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MR. OIZO Stade 3

spin — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:08:17 +0000

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

spin — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:25:58 +0000

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)

spin — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:06:20 +0000

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

spin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:10:56 +0000

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

spin — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:33:47 +0000

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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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #106as seen on radioSpin

spin — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:03:03 +0000

ARTIST: Orbital (feat. Zola Jesus)
TITLE: New France
ALBUM: Wonky
WEB: YouTube

directed by Ian Bucknole

DAMON ALBARN Dr. Dee

spin — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:52:32 +0000

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

spin — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:20:37 +0000

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

spin — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:31:59 +0000

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

spin — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:07:17 +0000

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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