Off John Twells final album with the Xela moniker, Exorcism. Free download via the Type soundcloud . "Exorcism contains field recordings I recorded in the Park Lime Pits in Walsall, a flooded limestone mine that I spent much of my childhood traipsing around" via gacougnol
Una volta facevo classifiche di fine anno da 30/40 dischi, cercavo di stare attento ad equilibrare criteri "oggettivi" (sic) a motivi più personali. Poi un anno capita che succedano molte cose nella tua vita (una di queste, una di quelle belle, è che ora le classifiche le posso fare qua) e che badi meno ad essere sempre sul pezzo, che ti ritrovi ad ascoltare altro, comunque poco o niente delle uscite coeve o che comunque ci sia ben poca roba che ti attrae. Capita che ci siano dischi che si salvano e che spiccano sugli altri e capita anche che [...]

Frying saxophone solos! Synthesizers recreating lost sunny days! Nihilistically lewd mixtapes inspiring dozens of new entries on Urban Dictionary! Tricked-out dubstep for American mall rats! The musical trends that defined much of 20112s critically-lauded output were roundly ignored by my favorite records of the year. The best albums of the year invented their own one-band microgenres. EMA gave us California confessional poetry, while WU LYF reinvented protest punk for a generation without a cause. Wolves in the Throne Room continued to hone their environmental black metal. Das Racist refined their postmodern identity joke rap. Peaking Lights invented Midwestern dub, and [...]

Wye Oak Welcome to the first part of our albums of the year countdown - for the rest of the week, we'll be bringing you our favourite albums of 2011, as voted for by our writers. Check each day this week for 10 more albums, with 10-1 announced on Friday. We'll bring you our favourite songs of the year in the following week. All in all, 24 lists were totted up by Mitchell Stirling, and votes were cast by Tom Bolton, Paul Brown, Sam Cleeve, Jane Corcoran, Lucy Dearlove, Rosie Duffield, Ben Dufton, Paul Faller, Stephen [...]

Presenting our 100 favorite songs of 2011 . Like our albums of the year list, we had to leave off a ton of great jams, but this is a pretty thorough representation of what we were most into this year. Turns out it was a pretty great one. Check the list after the jump… click for gorilla vs. bear's SONGS of 2011 »
Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana foi preenchida de boas propostas musicais, na sua maioria constam da minha lista pessoal das 40 músicas que mais curti em 2011. As duas entradas que merecem um destaque adicional foram a remistura de "Crystal" dos New Order por John Creamer & Stephane K e o tema que

Field Day is one of London's most trendy and popular one-day summer festivals and this week a flurry of artists, for the event on the 2nd June, were released. This date is much earlier than normal but the venue for the festival will still be Victoria Park. Franz Ferdinand were confirmed to headline the festival, Franz Ferdinand have not played a gig in the... Read more..
The top twenty commences. What phenomenal albums lead up to the top ten? Come and take a look
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Tweet Axel Willner AKA The Field recently came out with a record full of sweeping micro-samples that have become associated with him like bread with butter. The very appropriately titled "Looping State Of Mind" creates a state of infinite playback with no end in sight and it's the first thing that came to mind when I began listening to Jens Lindahl . I had left his song "PVC" on repeat and was pleasantly surprised at how well it came [...]
The Field and his work have been - and this is not an understatement - probably the cornerstone of my musical existence since 2007. I would guess that From Here We Go Sublime is the album I have listened to most in my lifetime. So new material from this artist is of huge significance. I am still taking time to become acquainted with Looping State of Mind but I really do adore the opening track, Is This Power . So here it is for your aural pleasure: [...]

The Field – "Everday" I was lucky enough to see The Field and Walls play at Cyprus Avenue in Cork, Ireland late last week. Besides the amazing Wilco show at Tanglewood in the summer of 2007, I can't remember seeing another live show that was such a goddamn party. Both groups' sets were killer—both The Field and Walls stretched out their tracks to 10-15 minute marathons and in the process made the beats heavier, the grooves more dynamic [...]
1. Widowspeak - Widowspeak (Captured Tracks) 2. Young Man - Ideas of Distance (Frenchkiss) 3. The Field - Looping State of Mind (Kompakt) 4. Class Actress - Rapproacher (Carpark) 5. Various Artists - GRPTPS Vs. PTLCK (Grip Tapes) 6. Memoryhouse - The Years (Sub Pop-Arcade Sound) 7. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute) 8. Donora - Boyfriends, Girlfriends (Rostrum) 9. Icebird - The Abandoned Lullaby (RJ's Electrical Connections) [...]
I posted this song before. Well, not exactly this song, but kinda sorta. "Without You" debuted on Junip's 2010 release, Fields, and now one of my more recent faves, Portugal, The Man, have decided to do a little remix action on it. Jose Gonzales totally owns with this project. I really enjoy the reverbed vocals and subdued instrumentation. They even toss in a little synthy keyboard part in the

There are a fair few things in life that get better with age. Wine, for example or a ripe, potent cheese would fall into this category. Given time, such items will mature from a fairly boring beginning state into something great. In a fair few instances, the same can be said for record labels too. For a long while, they can lay dormantly under the radar, producing a steady stream of enjoyable output, whilst nurturing and supporting their roster of artists. And then all of a sudden, all of their eggs come to hatch and the label's name and status [...]

Junip es una banda diferente no sólo por su sonido sino por sus integrantes. Con procedencia sueca pero corazón latino ya que su líder, José Gonzalez, nació en la maravillosa ciudad de Göteborg pero sus padres son argentinos, el año pasado lanzaron el que para mi gusto fue uno de los trabajos más buenos y llamativos de 2010. La música de Fields no tiene una forma fácil de definirse, estando seguramente en una especie de rock Indie con toques folk e incluso algún esbozo progresivo. De el os hemos hablado en alguna ocasión [...]

José González and company stopped by Kimmel's LA studio yesterday to play a couple songs.
Some Cellphone Shots from Maple County, Indiana Natures photos from the psuedo-space of Maple County, IN.

The Field - Looping State Of Mind By Jim Merrett Repetition is an effective means of getting across all the nuances of a piece of music – just ask all those Guantanamo detainees for their thoughts on Barney the purple dinosaur. As the album title suggests, Axel Willner's third effort as The Field turns reoccurring patterns of sound into a weapon used to crack open and then fuck with listeners' heads. But where Looping State Of Mind deviates from the US military's rendition playlist [...]

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