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MR. OIZO
Stade 3

Everyone’s favourite acid-tripping, cult film-making frenchman Mr. Oizo has just released a new EP, the sequentially-titled Stade 3. As if that wasn’t already awesome enough news, Oizo (a.k.a. Quentin Dupiex) is letting you download it for free on hi website. Check it out yourself.

But, first of all, watch the teaser, featuring (obviously) Flat Eric!

ARTIST: Mr. Oizo
TITLE: Stade 3
LABEL: Ed Banger
RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2012
TIME: 17:21 min.
WEB: http://www.oizo3000.com/

01. Stade 3 [03:25]
02. Toodoo [02:51]
03. Fingers [00:42]
04. WC [02:32]
05. Textes [02:52]
06. Calculatrix [01:24]
07. Pee Hurts [03:35]

Mr. Oizo – Stade 3

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GOSSIP
A Joyful Noise

5th full-length album from the trio fronted by Beth Ditto. A Joyful Noise is a blend of soul, gospel, rock, funk, disco, punk, passion and rebellion. Recorded in both Xenomania, Higgins’ studio in England, and KBC Studios in Portland, Oregon, this album stays true to Gossip‘s trademark brash and unapologetic nature (that is, as true as possible for a band that is constantly reinventing itself and pushing boundaries). The album’s infectious tracks will certainly be welcomed by fans who are already entranced by Gossip‘s insanely danceable beats, and will no doubt lure in many more.

ARTIST: Gossip
TITLE: A Joyful Noise
LABEL: Columbia
RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2012
TIME: 44:04 min.
WEB: http://www.gossipyouth.com/

01. Melody Emergency [03:51]
02. Perfect World [04:28]
03. Get A Job [04:59]
04. Move in the Right Direction [03:32]
05. Casualities of War [04:16]
06. Into the Wild [03:13]
07. Get Lost [04:07]
08. Involved [04:15]
09. Horns [03:45]
10. I Won’t Play [03:19]
11. Love in a Foreign Place [04:22]

Gossip – Perfect World

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CHROMATICS
Kill for Love (drumless version)

Chromatics have made a drumless version of their album-of-the-year contender Kill For Love available for free download. Johnny Jewel tries to explain why: “I was really liking the way the vocal mixes sounded with no drums and I think that the drums on the album are so heavy, that it’s interesting to hear the record as this almost-empty, almost-a cappella kind of thing”.

ARTIST: Chromatics
TITLE: Kill for Love (drumless version)
LABEL: Republic of Music
RELEASE DATE: May 13, 2012
TIME: 51:40 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/chromatics

01. The Page [03:32]
02. These Streets Will Never Look the Same [08:37]
03. Lady [05:08]
04. Kill For Love [03:57]
05. At Your Door [03:53]
06. Back from the Grave [03:43]
07. A Matter of Time [04:33]
08. Candy [02:31]
09. The River [05:37]
10. There’s a Light Out On the Horizon [04:47]
11. Into the Black [05:22]

Chromatics – Lady (drumless version)

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TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS
Trouble

Trouble is one of the most eagerly awaited debut electronic albums for years, with previous singles Garden, Tapes & Money, Trouble and Household Goods joined by a wealth of new music. Surely and steadily, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has seen his star rapidly ascend and this is a celebration of electronic music’s diversity and range. There will also be a cracking double single of American Dream Part II / Stronger released together with the album, and with both headline and festival dates locked in across the UK, Europe and around the world in the coming months, there can be little doubt that the soundtrack of the summer will definitely be Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

ARTIST: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
TITLE: Trouble
LABEL: Polydor
RELEASE DATE: June 11, 2012
TIME: 63:43 min.
WEB: http://totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.tumblr.com/

01. Promises [04:20]
02. Trouble [03:49]
03. Shimmer [04:45]
04. Household Goods [03:35]
05. Your Love [03:50]
06. You Need Me On My Own [03:45]
07. Panpipes [06:12]
08. Garden [04:36]
09. Solo [05:49]
10. Tapes & Money [03:40]
11. American Dream (pt.II) [05:08]
12. Closer [06:38]
13. Fair [02:32]
14. Stronger [05:04]

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden

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SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO
UnPatterns

Simian Mobile Disco‘s James Ford and Jas Shaw, esteemed producers individually and acclaimed band together return with their new album, UnPatterns. With their albums to date, spanning from their seminal debut Attack Decay Sustain Release to 2011′s compilation album Delicacies, the only throughline in their varied career has been their constant refusal to play by the rules, their creative restlessness resulting in them staying perpetually ahead of the curve. UnPatterns is a record full of love, dedication, hard-earned experience, obvious understanding of decades of electronic music from across scenes and styles, and huge fun.

ARTIST: Simian Mobile Disco
TITLE: UnPatterns
LABEL: Wichita
RELEASE DATE: May 29, 2012
TIME: 52:05 min.
WEB: http://www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk/

01. I Waited for You [04:34]
02. Cerulean [06:52]
03. Seraphim [03:53]
04. A Species Out of Control [05:22]
05. Interference [06:43]
06. Put Your Hand Together [07:24]
07. The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife [05:04]
08. Your Love Ain’t Fair [05:14]
09. Pareidolia [06:59]

Simian Mobile Disco – Seraphim

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DAMON ALBARN
Dr. Dee

Dr. Dee, the new studio album by Blur‘s singer/leader Damon Albarn, is 18 tracks of songs and music inspired by the life of John Dee, mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I. The album combines Albarn’s voice with early English choral and instrumentation alongside modern, West African and Renaissance sounds. Dr. Dee has become also an opera created by Albarn himself together with the theatre director Rufus Norris: it was inspired by comic book author Alan Moore, and its debut performance was at the Palace Theatre, Manchester in July 2011, as part of the 2011 Manchester International Festival.

ARTIST: Damon Albarn
TITLE: Dr. Dee
LABEL: Parlophone
RELEASE DATE: May 7, 2012
TIME: 48:42 min.
WEB: http://doctorjohndee.tumblr.com/

01. The Golden Dawn [03:56]
02. Apple Carts [02:37]
03. O Spirit, Animate Us [03:48]
04. The Moon Exalted [05:43]
05. A Man of England [03:17]
06. Saturn [02:05]
07. Coronation [01:10]
08. The Marvelous Dream [02:23]
09. A Prayer [01:33]
10. Edward Kelley [03:29]
11. Preparation [03:01]
12. 9 Point Star [01:33]
13. Temptation Comes in the Afternoon [02:05]
14. Watching the Fire that Waltzed Away [02:37]
15. Moon (interlude) [00:29]
16. Cathedrals [03:01]
17. Tree of Beauty [02:00]
18. The Dancing King [03:24]

Damon Albarn – The Dancing King

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SKY ARCHITECTS
The Promise of Tomorrow

The Promise of Tomorrow is the third release (but actually the first full-length, following the first self-titled 2008 promo and the second EP The Reflection) release from the Aarhus-based band Sky Architects, and for the ones who expected it to be equal, if not better, than its predecessor, we must say that, to an extent, it is better: to another extent, it isn’t even comparable. Their trademark “doom-pop” sound was gone, replaced with regular rockish post-rock. To that point, The Promise of Tomorrow actually break new ground in the genre of post-rock, allowing someone to call it “revolutionary”, that is maybe too much, but the truth is not so far.

ARTIST: Sky Architects
TITLE: The Promise of Tomorrow
LABEL: VME
RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2012
TIME: 49:26 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/skyarchitects

01. Promise [02:07]
02. Fade Out [07:03]
03. We’ll Never Forget This [05:36]
04. All Free Must Fly [03:47]
05. Waves of Light [05:51]
06. The Dark Wave [04:39]
07. Breach These Walls [05:13]
08. Ignite [04:22]
09. Endzeit [05:22]
10. Procession of Hearts [05:26]

Sky Architects – Ignite

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GARBAGE
Not Your Kind of People

Garbage’s first record in seven years picks up where the band left off. Scottish singer Shirley Manson makes her sultry, sexually formidable presence known immediately on these tracks, and even if Not Your Kind Of People is not fresh by Garbage’s standards, it’s hard to not be engaged by a group revelling in a brand of rock of which they were the main purveyors.

ARTIST: Garbage
TITLE: Not Your Kind of People
LABEL: Stuntvolume
RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2012
TIME: 42:51 min.
WEB: http://garbage.com/

01. Automatic Systematic Habit [03:18]
02. Bug Bright World [03:35]
03. Lies [03:46]
04. Control [04:12]
05. Not Your Kind of People [04:57]
06. Felt [03:26]
07. I Hate Love [03:55]
08. Sugar [03:59]
09. Battle in Me [04:14]
10. Man on a Wire [03:07]
11. Beloved Freak [04:30]

Garbage – I Hate Love

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MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
Electra Heart

Electra Heart is the second album from Marina Diamandis, better known as Marina and the Diamonds. It is tasked with maintaining the standards of her debut album The Family Jewels and is produced by a cache of old school and A-List producers: Dr. Luke (Katy Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke Li).

ARTIST: Marina & the Diamonds
TITLE: Electra Heart
LABEL: 679
RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2012
TIME: 46:55 min.
WEB: http://www.marinaandthediamonds.com/

01. Bubblegum Bitch [02:33]
02. Primadonna [03:41]
03. Lies [03:46]
04. Homewrecker [03:23]
05. Starring Role [03:27]
06. The State of Dreaming [03:37]
07. Power & Control [03:48]
08. Living Dead [04:03]
09. Teen Idle [04:14]
10. Valley of the Dolls [04:14]
11. Hypocrates [04:01]
12. Fear and Loathing [06:08]

Marina & the Diamonds – Primadonna (walden remix)

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KEANE
Strangeland

Four years have elapsed since Keane‘s last album Perfect Symmetry, two since Night Train, the EP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album charts. If Keane‘s feverishly loyal fan base wondered what the group’s next album would sound like, they weren’t the only ones. So now Strangeland is here: produced by Dan Grech (Radiohead, The Vaccines, Howling Bells) and recorded at Sea Fog, Keane songwriter/pianist Tim Rice-Oxley‘s studio in South Downs, UK.

ARTIST: Keane
TITLE: Strangeland
LABEL: Universal / Island
RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2012
TIME: 45:20 min.
WEB: http://www.keanemusic.com/

01. You Are Young [03:36]
02. Silenced by the Night [03:16]
03. Disconnected [03:58]
04. Watch How You Go [03:40]
05. Sovereign Light Cafe [03:39]
06. On the Road [03:57]
07. The Starting Line [04:12]
08. Black Rain [03:47]
09. Neon River [04:53]
10. Day Will Come [03:12]
11. In Your Own Time [03:44]
12. Sea Fog [03:26]

Keane – On the Road

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THE GHOSTS OF VEGAS
Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

Yes, we’re back with new band submission here on radioSpin.
So please welcome The Ghosts of Vegas, a Chigago-based duo of musician who seems (thanks God) to not forget the impact that the 90′s had on rock history. That’s it, because, going straight to the point, The Ghost of Vegas is, at heart, a 2 man project which breaks down to Billy Radley (vox, guitar, bass, harmonica, ebow, programming, vocoder) and Jon DeNapoli (guitar, bass, drums). They split time writing, recording, producing and mastering everything ourselves, while having a live band to handle playing out. Kicking the Hornet’s Nest is a 4-song EP, that show us how these two guys grew up listening to Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana and how they’ve been able to make all these influences up-to-date and even still fashionable. Their songs range from a crashing-beats kind of dark electronica to some sweet and tightly coiled acoustics, without excluding everything is in between. Grunge reminiscences ready for the new millennium.

ARTIST: The Ghosts of Vegas
TITLE: Kicking the Hornet’s Nest
LABEL: self-released
RELEASE DATE: December 14, 2011
TIME: 16:04 min.
WEB: https://www.facebook.com/theghostsofvegas

01. Bigger Than Me [04:02]
02. Everybody Wants Me [03:00]
03. End of Days [04:43]
04. Destruct in Stereo [04:19]

The Ghosts of Vegas – Bigger Than Me

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SQUAREPUSHER
Ufabulum

Widely heralded as a “return to form” legendary electronic artist Squarepusher has designed his latest LP as the next stage in his iconic lineage and as an awe inspiring live show. From the inception of Ufabulum, he has worked simultaneously on sound and picture: the project features a development of a longstanding aspect of his live work since 2005, the bespoke “video-synthesiser” that generates imagery according to control data and audio input. Custom designed himself, the imagery for each piece has two components, one represented on a large LED screen and the other on a screen mounted on a helmet worn by Squarepusher.
Complete and pure electronic art.

Please take a look at the sample video below to better understand what we’re talking about.

ARTIST: Squarepusher
TITLE: Ufabulum
LABEL: Warp
RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2012
TIME: 49:24 min.
WEB: http://warp.net/records/squarepusher

01. 4001 [06:35]
02. Unreal Square [05:18]
03. Stadium Ice [04:22]
04. Energy Wizard [03:48]
05. Red in Blue [03:11]
06. The Metallurgist [03:51]
07. Drax 2 [07:23]
08. Dark Steering [06:51]
09. 303 Scopem Hard [04:56]
10. Ecstatic Shock [05:09]

Squarepusher – Stadium Ice

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GRAHAM COXON
A+E

He may be best known for years of exemplary service to Britpop as Blur‘s guitarist, but it’s Graham Coxon‘s art-rock solo efforts that find him pushing himself in the most interesting directions. And A+E is by far his finest work to date: a brilliantly inventive and majestically sprawling album which sees the multi-skilled musician take on a wry, Philip Larkin-esque role of the eccentric outsider, casting a cheeky eye over a very British kind of hedonism.

ARTIST: Graham Coxon
TITLE: A+E
LABEL: EMI / Parlophone
RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2012
TIME: 48:01 min.
WEB: http://www.grahamcoxon.co.uk/

01. Advice [02:34]
02. City Hall [04:20]
03. What’ll It Take [04:30]
04. Meet and Drink and Pollinate [05:22]
05. The Truth [04:44]
06. Seven Naked Valleys [05:46]
07. Running for Your Life [04:57]
08. Bah Singer [04:01]
09. Knife in the Cast [06:36]
10. Ooh, Yeh Yeh [05:11]

Graham Coxon – The Truth

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TALK LESS, SAY MORE
England Without Rain

Well, now it’s the time when it is worth remembering that there was a time when pop was not synonymous with all that is wrong with the modern world: indeed, unlike today, it used to be made for people who actually liked music. Moreover, despite typically eliciting that alluring feeling of familiarity, good pop music has always had innovation at its heart, and it is very much in this spirit that you should consider Talk Less, Say More‘s (a.k.a. Matthew Jennings) new LP, England Without Rain. Because if you don’t like your pop, you can change it. And if it’s time for you to reclaim pop, England Without Rain could be your first step.

ARTIST: Talk Less, Say More
TITLE: England Without Rain
LABEL: Records On Ribs
RELEASE DATE: February 26, 2012
TIME: 36:59 min.
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/talklesssaymore

01. I Feel Like Making a Record [03:16]
02. Atlantic [03:16]
03. England Without Rain [03:50]
04. The Something Sonata [03:22]
05. Glokenspiel [03:47]
06. The Wrong Door [03:10]
07. Like Neon [02:16]
08. Black Eyes [02:35]
09. Sky Over Everything [02:08]
10. Love Is A Vortex [02:36]
11. I Didn’t Realise [03:12]
12. Double Helixxx [03:32]

Talk Less, Say More – Like Neon

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SPINELESS LAUGH
X-Spine (vol.13)

It has been a long long time: did you miss it? Of course you missed it.
We’re quite late with the first X-Spine release of the year, but that’s it: anyway, here we are. So, get ready for #13, as usual a nasty’n'pumpin’ compilation of the newest remixes of the coolest indie tunes hardly mixed by Spineless Laugh, ready to be burned and to rock your parties. Spread the love and enjoy!

ARTIST: AA.VV. selected & mixed by Spineless Laugh
TITLE: X-Spine (vol.13)
LABEL: Spineless Media
RELEASE DATE: Apr 20, 2012
TIME: 79:23 min.
WEB: http://www.mixcloud.com/spineless/

01. SPINELESS LAUGH – Intro (comin’ remix) [@00:00]
02. KYLIE MINOGUE – Come Into My World (fisherspooner remix) [@03:00]
03. IMOGEN HEAP – Hide & Seek (hot noizes bootleg) [@06:24]
04. SIA – Clap Your Hands (fred falke remix) [@11:41]
05. GOTYE feat. KYMBRA – Somebofy that I Used to Know (dumme jungs remix) [@17:35]
06. VANDROID – Master/Slave (van she tech remix) [@22:04]
07. THE KNIFE – Heartbeats (rex the dog remix) [@26:38]
08. LA TOURETTE – Eclipse (the s remix) [@30:06]
09. THE IRREPRESSIBLES – In This Shirt (feature cuts remix) [@35:06]
10. MORNING PARADE – Us & Ourselves (st. lucia remix) [@38:22]
11. MARTIN SOLVEIG – The Night Out (a-trak remix) [@42:21]
12. DRAGONETTE – Let It Go (the knocks remix) [@48:05]
13. LILY ALLEN – Not Fair (wize remix) [@52:27]
14. SBTRKT – Hold On (joneses remix) [@55:27]
15. M83 – Reunion (mylo remix) [@60:56]
16. BIG CHARLIE – The Sun (spineless laugh numbers remix) [@65:24]
17. THE TOXIC AVENGER – Escape (the bloody beetroots remix) [@69:27]
18. FELIX CARTAL – Love (tits & clits remix) [@73:49]
19. SPINELESS LAUGH – Outro (echoin’ remix) [@78:50]

Spineless Laugh – Intro (comin’ remix)
Spineless Laugh – Outro (echoin’ remix)

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