Blog: Boy Attractions

Ben Vida - “Zizzlers ”

Mar 16, 2012, 11:20am Boy Attractions
Ben Vida 'Zizzlers' (PAN 23)
Ben Vida  -  “Zizzlers” “The intent with this work is to escape the stereo image and create an activated listening space of expanded spatialization” Ben Vida ’s esstends-esstends-esstends , a collection of potentially mind-altering modular synth experiments, is out now on PAN . Do not attempt to drive or operate large industrial machinery after watching this video.
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Mount Carmel - “Hear Me Now”

Mar 16, 2012, 9:50am Boy Attractions
Mount Carmel - “Hear Me Now” Mount Carmel  -  “Hear Me Now” As a change of pace from the inordinate amount of drone, ambient, and otherwise totally  weird stuff I’ve been posting lately, here’s a smokin’, take-no-prisoners cut from throwback rockers Mount Carmel , who recently delivered on the rollicking promise of their 2010 debut with the tremendous  Real Women  (out via Siltbreeze ). Just as The Men ’s  Open Your Heart  revived the spirit of the ‘Mats in awesomely [...]
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Artist:Mount Carmel
Title:Hear Me Now
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Genre:Rock
Year:2012

Concessionaires - “Introducing Rocket Skeleton...

Mar 14, 2012, 2:46pm Boy Attractions
Concessionaires - “Introducing Rocket Skeleton... Concessionaires  - “Introducing Rocket Skeleton Summer” “Best enjoyed with a pot of chili and a Bourbon barrel ale. Thanks for listening.” Artificial Interface , Brad Rose and Pete Fosco’s latest drop under the Concessionaires  moniker, sounds a lot like the image above (or like that Twilight Zone episode where the 3 astronauts crash-land in the space cemetery— you know the one ). Like a slightly darker [...]
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NHK’Koyxeи -  638”

Mar 14, 2012, 10:35am Boy Attractions
NHK’Koyxeи -  638” NHK’Koyxeи  -  “638” PAN continue to tighten their vice grip on the realm of rad experimental music with their latest batch of releases, which includes the positively vibrant (and equal parts mind-boggling)  Dance Classics Vol. 1  from Autechre / Conrad Schnitzler associate NHK’Koyxeи  (Kouhei Matsunaga, if that’s easier to remember). Matsunaga’s brand of tunes might skew slightly towards the bizarre, but that doesn’t stop  Dance Classics [...]
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Artist:NHK'Koyxeи
Title:638
Link Text:NHK’Koyxeи - 638
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Genre:Electronic
Year:2012

Jon Porras - “The Black Tide”

Mar 14, 2012, 9:27am Boy Attractions
Jon Porras - The Black Tide
Jon Porras  -  “The Black Tide” Come April 17th, Barn Owl ’s Jon Porras will follow up his über-gorgeous  Undercurrent  LP for Root Strata with a new one on Thrill Jockey entitled  Black Mesa  (pre-order here ). Above you can catch the murky, vaguely disconcerting clip for unreleased track “The Black Tide”, which pairs exceptionally well with Porras’ brand of wind-swept meditations. mp3 // Jon Porras - Land’s End ( Undercurrent [...]
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Artist:Jon Porras
Title:07 Lands End
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Robert Pollard - “Picni c Drums”

Mar 12, 2012, 10:29am Boy Attractions
Robert Pollard - “Picni c Drums” Robert Pollard  -  “Picnic Drums” Would I be chased out of town by a mob of torch-wielding GBV fans if I said I liked R. Pollard ’s new  Mouseman Cloud (out now on Fire ) better than recent reunion disc  Let’s Go Eat the Factory ? Probably, so I won’t. I  will , however, say it’s one of the year’s best thus far, and one of Pollard’s strongest musical statements (solo or otherwise) [...]
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Vatican Shadow - “Harbin gers Of Things To...

Mar 12, 2012, 9:40am Boy Attractions
Vatican Shadow - “Harbin gers Of Things To... Vatican Shadow  -  “Harbingers Of Things To Come” Since 2010, Prurient noisehead Dominick Fernow has been getting in touch with a more beat-driven, techno-oriented side of his sound under the Vatican Shadow moniker, putting out a string of quality cassettes on his own Hospital Productions . This alter ego apparently struck the fancy of Type Records , as they’ve chosen to give his 2011 collection  Kneel Before Religious Icons  (previously a 4-tape box set) a vinyl [...]
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Artist:Vatican Shadow
Title:Harbingers Of Things To Come
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Genre:DARK AMBIENT / DRONE / METAL
Year:2011

Polonaise - “Tro cadero”

Mar 11, 2012, 1:42pm Boy Attractions
Polonaise - “Tro cadero” Polonaise  -  “Trocadero” Help ring in daylight savings (the  real  start of spring, as far as I’m concerned) with the crystalline sounds of Polonaise (Scott Goodwin and Avalon Kalin), who just put out their killer  Trocadero  EP on Not Not Fun offshoot 100% Silk . Steeped in the sweaty Italo-dance we’ve come to expect from the upstart label, the release shimmies and sways through 5 cuts of cartwheeling synths and tightly-wound groovin’.  Pop on the title track and just [...]
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Artist:Polonaise
Title:Trocadero
Link Text:Polonaise - Trocadero
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:SYNTHWAVE / ELECTRO
Year:2012

El-P - “The Full Retard”

Mar 9, 2012, 9:02pm Boy Attractions
El-P - “The Full Retard” El-P  -  “The Full Retard” “So you should pump this shit like they do in the future” —so goes the bid that opens El-P ’s thunderous “The Full Retard”, the 2nd track (and first official single) we’ve yet to hear from his long-awaited  Cancer for Cure . The track was leaked earlier as part of an official album announcement (May 22 on Fat Possum —prepare accordingly) and it contains all the hallmarks of a Producto banger, [...]
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Artist:El-P
Title:The Full Retard
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Isle of Pine - “Again (Whistle Version w/Nancy...

Mar 9, 2012, 3:37pm Boy Attractions
Isle of Pine - “Again (Whistle Version w/Nancy... Isle of Pine  -  “Again (Whistle Version w/Nancy Graves) ” “ Foot stomping acoustic ramblings, akin to how it must have felt for Robert Pollard before he got a four-track, or for Beck before he got his hands on a drum machine. Grimy yet stunning, melancholic yet brutally honest. ” - Pop Montreal 2011 Festival Guide It’s been a little while since we last heard from Tim Beeler, [...]
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Beach Fossils - “Shall ow”

Mar 7, 2012, 4:10pm Boy Attractions
Beach Fossils - Shallow
Beach Fossils  -  “Shallow” “Shallow” b/w “Lessons” is out now on Captured Tracks
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Heroin in Tahiti - “Sartan a”

Mar 7, 2012, 1:16pm Boy Attractions
Heroin in Tahiti - “Sartan a” Heroin in Tahiti  -  “Sartana” I don’t really know anything about Heroin In Tahiti other than A) they have a very bizarre name and B) as several others have been quick to point out, they played a slightly-askew brand of Spaghetti Western music that sounds like vultures gnawing at the bones of old Morricone scores. If that sounds at all dark, it’s meant to; despite its sunny, swaying-palms artwork, their debut release   Death [...]
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Quicksails - “Em pty and Full”

Mar 7, 2012, 10:20am Boy Attractions
Quicksails - “Em pty and Full” Quicksails  -  “Empty and Full” UK label Under the Spire , who had quite an accomplished 2011 as far as quality releases are concerned, have christened the new year with a wax pressing of  Quicksails ‘  Silver Balloons In Clusters  (out in tape form on Deception Island ). Following up an ace outing on NNA Tapes , the release finds Tiger Hatchery member Ben Billington slipping further down the rabbit hole of rich and otherworldly [...]
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Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp - “Early Astral...

Mar 7, 2012, 9:32am Boy Attractions
Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp - “Early Astral... Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp  - “Early Astral (excerpt)” As I lean back in my desk chair listening to Koen Holtkamp and Chris Forsyth ’s recent  Early Astral   LP through a pair mid-range plastic headphones, I almost feel like I’m doing the album (and myself) a disservice; a scorching two-sided jam of volcanic proportions, this LP begs to be cranked out of a beat-up El Camino barreling down the freeway towards certain destruction. Whether you’re a disciple of Holtkamp’s [...]
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Rangers - “Glass Facade”

Mar 6, 2012, 2:57pm Boy Attractions
Rangers - “Glass Facade” Rangers  -  “Glass Facade” As the all-seeing eyes over at Tiny Mix Tapes spotted earlier today, suburban tour-guide and retro pop-smith Rangers has a new track—“Glass Facade”—up on the Brunch Groupe SoundCloud page . Could this be teasing a new tape? Only time will tell. Until we find out, we’ve got another 5 minutes of sparkling AM gold from the reigning king.  The stellar 2XLP  Pan Am Stories  is [...]
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Food Pyramid - “Oh Mercy”

Mar 6, 2012, 2:26pm Boy Attractions
Food Pyramid - “Oh Mercy” Food Pyramid  -  “Oh Mercy” To get a handle on what Food Pyramid ’s tremendous LP debut for Moon Glyph sounds like, all you have to do is gaze into that smoothly psychedelic album sleeve—a slab of swirling pastel colors that looks like it’s been left in the sun too long. Colorful, bizarre, and totally hypnotizing, Mango Sunrise  follows up FP’s singular string of cassettes in epic fashion, stretching their elastic, kraut-flavored grooves into 45 minutes of mellow gold. Sink [...]
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Food Pyramid - “Oh Mercy”

Mar 6, 2012, 2:19pm Boy Attractions
Food Pyramid - “Oh Mercy” Food Pyramid  -  “Oh Mercy” To get a handle on what Food Pyramid ’s tremendous LP debut for Moon Glyph sounds like, all you have to do is gaze into that smoothly psychedelic album sleeve—a slab of swirling pastel colors that looks like it’s been left in the sun too long. Colorful, bizarre, and totally hypnotizing, Mango Sunrise  follows up FP’s singular string of cassettes in epic fashion, stretching their elastic, kraut-flavored grooves into 45 minutes of mellow gold. Sink [...]
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Artist:Food Pyramid
Title:Oh Mercy
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Genre:Psychedelia
Year:2012

Devin Dart - “Now, I Elevate”

Mar 6, 2012, 9:03am Boy Attractions
Devin Dart - “Now, I Elevate” Devin Dart  - “Now, I Elevate” While it’s surely a boundless source of untapped brilliance and under-the-radar masterpieces going for $5 a pop, the world of left-field “tape music” is often a terribly serious  one—all deep, stone-faced drones and cosmic soul-searching; in other words, not a whole lot of “fun”. Thank God, then, for Devin Dart , whose new  Mint Spring Silver  cassette for the lovely Scissor Tail Records (run by Dylan Aycock of Talk West [...]
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Artist:Devin Dart
Link Text:Devin Dart - Now, I Elevate
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Kevin Greenspon - “Mar oon Bells”

Mar 5, 2012, 7:00pm Boy Attractions
Kevin Greenspon - “Mar oon Bells” Kevin Greenspon  -  “Maroon Bells” “The six pieces on “Maroon Bells” are concise recollections of a very specific set of personal memories including: those first times you had dreams of disappearing to somewhere new, seeing a city from the mountains, being dwarfed by the skeleton of a skyscraper, and the deafening railroad tracks that threaten that hope of sleeping to dream once again” Last week, house favorite Bridgetown Records dropped their shiny new Spring Batch, which, in addition [...]
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Artist:Kevin Greenspon
Title:Maroon Bells
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Altar Eagle - “Paralle l Lives”

Mar 5, 2012, 3:23pm Boy Attractions
Altar Eagle - “Paralle l Lives” Altar Eagle  -  “Parallel Lives” Back in ‘09, jack-of-all-trades Brad Rose ( The North Sea , Charlatan , Digitalis ) decided to cool it with the skull-crushing noise and start a shoegaze-pop (!) project with wife Eden Hemming called Altar Eagle . We haven’t heard much from the pair since their fantastic  Mechanical Gardens  LP for Type (hard to believe that was almost two years ago ), but today we got a [...]
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