Recent blog posts tagged with "mp3download" from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/tag/mp3download/ 2013-06-19T08:34:35+01:00 text/html 2013-06-19T09:12:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5013974/youll-wanna-know-arctic-monkeys/
"Crawling back" to us this morning in unprecedentedly incendiary form are Alex Turner's Arctic Monkeys who, having pitstopped at a couple Nordic festivals last weekend, unleash the salacious Do I Wanna Know? upon us. As ravishing as it is scathing and quietly savage, it's an infernal return to the default MO to have brought us their in many respects slippery sophomore opus, Favourite Worst Nightmare ,here replete with Meg White-inspired icky thump and a pinging chorus what pongs of Metronomy's most louche disco swelters. But it's not only sonically that the innately lustful Do I Wanna Know? [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-18T16:12:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5012361/on-the-horizon-primavera-redux-bech-hert/
It's with an unerring regularity that, around the weekly midpoint, I find myself feeling as though I'm that USB stick at the centre of one of Wayne Coyne's Jell-O crania floating in gloopy inertia, and slightly stuck. It's sticky today too, which has only enhanced the intensity of this truly indescribable sensation but it's this one from Louisville ambientalist BECH HERT which has most potently piqued that feeling. Entitled Primavera, it probably doesn't help that there's a commensurately inexpressible discrepancy between the Bara weather of last month and that of London this, although [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-18T12:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5011873/tiny-hazard-mountain-song/
Finding an voice like Joanna Newsom is a difficult task. But if there is one artist that Joanna can be compared to, it's Tiny Hazard. But it really is not all about the voice. Alena Spanger's vocals are absolutely stunning, but it's the fact that the band is willing to strip down its layers until the spotlight is on her and her only. At times, only stretched out piano chords and ambient echoes help Spanger move along. The effect is an intense sense of honesty and vulnerability. However, things change a little before the two minute mark. Suddenly, as she [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-18T09:14:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5011676/on-the-horizon-poison-arrow-life-leone/
"Bring me three poison arrows/ Long, straight and narrow" enigmatic Californian desert denizen Life Leone snarls on his suitably intoxicating dbut number Is This Love, Go With The Flow keys wrestling with clunky guitars and a chorus a moustachioed Nevadan Mormon would surely kill for all the while. It's a stirring introduction to an as yet ambiguous someone with a quite inimitable story to tell: born in Laos to American volunteers, he's travelled the seven seas playing on boards crept by everyone from Black Sabbath to Bruno Mars in bands spanning stoner-rock to power-pop , though never previously [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-17T15:34:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5009864/uralic-instrumental-walls/
A little while back we gave you Walls' I Can't Give You Anything But Love and here completing the release, we've Urals. The London-based duo comprising Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia have been busying themselves of late with thoroughly rewarding solo endeavours (Willis released the sublime Winterval LP last year, while Natalizia has more recently been masquerading as Not Waving ) although it's when they combine to contrive such invigorating electronica as this that they're at their most formidable. When set against the maddening delirium of the [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-14T09:18:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5005467/on-the-horizon-blooming-brill-noble-savage/
From Beach House to bloody Radiohead, it seems Bloom is a title that's very much en vogue in the keeping contemporary and indeed it's one which, without fail, appears to pollinate ineffably brilliant musics. And to that list can indubitably now be added the dbut piece from Trevor Lang's latest endeavour, Noble Savage . Traditionally a term signifying'a representative of primitive humankind as idealised in Romantic literature, symbolising the innate goodness of humanity when free from the corrupting influence of civilisation' quite how acutely Lang may be aligned with such a dramatically quixotic character complexion I've not the [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-13T16:22:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5003987/watching-the-tide-roll-away-unknown-mortal-orchestra/
A criticism only infrequently levelled at Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra is that for all the style and panache the Portland-based troupe employ when reviving a smoky '60s aesthetic, only rarely do they realise their full potential. The eponymous dbut featured a few instances here and there (Ffunny Ffrends and How Can U Luv Me continue to stand out as seemingly indelible exemplars) while the considerably more contemporary follow-up, II , carried with it a more or less equivalent quota of aural gold with the sassy So Good At Being In Trouble [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-13T14:57:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5003853/on-the-horizon-phantom-humdinger-fort-romeau/
Enough figurative tears have surely already been shed over my absence from this year's now initiated Snar , although this debonair newbie from Fort Romeau ne Mike Greene, who similarly shan't be in attendance of Barcelona this week banishes the yearning and reinstates sensations of euphoric celebration instead. Yeah, the meteorological conditions currently bedevelling Greene's native London are proving hideously temperamental and anything but conducive to al fresco frolicking, but if for only seven minutes Jete invites us into an hypnotically dank gyre brimming with consistently invigorating cyclical harmonies, leaden beats and eventual release. A phantom humdinger [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-13T14:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/5003711/the-antlers-at-le-poisson-rouge/
I've seen The Antlers before, opening for The National (I think) but I never saw them on their own and I'd honestly kind of forgotten about them despite their two stellar albums (2009's haunting Hospice and 2011's Burst Apart). They put out a 4-song EP Undersea last year but it didn't make enough of an impression on me to make me remember their earlier brilliance so I didn't greet their concert for the 5th anniversary of LPR with any sort of significant anticipation. It was more of a "I live a 10-minute train ride away now, let's go to LPR!" [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-11T12:19:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4999176/holy-matrimony-toy-and-natasha-khan/
I can't say I've ever harboured much impassioned desire to play with the psych revivalism peddled by onetime Jing Jang Jong types TOY , although at that same time I've struggled overnight to neglect the hypnotic psychosis they here contrive to conjure beyond Natasha Khan's unprecedentedly impressive Siouxsie impression, as the Londoners combine to coverAmir Rassaei'sAroos Khanom. Initially intended as an exhibition of 'Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation' which featured on the profusely celebrated Zendooni compilation (a tenuous Middle Eastern alternative to Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 19651968 reissued just last [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-10T15:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4997077/its-all-discovery-empire-of-the-sun/
To insinuate that the collective career of enigmatic Antipodean duo Empire Of The Sun has had its ups, downs and in-betweens thus far is to gravely understate their mutable fluctuations in fortune. And yet aside from the breakups, the reputed breakdown in general relations between Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, and the abiding silences since they've managed to maintain an unerringly acute focus every time they've deigned to foray deep into the vulnerable belly of popular culture. They've a sophomore recording slated for release next week although ahead of fully immersive embarkation upon Ice On The Dune [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-10T13:05:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4996728/the-national-at-mann-center/
Friday night in mid-June in Philly would appear to be the perfect time for an outside concert, at the beautiful Mann Center venue in Fairmount Park. Unfortunately a freaking tropical storm decided to plant itself squarely over the tri-state area on Thursday night and didn't leave before depositing bucketloads of rain by Saturday morning, and my attempts to stay dry were severely hampered. As were my attempts to stay in good humor. After driving in multiple-hour traffic down from North Jersey because (a) it was a Friday, (b) no one can drive in the rain, (c) the Turnpike is the [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-10T09:26:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4996506/interview-baring-teeth-wolf-alice/
It's on an unprecedentedly estival afternoon that Wolf Alice and I bare teeth to meet on what has been a long overdue encounter. Amid talk of Glastonbury heat waves and exponentially hotting climes, January thankfully couldn't feel further removed from this afternoon and indeed it seems an apt time to speak with a band to be bracketed among the hottest properties of an onsetting summer at that acute point at which the season seems to be at last beginning in earnest. Though a notable element of the nom de plume on which they've doubtless been quizzed [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-06T12:03:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4990931/on-the-horizon-let-it-rip-post-ape/
While we may as yet be caught up in a tidal maelstrom of perennially hyphenated post- whatever , occasionally something good comes of it and although not exactly the most contemporary of reference points, there is a palpable sense of London-based electro-noir producer Post-Ape having indulged in a fair amount of Depeche Mode outpour in his time. But mercifully we're talking decent Depeche Mode, and not the stuff of Delta Machine here as dbut cut Limbs in the Dark injects pelvic thrust into rejuvenated '80s bloops and nuanced nowaday bleeps. "I am [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-06T09:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4990761/no-hesitation-marks-nine-inch-nails/
Given the sepia hues adorning the above artwork and so too its slight, iconic typography you'd be forgiven for thinking that Trent Reznor may have taken a turn for the perverse and reverted to the vortices of self-degradation to have whirred around Nine Inch Nails' tour de force, The Downward Spiral . Well, Came Back Haunted ain't exactly all industrial doom nor clanging gloom, and alternatively begins as though a spooked techno stonker la Yazoo-cum-early Depeche Mode redux. It's accomplished and so too compelling to the extent whereby Vince Clarke himself would quite conceivably put his name [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-05T10:53:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4988533/refriended-beck/
So you know that feeling of involuntary distance? When who could once have been considered a dear friend drifts away into anonymity and externality; when texts are neither sent nor received; when songs find themselves compulsively removed from iTunes? Well, that's a little along the lines of how my relationship had turned with Beck Hansen up until yesterday. Sour. Of course the pruning of the intangible library was more to do with his creative inactivity and a deficiency in harddrive availability, as opposed to the result of any violent pangs of acutely sentimental anger toward man or indeed musician, though [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-04T09:06:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4986148/approaching-critical-turbulence-hot-chip/
It was long gone midnight last weekend that souf London troop Hot Chip so emphatically proved they could kick it with the indie gentry, as they brought this year's Primavera Sound to a rollicking conclusion all of their own accord. The weather was a little more blustery than anticipated, though their hour was more or less smoothness itself. And yet with one-off single Dark & Stormy, the toddler-friendly techno gurus channel a purposeful, and so too propulsive erraticism that's turbulent as it is positively terrific. It begins amid a blur of seemingly Devo-inspired elastane avant-garde, [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-03T12:58:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4984282/on-the-horizon-june-blues-greyjoy/
If there's little joy to be derived from many greyish shades, then there's certainly considerably more glee to be gleaned from this first glimpse into the glimmering pooled outpour of Perth duo, Greyjoy . Comprising a couple fantasy novel fetishists in Karlin Courtney and Matt Crocket, Idle Thoughts is an aptly fantastic dream of a thing which most closely resembles Phoenix in timbre and so too tone. Matching the Francophones for lyrical surreality, they chime jejunely of "sitting in the backseat of my mind" atop scintillating '80s synth manipulation, the surreality of Mew so too swirled in for added giddiness [...]]]> text/html 2013-06-03T10:58:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4984123/ticking-over-like-queens-of-the-stone-age-like-clockwork/
This morning before even bedaubing my face with features, I set out for the first tube of the week. Destination: Liverpool Street, and on to Rough Trade. I stared at a queue some 150 strong through bleary, and indeed disbelieving eyes before defeatedly trudging back to bed thoroughly deflated. And better believe you me when I say that If I Had A Tail , it would at that point have been firmly tucked in between my legs where it'd still be stashed to this moment, without doubt. It's a testament not only to the calibre of Josh Homme's homies' [...]]]> text/html 2013-05-31T17:11:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4980940/what-therefore-god-hath-joined-together-let-not-man-put/
So spake Mark in Chapter 10 Verse 9 of his greatest hit, the Gospel According to... and indeed it's proving pretty difficult to tear thyself away from Peter Michel's ongoing endeavours under the guise of Hibou . Once of Craft Spells, we not so long ago effusively glorified a previous two-part release entitled Glow/ Hollow and here we return to the adopted Seattleite as, sounding like a freshly revitalised Beach Fossils, he bestows Sunder upon us. A racy bluster to again set the heart aflutter, subtly nuanced ambiences underly guitar lines incisive as the tongue of betrayal and [...]]]>