The Fixx – Reach the Beach
Listening to a lot of these guys lately – I think this might be their most famous album.
July 29, 2011 by AE Comments Off
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
This album is great. No other band harmonizes better besides CSNY. Period.
In other news,
…I miss lurking at the old forum.
July 2, 2011 by AE Comments Off
Holy Other ~ With U
Burial meets Witch House – It’s on Tri Angle so i guess that makes sense. For fans of Balam Acab, Ghostly Int – Burial, Clubroot, James Blake etc.
June 24, 2011 by Tanner Comments Off
Fever Ray, s/t
1. I had never heard this till this afternoon.
2. I had never heard the Le Duo or Adrian’s project or Kevin’s or Even the Dew Is Porous till last night. Enjoyed them all. Very sorry there was no Nuda.
June 6, 2011 by weglarz Comments Off
secret chiefs 3-book of angels vol 9
Zorn composed and performed by musicians, good ones.
May 17, 2011 by AE Comments Off
Tri Angle’s Soundcloud page
Only 18 months late to the party on this. Not bad!
April 12, 2011 by weglarz Comments Off
Holy Ghost!: Holy Ghost!
Dancing so hard to this. Got that absolutely perfect crisp DFA drum sound I love so much and just a colossal pit of heavenly synths. Really drives the concept of space disco home.
April 1, 2011 by psychpunk Comments Off
The Weeknd: House Of Balloons
Goddamn. So good. Dark dark nighttime R&B with sharp teeth. Exactly what I want right now.
March 30, 2011 by psychpunk Comments Off
Rene Hell – “The Terminal Symphony”
Great sounds on Rene Hell/Jeff Witscher’s Touch Records debut. Still think his Marble Sky stuff will always be my favorite, but folks who love sequencer-heavy, 8-bit sounds with classical inspired compositions will definitely enjoy this one.
March 29, 2011 by marspyramid Comments Off
Iron Curtain – “Desertion”
Dark, gloomy pop with lots of synthy goodness.
March 28, 2011 by marspyramid Comments Off
Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes
Sounds like alot of things – tribally, electro, retro-soul meets country tingled torch songs. Filtered through that Swedish pop sound. Instantly accessible, bigtime grower.
March 27, 2011 by AE Comments Off
Jefre Candu-Ledesma, Love is a Stream
This is part of Type’s quite amazing Sound Cloud page:
http://soundcloud.com/_type
March 24, 2011 by weglarz Comments Off
OFWGKTA: Radical
IF you haven’t checked out Odd Future yet, better get on it. There’s def a shock quotient appeal, but I think the video of Tyler the Creator and Hodgy Beats on Fallon is pretty self-explanatory.
March 21, 2011 by psychpunk Comments Off
Siriusmo: Mozaik
If you dig the cover, you’ll prob like the music. Kind of high energy house like Vitalic or Justice, but it gets over to Dilla territory as well. Pretty rad.
March 19, 2011 by psychpunk Comments Off
DNTEL – Enya Mixes
I’ve always had a secret appreciation of Enya – and an even more secret appreciation for the Postal Service. Alas, the two combine to form a more perfect union. dig it.
March 18, 2011 by AE Comments Off
Naked On The Vague: Twelve Dark Noons
New release on Zola Jesus’ Sacred Bones Records – just listening now and from what i can tell, anyone who’s a fan of that lean, dark romantic sound from the 80′s, Bauhaus, Christian Death and the like will find alot to like here.
March 16, 2011 by Tanner Comments Off
The Velvet Underground – “1969: Velvet Underground Live”
This is one of my favorite live albums of all time. While they’re known best for their amphetamine-fueled, highly influential pre-punk noise rawk, I increasingly find myself drawn more to The Velvet Underground’s softer, late-period work right after John Cale left the band and right before Lou Reed did.
The aural equivalent of a fistful of Xanax, this album never fails to relax me on tense days. A glass of wine, a soft couch and blanket & a warm purring cat + this album will cure any depression known to man.
March 14, 2011 by marspyramid Comments Off
The Walkmen – Lisbon
The specific brand of desperation that the band conjures is miles away from, say, the throbbing, dread-laced depression of fellow dapper New Yorkers the National. The Walkmen are more theatrical and unwound than that– they’re the guys out in the middle of the street, screaming up at the sky, begging to know why everything always falls apart. – Pitchfork
March 11, 2011 by Tanner Comments Off
Elliott Smith – “Elliott Smith”
Just picked this one up on vinyl last night. Elliott Smith is one of the few “singer-songwriters” whose work I really enjoy. The naked, sparse instrumentation is absolutely perfect to let the raw emotion of the vocals and solipsistic pain of the lyrics to come through. “XO” will always be my favorite of Smith’s albums, but this first release will always have a special place in my heart as well. Another great musician that we lost too soon.
March 4, 2011 by marspyramid Comments Off
Jan Hammer – Escape from Television
Just found a CDR of most of the tracks from this album and his later “Beyond the Mind’s Eye” soundtrack. Love 80′s sequencers. 
March 4, 2011 by Adrian Comments Off