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DILLON
This Silence Kills

Please let comparisons (Björk, Camille and so on) aside. The Berlin-based artist Dillon (Dominique Dillon de Byington her full name) has hit the nail on the head with this delightfully different debut album This Silence Kills, which is covered with her astounding voice for starters and the production also happens to be top notch. It has a wintry vibe going on in the best way and we defy you not to have your heart melted to this pleasant listening experience.

ARTIST: Dillon
TITLE: This Silence Kills
LABEL: B-Pitch Control
RELEASE DATE: November 28, 2011
TIME: 42:59 min.
WEB: http://www.dillon-music.com/

01. The Silence Kills [04:18]
02. Tip Tapping [03:07]
03. Thirteen Thirtyfive [03:43]
04. Your Flesh Against Mine [04:30]
05. You Are My Winter [04:22]
06. Undying Need to Scream [02:16]
07. ______________ [04:53]
08. From One to Six Hundred Kilometers [03:39]
09. Hey Beau [02:35]
10. Texture of My Blood [02:34]
11. Gumache [02:57]
12. Abrupt Clarity [04:05]

Dillon – Gumache

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #82
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ARTIST: Drew Smith
TITLE: Love Teeth
ALBUM: The Secret Languages
WEB: YouTube

directed by Sohee Jeon

KORALLREVEN
An Album by Korallreven

Debut full-length from Swedish electro-pop duo: after their introduction to the world through the singles The Truest Faith and Honey Mine, the partnership of Marcus Joons and Daniel Tjäder (also of The Radio Dept.) presents its debut album, An Album By Korallreven, which features contributions from Taken by Trees‘ Victoria Bergsman and Julianna Barwick.

ARTIST: Korallreven
TITLE: An Album by Korallreven
LABEL: Acephale
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2011
TIME: 44:52 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/korallrevenmusic

01. As Young As Yesterday [05:46]
02. Sa Sa Samoa [04:05]
03. The Truest Faith [04:26]
04. Keep Your Eyes Shut [03:28]
05. Loved-Up [03:54]
06. Comin’ Closer [04:34]
07. Pago Pago [02:46]
08. Honey Mine [04:34]
09. A Surf On Endorphins [02:19]
10. Comin’ Down [09:00]

Korallreven – The Truest Faith

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SIGUR RÓS
Inní

Inní is the definitive Sigur Rós live experience, comprised of a double live album and a seventy-five minute concert film, capturing Sigur Rós last show before their well-documented “indefinite hiatus” at the end of 2008. Recorded by Sigur Rós in-house studio engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson and shot over two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace, at the close of the world tour around their fifth full length album, Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust. When taken in together, Inní‘s live album and film give us an incredible account of one of the most celebrated and influential rock bands of recent years, showing where they ve come from, where they ve been, and like all things Sigur Rós, where it is they will be going next.

ARTIST: Sigur Rós
TITLE: Inní
LABEL: XL
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2011
TIME: 1:44:04 min.
WEB: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/

01. Svefn-g-Englar [10:13]
02. Glósóli [06:52]
03. Ný Batterí [08:39]
04. Fljótavík [03:38]
05. Við Spilum Endalaust [03:59]
06. Hoppípolla [04:13]
07. Með Blóðnasir [02:22]
08. Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur [04:09]
09. E-Bow [09:09]

01. Sæglópur [07:41]
02. Festival [07:36]
03. Hafsol [08:28]
04. All Alright [05:42]
05. Popplagið [15:24]
06. Lúppulagið [05:59]

Sigur Rós – Ný Batterí (live)
Sigur Rós – Festival (live)

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #80
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ARTIST: Lisa Hannigan
TITLE: Knots
ALBUM: Passenger
WEB: YouTube

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KIRBY
Into the Dark

Brand new album submission! Into The Dark, is (John) Kirby’s second official release and wrestles the ideas of hostile despair, anguish of being unable to change, the worthlessness of envy and the desire to be wanted so unconditionally. It’s a glimpse into the psyche of a man whose spent the last two years touring Canada, crossing the country numerous times. The EP, produced by Matt Montour and mixed by Sean Pearson, works towards summarizing the vast enormity of his experiences into seven calculated, succinct booms of folk-pop passion and interwoven with hook filled melody.

ARTIST: Kirby
TITLE: Into the Dark
LABEL: C&B
RELEASE DATE: September 14, 2011
TIME: 25:35 min.
WEB: http://kirbysings.com/

01. Off Your Mind [03:56]
02. Picking Up Page [03:36]
03. High Horse [03:57]
04. Into the Dark [03:33]
05. Change [02:48]
06. The Other Boys [03:22]
07. I Want to Live in New York [04:23]

Kirby – Change

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TOM WAITS
Bad As Me

Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to signal a new phase in his musical path: Rain Dogs and Mule Variations are both counted by fans as among these pivotal works. Now comes Bad As Me, his first studio album of all new music in seven years, which finds Tom Waits in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers, working with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times and there is a pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company that brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs. Bad As Me is a Tom Waits album for the ages.

ARTIST: Tom Waits
TITLE: Bad As Me
LABEL: ANTI
RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2011
TIME: 44:42 min.
WEB: http://www.tomwaits.com/

01. Chicago [02:15]
02. Raised Right Men [03:24]
03. Talking at the Same Time [04:14]
04. Get Lost [02:42]
05. Face to the Highway [03:43]
06. Pay Me [03:14]
07. Back in the Crowd [02:49]
08. Bad As Me [03:10]
09. Kiss Me [03:41]
10. Satisfied [04:05]
11. Last Leaf [02:56]
12. Hell Broke Luce [03:57]
13. New Year’s Eve [04:32]

Tom Waits – Get Lost

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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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BLISSES B
Thirty Days, Sixty Years

Ladies and gentlemen please let us welcome Blisses B, with their second (following 2009 You Should) full-length album Thirty Days, Sixty Years: a brand new compilation of genre-crashing rock and psychedelia, recorded, produced, and engineered entirely by the San Francisco-based quartet. Thirty Days, Sixty Years explores the mathematical parameters that define our lives and the personal equations that result from the many caveats that can extend and shorten most of these time frames. Using electric and acoustic mandolins, piano, Leslie speakers and banjo, Ben Keegan (guitar, mandolin, keyboard, vocals), Noah Libby (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin), Matt McBride (drums, percussion), and Nick Testa (bass, twelve string guitar and back vocals) escape the boundaries of any categorization, playing what they want and what they love, reminding to The Decemberist becoming Broken Social Scene, watching Wilco staring at Neil Young and composing folk with a punk attitude. A nice surprise.

ARTIST: Blisses B
TITLE: Thirty Days, Sixty Years
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: December 21, 2010
TIME: 36:00 min.
WEB: http://www.blissesb.com/

01. Regal Goodbyes [03:20]
02. Your Own Growl [03:54]
03. Thirty Days, Sixty Years [03:18]
04. Valley Low [03:02]
05. Fine and Dandy [03:22]
06. Cattywompus [02:52]
07. Yeasteryear [04:34]
08. I Was Around [03:08]
09. Spirit [02:42]
10. Decimal Point [02:34]
11. IWHBYWW [03:14]

Blisses B - I Was Around

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CITY & COLOUR
Little Hell

Dallas Green releases his third solo album as a singer-songwriter under the moniker City & 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 & 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]

City & Colur – Little Hell

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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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FINK
Perfect Darkness

Recorded and mixed by producer Billy Bush, Perfect Darkness is a smouldering, pulsating, and purposeful book of songs. From its emotion-rousing, self-titled opener, to the darkly cinematic Fear Is Like Fire and the uplifting nostalgia of album closer Berlin Sunrise, this Fink‘s fifth studio album bristles with tense passion and hypnotic charm. It is in two words: bewitching and addictive.

ARTIST: Fink
TITLE: Perfect Darkness
LABEL: Ninja Tune
RELEASE DATE: July 19, 2011
TIME: 46:57 min.
WEB: http://www.finkworld.co.uk/

01. Perfect Darkness [06:39]
02. Fear Is Like Fire [03:58]
03. Yesterday Was Hard On All of Us [04:55]
04. Honesty [04:33]
05. Wheels [03:04]
06. Warm Shadow [05:47]
07. Save It For Somebody Else [03:49]
08. Who Says? [05:04]
09. Foot in the Door [05:03]
10. Berlin Sunrise [04:04]

Fink – Perfect Darkness

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EDDIE VEDDER
Ukulele Songs

If you include the soundtrack album he recorded for Into the Wild, Ukulele Songs is only Eddie Vedder‘s second solo album. This makes this release even more of a curiosity: as its title makes clear, the album consists of 16 tracks of Vedder pawing the tiny, four-stringed Hawaiian instrument and warbling love songs. That’s it. In a way, it’s as clear-cut a proposition as you’re going to get these days. You either instantly know you need 35 minutes of this in your life or are already backing slowly away. Vedder has said he wants this record to inspire people to pick up the instrument and sing with their friends, an old-fashioned sentiment impossible not to be charmed by.

ARTIST: Eddie Vedder
TITLE: Ukulele Songs
LABEL: Monkeywrench
RELEASE DATE: May 31, 2011
TIME: 34:42 min.
WEB: http://www.pearljam.com/users/eddievedder

01. Can’t Keep [02:36]
02. Sleeping By Myself [01:54]
03. Without You [03:19]
04. More Than You Know [02:25]
05. Goodbye [02:28]
06. Broken Heart [02:36]
07. Satellite [02:28]
08. Longing to Belonging [02:39]
09. Hey Fahkah [00:08]
10. You’re True [03:23]
11. Light Today [02:41]
12. Sleepless Nights [02:39]
13. Once in a While [01:45]
14. Waving Palms [00:37]
15. Tonight You Belong to Me [01:42]
16. Dream a Little Dream [01:31]

Eddie Vedder – Can’t Keep

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GOMEZ
Whatever’s On Your Mind

Deep in the woods of Virginia, Gomez have conspired to make the most compelling, direct album of their 15 year career. The members reside across two continents (in Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Brighton, England) and after several months of sharing ideas through every facet of technology available to them, they came together with their longtime friend, Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet), to create their first self-produced offering since 2001′s In Our Gun. Their seventh studio album, Whatever s On Your Mind, is released on ATO records (Dave Matthew‘s label) and it’s the seventh nice pearl in their career.

ARTIST: Gomez
TITLE: Whatever’s On Your Mind
LABEL: ATO
RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2011
TIME: 37:15 min.
WEB: http://www.gomeztheband.com/

01. Options [03:38]
02. I Will Take You There [04:42]
03. Whatever’s On Your Mind [03:42]
04. Just As Lost As You [03:10]
05. The Place and the People [05:22]
06. Our Goodbye [03:17]
07. Song in My Heart [03:18]
08. Equalize [03:01]
09. That Wolf [03:00]
10. X-Rays [04:35]

Gomez – Options

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PEAKING LIGHTS
936

Peaking Lights always pull its listeners into a faded Polaroid of the Pacific Ocean whenever the ethereal pop sensibilities of vocalist-keyboardist Indra Dunis join forces with the reverberated guitar and twitching sonics of Aaron Coyes: 936 is made of self-rewired household electronics, rewired guitar pedals, and manipulated thrift-store keyboards. This husband/wife duo have toned down the experimental nature of their sound considerably, stripping away the noise to reveal beautiful, luminescent pop music: their releases have always shown huge potential, subtly foreshadowing this new aesthetic.

ARTIST: Peaking Lights
TITLE: 936
LABEL: Not Not Fun
RELEASE DATE: February 22, 2011
TIME: 48:49 min.
WEB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PEAKING-LIGHTS/172619390709

01. Synthy [02:58]
02. All the Sun That Shines [06:53]
03. Amazing and Wonderful [05:29]
04. Birds of Paradise (dub version) [07:57]
05. Hey Sparrow [03:56]
06. Tiger Eyes (laid back) [07:47]
07. Marshmellow Yellow [08:27]
08. Summertime [05:26]

Peaking Lights - Amazing and Wonderful

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