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Kveikur rocks your face off while slowly burning you alive as you shed a single tear. It's the anti-Valtari.

To a not insubstantial extent, Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam has been victimised by her own successes: following on from the conscientiously controversial, if sonically revitalising début  Arular , she went on to smoothen the loveably roughened edges for follow-up effort,  Kala . Then, riding high on Paper Planes, I always harboured this fear that she may then compromise on her disinclination toward the cult of celebrity, and indeed I felt she did somewhat with the grossly overproduced, and typographically cumbersome /\/\ /\ Y /\ . But for all the pseudo-provocative visual promo and  that ostensibly groundbreaking GRAMMYs performance, her [...]

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It is a special thing for a band that have been around as long as Sigur Ros have to change their path so dramatically and produce a piece of work that not just recaptures the magic of their early years but in places surpasses it but that is exactly what Sigur Ros have done on Kveikur and I for one doff my cap. By Dan Salter

Outre l'univers visuel ultra riche du groupe Sigur Rós , il ne faut pas en oublier la qualité audio de leurs morceaux. Le 18 Juin prochain sera d'ailleurs un grand jour pour eux, puisqu'ils sortiront leur nouvel album Kveikur sur  XL Recordings . Un disque qui comprendra neuf nouveaux morceaux que l'on peut déjà découvrir grâce à Amazon qui vient tout juste de mettre l'album en streaming ici . Il n'y a pas de doute, ce long format sera à ajouter dans notre collection des meilleurs albums de cette année 2013. [...]

UK-based dance producer Maya Jane Coles put her spin on "Fiction" from Co-Exist – The XX's second full-length effort for XL Recordings . Coles layers Oliver Sim's hushed moody vocals upon a bed of soothing instrumentation and a 4-to-the-floor groove. Coles is gearing up to release her debut album entitled   Comfort  on her own I/AM/ME label this summer, a collection of 12 tracks including two that feature vocals from Coles herself. The xx also have summer plans... They will present the [...]

"Kveikur" is the title track from Sigur Rós' seventh studio album.  The new album is due out later this month, but earlier this week, the band released an intriguing new video to tide us over while we wait.  The new video is comprised of visuals used for the band’s live show, which includes repurposed footage from the British Film Institute’s archives, creating "a radiant visual representation of the band’s music." Kveikur  will be released on June 17 internationally and June 18 in the U.S. on XL Recordings . [via Paste ] [...]

Sigur Rós dropped a new video today for Kveikur, the second single off their forthcoming album of the same name, and it's a good 'un. All claustrophobic drones, screeches and static, it continues with the brutal and damaged aesthetic of first cut Brennistein - a track that made waves when it veered sharply away from the sound that the band spent over a decade carefully perfecting/falling back on. [Delete as appropriate] Even though the shitty white iPod earphones I took to work today decided to make a muddy mess of everything, careful production goes some [...]

When The xx toured their debut self-titled album they did so for two years, which sounds fucking exhausting, and since they released their second album Coexist last year they've been touring almost non-stop, but that hasn't stopped them having some "down time" to shoot a new video. Directed by Young Replicant , the video for the Oliver sung "Fiction" is a slick black and white affair, seemingly showing the remnants of a party at which Oliver has roofied everyone [...]

Jai Paul - Crush (Adam Port) Ripped from Brodinski & Louisahhh’s mix for Mixmag today… This track is absolutely mental. OMG

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Kirin J Callinan shares new song, "Love Delay". Kirin J Callinan will release his new album, Embracism, on July 2nd through Terrible Records in a partnership with XL Recordings. We previously featured a...

El creativo e incansable Damon Albarn  pronto estrenará su esperado álbum solista, además de grabar material nuevo con Blur . En una entrevista para la Rolling Stone  que le realizaron en la pasada edición de Coachella , el músico reveló sus planes acerca del futuro de sus proyectos. El artista se unió para dicho álbum con Richard Russell , cabeza de XL Recordings  para la parte ritmica. Damon planea realizar una gira para promocionar su próximo LP, en la cual también interpretará [...]

Damon Albarn con Blur en el Vive Latino 2013 / Foto: Daniel Patlán Durante una entrevista con Jonathan Ringer de Rolling Stone , salieron a la luz los planes de Damon Albarn en torno a su disco en solitario. El vocalista y líder de Blur comentó que justo terminó de grabar este primer esfuerzo solista apegado al folk soul , el cual fue grabado y producido por Richard Russell , fundador del sello discográfico XL Recordings . Sobre esto, Albarn [...]

If Vampire Weekend were observant flies on the wall during their first two albums-mainly describing upper-class Northeastern culture-they’re in the eye of the storm now. And their third LP, Modern Vampires of the City , sees the group at their damned finest. The introspection and stories found on tracks like “Hannah Hunt” and “Hudson” are darker, but welcomed personal reflections. But the Upper West Side guys can still crank out the catchy stuff, too, in the form of “Diane Young” and “Ya Hey.” The cheeky Paul Simon comparisons are now moot. These [...]

Unbelievers to Vampire Weekend will be converted after Modern Vampires of the City. XL Recordings, 2013 9.5 / 10 "I feel it in my bones", sings Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig on "Step", one...

Musicians trying to make a name for themselves in the age of Web 2.0 often find the Internet to be a double-edged sword. There's no denying that with Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, every up-and-coming band now has the potential to reach a wide audience and share their music with the world. But that very levelling of the playing field ushered in by the democratization of technology means fiercer competition - and much, much more of it - than ever before. Moreover, with anonymous megaphones freely available to any malcontent with Internet access, bands and artists can find themselves the [...]

It's destined to be a classic along with their debut, and will be an anthem record for the summer.

Watch Vampire Weekend on Jimmy Fallon, performing two songs from Modern Vampires of the City. Vampire Weekend performed on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night. The band performed "Ya Hey" as part...

The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (XL Recordings, 2004) Arte: House & Cook. La entrada The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004) aparece primero en Noiselab .

Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City XL / Terrícolas Imbéciles, 2013 Calificación: 9.5 Cómprenlo en: iTunes Por: @SoyVelez En 1989, al grito de “Modern vampires of the city, hunting blood, blood, blood”, el jamaicano, Junior Reid ,  logró un éxito con un himno de unión, una canción que recuerda que debajo de la piel todos somos iguales, pero sobre todo, sufrimos los [...]

Oooh what a surprise this was. Didn't expect anything like this kind of sound as I pressed the play button. Glass Animals just signed to Kaya Kaya (on XL recordings) and have delivered some pretty impressive stuff on their Soundcloud profile. Self Blown got a hold of  them on HumanHuman and got us turned into a frenzy ever since, especially this 'Black Mambo' track we totally recommend : Glass Animals' is the first signing to the new imprint kaya kaya records via xl. They are the perfect collision [...]

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