Wherein I make my play for a programming slot on NPR’s All Songs Considered.
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1. DM Stith “Creekmouth” (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Here We Go Magic “Fangela” (Western Vinyl)
3. The Books & Jose Gonzales “Cello Song” (4AD/Red Hot)
4. Bat for Lashes “Daniel” (Astralwerks)
5. St. Vincent “Laughing With A Mouth Full of Blood” [...]
There has been so much good music this year that I had to make six of these suckers. I’ll post two a day between now and Friday. Here’s the first one for you to download and play, in the following order (which should happen automatically) in a technology such as iTunes.
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jj no. 2 The soundtrack to my summer, heard it at too many parties and in too many cars…but still not enough
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms The soundtrack to my summer, pt 2. Me and (noted Bloomingtonian) Jon Coombs jamming this in the middle of Indiana outside some greasy pizza joint, again through the corn fields [...]
Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks/Parlophone) Sounds like a modern British and/or old American western version of the best Tori Amos album that never happened.
Bear In Heaven Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes) Post-wave-psych-pop-rock-tronica? This album is great. And I’m quite pleased the @marathonpacks review pointed it out to me.
Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland EP (Ba [...]
nite jewel good evening (human ear) a strangely divisive album– lurved by the likes of gorilla v. bear, but kinda shunned by the likes of pitchfork. for me, this album gave a warm, human heartbeat to the neu italo-disco jams i had mostly avoided for an overall off-putting coldness. i’ve heard complaints about ramona’s voice, [...]
When I first heard Solange’s cover of “Stillness is the Move,” I immediately, for whatever reason, jumped in my mind to the following commercial treatment. I imagine it playing in movie theaters as part of the previews.
We open in a tightly-packed recording studio–perhaps a camera tracking in through the door, with the words “Dirty Projectors” [...]