Dead Mellotron

(Is It) EP

01. Fade In/Out
02. Weird Dreams
03. Vacation
04. Vacation II

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Grace/Confusion

01. Neighborhood Watch
02. Thru the Field
03. Safety
04. Let Me Be

05. Sheila
06. Follow Me

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Plays Nice Places (EP)

  

01. Words (Featuring Benjamin Gibbard)
02. Waiting
03. Sunflowers
04. Witches
05. Pissing 

06. Murderer

We are excited to release our next record The Invisible Way on March 19, 2013 (March 18 in the UK) on Sub Pop Records. The record was produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, engineered by Tom Schick and recorded in Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, IL, this fall.

“While driving through Chicago on tour, we finally stopped to visit Wilco at their studio, The Loft. They had invited us to come check it out several times over the years, but this would finally be the day…What really converted us was hearing the new Mavis Staples tracks they were working on – big, simple, raw and intimate. Plans were made then and there.” – Alan

We also have a new six-song live set called Plays Nice Places for you to download that includes a new song called “Waiting” and a version of “Words” featuring Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard on bass and vocals. The songs were recorded at various historic theaters on our April 2012 tour with DCFC. Download Plays Nice Places in the widget off to your right and feel free to share it with a friend who would enjoy. The track listing is below:

Words (featuring Benjamin Gibbard*) Waiting Sunflower Witches Pissing Murderer *Benjamin Gibbard appears courtesy of Atlantic Records

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Asobi Seksu And Boris (EP)

01. Farewell
02. Neu Years
03. Perfectly Crystal
04. Flare
05. Meh No Mae
06. Spoon

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Movements (EP)

01. Burn Slow
02. Stay
03. Pleasure And Consequence
04. Sense Of Self
05. Movements

06. Dare

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Cemeteries

The Wilderness

01. Young Blood
02. The Wilderness
03. What Did You See
04. Summer Smoke
05. In The Trees
06. Roosting Towns
07. Leland
08. Brighter Colors
09. A Real Gust Of Wind

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Gypsy & The Cat

The Late Blue

01. Only In December
02. Bloom
03. Broken Kites
04. The Late Blue
05. It’s a Fine Line
06. Sorry
07. Valleys of Kashmir
08. Soul Kiss
09. Zombie World 

10. When Micky Came In

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Bat For Lashes

The Haunted Man

01. Lilies
02. All Your Gold
03. Horses Of tTe Sun
04. Oh Yeah
05. Laura
06. Winter Fields
07. The Haunted Man
08. Marilyn
09. A Wall
10. Rest Your Head
11. Deep Sea Diver 

 

 

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Letting Up Despite Great Faults

Untogether

  01 Visions
02 Scratch
03 Take My Jacket, Pauline
04 Postcard
05 Bulletproof Girl
06 Details Of My World
07 Breaking
08 The Best Part
09 Numbered Days
10 On Your Mark

"Untogether marks a very specific time in my life where things began falling apart," explains Lee. "Writing it was my first step to recover from bad wounds I was never comfortable discussing with anybody. One of my last steps was moving from my home in Los Angeles to start fresh in Austin, TX where our bassist Kent was already living."

The new album sees the band continuing to refine and expand their sound, picking up where last year's Paper Crush EP left off. The EP's lead single 'Teenage Tide' was featured on the television show 90210, with Rolling Stone calling it "a blissful, shimmery track" and USA Today raving, "it captures the essence of teen dreams." In 2009 the band released its self-titled full-length, which was met with unanimous critical acclaim. 

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Beacon

For Now (EP)

01. It Won’t Be Long
02. Safety’s Off
03. Pulse
04. Feeling’s Gone
05. Into The Night

For Now is the second EP by Brooklyn duo Beacon, five songs that continue the band's exploration of the dark spaces under the surface of human relationships. As with the band's debut EP No Body, For Now is a record that conceals a great deal of depth beneath a melodic veneer—again, there's a stark contrast between Thomas Mullarney's honeyed vocals and the words he's singing, although this time the mood is perhaps less sinister and more reflective. And again, themes of fractured love are prominent, particularly the distinction between love and lust, and what happens when the former falls away, leaving only the latter to fester: as Mullarney sings on third track "Pulse", "It's a long walk from lust to love… And if I get caught, it's not my fault."

Musically, this is perhaps the best realization yet of Beacon's synthesis of darker, creeping R&B sound, anchored by a strong bass and electronic music influence.. The sound design is immaculate, employing minimal, bass-heavy templates embellished with judicious melodic flourishes. "Feeling's Gone," for instance, starts with a distinctly rave-y synth line, but one that sounds somehow muted and diminished, like the faint memory of a night long past—a feeling that echoes the song's lyrics, which relate the temptation of trying to rekindle a love that's gone. Elsewhere, the gentle synth arpeggios of "Safety's Off" recall The Knife's "Silent Shout," while the hip hop beats of "Pulse" and "Into the Night" acknowledge the band's R&B influences. And underpinning it all is the bass—a constant presence that's brooding, dark and atmospheric throughout.


Not so much the party and the after party as the party and the aftermath, the abiding impression left by For Now is of that strange, empty time of night when the party's over and everyone's gone home… but you can't sleep, so you sit and stare into the dark and wait for the dawn to come.

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Beth Orton

Sugaring Season

01. Magpie
02. Dawn Chorus
03. Candles
04. Something more Beautiful
05. Call me the Breeze
06. Poison Tree
07. See through Blue
08. Last Leaves of Autumn
09. State of Grace
10. Mystery

Beth Orton's first album in six years, Sugaring Season, was recorded in Portland, Oregon with producer Martine Tucker. Orton also called upon a host of old friends to contribute to the album, including keyboardist Rob Burger, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and legendary jazz drummer Brian Blade, along with guitarists Marc Ribot and Ted Barnes and folksinger Sam Amidon.

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Seapony

Falling

01. Outside
02. Tell Me So
03. What You Wanted
04. Follow
05. Be Alone
06. No One Will
07. Never Be
08. Sunlight
09. Prove To Me
10. Fall Apart
11. See Me Cry
12. Nothing Left

Recorded at Olympia’s Dub Narcotic Studios, Falling is the second full-length LP from Seapony, and an album primed for autumnal enjoyment, handily conjuring the placid atmosphere of a Northwest summer’s twilight days. While remaining a record of disarming grace, Falling injects palpable rock energy into Seapony’s patented sun-kissed sound. First pressing of LPs available on limited white vinyl, while they last. All LPs include a download code. Released: September 11, 2012

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Cassie

Sing About Me

01. Whalers
02. Gothenburg
03. Deep Sea Documentaries
04. Alex
05. Golden 

All music and lyrics by Cassie
Produced by Jussi Vuola and Cassie
Recorded and mixed by Jussi Vuola at V.R. Studio
Mastered by Jaakko Viitalähde at Virtalähde

Cello on "Gothenburg" and "Deep Sea Documentaries" by Johannes Juva
Flugelhorn on "Golden" by Matias Långbacka

released 06 September 2012 

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Parlours

All Is Here

01. Love Me Good
02. Stay With You
03. Liars
04. Dreamers
05. Didn't Have a Clue
06. Gravity's Ply
07. Gypsies & Sinners
08. A Little Afraid
09. All Is Here
10. Can't Get You Off My Mind
11. July
12. Slowly from the Earth

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California Wives

Art History

01. Blood Red Youth 

02. Tokyo 

03. Marianne 

04. The Fisher King 

05. Los Angeles 

06. Photolights 

07. Purple 

08. Better Home
09. Twenty Three 

10. The New Process
11. Light Year 

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A Different Arrangement

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Coexist

1. Angels
2. Chained
3. Fiction
4. Try
5. Reunion
6. Sunset
7. Missing
8. Tides
9. Unfold
10. Swept Away

11. Our Song

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Mull Historical Society

City Awakenings

01. Must You Make Eyes At Me Now
02. Can You Let Her Know
03. The Lights
04. Must You Get Low
05. Fold Out City
06. You Can Get Better
07. This Is Not My Heart
08. Honey Pie
09. For Bas, The Hague
10. Thameslink (London’s Burning)
11. Not Today
12. Who Would Have Known

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Work Drugs

Absolute Bearing

  

01. Perfect Storm
02. License To Drive
03. Pluto
04. Boogie Lights
05. Absolute Bearing
06. Council Bluffs
07. Coral Gables
08. Lisbon Teeth
09. The Art Of Progress
10. Tourist Heart
11. Pluto (12 Mix)

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Future Islands

Cotton Flower

On July 17, Famous Class will release the second installment in their Less Artists More Condos 7" series, the digital proceeds of which go towards benefiting the Ariel Panero Memorial Fund at VH1's Save the Music. The release features this new song from Future Islands, backed by another one from fellow Baltimore outfit Ed Schrader's Music Beat.

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Oshin (2012)

01. (Druun)
02. Past Lives
03. Human
04. Air Conditioning
05. How Long Have You Known
06. Wait
07. Earthboy
08. (Druun Pt. II)
09. Follow
10. Sometime
11. Oshin (Subsume)

12. Doused

13. Home

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Wild Nothing

 Nocturne

 01. Shadow
02. Midnight Song
03. Nocturne
04. Through The Grass
05. Only Heather
06. This Chain Won’t Break
07. Disappear Always
08. Paradise
09. Counting Days
10. The Blue Dress
11. Rheya

New album 'Nocturne' is out August 27th/28th on Captured Tracks and Bella Union.

Ask Jack Tatum what ‘Wild Nothing’ means and he’ll answer: ‘a contradiction’. In 2010, 21 year old Tatum released one of the finest cult pop records of the summer whilst ensconced in his senior year of college in Blacksburg, VA, a small mid-atlantic town better known for producing football fans and engineers than musicians. Tatum lives in contradictions. You’ll often hear Wild Nothing referred to as a ‘one man pop band’. Jack creates in the studio, alone. On the road, he’s with a band. There are two Wild Nothings.

The critically acclaimed debut ‘Gemini’ was underpinned with summery childhood longings, and shot through with the instant dichotomy of anxiety and almost whimsical paranoia. The album, which was home recorded by Tatum and rooted heavily in 80′s indie-pop, quickly gained popularity through the internet. Tatum assembled a band of Virginia friends and hit the road for the first time. ‘Gemini’ showed a promising future for a songwriter who wore his influences on his sleeve while still approaching pop craftsmanship in his own way. When asked about it in regards to ‘Nocturne’, Jack states: “I don’t think it’s going to be a secret to anyone that I care about pop music, but it’s definitely more my sense of what pop music used to be or even what pop music would be in my ideal world.”

The new album ‘Nocturne‘ is a window into Tatum’s “ideal world” of pop music. ‘Gemini’ was written before there were Wild Nothing fans or even a live band; ‘Nocturne’ is different. With an unexpected fanbase to turn to, Jack spent more time perfecting his craft. The obsessiveness of ‘Nocturne’ is inherent in it’s gentle harmonies, orchestrated synths, wandering voice, and songs that speak of his post-Gemini experiences as he explores new paradoxes of pop.

Nocturne is released 27th August on Bella Union records.

Prior to this the track ‘Shadow’ will be released as a 7″ single on 6th August.

You can listen to ‘Shadow’ here:

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The Fauns

Upcoming: Second album (taster)

A four track taster of their forthcoming second album to be released on Invada Records. Release date yet to be confirmed.

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Piano Magic

Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

01. Matin
02. Judas
03. The Slightest Of Threads
04. Sing Something
05. Chemical (20mgs)
06. Lost Antiphony
07. Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet
08. Jar Of Echoes
09. The Way We Treat The Animals
10. Higher Definition
11. You Don’t Need Me To Tell You
12. A Secret Never Told

13. Reprise

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Crystallise (Single)

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Seafoam (EP)

01. Breakers (Awakening)
02. Collapsed Lung
03. Sarah
04. We’ll Be Free
05. Goodbye For Now

 

 

 

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Confess

01. Golden Light
02. You Call Me On
03. Five Seconds
04. Run My Heart
05. The One
06. Beg For The Night
07. Patient
08. When The Movie's Over
09. I Don't Care
10. Be Mine Tonight (hidden track Mirror In The Dark)

Twin Shadow, the creative moniker of George Lewis Jr., will release his second album, Confess, on July 9th. Self-produced and with mixing duties handled by Michael H. Brauer (Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney), the follow-up to 2010's Forget ("Impressive." The Sunday Times ****) finds Lewis Jr. doing what he does best; remembering and reinventing, and fashioning a soundtrack which sounds refreshingly and distinctly modern.

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The XX

Upcoming album!!!

Last week, The xx played a handful of very intimate shows, during which they debuted some new material. Now, as pointed out by Pretty Much Amazing (and then highlighted by Consequence of Sound, you can hear all five of their new tracks on Youtube.

You can now hear all of the tracks, as recorded live at the shows - 'Closer', 'Devotion', 'Leave', 'Strangers' and 'Fiction' - below.

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Beach House

Bloom

01. Myth
02. Wild
03. Lazuli
04. Other People
05. The Hours
06. Troublemaker
07. New Year
08. Wishes
09. On The Sea
10. Irene

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On A Bedroom Wall

01. Elsie Dormer

02. Travelin' Man

03. Big Trouble In Little Alabama

04. Spirits

05. Cleat Talking

06. Surrender To Me

07. Camouflage Detection

08. Take These Streets

09. Candelmaker

10. Jacket In July

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Helios

Moiety

01. Nothing it Can
02. Your Zenith
03. In Everything Was Given
04. Nature People
05. Bold Advances
06. Equal Ourselves
07. Ours Everyday
08. Ideals or Hopes

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The Ghost In Daylight

01. Circadian
02. The Prize
03. Fitzrovia
04. In Miniature
05. Carousel
06. Islands
07. The Foundry
08. Peacock
09. The Ghost Of Saint Paul
10. Three Fires

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Gallery (EP)

01. Still Left With Me
02. Warmth
03. Burst
04. Leave My Shadow
05. Sun Trails
06. Gallery

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La Sera

Sees The Light

01. Love That’s Gone
02. Please Be My Third Eye
03. I Can’t Keep You in My Mind
04. Break My Heart
05. It’s Over Now
06. I’m Alone
07. Real Boy
08. Drive On
09. How Far We’ve Come Now
10. Don’t Stay

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Eight And A Half

01. When I Was Twenty Nine
02. Scissors
03. Go Ego
04. The Turn Around
05. Took A Train To India
06. Wait Up
07. Two Points
08. Walked Into Diazepene
09. Oh, My Head
10. My Forevers

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A Wasteland Companion

01. Clean Slate
02. Primitive Girl
03. Me And My Shadow
04. Sweetheart
05. I Get Ideas
06. The First Time I Ran Away
07. A Wasteland Companion
08. Watch The Show
09. There’s A Key
10. Crawl After You
11. Wild Goose
12. Pure Joy

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Lotus Plaza

Spooky Action At A Distance

  01.Untitled
02.Strangers
03.Out Of Touch
04.Dusty Rhodes
05.White Galactic One
06.Monoliths
07.Jet Out Of The Tundra
08.Eveningness
09.Remember Our Days
10.Black Buzz

This is the second album from Lotus Plaza, the solo nom de plume of Lockett Pundt, better known as the guitarist in Deerhunter. Pundt has penned a number of the best songs on the last two Deerhunter albums, and his first album, The Floodlight Collective was a tour de force of guitar pop smarts.

He has the uncanny ability to build soaring, melodic gems from simple musical phrases; a möbius strip of a guitar line and repeating clipped drum roll in "Strangers"; a tribal drum beat holding down the foundation on "Out of Touch"; two acoustic guitar chords and a slight bit of snare as the basis for "Dusty Rhodes"; a series of slowly descending piano chord scales on "Jet Out of the Tundra".

There is a wide variety of songs and moods here, from unabashed rockers such as "White Galactic One" and "Monoliths", acoustic laced introspection on "Dusty Rhodes" and "Black Buzz", to the lysergic electronics of "Remember Our Days".

Spooky Action at a Distance is a wide angle view of what should be the zeitgeist of contemporary guitar pop.

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Lightships

Electric Cables

01. Two Lines
02. The Warmth Of The Sun
03. Muddy Rivers
04. Sweetness In Her Spark
05. Every Blossum
06. Silver And Gold
07. Girasol
08. Stretching Out
09. Photosynthesis
10. Sunlight To The Dawn

It's no secret that within Domino there is a lot of love for Teenage Fanclub, and that some members of staff have a special fondness for the songs of singer, songwriter and bassist, Gerard Love.  In recent times, Gerard has been very much part of The Pastels, who operate occasional Domino imprint, Geographic.  The idea of an album of Gerard Love songs burned for a long time until eventually label enthusiasm prevailed, and Gerard agreed that it was an idea that he too was excited about.

From the outset, Gerard was clear that he wanted to establish a group name for the record, a name that was evocative and ambiguous, that could somehow place the music within a slightly blurry and imagined context.  He didn't want to give the impression that the record was just about him.  Having settled on the name, Lightships, he sought out a cast of Glasgow-based friends to play on the record that was starting to take shape in his head; Dave McGowan (guitar, Teenage Fanclub), Brendan O'Hare (drums, from the first incarnation of Teenage Fanclub), Tom Crossley (flute, International Airport and The Pastels) and Bob Kildea (bass, Belle & Sebastian).

Liberated by a feeling that he had complete carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, Gerard came to a realisation that the key to the sound of the record would be tremolo, delay and flute. At times the record has the dynamics of a soundtrack, as one of Tom Crossley’s flute lines weaves into the ether and Gerard’s vocals bounce off each other. Or, as on "Sweetness In Her Spark", the group lock into a relaxed and breezy groove that demands the windows be flung open.

Lightships is a name that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the music - sparkling and radiant and illuminated throughout by Love’s melodic gifts and taste for adventurous arrangements.  The overall sound, while as warm and immediate as the songs Gerard writes for Teenage Fanclub, is more free flowing and loose. "Muddy Rivers" is carried along on a wave of interlocked instrumentation while "Photosynthesis" is a hazy wash of flutes and echo.  On "Silver And Gold", Gerard sings with a falsetto before a chorus of harmonies bursts into life.  With this music it’s as if he was looking to express something more personal, eccentric and introspective.

Electric Cables is an album of tender, observational songs, played with an invigorating and easy sense of purpose; the sound of friends enjoying one another’s company and allowing ideas and experiments to flourish.  It's a complex and rewarding record that you'll want to keep coming back to.  Slow illumination.

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Stoalin'

 01. Stoalin’
02. Heading For The Newborn
03. Heart Attacks
04. Falling In And Out
05. Letting Go
06. Illusion
07. One Day
08. Elation
09. Baskin’
10. Erase And Detach

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Propagation (New single from upcoming album Nootropics)

 

Baltimore haze merchants Lower Dens' new album, Nootropics, is out May 1 in North America and April 30 everywhere else courtesy of Domino offshoot Ribbon Music. On March 27, the album's first single, "Brains", will be released; it'll be backed by this album track and a B-side, "Hours".

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Lost Harmony

01. Colder
02. Learn to Love the Dark
03. Wasted Heart
04. Vultures
05. Not Coming Back
06. No Love Song
07. I Got Nothing
08. Standing Still
09. St Jude
10. Our Lost History
11. I Watched the End With You

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Little Chords

Afterlife

01. Firsts
02. New Town
03. Always/Never
04. Saturday
05. Afterlife
06. Clearbrook
07. When Love Ends
08. For You
09. Remember
10. Listen

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Phone Thou (EP)

01. The Sleeping King
02. Oh My Lord, I Can See Your Face
03. Anarchists In Love
04. Evening
05. We Gotta Wait
06. Poets Mistaken For Thieves
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