Arab Strap

The Week Never Starts Round Here / Philophobia

CD1:
01 – Coming Down
02 – The Clearing
03 – Driving
04 – Gourmet
05 – I Work In A Saloon
06 – Wasting
07 – General Plea To A Girlfriend
08 – The First Big Weekend
09 – Kate Moss
10 – Little Girls
11 – Phone Me Tonight
12 – Blood
13 – Deeper

CD2:
01 – The Smell Of Outdoor Cooking (Peel Session 1997)
02 – Soaps (Peel Session 1997)
03 – I Saw You (Peel Session 1997)
04 – The First Big Peel Thing (Peel Session 1997)
05 – Intro
06 – General Plea To A Girlfriend
07 – The Clearing
08 – Kate Moss
09 – Gilded
10 – Driving
11 – I Work In A Saloon
12 – Phone Me Tonight
13 – Blood
14 – The First Big Weekend

The albums stand well on their own, but the bonus discs are very welcome, not least because the live recordings actually offer superior versions of quite a few of these songs. The two Peel Sessions are especially lively and illuminating. On the first, the band is backed by members of Belle & Sebastian, sounding distinctly unlike their other band as they mash the distortion pedals and hammer the drums, and Moffat delivers the non-album track "I Saw You" in a straight deadpan as he talks about going to see a Belle & Sebastian show, remarking that the girl he had a crush on at the time was friends with "the girl who plays the cello." The Week Never Starts Round Here also includes a full recording of the band's first live performance, a ragged but energetic set at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, while Philophobia gives you the band's full set at the T In The Park festival from 1998.

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Arcade Fire

The Suburbs

Release date: 03.08.2010

1. The Suburbs
2. Ready to Start
3. Modern Man
4. Rococo
5. Empty Room
6. City With No Children
7. Half Light I
8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
9. Suburban War
10. Month of May
11. Wasted Hours
12. Deep Blue
13. We Used to Wait
14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16. The Suburbs (Continued) 

            Finally! Written, arranged, performed, and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, "The Suburbs" was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years.

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Interpol

Interpol 

Release date: September 7, 2010.

01 Success
02 Memory Serves
03 Summer Well
04 Lights
05 Barricade
06 Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
07 Safe Without
08 Try It On
09 All of the Ways
10 The Undoing

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Bitcrush

From Arcs To Embers (2010.)

  Release date: 08.09.2010.

1.Post (Nichts ist wie vorher, Bersarin Quartett RMX)
2.Untilted (Worm Is Green Remix)
3.Every Sunday (Winterlight Remix)
4.Bitcrush In Dub (By Stripmall Architecture)
5.Colder (Funckarma Rmx)
6.Waiting For Something (Jatun Remix)
7.An Island A Penninsula (Mix By Vanessa Van Basten)
8.The Days We Spent Within (Near The Parenthesis Remix)
9.Of Embers (port-royal Remix)
10.Of Days (Widescreen mix by SubtractiveLAD)

Bitcrush - Shimmer And Fade (2008.)

1. shimmer
2. aventious
3. no bridge no water
4. the missing
5. every sunday
6. waiting for something
7. have you lost your way?
8. and we fade
9. white flag song
10. when swallowing becomes difficult
11. the destruction of self
12. the missing (alt version)

Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves (2008.)

1. Prologue
2. An Island, A Penninsula
3. Of Days
4. Tides
5. What Would Hope Be Without Disappointment
6. Atreaux
7. A False Movement, True
8. Epilogue To Tides
9. Pearl
10. To Drown

Bitcrush - In Distance (2006.)

1. Post
2. Falling Inward
3. Colder
4. In Distance
5. Song For Three
6. Drop Entitled
7. And Triage
8. Every Ghost Has It's Spectre
9. The 2AM Edit

Bitcrush - Enarc (2004.)

1. Engale
2. Untilted
3. Two Go From There
4. Arjon Tenpher
5. Bereson File 2
6. Habitual
7. Eye Koto
8. Carbon
9. Frebasyc
10. Enarc Ende Y?
11. Carbon Rewind

12. Saturday's Ghost (Ghost Track) 

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Natureboy

1. Curses Fired
2. Pariah
3. Famous Sons
4. Bad Dream
5. Dither
6. Heart to Fool
7. Railroad Apt.
8. Broken Train
9. Over and Out

Natureboy is the musical project of Sara Kermanshahi, a first generation American of Iranian descent. A musical collaboration with Cedar Apffel and Rory O’Connor (Masterface). Natureboy weaves loops, waves of guitar, synth, bass, and drums with acoustic folk to create a haunting synthesis of moody and intelligent, melodic and angular music. Her lyrics are both starkly emotional and strangely evocative; drawing the listener into a strange and resonant world that persists long after the music is over. What emerges is gorgeous, vulnerable, and almost threatening.

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Sun Kil Moon

Admiral Fell Promises

 

 1. Alesund 

2. Half Moon Bay 

3. Sam Wong Hotel
4. Third And Seneca 

05. You Are My Sun
6. Admiral Fell Promises 

7. The Leaning Tree 

8. Australian Winter 

9. Church Of The Pines 

10. Bay Of Skulls 

 

 

The fourth full length from indie / folk master Mark Kozelek. A must have for fans of Songs Ohia and any beautiful music. Please, buy it Tuesday. A great addition to any CD collection.

 

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School of Seven Bells

Disconnect From Desire

 

 

1. Windstorm
2. Heart is Strange
3. Dust Devil
4. ILU
5. Babelonia
6. Joviann
7. Camarilla
8. Dial
9. Bye Bye Bye
10. The Wait

 

 

 

 On their excellent second album "Disconnect From Desire", New York’s School of Seven Bells update the atomic, textured sound of classic shoegaze bands like Ride and My Bloody Valentine with danceable beats, of-the-moment electronic textures and some of the prettiest, angelic vocals (courtesy of identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza) in indie rock. Highlights include the uplifting electronic ballad “Babelonia” and “I L U,” which fuses ex-Secret Machines member Benjamin Curtis’ chiming guitars and droning vocal samples with Alejandra’s sensual vocals.

 

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Wild Nothing

Evertide (EP)

1. Your Rabbit Feet
2. Golden Haze
3. Take Me In

Wild Nothing is a one-man maestro by the name of Jack Tatum. A lo-fi deity in the making with his pensive 80s flavoured shoegaze. C86, shoegaze and 1980s British pop are obvious influences but he offers far more than mere imitation and worship. He is an architect to the songs and a sculptor to their sound, engineering beautiful layered songs with interweaving melodies just urging you to hum along.

It comes as no surprise that Wild Nothing was responsible for making the online music community hot around the collars with his emotive cover of Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting.

The three tracks on Evertide grab you by the hand as they meander, dance and tease a sweet melody from the skyline of hazy guitars. Playful, swelling and layered songs that crescendo along with his searching voice that soars from inner thought to confessional plea. Melancholic musings are set against lyrical guitar lines and melodic basslines that wouldn’t sound out of place if New Order had ever mated with Ride and then gone on to secretly date The Cure. 

Wild Nothing knows a little about the physics of love. He sings from a place of both innocence and despair where hearts soar at the heady throes of first romance, to the heartache of lost love. He sings with a heart-stopping voice that is sweet and desperate in equal measures. Desires, hopes and fears laid bare. Expressing things you’ve wanted to say but couldn’t find the words to. Heroic love songs that you wish had been written for you. That these songs come from just one person only confirms the personal nature. He owns these songs entirely.

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Lower Dens

Twin-Hand Movement

01. Blue & Silver
02. Tea Lights
03. A Dog’s Dick
04. Holy Water
05. I Get Nervous
06. Completely Golden
07. Plastic & Powder
08. Rosie
09. Truss Me
10. Hospice Gates
11. Two Cocks

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