Releases of January, 2011:
CUT/COPY
Zonoscope
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as heard on radiospin on January 31st, 2011
under album, electronic, indie, info, preview, recommended
Ladies and gentlemen please welcome back Cut/Copy. Ever the gracious houseguests, they’re returning armed with their 3rd and most ambitious work yet, Zonoscope. This is Cut/Copy boiled down to their purest form: a suite of futuristic visions built upon primal rhythm tracks. It is at once their most immediate work to date but also their most sonically exquisite. Zonoscope was dreamt in the comedown of In Ghost Colours, the album which cemented Cut/Copy as a global sensation. Recorded over a 6 month and mixed in Atlanta by Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Deerhunter), Zonoscope paints a mesmerizing picture, conjured by a band at the height of their powers.
ARTIST: Cut/Copy
TITLE: Zonoscope
LABEL: Modular Interscope
RELEASE DATE: March 8, 2011
TIME: 61:25 min.
WEB: http://www.cutcopy.net/
01. Need You Now [06:09]
02. Take Me Over [05:50]
03. Where I’m Going [03:34]
04. Pharaohs & Pyramids [05:28]
05. Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution [04:17]
06. Strange Nostalgia for the Future [02:06]
07. This Is All We’ve Got [04:43]
08. Alisa [04:07]
09. Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat [04:37]
10. Corner of the Sky [05:29]
11. Sun God [15:05]
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SPINELESS LAUGH
Best RA2010
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as heard on radiospin on January 28th, 2011
under best of, electronic, mix, preview, recommended, remix
Hello there! Time to vote, support and promote.
Spineless Laugh takes part to Bleep’s 2010 Top Tracks DJ Mix Competition on Mixcloud, with his new studio mix, Best RA2010: a selection of a dozen between the Resident Advisor’s 100 Top Charted Track of 2010, smoothly mixed in a 1-hour new big tune. This stuff ended up into a nice dancy deep-tech-house mix that you should listen and favorite here. Don’t forget to add the embedded player to your site, Facebook and Twitter profiles or whatever.
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ARTIST: AA.VV. selected by RA & mixed by Spineless Laugh
TITLE: Best RA2010
LABEL: Spineless Media
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2011
TIME: 59:16 min.
WEB: http://www.mixcloud.com/spineless/
01. SPINELESS LAUGH – Intro (vocal mix) [@00:00]
02. RADIO SLAVE – I Don’t Need A Cure for This (kenny larkin remix) [@00:45]
03. JORIS VOORN – The Secret [@08:34]
04. DEETRON feat. SETH TROXLER – Each Step [@13:20]
05. NUFREQUENCy feat. BEN ONONO – Fallen Hero (motor city drum ensemble remix) [@18:19]
06. MAYA JANE COLES – What They Say [@22:51]
07. LEE BURRIDGE & MATTHEW DEKAY – Wongel [@27:37]
08. WAX – 3003 [@34:23]
09. PLEASUREKRAFT – Tarantula [@38:55]
10. SOLOMUN – After Rain Comes Sun (joris voorn dusty dab stab) [@42:58]
11. CHRIS LATTNER – Sick [@46:59]
12. TENSNAKE – Coma Cat [@52:47]
Spineless Laugh – Best RA2010 (promo mix)
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THE BOXER REBELLION
The Cold Still
Alternative rock band The Boxer Rebellion rose to prominence in 2009 with the success of its second album Union. The album became the first self-released album to enter the Billboard Top 100 Album Charts and the attention landed the group an on-screen appearance in the motion picture Going the Distance. The group followed up a busy 2010 with its third album, recorded at Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Studios with producer Ethan Johns. The first edition and limited run of The Cold Still is a hard-bound booklet, designed by Icelandic visual artist Jónas Valtýsson, which contains all of the album’s lyrics set across 12 beautifully-artworked pages: this is a must-have for any serious music buyer.
ARTIST: The Boxer Rebellion
TITLE: The Cold Still
LABEL: Absentee
RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2011
TIME: 39:26 min.
WEB: http://theboxerrebellion.com/
01. No Harm [04:02]
02. Step Out of the Car [03:03]
03. Locked in the Basement [03:42]
04. Cause of Alarm [03:34]
05. Caught by the Light [04:51]
06. Organ Song [03:28]
07. Memo [03:05]
08. Both Sides Are Even [05:05]
09. The Runner [03:39]
10. Doubt [04:57]
The Boxer Rebellion - The Runner
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SONIC YOUTH
Simon Werner a Disparu O.S.T.
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as heard on radiospin on January 26th, 2011
under experimental, post-rock, preview, soundtrack
2011 soundtrack recording from the veteran avante-garde alt-rockers. In Spring 2010, Sonic Youth gathered at their Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, to watch the rushes of a new film, Simon Werner a Disparu, by French director Fabrice Gobert. They spent the following few weeks recording music which was then shaped as needed to fit the various scenes. For this release, rather than present the small clips of music as used in the film, the band went back in the autumn to the original tapes and re-organized the various pieces for this original soundtrack release, sometimes montaging multiple tracks together, other times extending cues into new sonic realms.
ARTIST: Sonic Youth
TITLE: Simon Werner a Disparu O.S.T.
LABEL: SYR
RELEASE DATE: February 15, 2011
TIME: 58:14 min.
WEB: http://www.sonicyouth.com/
01. Thème de Jérémie [04:30]
02. ALice et Simon [02:39]
03. Les Anges au Piano [03:31]
04. Chez Yves (alice et clara) [03:33]
05. Jean-Baptiste a la Fenetre [03:05]
06. Thème de Laetitia [06:01]
07. Escapades [03:05]
08. La Cabane au Zodiac [02:08]
09. Dans les Bois (m. rabier) [05:51]
10. Jean-Baptiste et Laetitia [01:18]
11. Thème de Simon [03:52]
12. Au Cafè [05:33]
13. Thème d’Alice [13:08]
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COLD WAR KIDS
Mine Is Yours
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as heard on radiospin on January 25th, 2011
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Mine Is Yours is the third full-length studio album from Californian four-piece Cold War Kids. The album was produced by Jacquire King, who has previously worked with Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Norah Jones and Kings Of Leon. This latest release has a much more expansive sound than the band’s previous work, with complicated and sprawling arrangements taking the place of the stripped-back simplicity of their earlier albums.
ARTIST: Cold War Kids
TITLE: Mine Is Yours
LABEL: V2
RELEASE DATE: January 24, 2011
TIME: 44:28 min.
WEB: http://www.coldwarkids.com/
01. Mine Is Yours [04:17]
02. Louder Than Ever [02:44]
03. Royal Blue [03:34]
04. Finally Begin [03:42]
05. Out of the Wilderness [04:07]
06. Skip the Charades [04:25]
07. Sensitive Kid [03:33]
08. Bulldozer [05:02]
09. Broken Open [04:39]
10. Cold Toes On the Cold Floor [04:07]
11. Flying Upside Down [04:18]
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (passion pit remix)
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DISCODEINE
Discodeine
Debut album from the French dance duo of Pilooski and Pentile: the next big thing in Paris. Features collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Matias Aguayo, and Baxter Dury.
ARTIST: Discodeine
TITLE: Discodeine
LABEL: DFA
RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2011
TIME: 61:26 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/discodeine
01. Singular [05:49]
02. Falkenberg [04:33]
03. D-A [03:45]
04. Antiphonie [05:48]
05. Ring Mutilation [05:43]
06. Depression Skit [00:52]
07. Grace [05:11]
08. Homo-Compatible [06:42]
09. Relapse [02:50]
10. Invert [03:54]
11. Synchronize [06:27]
12. Figures in a Soundscape [09:52]
Discodeine (feat. jarvis cocker) - Synchronize
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GANG OF FOUR
Content
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as heard on radiospin on January 21st, 2011
under album, indie, preview, recommended, rock
After releasing one of pop music’s most lacerating sociopolitical broadsides ever (1979 debut Entertainment!), featuring one of the most unconventionally aggressive guitarists ever (Andy Gill), this immeasurably influential U.K. post-punk quartet set a standard almost equaled by their own early ’80s releases and rarely matched elsewhere. Twenty years since their last album of new material, Content, Gill and vocalist Jon King spit out splintered riffs and skewered tropes that approximate the band’s peak on grabby party-starters and mesmerizing midtempo grooves.
Welcome home.
ARTIST: Gang of Four
TITLE: Content
LABEL: Yep Roc
RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2011
TIME: 38:54 min.
WEB: http://www.gangoffour.co.uk/
01. She Said “You Made a Thing of Me” [03:49]
02. You Don’t Have to Be Mad [04:33]
03. Who Am I? [03:35]
04. I Can’t Forget Your Lonely Face [03:56]
05. You’ll Never Pay for the Farm [03:53]
06. I Party All the Time [03:42]
07. A Fruitfly in the Beehive [03:45]
08. It Was Never Gonna Turn Out Too Good [02:48]
09. Do As I Say [03:26]
10. I Can See from Far Away [02:59]
11. Second Life [03:46]
Gang of Four - You’ll Never Pay for the Farm
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WHITE LIES
Ritual
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as heard on radiospin on January 20th, 2011
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Ritual is the follow-up to White Lies‘ debut album To Lose My Life… and was produced by Alan Mulder (Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails) at the Assault & Battery studios in London. The album features the single Bigger Than Us.
ARTIST: White Lies
TITLE: Ritual
LABEL: Polydor
RELEASE DATE: January 17, 2010
TIME: 49:41 min.
WEB: http://www.whitelies.com/
01. Is Love [04:52]
02. Strangers [05:25]
03. Bigger Than Us [04:43]
04. Peace & Quiet [05:54]
05. Streetlights [05:00]
06. Holy Ghost [04:22]
07. Turn the Bells [05:04]
08. The Power & the Glory [05:13]
09. Bad Love [03:58]
10. Come Down [05:10]
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MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S
Buzzard
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as heard on radiospin on January 19th, 2011
under album, folk, indie, preview, recommended, rock
Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s formed in Indianapolis, IN in 2006. The band quickly gained a strong following, and after heavy US touring, Artemis Records signed the band to release The Dust of Retreat. Margot released their sophomore record on Epic Records, with whom they signed in 2007. Animal! was released in 2008 amidst band/label controversy; two albums were actually released, Animal! was the band’s track listing, and Not Animal was the label’s. With 2010′s Buzzard, Margot brings a more aggressive and streamlined sound.
ARTIST: Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
TITLE: Buzzard
LABEL: Mariel
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2010
TIME: 49:24 min.
WEB: http://margotandthenuclearsoandsos.net/
01. Birds [03:53]
02. Let’s Paint Our Teeth Green [03:11]
03. New York City Hotel Blues [03:47]
04. Claws Off [03:28]
05. Will You Love Me Forever? [03:58]
06. Tiny Vampire Robot [04:06]
07. Your Lower Back [05:11]
08. Freak Flight [05:12]
09. My Baby (cares for the animals) [03:37]
10. Lunatic, Lunatic, Lunatic [03:47]
11. Earth to Aliens: What Do You Want? [03:59]
12. I Do [05:15]
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s - New York City Hotel Blues
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GOOSE
Synrise
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as heard on radiospin on January 18th, 2011
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Goose play electronic stompers that are gregarious and muscular, as though their beats are slapping high fives while bounding across the dance floor. Their second album, Synrise, balances its big beat raveups with statelier minimalist comedowns and excels at throwing all sorts of little extras into the band’s (usually) short tunes: unexpected surprises pop up on nearly every track. That’s really the trick with dance albums, isn’t it? Keeping the living room listeners tuned in even when we’re not dancing?
Anyway, not that you can’t dance to Synrise: quite the opposite, you should.
ARTIST: Goose
TITLE: Synrise
LABEL: !K7
RELEASE DATE: January 31, 2011
TIME: 40:24 min.
WEB: http://www.goosemusic.com/
01. Synrise [05:32]
02. Can’t Stop Me Now [04:13]
03. After [05:10]
04. Like You [04:42]
05. As Good As It Gets [03:47]
06. Hunt [02:25]
07. Words [03:48]
08. Bend [07:09]
09. In Cars [04:44]
10. Staring [02:38]
Goose - Words (jester dub remix)
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CAKE
Showroom of Compassion
That’s a pretty nice surprise: the first album of Cake‘s new material since 2004′s gold-selling Pressure Chief. Showroom of Compassion is their 6th studio album and it was recorded over the last two & a half years and was produced and engineered by the band themselves at Cake‘s own solar electric powered studio in Sacramento, CA.
ARTIST: Cake
TITLE: Showroom of Compassion
LABEL: Upbeat
RELEASE DATE: January 11, 2011
TIME: 40:24 min.
WEB: http://www.cakemusic.com/
01. Federal Funding [03:49]
02. Long Time [04:35]
03. Got to Move [03:40]
04. What’s Now Is Now [03:37]
05. Mustache Man (wasted) [04:04]
06. Teenage Prengnancy [02:40]
07. Sick of You [03:13]
08. Easy to Crash [04:07]
09. Bound Away [03:24]
10. The Winter [04:05]
11. Italian Guy [03:10]
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MOGWAI
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Mogwai have always seemed to have a much better sense of humor than most of their peers: while most of the bands that sound like them opt for either brooding, austere soundscapes or breathtakingly ethereal musical collages, the Scottish five-piece have a knack for poking fun at everything from the silliness of the genre they’re often lumped into (call it post-rock if it is the best you can come up with). And so, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the band’s seventh studio LP, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, is simultaneously divergent from everything the band has ever done and very much the same Mogwai who shook up the art-rock world over a decade and a half ago. Mogwai have hardly ever been as accessible as they are on this new release: only three of the 10 songs break the six-minute mark and when they do, you’ll hardly notice.
There’s more than enough vintage Mogwai to go around, however: don’t worry.
ARTIST: Mogwai
TITLE: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
LABEL: Rock Action
RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2011
TIME: 53:08 min.
WEB: http://www.mogwai.co.uk/
01. White Noise [05:04]
02. Mexican Grand Prix [05:18]
03. Rano Pano [05:15]
04. Death Rays [06:01]
05. San Pedro [03:27]
06. Letters to the Metro [04:41]
07. George Square Thatcher Death Party [04:00]
08. How to Be A Werewolf [06:23]
09. Too Raging to Cheers [04:30]
10. You’re Lionel Ritchie [08:29]
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ERRORS
Come Down with Me
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as heard on radiospin on January 13th, 2011
under album, electronic, indie, instrumental, post-rock, preview, recommended, remix
Glasgow four-piece Errors could easily layer on the cheese and craft party-time hits for tonic wine-swilling types; that they’ve the ability to do so isn’t in doubt. But by refining their sound to incorporate as much krautrock-inspired economy as New York-indebted dance-gets-mathy overtones, the band have carved a niche that, while narrow, is considerably deeper than expectations decreed. If Errors’ last album, It’s Not Something but It Is Like Whatever, lacked anything it was a natural heart: it felt cold and wonderfully clinical. But not here: where once they chattered like robots, Errors have grafted real flesh to synthetic bone, threaded veins through tissue and grown a skin that isn’t so thick that admirers can’t glimpse the inner-workings.
Come Down with Me is the machine made man: a machine (and a man, of course) highly recommended by Mogwai, who own their label and hosted them in the last european tour.
ARTIST: Errors
TITLE: Come Down with Me
LABEL: Rock Action
RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2010
TIME: 40:37 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/weareerrors
01. Bridge or Cloud? [05:13]
02. A Rumor in Africa [04:05]
03. Supertribe [03:47]
04. Antipode [03:47]
05. The Erskine Bridge [03:40]
06. Sorry About the Mess [03:03]
07. Germany [04:26]
08. Jolomo [03:39]
09. The Black Tent [03:05]
10. Beards [05:52]
Errors – A Rumor in Africa (gold panda remix)
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TITS & CLITS
The Remixes
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as heard on radiospin on January 12th, 2011
under compilation, electronic, indie, pop, preview, recommended, remix, rock
Tits & Clits is a Hungarian electronic-music band, composed by Benjámin Kalászi and Csaba Bernáth. Initiated for fun in 2007, this group has quickly proven itself and continues today to grow over and over again, by doing lots of concerts, especially in Eastern Europe. Tits & Clits are known above all thanks to their re-interpretations/re-works of some famous indie-rock-pop tunes: The Remixes an almost complete example of what they’re able to do.
ARTIST: Tits & Clits
TITLE: The Remixes
LABEL: White Label
RELEASE DATE: December 14, 2010
TIME: 69:47 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/titsandclitsband
01. EMPIRE OF THE SUN – We Are the People (tits & clits extended remix) [07:11]
02. DAFT PUNK – The Prime Time of Your Life (tits & clits remix) [05:26]
03. YEASAYER – O.N.E. (tits & clits remix) [05:38]
04. WOLFMOTHER – New Moon Rising (tits & clits remix) [05:21]
05. KOVARY – Dancin (tits & clits remix) [04:45]
06. MAJOR LAZER – Pon the Floor (tits & clits vs. stereo killaz remix) [04:40]
07. FRANZ FERDINAND – Take Me Out (hoaxx remix) (tits & clits edit) [05:10]
08. FELIX CARTAL – Love (tits & clits remix) [05:40]
09. HAEZER – James Bond (tits & clits remix) [05:36]
10. SANDER KLEINENBERG – This Is Our Night (tits & clits remix) [04:53]
11. DJ FRESH – Gold Dust (flux pavillon remix) (tits & clits electro edit) [04:30]
12. YOLANDA BE COOL feat. BART B & HARVARD BASS – We Play No Americano (tits & clits bootleg) [04:36]
13. MAGASHEGYI UNDERGROUND – Szívtakarítás (tits & clits remix) [05:38]
Haezer – James Bond (tits & clits remix)
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AA.VV.
DFA Records (2010 compilation)
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as heard on radiospin on January 11th, 2011
under compilation, electronic, indie, preview, remix, rock
DFA teamed up with iTunes to offer up a 12-track compilation containing some of our biggest tracks and singles of 2010!
Including stuff from Shit Robot, Discodeine, Jee Day, NDF & others!
ARTIST: AA.VV.
TITLE: DFA Records (2010 compilation)
LABEL: DFA
RELEASE DATE: December 10, 2010
TIME: 68:07 min.
WEB: http://www.dfarecords.com/2010/
01. PETER GORDON & THE LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA – Beginning of the Heartbreak / Don’t Don’t [08:51]
02. MICHOACAN – In the Dark of the Night (radio edit) [03:26]
03. SHIT ROBOT – Take Em Up [07:01]
04. JEE DAY – Like A Child [06:56]
05. HOLY GHOST! – I Know, I Hear [06:44]
06. PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL – Seed, Crop, Harvest [04:23]
07. YACHT – The Afterlife (the xx remix) [03:31]
08. JUSTINE & THE VICTORIAN PUNKS – Beautiful Dreamer [08:07]
09. DISCODEINE – Synchronize (radio edit) [03:44]
10. THE CRYSTAL ARK – The City Never Sleeps (video edit) [05:00]
11. WOOLFY – Looking Glass (extended version) [05:49]
12. NDF – Since We Last Met (radio edit) [04:36]
Shit Robot (feat. nancy whang) – Take Em Up
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GORILLAZ
The Fall
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as heard on radiospin on January 10th, 2011
under album, electronic, experimental, hip hop, pop, preview, recommended
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett‘s Gorillaz project has a new album available, The Fall: entirely recorded on Apple iPad, features musical contributions from regular Albarn partners in crime Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Bobby Womack. Go to Gorillaz’ website to stream the record (you’ll have to part with your name and e-mail) or became member of the funclub to dowload it. Or, at least, take the easiest way: head over to radioSpin, to start a brand new year!
ARTIST: Gorillaz
TITLE: The Fall
LABEL: Parlophone
RELEASE DATE: January 31, 2010
TIME: 43:28 min.
WEB: http://gorillaz.com/
01. Phoner to Arizona [04:15]
02. Revolving Doors [03:26]
03. Hillbilly Man [03:50]
04. Detroit [02:03]
05. Shytown [02:55]
06. Little Plastic Bags [03:10]
07. The Joplin Spider [03:22]
08. The Parish of Space Dust [02:26]
09. The Snake in Dallas [02:11]
10. Amarillo [03:25]
11. The Speak It Mountains [02:15]
12. Aspen Forest [02:50]
13. Bobby in Phoenix [03:17]
14. California & the Slipping of the Sun [03:24]
15. Seattle Yodel [00:39]
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