Fredrik released are on Kora Records and quietly released their 2nd album Trilogi. They just released the video for the lovely song Milo. It sounds like a mix of Elliot Smith and Radiohead as a dark folk song. These guys are cool.
Check out the video:
Fredrik – Milo from The Kora Records on Vimeo.
If you pre-ordered Plastic Beach from itunes, you got two pretty cool instrumental tracks. These are pretty, pretty songs that are pretty different from what we have come to expect from the Gorillaz. I don’t know how many people are aware of these songs, but its my hope that the word spreads.
Pirate’s Progress is an extended version of the Orchestral Intro. It is a pretty little peace that finds a way to conjure images of Plastic Beach in the listeners head. Three Hearts, Seven Seas, Twelve Moons is a shorter instrumental that may have served well as an interlude on Plastic Beach. The beginning of it reminded me of something off of the There Will Be Blood Soundtrack.
Check them out below. Don’t think I will be able to have them up for long.
[mp3] : Gorillaz – Pirate’s Progress
[mp3] : Gorillaz – Three Hearts, Seven Seas, Twelve Moons
(The National @ All Points West 2009. © Will Oliver)
Got a nice mp3 of “Terrible Love” for you to carry around your ipods. ‘Cause I need to hear this bad boy while I am driving home tonight (seeing Free Energy/Foreign Born tomorrow!) So enjoy this until we get a real studio version of this new National gem.
[mp3] : The National – Terrible Love (Live on Jimmy Fallon)
Tinie Tempah is a young up and coming British rapper from South London. The comparisons to fellow grime rapper Dizzee Rascal make sense, although Tinie Tempah seems a bit more accessible to the masses. This can be proven with his recent success.
He just hit #1 on the UK singles chart for “Pass Out”. We all know rap isn’t really my “forte” but I gotta say “Pass Out” is very tight. He has a smooth delivery that creates magic over the fresh beat backing up his game. This is a nice refreshing change from all the rap on the radio over here. This is probably one of my favorite rap songs of the year, by far.
His debut album The Disc-Overy is coming out in July, so we shall see how the rest of the album pans out. Props to Rogo for posting about him and leading me to this discovery!
Stream the video for Pass Out at Youtube: Tinie Tempah – Pass Out (they aren’t allowing embed’s)
All bands should try personally reaching out to bloggers, it certainly makes us more inclined to post your stuff. It’s just something about that personal touch man.
Lukas Lonski from Lonski & Classen a duo from Berlin reached out to me on vimeo. I didn’t even know I had a vimeo account, or how the hell he found me! Anyway, I checked out the video for their song “The Punisher” and really got a kick out of it. The songs eccentric and cool, and oddly catchy. The accompanying video is a creative one not short of any weird faces.
Check it:
For more on Lonski & Classen go to their myspace or website.
The National just played a brand new song on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon called Terrible Love. It’s going to be the opening track on High Violet, and what a perfect choice. It’s a brilliant song that builds and builds until the song explodes to emotional heights. It’s pretty immense.
Jimmy Fallon already has the performance on their site, so if you missed it, we already have it for you to watch:
You can grab some of the promised goodies right now at HighViolet.com. There are videos showing some small clips of studio sessions. We get a small glimpse of new songs, but they are so short that you can hardly call them teasers. There are also 3 photos. One of which looks like the High Violet album art (which is posted above!). The other two look like the tracklisting for the album, but look closely and they are different. The people on the All The Wine forums are saying it shows the same songs just with the amendments that they made to them over time. Pretty cool documents eh?
Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot just got off the phone with Julian Casablancas. The front man of The Strokes confirmed that The Strokes will be playing Lollapalooza this summer.
He also projected a September release date for their 4th album which is started to wrap up.
Lucky Chi-Town folks. I hope that there is an All Points West this year, or else it looks like I am shit out of luck.
Read the article at the Chicago Tribune.
We have loads and loads of good free music given out today. Add a new Here We Go Magic song to that list. They announced that they will be releasing their new album Pigeons on June 8th via Secretly Canadian. The song is called “Collector”. It was given away for free on Secretly Candian for an email address.
I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure I heard Luke Temple and co. play this when they opened for Grizzly Bear at Town Hall last year (great gig). To me “Collector” sounds more fleshed out than a lot of the stuff on their debut album (which was a good album!). The production seems stronger, and having the full band record for this album definitely makes a world of difference. This sounds like a fuller, more colorful vision from Luke Temple, and I am a huge fan of this.
Didn’t expect anything new from them this early so this was a really nice surprise.
[mp3] : Here We Go Magic – Collector
Visit the band on their website.
Tracklisting for the rest of Pigeons is posted after the jump
Dr. Dog are offering the first single from their new album Shame, Shame for free. It’s called Stranger. They already gave us a cut from Shame, Shame with the excellent “Shadow People“. I didn’t think it could get any better, but it definitely did with Stranger. This song is dreamy with nostalgia dripping from every corner. The vocals are warm and sincere, coming close to sounding like a a 60’s ballad when those lovely backing harmonies kick in.
They really don’t make them like this anymore do they mom and dad?
[mp3] : Dr. Dog – Stranger
If you like what you hear, grab the album from insound on Vinyl or CD!
Green Label Sound released the new Neon Indian song, “Sleep Paralysist, for free download today. It was co-produced by Chris Taylor in Brooklyn. Taylor really has a knack for getting the best traits out of his artists. A true sign of a good producer.
It probably could have fit on Psychic Chasms. It sounds more glossy on the production side of things, which works in Alan’s favor. A decent one off single for Neon Indian, but it does leave me wanting a little more.
[mp3] : Neon Indian – Sleep Paralysist
