Releases of August, 2011:
SPINELESS LAUGH
X-Spine (vol.12)
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as heard on radiospin on August 31st, 2011
under electronic, indie, mix, preview, recommended, remix
And so, as promised we’re back from summer break with a brand new volume of X-Spine, the periodic release by Spineless Laugh, hosted radioSpin. #12 is again a fresh’n'cool compilation of the newest remixes of the coolest indie tunes hardly mixed by Spineless Laugh, ready to be burned and to rock your parties.
Shake it and enjoy!
ARTIST: AA.VV. selected & mixed by Spineless Laugh
TITLE: X-Spine (vol.12)
LABEL: Spineless Media
RELEASE DATE: Aug 31, 2011
TIME: 78:02 min.
WEB: http://spineless.official.fm/
01. SPINELESS LAUGH – Intro (lovin’ remix) [@00:00]
02. ADAM KESHER – Hour of the Wolf (lifelike remix) [@02:11]
03. TEENAGE BAD GIRL – Hands of a Stranger (yuksek remix) [@07:02]
04. FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE – You’ve Got the Love (mark knight remix) [@11:48]
05. MARTIN SOLVEIG feat. KELE – Ready 2 Go (hardwell club mix) [@18:45]
06. THE FAINT – The Conductor (thin white duke remix) [@24:12]
07. BAG RAIDERS – Not Over (eli escobar remix) [@31:25]
08. UNDERWORLD – Diamond Jigsaw (moguai remix) [@36:37]
09. THE CRYSTAL METHOD feat. EMILY HAINES – Come Back Clean (atlas remix) [@42:49]
10. FENECH/SOLER – Lies (alex metric remix) [@46:32]
11. D.I.M. – Is You (le castle vania remix) [@50:31]
12. INCONTEXT – Just Believe (right here) (skrillex remix) [@55:21]
13. STANTON WARRIORS – Turn Me Up Some (bombs away mix) [@59:00]
14. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – Swoon (boys noize summer mix) [@64:01]
15. AUTOKRATZ – Opposite of Love (north lights feat. perseus remix) [@67:23]
16. RUBY ISLE – So Damn High (will eastman remix) [@71:51]
17. SPINELESS LAUGH – Outro (missin’ remix) [@75:47]
Spineless Laugh – Intro (lovin’ remix)
Spineless Laugh – Outro (missin’ remix)
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SEBASTIAN
Total
Sebastian Akchoté doesn’t deal in subtlety. He doesn’t have time to, not when he’s putting on some of the most exciting live shows around, plastering eye-gougings and porn into a one-and-a-half-minute music video, turning vocal samples into percussive gunshots, and (oh!) passionately kissing himself on his album cover. His music is quintessential Ed Banger fodder, with its blown-out, compressed-to-shit beats. And that’s why Total is really, really awesome: it’s that rare dance record that sounds just as compelling and exciting on stupid computer speakers as it does on massive club subwoofers. Even more impressively, it dispels all notions that SebastiAn is purely a singles artist, taking the best elements of the producer’s previous EPs and remixes and fleshing them out into a convincing, cohesive whole.
ARTIST: SebastiAn
TITLE: Total
LABEL: Ed Banger
RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2011
TIME: 51:29 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/0sebastian0
01. Hudson River (intro) [00:51]
02. Love in Motion (feat. mayer hawthorne) [03:06]
03. Tough Games (interlude) [00:41]
04. Embody [03:46]
05. Ross Ross Ross [03:40]
06. Fried [04:04]
07. Kindercut [04:07]
08. Water Games (interlude) [00:38]
09. Total [01:22]
10. Jack Wire (instrumental version) [02:45]
11. C.T.F.O. (feat. m.i.a.) [02:55]
12. Cartoon (interlude) [00:34]
13. Arabest [03:16]
14. Prime [03:07]
15. Mean Games (interlude) [00:53]
16. Tetra [02:55]
17. Motor [04:03]
18. Night (interlude) [00:46]
19. Yes [03:43]
20. Bird Games (interlude) [00:38]
21. Doggg [03:12]
22. Frustra (outro) [00:27]
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CITY AND COLOUR
Little Hell
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as heard on radiospin on August 4th, 2011
under album, folk, indie, preview, recommended, songwriting
Dallas Green releases his third solo album as a singer-songwriter under the moniker City and Colour. The album, titled Little Hell, is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the 2008′s Bring Me Your Love, which was certified platinum in Green’s native Canada. Alternately sparse and inviting, intense and delicate, Little Hell shows music fans another side of Green’s incredible songwriting skills, and features some of his finest songs to date. Little Hell was recorded earlier this winter at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON with producer/engineer/mixer Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie). The record allows Green to highlight all of the facets of his songwriting, from blues-tinged rockers to pedal steel-soaked acoustic gems.
ARTIST: City and Colour
TITLE: Little Hell
LABEL: Vagrant
RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2011
TIME: 47:28 min.
WEB: http://cityandcolour.ca/
01. We Found Each Other in the Dark [04:22]
02. Natural Disaster [03:50]
03. The Grand Optimist [04:05]
04. Little Hell [04:43]
05. Fragile Bird [04:17]
06. Northern Wind [04:16]
07. O’Sister [04:16]
08. Weightless [03:32]
09. Sorrowing Man [04:32]
10. Silver and Gold [04:40]
11. Hope for Now [04:55]
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THE WOODEN BIRDS
Two Matchsticks
After spending several years in New York, The Wooden Birds‘ frontman Andrew Kenny decided he’d swallowed a big enough bite of the Big Apple and made his way back to Austin, Tte capital of Texas where he once led slowcore icons The American Analog Set into rivers of hypnotic grooves and dreamy guitars. Two Matchsticks, the band’s second album,finds Kenny continuing to explore his singer-songwriter side and show off his ability to pair atmospheric tendencies with sturdy folk-pop. While the new disc retains many of the same colors used in the past, Two Matchsticks has moved away from the Southern charms of 2009′s Magnolia and contains an energy not felt on its predecessor.
ARTIST: The Wooden Birds
TITLE: Two Matchsticks
LABEL: Barsuk
RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2011
TIME: 38:14 min.
WEB: http://www.thewoodenbirds.com/
01. Folly Club [02:43]
02. Two Matchsticks [03:01]
03. Cross My Heart [03:47]
04. Criminals Win [02:50]
05. Company Time [02:54]
06. Warm to the Blade [02:33]
07. Baby Jeans [03:53]
08. Too Pretty to Say Please [03:25]
09. Struck By Lightning [03:43]
10. Secrets [02:31]
11. Be No Lie [02:17]
12. Long Time to Lose It [04:36]
The Wooden Birds – Two Matchsticks
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DAWES
Nothing Is Wrong
Brand new album from the L.A. Folk-Rock quartet, Dawes: recorded at producer Jonathan Wilson’s Echo Park studio late last year in between touring commitments, Nothing Is Wrong is the follow-up to the band’s 2009 debut, North Hills. A collection of songs that expertly builds upon the template laid by the previous album, this second full length sees Dawes displaying strong growth and evolution while still manifesting their distinctive, unforgettable voice.
ARTIST: Dawes
TITLE: Nothing Is Wrong
LABEL: ATO
RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2011
TIME: 51:49 min.
WEB: http://dawestheband.com/
01. Time Spent in Los Angeles [04:28]
02. If I Wanted Someone [04:39]
03. My Way Back Home [06:25]
04. Coming Back to a Man [03:51]
05. So Well [05:31]
06. How Far We’ve Come [02:59]
07. Fire Away [06:23]
08. Moon in the Water [03:54]
09. Million Dollar Bill [04:12]
10. The Way You Laugh [03:48]
11. A Little Bit of Everything [05:39]
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AUSTRA
Feel It Break
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as heard on radiospin on August 1st, 2011
under album, electronic, experimental, indie, preview, recommended
On Feel It Break, co-founder and lead singer Katie Stelmanis, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf have crafted a stark, danceable masterpiece suitable for both ritual incantations and clubs; an album hearkening back to the seedier side of new wave but still deeply rooted in Stelmanis’s classical and operatic upbringing- think the dirty alleys and after-hours clubs dreamed up by Japan and Soft Cell. Written primarily by Stelmanis and mixed by Damian Taylor (Björk, The Prodigy, U.N.K.L.E.).
ARTIST: Austra
TITLE: Feel It Break
LABEL: Domino
RELEASE DATE: May 17, 2011
TIME: 47:18 min.
WEB: http://www.austramusic.com/
01. Darken Her Horse [05:21]
02. Lose It [04:30]
03. The Future [04:03]
04. Beat and the Pulse [04:56]
05. Spellwork [05:10]
06. The Choke [04:12]
07. Hate Crime [04:02]
08. The Villain [04:06]
09. Shoot the Water [03:23]
10. The Noise [03:32]
11. The Beast [04:03]
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