list, it's kind of cool to look quickly at the 2007 Top 10 to see who's still ... cool. Lethal Bizzle? Barely. Amy Winehouse? Lucky to be alive. Ditto Keith Richards. Beth Ditto? No. Last year one, two, and three went, respectively, to Gallows' [...]
Brooklyn's Telepathe are prepping the release of their debut full-length, Dance Mother . The album is being recorded with Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and will feature contributions Kyp Malone (TVOTR) and Shannon Funchess (of !!!). According to a press release, "Access to Sitek's vintage synthesizer collection, combined with deep electronic sub-bass lines influenced by hours of listening to dub-step, gave the duo's homemade music making a new sonic purity and gave them the confidence and the stylistic singularity to transcend genres." Telepathe have been on the road [...]
Wie lange haben wir eigentlich schon nichts mehr von The Knife gehört? Und haben sie uns eigentlich gefehlt? Dies mag sich Dave Sitek von TV On The Radio gefragt haben, als er sich ausgerechnet Marble House (aus dem Jahre 2006) vorknöpfte und in den Schredder gab. Klingen The Knife jetzt dadurch wie TVOTR? Fragen über Fragen - die Antwort hört ihr nach dem Klick. [mp3] The Knife / Marble House (TV On The Radio remix) [...]
Openers The Dirtbombs were already mid-set by the time I arrived at the Electric Factory on Friday and there is no tiptoeing around around the fact that I found the five piece completely lackluster. I sat on the bleachers bored with a friend. We flipped through The New Yorker awaiting TV On The Radio 's set to begin. The fellas kicked off their set with the title track from 2003's Young Liars EP and from the very first note, Nigerian-born front man Tunde Adebimpe exploded with energy jumping around [...]
SONG OF THE WEEK: Foals - Glaciers words: Jamie Milton Before you go "oh, not these punks again", let us just declare that this is the first time MFM has covered anything about Foals in over a month. Spectacular stuff. Hell, we can't even remember what these guys sound like anymore. All we know is that they're for the cool kids who read music press so it must be terrible. Say we were to discover Foals on a clean slate, with 'Glaciers', the lengthy b-side to [...]
So here it is. One of the most anticipated albums of the year. Dear Science , the third album from New York art-rock experimentalists TV On The Radio . I got this album at the same time as a couple of other big albums in the form of Bloc Party 's Intimacy , and Kings of Leon 's Only By The Night . I've not got around to the KoL album yet, and I'm reserving judgement on Intimacy til the full physical release next month. [...]
ALBUM: TV On The Radio - Dear Science, words: Jamie Milton The one thing that sets apart TV On The Radio from many of their contemporaries is their ability to quite literally, take the breath away from your lungs. 'Wolf Like Me', the lead single from their previous 2006 record 'Return To Cookie Mountain' did just this and if there was a particular way to meet that spark with a match, it would be the offering of 'Halfway Home', 'Dear Science,'s opener and don't even bother arguing about this, the [...]
by kevin diamond It's easy, when writing about music, to lean on comparisons as a crutch. I've always been a fan of easy, so let's crutch this shit up: TV On The Radio 's "Dear Science," is OK Computer. It's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It's The Soft Bulletin. Twenty years from now, when your kid's starting to get into music, and he hears about this band, the album he'll pick up is "Dear Science," And even then, twenty years in the future, that shit will blow his mind. [...]
INITIAL THOUGHTS: TV On The Radio - Dear Science, words: Jamie Milton What was indicative of the two tracks we'd heard before 'Dear Science,' arrived ('Dancing Choose' and 'Golden Age') was that we'd have an entirely different record on our hands to that of 'Return To Cookie Mountain'. And if you loved that record as much as I did, a gentle tip to enjoying the future release would be to get the debut record ('Ok Calculator' aside...), 'Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes' and it'll hopefully help you grasp [...]
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