Blog: New Atlantic

The Morning Benders: A lovely "excuse"

May 21, 2010, 11:55pm New Atlantic
The Morning Benders: A lovely "excuse" This is an absolutely lovely video. I especially adored the explanations at the beginning and end...
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Chew Lips: Electronic groove with heart

May 18, 2010, 12:48pm New Atlantic
Chew Lips: Electronic groove with heart I absolutely love Chew Lips. Think LCD Soundsystem but with a British female lead. It's this perfect electronic groove (now think Postal Service)... and you want to listen to the lyrics with their smart sultry edge. And did I mention that they're whole album Unicorn is solid? It is. Chew Lips - Slick Chew Lips - Play Together
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Link Text:Chew Lips - Play Together
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Link Text:Chew Lips - Slick
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Bear Hands: Cruising into the sunset/rise

May 16, 2010, 10:38pm New Atlantic
Bear Hands: Cruising into the sunset/rise What is it about a happy song with a random obscenity popped into the chorus that just works... Bear Hands somehow pulled this off perfectly with "What a Drag". I feel like this song is the best friend of "Paper" by Rafter. "What a Drag" is cruising with the windows down into a sunset/rise with your other to somewhere anywhere. This song is the song that accompanies you. These are my thoughts. I love it. Bear Hands - What a Drag
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Artist:Bear Hands
Title:What a Drag
Link Text:Bear Hands - What a Drag
File Name:01-what-a-drag.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Rafter: More paper, please

May 14, 2010, 12:23am New Atlantic
Rafter: More paper, please Who would ever have thought a curse word could make such a fun chorus? "Paper" is this lovely fun summer song that you will be singing to yourself the rest of the day.. potentially to the chagrin of many. I can't figure out exactly what the song is about, but there is paper involved, and it's very important. I've checked out a few other songs, and have not been that impressed, but the making of "Paper" makes up for all of that Dear Rafter, more please! Rafter - Paper
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Artist:Rafter
Title:Paper
Link Text:Rafter - Paper
File Name:07-paper.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010

Local Natives: What would you do with sun hands?

May 14, 2010, 12:08am New Atlantic
Local Natives: What would you do with sun hands? So the word around town is that Local Natives are something special... and I believe I will agree. They are more somber than my taste, gray, but with a solid album and this cool guy thing going on, they are simply addictive. And let me present... Local Natives - Sun Hands
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Artist:Local Natives
Title:Sun Hands
Link Text:Local Natives - Sun Hands
File Name:03-sun-hands.mp3
Bitrate:184 kbps
Year:2009

Anni Rossi: Lovely and interesting with an anchor

Apr 6, 2010, 11:43pm New Atlantic
I was lucky enough to attend SXSW this year, and it was a very different experience than my last visit in 2008, but I won't get into that right now. Right now I must tell you about Anni Rossi. I had heard a couple of her tunes before going, and they were lovely like Kate Nash is lovely and interesting like Regina is interesting, now substitute that piano for a violin, mostly plucked, and you are getting close. The cool part about seeing her at SXSW was not that her music was just as lovely and interesting in person, but [...]
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Artist:Anni Rossi
Title:Machine
Link Text:Anni Rossi - Machine
File Name:01-machine.mp3
Bitrate:164 kbps
Year:2009

Sleigh Bells: Beat your speakers with a sledgehammer and I love it!

Jan 31, 2010, 11:26pm New Atlantic
Sleigh Bells: Beat your speakers with a sledgehammer and I love it! At first you will think your speakers have just been destroyed, but it is just the lovely Sleigh Bells making their mark on the music scene... and I am loving it! With all this cleaned up pop squeaking through your tweeted out ride, it's nice to hear something raw, rough, and beat up for a change. And the beats are intensely pleasurable too, like nasty sex in a dirty club bathroom that's a foggy memory the next morning (not that I can speak from experience)... it grows on you. I'm starting you out with my two favorites from Sleigh Bells... [...]
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Artist:Sleigh Bells
Title:A/B Machines
Link Text:Sleigh Bells - A-B Machines
File Name:02-a_b-machines.mp3
Bitrate:207 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Sleigh Bells
Title:Crown On The Ground
Link Text:Sleigh Bells - Crown on the Ground
File Name:sleighbells_crown_ground.mp3
Bitrate:255 kbps
Year:2009

Passion Pit: I can believe in their chunk of change

Feb 15, 2009, 11:38am New Atlantic
Passion Pit: I can believe in their chunk of change So I have been sitting on "Sleepyhead" for a while now and totally loving it! Thinking it was just another one hit wonder, it was a few weeks before I checked out their entire EP, and wow! I can't believe I wasted those weeks without it! My boyfriend and I are huge Of Montreal fans, and this band definitely appeals to that same part of my brain that likes sounds that are different and danceable. I totally love ALL the songs on this EP (a very rare occasion). For a better description, I'd go with Gaspard Augé and Xavier de [...]
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Artist:Passion Pit
Title:Better Things
Link Text:Passion Pit - Better Things
File Name:passion-pit_01_05_better-thing s.mp3
Bitrate:187 kbps
Year:2008

Lily Allen: It's Not Expected, It's Better

Feb 11, 2009, 9:22am New Atlantic
Lily Allen: It's Not Expected, It's Better So I must say that I had pretty low expectations for this new Lily Allen album It's Not Me, It's You seeing that her recently released singles were subpar, at least in comparison with the initial songs that made me fall for Lily. However, after perusing this new album a few times, I'm finding that though it's definitely a more mature (sometimes translating to boring) album, it still very solid and full of some great songs (many of which I would have suggested as singles). Either way, good stuff. Keep up the good work, Lily. And please don't [...]
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Link Text:Lily Allen - Fuck You
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Artist:Lily Allen
Title:Chinese
Link Text:Lily Allen - Chinese
File Name:10-lily-allen-chinese.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009

Stars have some good friends

Feb 6, 2009, 11:16am New Atlantic
After recently running across the Stars new album Do You Trust Your Friends? , I was made to rediscover an album and love I had long forgotten and thought I had moved past, but apparently I was very wrong. Number one, Stars Set Yourself on Fire was a phenomenal album, so obviously any remix would naturally carry that nostalgic feel to it. Some failed worse than others, but a few carried their weight. For me, I loved the solid mixup of "The First Five Times" by The Russian Futurists. While they do seem [...]
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Panda Riot: Seeing "Paper Planes" in a different light

Oct 24, 2008, 4:27pm New Atlantic
This is an absolutely lovely cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" song. That's about all I can say without just letting you listen to it.... absolutely lovely. Sans gun shots, but I think that's a good thing for the tone Panda Riot seems to be setting. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Panda Riot cover)
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Artist:M.I.A.
Title:Paper Planes (Panda Riot)
File Name:03-paper-planes-panda-riot.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

The Decemberists: And the Bridesmaids

Oct 12, 2008, 9:31am New Atlantic
This was a wonderful little surprise at the Pop Apocalypse blog. I had no idea The Decemberists were concocting this little gem, but that's just like The Decemberists. In this respect, I could even draw a comparison between them and Of Montreal. Both are so full of music that they just can't help releasing records kind of like beautiful farts that just escape from you. This recent gas expulsion is entitled Always the Bridesmaid: Single Series and is being released in three volumes on pretty colored vinyls. This is actually a nice concept, because they are letting their [...]
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Artist:The Decemberists
Title:The Bagman's Gambit
Link Text:The Decemberists - The Bagmans Gambit
File Name:05-the-bagmans-gambit.mp3
Bitrate:96 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:The Decemberists
Title:Valerie Plame
Link Text:The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
File Name:01-valerie-plame-1.mp3
Bitrate:201 kbps
Year:2008

Fredrick: Nice

Oct 10, 2008, 10:27am New Atlantic
Fredrick: Nice This is a nice song. It reminds me of singing sweet hymns in church, which is nice. Swedish nice. You can find a much fuller review here at i'm waking up to blog. Fredrick - Black Fur
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Artist:Fredrik
Title:Black Fur
Link Text:Fredrick - Black Fur
File Name:01-black-fur.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Cold War Kids: Deep, heavy, beautiful

Sep 23, 2008, 9:15am New Atlantic
Cold War Kids: Deep, heavy, beautiful The Cold War Kids definitely have a unique sound driven by some strong gut feelings that can only escape through their music, and when they do, it is a gorgeous thing. Composed of four guys, these California musicians create weighty songs that draw you in by their sheer gravitational pull. And I haven't even mentioned the beautiful vocals lead by Nathan Willett which bounce between falsetto and crooning or maybe howling, clean and smooth, going down like sticky syrup. Deep concepts nagging the human psyche are belted in the simple lyrics of this album over droning bass and an [...]
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Artist:Cold War Kids
Title:Relief
Link Text:Cold War Kids - Relief
File Name:12-relief-1.mp3
Bitrate:207 kbps
Year:2008

The Streets: A wise and hopeful state borrowed

Sep 21, 2008, 10:04am New Atlantic
The Streets: A wise and hopeful state borrowed So to begin, The Streets aka Mike Skinner is from the good ol' motherland, and belts his beautiful little raps for a living. At first, it's obvious that he is no music school grad. His style on his slower songs could be best be described as the song your boyfriend wrote and sang for you in high school that you knew would never go platinum but still made you extremely happy and walk around with butterflies for the rest of the day. The Streets recent album Everything is Borrowed really goes back to his older sound like on [...]
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Artist:The Streets
Title:The Strongest Person I Know
Link Text:The Streets - The Strongest Person I Know
File Name:10-the-strongest-person-i-know .mp3
Bitrate:147 kbps
Year:2008

Los Campesinos!

Sep 18, 2008, 9:58am New Atlantic
Los Campesinos! I picked this album up at Pop Apocalypse not expecting too much. I had heard about their last album Hold On Now, Youngster... getting some mixed reviews and never followed up thoroughly, but decided to give them a second chance since Anna would. Let me first point out that this last album was released to the US in April of this year 2008, and they already have a completely new second album out just a few months later! Applause. So this new album We are Beautiful, We are Doomed almost seems like [...]
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Artist:Los Campesinos!
Title:Miserabilia
Link Text:Los Campesinos! - Miserabilia
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Bitrate:228 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Los Campesinos!
Title:We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Link Text:Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
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Bitrate:224 kbps
Year:2008

Conor Oberst: Goes Folk (and does it well)

Sep 12, 2008, 9:16am New Atlantic
Conor Oberst: Goes Folk (and does it well) So Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) has been shedding the hype of his younger years and stepped out of it all as a true musician, and his most recent self-titled album Conor Oberst is no deviation from that. In high school I could never fully get on board the Bright Eyes train (though I tried numerous times my heart beat more punk than emo). However, his new album has really surprised me! His style shares most commonalities with Ben Kweller with both doing an indie-folk-country thing, and let me just say, it's great. I also happen to have [...]
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Artist:Conor Oberst
Title:NYC - Gone, Gone
Link Text:Conor Oberst - NYC Gone, Gone
File Name:08-nyc-gone-gone.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Conor Oberst
Title:Souled Out!!!
Link Text:Conor Oberst - Souled Out!
File Name:11-souled-out.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008

Haitus Over: Thanks, Menomena

Sep 3, 2008, 11:17am New Atlantic
Well, I have once again moved across the country, and this time it wasn't for my education but for the big L. The band that brought me out of my haitus accompanied me across the country was my Menomena album Friend and Foe . It was given to me by my dad for Christmas, and I gave it some listens and found my favorite song, but never really discovered the album as a whole. But the album as a whole is beautiful. Every song is hand crafted and fine tuned into perfection while being laced with wonderful nuances. I'm [...]
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Artist:Menomena
Title:My My
Link Text:Menomena - My My
File Name:08-my-my.mp3
Bitrate:112 kbps
Year:2007

Hiatus: Searching for myself

Jul 4, 2008, 11:00pm New Atlantic
I'm taking a little music hiatus, so expect some new and great things upon my return! Until then enjoy the older posts with loads of goodness.
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Sigor Ros: Happy people running free

Jun 11, 2008, 6:52pm New Atlantic
I never thought I'd be writing any review for Sigur Ros, but with their latest album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly), I've discovered a much different Sigur Ros than I remembered. A few years ago I gave them their initial try, but after a [...]
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Link Text:Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
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Artist:Sigur Rós
Title:Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Link Text:Sigur Ros - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
File Name:lunatic.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
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