Taking stock around New Years is for amateurs. It takes real courage to look over your shoulder in the middle of the year. The disappointments have already started to pile up, but so have the accomplishments. The winners, the surprises, the sure bets, and the dark horses—they're all present and accounted for here. I arbitrarily capped myself at twenty albums, so there are some otherwise very good albums missing from the list: Raekwon, Africa Hitech, Egyptrixx, Ghost. But what is here is, I think, the best that 2011 has to offer intrepid listeners. [...]
Here are our favorite records + songs from the first half of 2011. If you're into reading, we've written about most of these here and in some other places . We've also enjoyed checking out all of your picks , as always. Please let us know what we missed: __________ 01 Shabazz Palaces :: Black Up mp3: Shabazz Palaces :: an echo from the hosts [...]
Peaking Lights return with another amazing & wonderful mixtape - put together for Chicago blog The Minimal Beat - featuring adventurous and obscure summer-appropriate sounds from around the world. Download below via TMB , and check the tracklist after the jump... mp3: Peaking Lights :: 59:36 mixtape ( 55 mb ) tracklist after the jump »
Directed by - Jamie Stones [ via ]
[a beautiful unofficial / band-approved video by jamie stones ]
Een screentest verandert in een psychedelische karaokesessie verandert in de making-of van een videoclip over een screentest die verandert in een psychedelische karaokesessie. Zeer meta allemaal. Ook wel " Amazing and Wonderful ", deze nieuwe clip van Peaking Lights .
Adorned in the sepia shades and black and white schemes of the early Velvet Underground, the Andy Warhol screen tests appear to be the chief inspirations for "Amazing & Wonderful." Take note Lady Gaga: there is no need to scream "LOOK AT ME, I HAVE READ THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL TWICE," unless you take your fans for fools. Then again, when you name your disciples after a Howie Mandel movie.... Midway through, "Amazing & Wonderful" morphs into a Kodachrome Karaoke session. It looks like the sort of thing you expect to happen at Echo Park's [...]
Peaking Lights - " Amazing & Wonderful " Directed by Ben Shearn & Amanda Brown Peaking Lights - Facebook
Video for Peaking Lights ' 'Amazing and Wonderful' off their fine new album 936 , out now on Not Not Fun . The clip was directed by Ben Shearn and Amanda Brown. [ via ] If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. Facebook Lights.
New video from neo psych band Peaking Lights ' last album 936 . Have a trip with Amazing and Wonderful . 936 is out now on Not Not Fun .
A casting call for potential Aaron and Indra stand-ins turns into a psychedelic karaoke session in this new official Peaking Lights clip, directed by Ben Shearn & Amanda Brown . " Amazing & Wonderful " appears on the group's brilliant 936 , out now on cassette via Not Not Fun . ________ previously : mp3: Peaking Lights :: Hey Sparrow Peaking [...]
mp3: SUMMER-ISH mix ( 82 mb ) [right click/save as] tracklist after the jump »
Dub isn't a genre so much as a template, a scaffolding rig that can support a surprisingly wide array of sounds. Obviously, dubstep is the most prevalent iterations of dub's core sounds, incorporating dub-style production techniques with 2-step and drum-and-bass beats. But there have always been intrepid explorers in the realms of dub. Take, for example, Stefan Betke, whose first 3 Pole albums were instant classics of minimalistic dub with a distinctly Teutonic edge. The latest musical Indiana Jones to find treasure are a couple from Madison, WI, Indra Dunis and Aaron Coynes. While their debut album, Imaginary Falcons , [...]
Wake up, roll over and get out of bed. Then repeat. And repeat. Another week and another reason to try and open your eyes again. Sometimes it's like they've been glued shut and I need to pay the guy from room service to throw buckets of ice water on my face until they peel open (to quote one of my favorite fictional musician ). What could the soundtrack for this horrifying ritual possibly be? How about dubbed-out indie rock, it's face rubbed in distortion and it's body washing out into the Summer breeze. Madison is a gorgeous college town [...]
Peaking Lights ' 936 ' LP has been on heavy rotation recently here at The Beat HQ and now they've won the approval of Sir Bobby Gillespie we expect big things from them. Their beautiful dreamy pop with heavy dub leanings make them pole position in 2011's bands to watch. As always please support the music and buy the LP . Peaking Lights - Key Sparrow
Names I have heard used describe Peaking Lights' music: post-reggae, dub, and groove wave. None of them particularly do the Madison-based married couple justice, but all are accurate to a degree. Released on Los Angeles experimental pop haven, Not Not Fun , 936 fits into the lineage established by labelmates Sun Araw and Pocahaunted: psychedelic music for the new era, more atmospheric than acid-addled. The guitar lines don't soar, they shake. The keyboard colors fade and reanimate like chameleons, with inexorable slowness and unusual subtlety. Peaking Lights sound like Beach House if they actually had [...]
Cette solitude béate, celle que l'on caresse de l'œil, tapi dans un duvet de soleil ou allongé face au néon cru d'une chambre d'hôpital. Des voix distantes tourbillonnent dans une forêt de songes à peine dissipés, n'ayant que peu de prise sur l'instant, coulant, tel un sablier éventré, sur d'indicibles pensées informes, morcelées. Le temps s'effiloche et rien, décidément rien, n'est en mesure de bousculer les voluptés abyssales d'un tel engourdissement des sens, flirtant à la lisière de l'éternité. Rien, sauf cette amie qui vous secoue l'épaule avec insistance pour vous demander [...]
Peaking Lights '936' This album is really, really good and is hitting all the right spots tonight. The A side is A+. I suggest you give it a listen / pick up
Breezy, hazed summer vibes abound on this this amazing hour-and-a-half long mix that Peaking Lights put together for us, featuring sounds that (presumably) influenced the band's brilliant new album , 936 . The band says: "this here is a party prep, works good after morning coffee too, or during an afternoon chillin session, it spans from the 50's to the 90's...it's all about listening and there's some far out jams on here! hope you's dig!" If you're feeling these [...]
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Zeit zum Ohren und Seele baumeln lassen? Peaking Lights basteln aus den Innereien alter Elektrogeräte unerhört lauschige Klängematten. Das Studio im Keller von Peaking Lights gleicht einer Werkstatt. Hier werden allerlei Elektrogeräte nicht repariert, sondern zerlegt. Tüftler Aaron Coyes möchte nicht blosser Konsument sein, sondern aktiv am Energiefluss teilhaben. Hierfür entwirrt er verstaubte Drähte und knüpft auf der Suche nach ungehörten Sounds aufs Geratewohl neue Kontakte. Die erstaunlichen Produkte werden gelooped, geschichtet und mit Ehefrau Indra Dunis' entrückten Phrasen zu sphärischem [...]
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