Like many of releases from Paw Tracks , it took me a fair amount of listens to fully warm up to Rings debut long-player, Black Habit . Take last year's Person Pitch for example, I listened to the record when it was first released in the summer, but it took repeated spins and many months of going back to the record before it finally clicked for me in late November (subsequently after hearing the Turbostation remix of "Comfy In Nautica"). Over the last few years I've realized [...]
Formerly First Nation , Nina Mehta and Kate Rosko have added Abby Portner ( sister of Animal Collective 's Dave Portner ) to become Rings , the latest group of noisemakers from the experimental label Paw Tracks . Their first release, Black Habit [ buy ], fits snugly into Paw Tracks' catalog of innovative noise pop (Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam and Panda [...]
Auch wenn Animal Collective selbst mittlerweile zum größeren Domino gewechselt sind, ihr eigenes Label Paw Tracks weiß den Verlust durchaus auszugleichen und hatte letztes Jahr mit Black Dice, Eric Copeland und natürlich Panda Bear gleich mehrere starke Veröffentlichungen. Den enorm vielversprechenden Start in 2008 rein macht ehemals als First Nation aktive Trio Rings , mit neuem Namen wie mir scheint musikalisch um einiges gewachsen. Moderner, loop- und samplefreudiger isländischer oder finnischer Folk trifft in New York auf Gang Gang Dance und vielleicht auch jemanden vom Tierkollektiv, wenn das ganze Black Habit so gut wie Mom Dance [...]
Bang starts the 2008 with swiriling excitement, the only angle of this post is GOODNESS, but isn't that always the case. Blood on The Wall are one of 20JFG's fave bands from one of 20JFG's fave labels, The Social Registry, watch them come back strong in 2008 with Liferz, another raucous ...
First Nation lost member Melissa Livaudais, and added Abby Portner (sister of Dave Portner) so naturally they ditched the old name and were re-christened Rings. A large step forward from their previous album, Black Habit is a loose pop amalgam that falls somewhere squarely between White Magic and what might have been had Avey Tare and Kria Brekken released their album in its forward state. The Brekken touchstone is a bit unsurprising, considering she had a producing hand in Black Habit . Wistful harmonies delve slowly into darker atmospherics with circular piano and guitar lines that give [...]
I was skeptical about this, but after further research I found out that it is true... BEER DRINKERS FINGER: Swelling, bluish discoloration and wasting of the finger caused by placing pop-top beer can rings on the finger. ( Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968 ) RANDOM PICTURES EXPLANATION: (from my flickr roll ) hmmm.... this picture was at a school I was taking my night [...]
Zookeeper - Trumpets Clinic - Harvest No Kids - For Halloween Scott Matthew - Amputee The Lisps - Pepper Spray Rings - Mom Dance Kasabian - Empire Bumblebeez - Fever Dead Moon - Dead Moon Night Witchdoctor - The Barrell Manatella - Cherry Red Pash - ABCD * Apes - Beat Of The Double [...]
This was a week for signings: Bon Iver signs with Jagjaguwar Listen to : Skinny Love ( mp3 ) No Kids sign with Tomlab Listen to: For Halloween ( mp3 ) Russian Circles sign with Suicide Squeeze Listen to: Death Rides a Horse ( mp3 ) Radiohead signs with XL Recordings Morrissey also announced that he is signing a new record deal, but he has not revealed the label. [...]
Chris Stills - "When The Pain Dies Down" ( MP3 ) Wild Sweet Orange - "Wrestle With God" ( MP3 ) Digby - "What's Not Plastic?" EP ( ZIP ) (like it? How 'bout a little donation for the band?) No Kids - "For Halloween" ( MP3 ) As Tall As Lions - "Ghost of York" ( MP3 ) Quinn Walker - "By the Riverbank" ( MP3 ), "Plenty of Water for Mud" ( MP3 ), "Save Your Love For Me" ( MP3 ) Rings - "Mom Dance" ( MP3 )
This week, the Broken Dial mp3 Mixtape features the delicious musical stylings of: Black Dice, Carbon/Silicon, Holy F-ck, Mike Mangione, Rings...
First Nation has changed their name to Rings , so now Rings is the new First Nation and Animal Collective's label - Paw Tracks will be releasing their new record Black Habit on the 15th of January, 2008. New York's First Nation was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosko, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective's Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band. "...Rings makes sense. It's a name for our circular compositions, the bonds between us, our decision making processes, our [...]
Following is a hodge podge of mp3s that have been sent to me by various labels and PR people. None of them are bad - and refreshingly none are typical mouse rock - they just don't interest me enough... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
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