Some great experimental electronica from Canada, perfect for the cold winter, and late nights. It is a slow and quiet, beat oriented kind of music, that toys with traditional structure, logic, and emotions. If your into bedroom electronica, then this is probably as good and compelling as it gets.... Just make sure to turn it up..
new single from this awesome heavy shoegaze jap band, check it out if you haven't listened to them yet.
This is the kind of hyper-complex jazz that aficionados love because they can identify all the modal shifts and chromatic crescendos and whatever. You probably won't be able to hear those though. Instead you'll hear a forty minutes of free jazz noodling punctuated by some of the best solos ever. Worth wading through all the arcane jazz waffle for some of the riffs Coltrane spits out.
The album title isn't some artsy poetic bullshit. Literally this entire album is made by taking blank CD-Rs, damaging them in some way, and recording what a stereo reads from their tortured surfaces. I won't lie, if you've heard thirty seconds you've heard the whole album. But it has a schizophrenic kind of allure; I've played it way more than I thought I would. If you recognize the style of the album art, you probably have Merzbow's 1930 or Sphere or one of a number of Ruins albums, all released on the amazing New Japan label.
this album is pretty cool, you should get it. sorry, i can't write anything else about this right now.
Kepler was an excellent slow-core band from Ottawa that eventually disbanded in 2006. Some members have gone on to form a new Toronto based band called Tusks. Kepler make predominantly quiet, sleepy indie rock, with slow picked guitars, drums, and plain vocals. This might sound boring to some, but it's the perfect album for when you want something quiet to listen to.. it is just so well done that it overcomes some of the genres stereotypes, with a couple of the songs approaching louder post-rock moments. The band also features Jeremy Gara(drummer) from the Arcade Fire, on guitar.
this has been out for weeks i know but i wanted to wait for an actual single in v0 to post it here. i really liked this song and can't wait for the new album, gorillaz is an awesome band.
So I've been listening to The Dodos a lot recently and wanted to post one of their albums, but there are songs on each of them that I wanted to share. Thus was born a mix of my favorite songs from their three albums; some of them I kept in the same kind of order, some I moved around, but all of them are good and show different sides of these fine young fellows' work. A good amount of you probably have this stuff, so just comment on the band or something while those who don't check them out. Great, catchy, and very percussively oriented acoustic rock full of lamenting and occasionally raucous vocals.
This the debut album from One Hand Loves The Other, from Atlanta. They take their name from the lyrics to the final song on Bjork's masterpiece Vespertine. They achieve a similar mood to that album, but with more prominent drum programming. Their myspace says the make a 'classically infused version of electro-pop'; which also features vocals, piano, cello, on top of the precise, yet glitchy electronic beats. It is distinct, and down-tempo electronic pop music, with a modern classical bent . The vocals may take a few listens to get used to, as it shifts between highs and lows, .. but if you don't mind an occasional falsetto, you should realy enjoy this. It is a fully realized listening experience.
i saw these guys open for client in 2006 here in mexico city back when client was good and electro-rock seemed promising. apparently they sent an instrumental version of the song to client over the internet and they e-mailed back a song with full vocals. awesome. then i tried getting this a couple of times but found nothing and today it was on what.cd's top10. fun. EP includes sorry (feat client), 2 other songs, a joy division cover and a bunch of sorry remixes. i dedicate this post to the worst member of our team, tokyosex, who turned 14 just two weeks ago.
new 7" limited to 100 copies from best coast, includes 3 new tracks. follow bethany on twitter, she's funny and just got back from touring the us with vivian girls. expect a full album later this year.
Some amazing new electronic post-rock from the UK, with occasional female vocals. They are about to go on tour with 65daysofstatic and Loops Haunt. Their sound might be somewhere in the middle of those two projects, but with added vocals. The heavily programmed beats, intricate electronics, guitars and floating melodies, are also reminiscent of Bjork's Homogenic, but with a colder, post-rock edge. Well worth some of your time and hard earned Money. Recommended. (*.mp4)
I first came across Walter Gross when he remixed tracks for Odd Nosdam and the Liar's offshoot These Are Powers. He is from New York, and makes a highly original blend of instrumental hip-hop and experimental noise, with shades of abstract IDM. It's all there, and it is highly enjoyable..File this somewhere between Warp and Not Not Fun, and etc. ....
i've waited for this album for soooooo long, ever since i listened to seventeen on her myspace way back in '08 (or was it '07?) (listen to it, it's on the crown jewels EP) i wanted to listen to a full album from her. now here it is and while not bad, it's not exactly what i expected. songs like i am not a robot, obsessions and mowgli's road sound like the marina i love, while some others like hollywood sound a bit too produced, kind of fake imo. i think marina is more of a singer-songwriter than a popstar and the focus on this album is clearly on her popstar side. dont' get me wrong, i liked it. but not as much as i expected and maybe that's entirely my fault. you be the judge, either way it's worth a listen. this girl is pure talent.
Upbeat, downtempo electronica from the UK with occasional vocals. He's done a couple of remixes for 65DOS over the years, and was even a part-time member until he released his first solo record in 2007, the excellent 'Leave Now For Adventure', that combined electronic melodies, ragged drunken beats, and howling noise.
