Bill Orcutt - Sad News From Korea
Fair warning: this is a tough listen. Abstract, angular, violent blues guitar that sounds like Lightning Hopkins being ripped apart by ghosts isn’t everybody’s cup of tea but if that description doesn’t have you running for the hills there are moments of truly sublime inspiration to be found in this recording.
ceo - Halo (Beyonce Cover)
This has been around for a minute but I can’t help sharing it. I have an enormous soft spot for the original so I am quite surprised (and pleased) to say that this version annihilates it in every way. But what else would I expect from the genius behind the Tough Alliance? It’s a swirling symphony of pop brilliance that squeezes magic from every single second. I don’t even know what else to say. Listen to it. It’s awesome in the truest sense of the word.
If pop music still needs an ambassador to “indie” nerds, this is the track to do it.
Light Asylum - Dark Allies
As a music fan, I am constantly in search of “holy shit!” moments. Even with the entire planet’s worth of music available at my fingertips 24/7, these moments remain rather elusive. This song is decidedly one of those moments. I have no idea wft this song is actually “about” but the conviction in this woman’s voice coupled with the bombastic production that swells and shrinks with with absolutely perfect timing has had me playing this thing alllll day long.
Pariah - Detroit Falls
Get on the wagon now. Play early and often and loudly, then brag to your friends when Pariah is the official ‘next big thing.’ Dubstep and all it’s signifiers have been knocking loudly on doors for a while now and embracing songs as great as this is good for you.
Reblogged From No Parents No Rulez
*Download HERE
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All - EARL
OFWGKTA = bloodiest, funniest, shit-talking-est, raddest rap crew around. They combine lo-fi beats featuring airy, distorted synths with the the grimiest wordplay imaginable and a super solid visual aesthetic. It all adds up to a ridiculously entertaining and super creative package. Is this what discovering Wu-Tang in the early 90’s felt like?
*Download a bunch of albums/mixtapes HERE
Fabulous Diamonds - Untitled 4
The second album from Melbourne’s Fabulous Diamonds stretches their sound into delightfully monotonous territory. If you play spot-the-influence you can hear bits of Can and Faust, Terry Riley, Young Marble Giants, and even Lee Scratch Perry. It’s spooked out music that finds hypnotic pleasures in repetition.
*Download their new record II HERE
Yoga - Fourth Eye
Yoga makes music that gives you a feeling of depth. It’s miles, and miles of apocalyptic black metal atmospherics being broadcast from thousands of miles away. With phased guitar, cavernous reverberated drums, haunted keyboard tones reminiscent of the Suspiria soundtrack and high voltage FX flying around, this is some seriously heavy shit that will take you to a particularly epic universe inside the drone-zone.
*Download album, Megafauna HERE
Outer Limits Recordings - $20 Bill
Brilliantly skewed hypnagogic pop from Outer Limits Recordings. While it seems like a lot of this chillwave stuff lately uses lo-fi processing as more of a crutch than a tool, wonky microwaved guitars and hallucinatory FM radio degradation seem to be this songs oddly natural state.
And it’s fun! This isn’t just some self-serious arty jam; this is a full on rush of fucked up pop pleasure.
Their new record Foxy Baby (which unfortunately doesn’t feature this song) is a tad bit headier but no less enjoyable. It’s described by their label NOT NOT FUN records as an “esoteric glam-damaged concept record about Berlin nightclubs and foxy ladies.”
Highly, highly recommended.
*Download their new album Foxy Baby HERE
Kemialliset Ystävät - Kivikasa Rauhassa
Kemialliset Ystävät’s new album Ullakkopalo is a Finnish psychedelic wonderland of microscopic pleasures and unhinged sound explorations. Containing a rewarding series of colorful micro-moments rather that anything that could be considered traditional songs, Ullakkopalo oozes a charming and rewarding playfulness.
*Download entire album HERE
Lil B - B.O.R (Birth of Rap)
Lil B is the straight up weirdest thing to happen to rap in forever. Oscillating almost equally between gorgeously ethereal beats that are more indebted to German ambient experimentalists Gas than The Neptunes, and trunk rattling bangers, Lil B is a genre-busting tornado of creativity. Lyrically, his songs (of which there are literally hundreds…check youtube) have just as much of a split personality. With everything from raunchy sex talk, to emo confessionals to cartoonishly positive hippie-isms, you could easily think there were dozens of dudes named Lil B out there. No matter what he’s talking about, it’s his charmingly clumsy stream-of-consciousness wordplay that really makes him stand out.
Autre Ne Veut - Loveline
Autre Ne Veut makes the kind of music that sounds as familiar as it does alien. The enigmatic songwriter clearly has a knack for traditional pop songwriting but keeps things interesting by structuring each song with unexpected and often beautifully skewed angles. As such, these songs can take a listen or two to really sink in (despite the solid hooks) but once they do, they reward you with a truly surprising and affective musical experience.
*Download the new album HERE
http://www.ubu.com/
If you ever feel like watching Chris Burden videos or watching John Baudrillard give a talk at Oxford or watching videos of seminal relational aesthetics works or even reading interesting photocopied letters from mentally deranged people, this is THE place to go.
It’s basically pretension porn.
Matthew Dear - You Put a Smell on Me
When you think of Matthew Dear you probably don’t immediately think of filthy sex jams, but that’s exactly what you get with this new track. Dirty-as-fuck double entendres and production that would sound awesome in a porno based on Blade Runner.
*Download & Listen HERE
Tjutjuna - Mosquito Hawk
Besides having hands-down the most righteous album artwork in the history of ever, Tjutjuna bring the ear-blistering space-rock jamz better than anybody this side of Boredoms. Opening with tantalizing synth tones that have that sort of vintage-futurism that I’m a total sucker for, Mosquito Hawk peels out into a raging torrent of hawkish guitars, relentless cymbal crashes and snare hits. Textures and riffs fold over themselves in a constantly morphing explosion that sounds like fist-pumping your way to infinity.
It goes on forever. And oh my god….it’s full of stars.
I guess this is how CNN gets filtered though the brain of the Taiwanese.
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