Blog: Berkeley Place

A COUPLE THINGS YOU OUGHTTA CHECK OUT . . .

Jun 4, 2009, 6:40pm Berkeley Place
A COUPLE THINGS YOU OUGHTTA CHECK OUT . . . In order of preference, four albums from the mailbag: HOTEL EDEN-"A Way Back Home" (EP) The best thing about Hotel Eden's debut EP, "A Way Back Home" is that it doesn't really sound like anything else out there right now. It's a crisp meld of pop electronica and "real" instruments, like crispy piano's on "The Take-Home," with pitch-perfect pop vocals. The songs are instantly familiar and intimate without being trite or cliché. This is one of the best EPs I've heard so far this year, and should be quickly added [...]
Tags:
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 2863   Tracks: 6293   Last Crawl: 15 mins ago

Hot Artists

  • Yeasayer
    Nämen! Det här kom precis på posten: Alan Wilkis underbara version av Ambling alp. Yeasayer själva ska ha gett remixen en stor tumme upp, och jag [...]More about Yeasayer
  • Hot Chip
    What to say about the new Hot Chip album… well, its no The Warning, and i cant say it’s a Made in the Dark, what i can [...]More about Hot Chip
  • Massive Attack
    It’s always nice to wake up to an e-mail with some remix goodness to start your Friday. Today I was pleased to see and hear [...]More about Massive Attack
  • Vampire Weekend
    If you’re a longtime reader, you’re probably familiar with our ongoing love affair with New Orleans’ Park the Van Records.  It’s pretty rare that PTV puts out [...]More about Vampire Weekend
  • Phoenix
    This is from the world of yesterday, as in this got posted everywhere else yesterday (I was gone, so sue me) and it’s a cover of song from ‘66, [...]More about Phoenix
  • St. Vincent
    I don’t know about you guys, but for me there’s no better time of the year than late January to sit back, contemplate and assess the [...]More about St. Vincent
  • Kid Cudi
    It's time 40. Hatin' On The Club [ft. The Dream] - Rihanna 39. Disorganized Fun - Ronald Jenkees (Click to listen) [...]More about Kid Cudi
  • Beach House
      2010 hasn’t been around all that long, but so far it’s knee deep in good new music.  Today Baltimore’s Beach House releases  [...]More about Beach House
  • Spoon
    Spoon - Written In Reverse More about Spoon
  • Lil' Wayne
    It's been a while since we had some Weezy up in here. Still waiting for his "Rebirth" to be properly released and the date crawls nearer, the 2nd of [...]More about Lil' Wayne
MoreAdd itRSS