Keepaway - Baby Style EP

so you're like me and you want to move to brooklyn to get your new 'psych rock' band up and going and you think you sound pretty cool. check out Keepaway. barring some understandable production flaws and brevity, these guys have a promising future. check the panda bear-like vocals on '5 rings.' pretty good impressions imo

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Chromatic Flights - Sunset Bell

Kyle Wyss is one half of psych-folk-noise teenagers, Blind Man's Colour. The duo (Kyle's musical partner is long time friend, Orhan Chettri) released a record this year called Seasons Dreaming. It is definitely a good record, but I think his solo stuff is definitely on the same level. While Blind Man's Colour is a lot noisier and a little more free-form, Chromatic Flights is a more electronic-pop oriented project.

Synonymous with this whole tropical sound going down these days, the Sunset Bell EP is close to perfect. It's saddening that this is only 7 songs, with one being a cover of one of Orhan Chettri's songs (Lucid Bus). The songs are bit on the long side which makes up for its brevity.

It is clear that Wyss has a good ear for a structure and how to build a weird pop song. His use of keyboards and synth pads is impressive along with his beats and samples. Simple stuff here, folks, but definitely download this.

Download the album for free at his bandcamp.com site

Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP/Into The Plateau EP

If you had a car that could go back in time, what would you do? I would probably not almost hook up with my mother, but I would probably steal some ideas from the 80s or something and come back and make some sweet EP's.

Delorean does not have the car, but they have the name. And they have some stellar tunes to match. These Spaniards are joining this whole European pop scene going down in Sweden and Iceland and such called Balearic pop or something like that. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to classify this as Balearic by the genre gods, but whatever they remind me of The Tough Alliance and that whole Sincerely Yours thing that's getting real popular with the blogs lately. I dig it.

The Ayrton Senna EP is Delorean's latest release and is probably their best. Fast disco beats against delayed guitars and catchy melodies, layered and supported by digital organ sounds and pianos. Four songs deep, this EP is far too short and I'm looking for an LP to be released sometime here soon.

I put up their previous EP as well just so there's a little more meat to this post. Yeah. Meat.

Ayrton Senna EP

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Into The Plateau EP





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Sin Fang Bous - Clangour

I really want to go to Iceland. After watching the Sigur Ros documentary, Heima, I decided that one day I'll hit Iceland and explore or something. Not only does Iceland have some amazing landscapes, they produce some alright musicians.

This particular Icelandian (?) is named Sindri Mar Sigfusson. Under the moniker Sin Fang Bous, Sigfusson makes cute folky/synthy jams. The sounds here are kind of hard to classify because you get that Morr Music feeling of kind of sad, subdued acoustic songs. But then there's a lot of weird things going on around it; matched with odd rhythms and interesting keyboard sounds. Sigfusson's voice is strikingly dry and somewhat muddled and stumbled over at times. But the songs all have tight melodies and structures to hold the song together. I'm interested in this guy's live set up. Could be very interesting to play this stuff life.

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Panda Bear - Person Pitch

The best album of 2007 that I didn't hear till 2008. Panda Bear is a member of Animal Collective and he made one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the decade back in ought seven and I'm bringing it you live: good for yo earhole.

He relies heavily on samples and MIDI to create very complex pop music. This album is only 7 tracks, but packs enough awesomeness for 70 tracks. I can't describe this album other than Beach Boys on more LSD.

Download this.


Now.


That is a direct order.

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

New Merriweather Post Pavillion Link

I finally redeemed my MP3 code from Domino Records and got my 320 kpbs version of the new Animal Collective album. Oh my god. What an amazing album. Sounds and samples I never heard before are coming out at me. This album is classic. CLASSIC.

Also, I have no idea where the Final Part of the Top 10 list went. Some pretty well-written reviews there of TV on the Radio and The Sound of Animals Fighting. Maybe the interwebz police were sweeping for TVOTR or TSOAF links across the web and deleted the post. Hmm. Sorry guys.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic duo (What's with all the duos?) who make awesome music inspired by nature and 1970s media. It's very ambient and very trance-y and especially amazing. The album I'm posting is their studio debut album called Music Has the Right to Children. It uses a lot of field recordings and sound manipulation to create a very lush musical experience. Really for all fans of any kind of electronic music or just cool music in general. And Pitchfork Media gave it a 10/10,so it's obviously perfect.

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Tycho - Past Is Prologue

I was researching this dude, Tycho, who makes really cool electronic music and I couldn't really think of a better way to explain him then it does on his website. I don't really like just copying and pasting the information and actually writing my thoughts on it, but this pretty much explains it perfectly. The album Past is Prologue is simply marvelous. Download, and then fall asleep, wake up, repeat.

"Tycho is the music project of San Francisco based artist and producer Scott Hansen. As Tycho, Hansen blends swirling melodies into vaguely triumphant arcs that crisscross between stuttering beats and vocal samples, creating rolling sonic landscapes that extend off into the horizon. Known in the design world as ISO50, Hansen's bucolic, sun-drenched design style serves as a backdrop for the music which so closely echoes his visual sentiments.

Tycho currently records for the Ghostly International label and has releases on the Merck and Gammaphone labels.
Selected Reviews

"[Sunrise Projector is] a sweet, head-nodding, bass-heavy tour of the flat farmland outside of Sacramento, California, from this self-made Producer. Imagine the plaintive, childlike song of a lonely robot toy - the faded tonal wash growing more familiar with every loop."
- ReadyMade Magazine

"[Tycho] composes laid-back, often delicate songs. Strikingly, his work echoes his visual efforts as ISO50, with simple basslines and smoothly bouncing drums embelished by bits of static and distortion to add warmth and depth."
- BPM Magazine

"Tycho's 'Past Is Prologue' is as pretty as you'd imagine - full of melodies that swirl around like paint in water whilst a snowfall of digital beats keep proceedings energised. Flecked sporadically with snatches of female vocal, both 'From Home' and 'The Disconnect' are full fat electronica without the fatty after-taste."
- Boomkat

"Gauzy atmospheres and woozy synthesizer melodies ... languorous hip-hop beats deepening the dreamy ambiance ... speaking voices and seaside noises in “Sunrise Projector”. Tycho charts his own course, when “Dictaphone's Lament” introduces a smattering of boom-bap, for example, or when the dynamic title track gravitates towards a jazzy strain of drum & bass.”
- Textura

"Sunrise Projector is a highly listenable, beautifully melodic, beat driven ambient chill-out excursion with just the right amount of edge and roughness to give some definition. Whilst the fluttering portamentos and sinewave pads are reminiscent of early 90's British IDM this CD also posseses an intriguing sense of funk in the ryhthm department, qualities that will demand repeated listening."
- Better Propoganda "

Tycho - Past is Prologue

Electric President - Discography

Electric President are Ben Cooper and Alex Kane, a duo from Jacksonville who rose from the remains of other indie bands. They are known for subdued, acoustic songs with electronic bells and whistles placed intricately between the quiet vocals and the intimately plucked guitars. This music is really great for a late night drive home through the rain. They have two albums and two 7"s. The 7inches are okay, but the best release is their first album, ironically titled, S/T. They are on the Morr Music label, and are quite the mysterious band. I will definitely be looking out for more from these dudes. Below are links for the first album S/T and Sleep Well. For fans of The Postal Service and other music along those lines...

Electric President - S/T

Electric President - Sleep Well

Electric President perform "Monsters" in the tool shed they record all their music in: