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DEATH IN VEGAS
Trans-Love Energies

Brand new album from the British electronic duo Death in Vegas, their first album in seven years. Producer/songwriter/frontman Richard Fearless mixed the album in Michigan after recording it in Shoreditch, London. Trans-Love Energies, a reference to the 1960′s Detroit anti-establishment group, features 12 new songs with Fearless performing lead vocals on the majority of the tracks. Vocalist Katie Stelmanis from Domino band Austra guests on three of the tracks.

ARTIST: Death in Vegas
TITLE: Trans-Love Energies
LABEL: EXCQ
RELEASE DATE: October 4, 2011
TIME: 54:14 min.
WEB: http://www.deathinvegasmusic.com/

01. Silver Time Machine [05:09]
02. Black Hole [04:54]
03. You Loft My Acid [07:31]
04. Medication [05:06]
05. Coum [04:41]
06. Witchdance [04:42]
07. Scissors [04:50]
08. Drone Reich [04:26]
09. Lightning Bolt [05:57]
10. Savage Love [06:58]

Death in Vegas – Coum

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INCUBUS
If Not Now, When?

Multi-platinum rock band, Incubus, have re-engaged renowned producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Bob Dylan) to produce the band’s sixth studio album, If Not Now, When?. The highly anticipated new release features lead single Adolescents, an inimitable showcase of the band’s frenetic rock roots. Delving further into the album, tracks like Promises, Promises and Friends & Lovers reveal new levels of elegance, space and psychedelia in the band’s ever evolving sound.

ARTIST: Incubus
TITLE: If Not Now, When?
LABEL: Epic
RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2011
TIME: 57:40 min.
WEB: http://www.enjoyincubus.com/

01. If Not Now, When? [05:05]
02. Promises, Promises [04:26]
03. Friends and Lovers [04:07]
04. Thieves [04:17]
05. Isadore [04:34]
06. The Original [05:05]
07. Defiance [02:18]
08. In the Company of Wolves [07:35]
09. Switchblade [03:27]
10. Adolescents [04:49]
11. Tomorrow’s Food [04:20]
12. Rebel Girls [03:15]

13. Drive (live) [04:22]

Incubus – Adolescents

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THE DUKE SPIRIT
Bruiser

The Duke Spirit have spent the past 8 months whipping their new tunes into fighting shape. The seven-year-old U.K. outfit (Liela Moss, Toby Butler, Olly Betts) decided to write their third album as a quartet after guitarist Dan Higgins exited, asking new bassist Marc Sallis to join the squad more recently. The result: supreme focus and a scaled-down sound that cuts to the heart of The Duke Spirit more precisely than ever. After two albums of opaque lyrics and increasingly dense sounds, with Bruiser, The Duke Spirit are breaking down the barriers between their epically melodic blues rock and the rest of us. And the outcome is spectacular.

ARTIST: The Duke Spirit
TITLE: Bruiser
LABEL: Polydor
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2011
TIME: 47:24 min.
WEB: http://thedukespirit.com/

01. Cherry Tree [03:33]
02. Procession [03:12]
03. Villain [04:45]
04. Don’t Wait [04:01]
05. Surrender [03:18]
06. Bodies [04:35]
07. De Lux [04:36]
08. Sweet Bitter Sweet [04:25]
09. Running Fire [03:20]
10. Everybody’s Under Your Spell [03:23]
11. Northbound [04:41]
12. Homecoming [04:35]

The Duke Spirit – Cherry Tree

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RADIOHEAD
TKOL RMX 1234567

As announced a few months ago, Radiohead are set to release a remix album. The album turns out to be a 2CD set and includes 19 tracks. The album collects all the six series of remixes from their latest release The King of Limbs, plus a second bonus cd including remixes that have not been announced before, with interesting names like Jamie XX, SBTRKT, Modeselektor, Objekt, Anstam and Blawan. What a gooodie!

ARTIST: Radiohead
TITLE: TKOL RMX 1234567
LABEL: XL
RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2011
TIME: 1:46:15 min.
WEB: http://thekingoflimbspart2.com/tkol-remixes/

01. Little By Little (caribou remix) [05:38]
02. Lotus Flower (jacques greene remix) [07:10]
03. Morning Mr. Magpie (nathan fake remix) [04:52]
04. Bloom (harmonic 313 remix) [05:04]
05. Bloom (mark pritchard remix) [06:06]
06. Feral (lone remix) [05:16]
07. Morning Mr. Magpie (pearson sound remix) [04:37]
08. Separator (four tet remix) [07:03]

01. Give Up the Ghost (thriller houseghost rmx) [06:12]
02. Codex (illum sphere rmx) [04:32]
03. Little By Little (shed rmx) [04:48]
04. Give Up the Ghost (broken chord rmx) [05:03]
05. TKOL (altrice rmx) [06:01]
06. Bloom (blawan rmx) [07:28]
07. Good Evening Mrs. Magpie (modeselektor rmx) [07:43]
08. Bloom (objekt rmx) [05:19]
09. Bloom (jamie xx rework) [02:26]
10. Separator (anstam remix) [05:13]
11. Lotus Flower (SBTRKT remix) [05:44]

Radiohead – Little By Little (caribou remix)
Radiohead – Lotus Flower (SBTRKT remix)

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BJÖRK
Biophilia

Set for the first time in the round inside a former Victorian market hall, Björk latest project, Biophilia, feels less like a traditional gig, and more of a demonstration of whizz-bang musicological ideas. Locked in a cage, it looks like the sort of thing that reanimated Frankenstein’s monster. It is an incredible mixture of strange instruments, ancient ones, like the the Tesla coil (a “sharpsichord”, another specially built, Heath Robinsonesque structure that weds a pin barrel organ to two enormous, flower-like ear trumpets), and 21st-century-ones, like the iPad that Björk plays on Dark Matter. Musical director Matt Robertson, meanwhile, orchestrates digitals and unleashes penetrating sub-bass, while eight giant flat-screen TVs should play out themed visual accompaniments to each track.
The physical full-length will be released both as a conventional album with music videos (including a clip directed by frequent Björk collaborator Michel Gondry), and as an “app album” (specifically, a package of 10 apps for the iPad, bundled within one “mother” app: each app will correspond to a different song on the album and will evolve in general makeup over time). Played out as avant-garde multi-platform shock and awe, Biophilia‘s songs, at the cellular level, are ultimately concerned with love, generosity and wonderment.

ARTIST: Björk
TITLE: Biophilia
LABEL: Nonesuch
RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2011
TIME: 48:39 min.
WEB: http://bjork.com/

01. Moon [05:37]
02. Thunderbolt [05:10]
03. Crystalline [05:04]
04. Cosmonogy [04:52]
05. Dark Matter [03:17]
06. Hollow [05:44]
07. Virus [05:21]
08. Sacrifice [03:57]
09. Mutual Core [05:00]
10. Solstice [04:37]

Björk – Virus

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #74
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ARTIST: R.E.M.
TITLE: ÜBerlin
ALBUM: Collapse Into Now
WEB: YouTube

directed by Sam Taylor-Wood

SPINELESS LAUGH
Comedowns

Spineless Laugh is going to shock your calm autumn with his brand new EP. Comedowns is not properly “new” Spineless Laugh‘s material: it’s a collection of 2006′s recordings (absolutely previously unreleased) slightly re-mastered and re-arranged this summer. All the tracks are recorded live in studio with X-WoF II synthesizer and almost left like the originals, except for a really lite post-production. Spineless Laugh always likes to experiment with real and synthetic sounds and noises and so Comedowns is a strange kind of electronic: asynchronous and obsessive, mechanic and almost industrial, it doesn’t hide its influences (mostly from artists like Autechre or The Orb) and tries to change hiss and creaks into something you would call melody: the perfect soundtrack for your sweetest nightmares. We can say that Comedowns is (musically speaking – all its track are instrumental) a “concept album”: one continuos 40-minutes-long-song semantically subdivided into six sad stories.
You know: Spineless Laugh “is a state of mind, where mind is only a state of uncomprehension”, and Comedowns is the proof of it.

ARTIST: Spineless Laugh
TITLE: Comedowns EP
LABEL: Spineless Media
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2011
TIME: 42:53 min.
WEB: http://spineless.official.fm/

01. Dave [06:00]
02. Moonkiller [06:43]
03. Fukushima [08:28]
04. Pendulum [03:49]
05. It Was a Pleasure to Burn [06:37]
06. Why Am I Me, and Why Not You? [11:15]

Spineless Laugh – Dave

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S.C.U.M.
Again Into Eyes

S.C.U.M. (or to give them their full originally-invented-by-would-be-Warhol-assassin Valerie Solanas name, Society For Cutting Up Men: essentially a cheery manifesto about how all men are a bit rubbish, basically) hark back to the clattering industrial sounds of yore, managing to evade the ham-fisted attempts of lesser acts who’ve looked to the era for inspiration. With high-concept sounds and an ace sleeve, Again Into Eyes is a bold debut, and an extremely rewarding experience. Initial listens may paint it as a bit of a pretentious dirge, but dive into it and soon warmth and light flood in. There’s a sense that S.C.U.M. are only just beginning, and the promise here suggests you should mark them for future greatness.

ARTIST: S.C.U.M.
TITLE: Again Into Eyes
LABEL: PID
RELEASE DATE: September 20, 2011
TIME: 40:16 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/scum1968

01. Faith Unfolds [03:45]
02. Days Untrue [03:34]
03. Cast Into Seasons [03:51]
04. Amber Hands [03:51]
05. Summon the Sound [03:24]
06. Sentinal Bloom [04:58]
07. Requiem [03:00]
08. Paris [04:02]
09. Water [00:50]
10. Whitechapel [06:01]

S.C.U.M. – Amber Hands

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BUSH
The Sea of Memories

Multi-platinum rock band Bush return with their highly anticipated new album The Sea of Memories. Recorded with producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica), The Sea of Memories is the seminal bands first studio release in 10 years and it captures the electricity and trademark intensity of classic Bush delivered in a setting that is fresh and alive.

ARTIST: Bush
TITLE: The Sea of Memories
LABEL: Entertainment One
RELEASE DATE: September 13, 2011
TIME: 49:18 min.
WEB: http://bushofficial.com/

01. The Mirror of the Signs [04:20]
02. The Sound of Winter [03:29]
03. All My Life [03:23]
04. The Afterlife [04:45]
05. All Night Doctors [04:18]
06. Baby Come Home [04:15]
07. Red Light [03:31]
08. She’s A Stallion [04:36]
09. I Believe in You [03:11]
10. Stand Up [04:21]
11. The Heart of the Matter [04:22]
12. Be Still My Love [04:48]

Bush – Red Light

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TORI AMOS
Night of Hunters

Tori Amos marks her debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, the world’s most celebrated classical music record label with Night of Hunters. The iconic, platinum-selling singer-songwriter continues her legacy of ground-breaking recordings with this 21st century song cycle inspired by select classical pieces spanning the last 400 years. With Night of Hunters, Tori Amos carries on the classical tradition of variations on a theme: taking inspiration from classical forms to create a bold new work while paying tribute to the mastery of the original compositions.

ARTIST: Tori Amos
TITLE: Night of Hunters
LABEL: Detusche Grammophon
RELEASE DATE: September 20, 2011
TIME: 72:20 min.
WEB: http://www.toriamos.com/

01. Shattering Sea [05:44]
02. Snowblind [03:19]
03. Battle of Trees [08:49]
04. Fearlessness [06:37]
05. Cactus Practice [04:33]
06. Star Whisperer [09:57]
07. Job’s Coffin [03:36]
08. Nautical Twilight [03:24]
09. Your Ghost [05:44]
10. Edge of the Moon [04:57]
11. The Chase [03:06]
12. Night of Hunters [05:37]
13. Seven Sisters [02:50]
14. Carry [04:07]

Tori Amos – Snowblind

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CSS
La Liberación

Brazilian dance-punk revelers CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) offer their third full-length, La Liberación: the new album features collaborations with Ratatat, Mike Garson (who played piano on David Bowie‘s Aladdin Sane), and Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie on single, Hits Me Like A Rock, one of 2011′s summer anthems. On La Liberación the Brazilian crew’s core of party-starting dance pop, reggae, and punk has expanded to include new sonic tricks and a wider range of lyrical themes. Lead singer Lovefoxxx has grown as a lyricist, maintaining a balance between odes to hedonism with some genuine introspection.

ARTIST: Cansei de Ser Sexy
TITLE: La Liberación
LABEL: Fontana
RELEASE DATE: August 23, 2011
TIME: 41:44 min.
WEB: http://csshurtssuxxx.blogspot.com/

01. I Love You [03:55]
02. Hits Me Like A Rock [03:43]
03. City Grrrl [04:31]
04. Echo of Love [03:53]
05. You Could Have It All [03:52]
06. La Liberación [02:20]
07. Partners in Crime [04:19]
08. Ruby Eyes [02:53]
09. Rhythm to the Rebels [03:44]
10. Red Alert [03:35]
11. Fuck Everything [05:39]

CSS (feat. ratatat) – Red Alert

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #73
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ARTIST: Kasabian
TITLE: Switchblade Smiles
ALBUM: Velociraptor
WEB: YouTube

directed by Aitor Throup

WILCO
The Whole Love

After seven studio albums, various collaborations and countless days on the road over the past 15 years, Wilco tried something new before starting work on its eighth record, The Whole Love: the Chicago band took a vacation. Staying off stage for most of the latter half of 2010 was the longest break from touring that bandleader Jeff Tweedy has had in a career stretching back more than 20 years. The result is 12 stunning songs that showcase Wilco in a new light, on bold rockers, somber acoustic ballads and punchy pop songs, bookended by the propulsive 7-minute opener Art of Almost, and a meditative 12-minute closing track, One Sunday Morning.

ARTIST: Wilco
TITLE: The Whole Love
LABEL: dBpm / ANTI
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2011
TIME: 56:29 min.
WEB: http://wilcoworld.net/

01. Art of Almost [07:17]
02. I Might [04:01]
03. Sunloathe [03:20]
04. Dawned On Me [03:43]
05. Black Moon [03:56]
06. Born Alone [03:55]
07. Open Mind [03:40]
08. Capitol City [04:04]
09. Standing O [03:29]
10. Rising Red Lung [03:10]
11. Whole Love [03:50]
12. One Sunday Morning (song for jane smiley’s boyfriend) [12:04]

Wilco – I Might

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KASABIAN
Velociraptor!

Brand new album from the hugely successful British outfit Kasabian. The follow-up to the acclaimed West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Velociraptor! was recorded in Leicester and mixed in San Francisco. Written and produced by Italian guitarist of the band, Sergio Pizzorno, the album is a major leap forward from Britain’s biggest band (“we will be greater than Oasis”).

ARTIST: Kasabian
TITLE: Velociraptor!
LABEL: Sony
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2011
TIME: 50:45 min.
WEB: http://www.kasabian.co.uk/

01. Let’s Roll Just Like We Used To [04:47]
02. Days Are Forgotten [05:03]
03. Goodbye Kiss [04:04]
04. La Fee Verte [05:48]
05. Velociraptor! [02:52]
06. Acid Turkish Bath (shelter from the storm) [06:02]
07. I Hear Voices [03:59]
08. Re-Wired [04:44]
09. Man of Simple Pleasures [03:51]
10. Switchblade Smiles [04:14]
11. Neon Noon [05:21]

Kasabian – Days Are Forgotten

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dEUS
Keep You Close

At first, an unavoidable statement: please stop comparisons.
Since dEUS re-emerged to the scene in 2005 (whilst recording Pocket Revolution) after a hiatus of 6 years, they haven’t been the same dEUS as on their critically acclaimed 90′s albums. “Old dEUS” was a band of youngsters experimenting, trying to find a sound of their own, amidst all their peers and influences. “Old dEUS” was also a band that was constantly changing, swapping band members, experiencing internal turmoil. To an extent, that was partially the reason why their early stuff was (and still is) so great. The magnificent chaos in some of their old material was the result of this internal turmoil. “New dEUS” is a band of experienced musicians, and now they still have the same band lineup as they started with in 2005. So gone is the chaos, that’s it: the greater confidence in their musical and soundwriting skills means that there is less experimenting with different styles and sounds present. Many have lamented this lack of experimentation on the newer albums, but the loss of this wild “let’s see what we can come up with next”-attitude brings with it a growth in the consistency department. “New dEUS” has produced a couple of really coherent albums, with a clear overall theme or sound. Their latest, Keep You Close, is no exception: so don’t look back and believe, it’s a great album, son of these times.

ARTIST: dEUS
TITLE: Keep You Close
LABEL: PIAS
RELEASE DATE: September 19, 2011
TIME: 43:04 min.
WEB: http://www.deus.be/

01. Keep You Close [05:22]
02. The Final Blast [04:45]
03. Dark Sets In [05:00]
04. Twice [04:40]
05. Ghosts [04:43]
06. Constant Now [03:54]
07. The End of Romance [04:45]
08. Second Nature [04:10]
09. Easy [06:45]

dEUS – Twice

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