It's like looking in your toilet bowl and being profoundly surprised by what you find there...




I have a super strong feeling that because of something or other many of you might've missed on a fabulously horrid genre initially mis-dubbed as 'Weird Punk', then punningly and horrifyingly christened shitgaze.


I suppose i'd prefer to call it Lo-Fi Noise Pop/Rock, or even Lo-Fi Garage if I had to, but, all gentrification aside, it is simply amazing - a wall of horridly recorded guitars, drums and keys blaring out at you as if from a broken car speaker, hurting your ears in the most delightful ways.
The most amazing thing about this for me is that hidden under all the miasma and viscera of broken guitars and vocals, they collide beautifully, creating tones that simply could not have been there without the 'help' of bad recording processes.

Anyhoo, if i haven't chased you away, then stick around enough to click on some of the stuff below.

Eat Skull are probably one of my favouritest of all the shitty-gazey bands, here's one of their complete winners. It's probably one of the most rocken roll songs I've ever heard. Ever.
Turn it up loud and wait for 1:21

Eat Skull - Heaven's Stranger off their 2k9 album, Wild and Inside.

This is one of the sweetest love songs with city destruction in i've ever heard:
"If I burn this city down, you'll just build another one - better than it was//And i'd go to Jail... make you a license plate that says: 'You're Great!' "

Eat Skull - No Intelligence [off the Dead Families EP]

Other band worthy of major mention:
Times New Viking [hot bitch in the band playing keys, FTW].
Checkitout ---> TNV - Move To California (Rockenroll)
Keys ---> TNV - City On Drugs

Mac and Cheese... Sounds Great


Hi All and Sundry.

This isn't all that new, considering it's from way earlier this year.
HOWEVER, it effing rules and is, undoubtedly, going to be top of my list for 2k10.
One of my favourite things is it's inherent messiness; there's a whole bunch of crazy going on in here. From shattering blasts of one-note Glockenspiel smashing to barely hearable Mac and Cheese boxes being used as shakers.

I'm going against tradition on this one, because this album really is THAT great.

Pill Wonder - Jungle/Surf [Underwater Peoples - 2010]

He sounds a bit like Noah...


The first track on this San Fran group's EP, Canopy, totes reminds me of Noah Lennox.

But that's besides the point. It's lovely. And, like EVERYTHING over the past year or two it has some bladdy kak to do with the beach (other examples Beach House, Wavves, Best Coast, Beach Fossils, etc. etc.).
And, whilst a burgeoning interest in beachy vibes does not bring me down in the slightest and, actually, fills me with rapturous joy, it probs can get a bit much.

However, wait till the last 30 odd seconds of this first track, All Of Us, and tell me whether the beach does not sound effing awesome - with that strangely smoother, playful, sounding Lennoxy voice (not better, Nazis, i didn't say better, okay!).

And, then, grab a listen to this vibey, blissed-out, bass-groovey song - exactly what you'd expect from a band called Painted Palms: Great White.

They just sound... so... so... ... Chill.

Silk Flowers- Band Of Color






Silk Flowers are a band from Brooklyn. Don't really know that much about them. "Band Of Color" is a short, sweet, uptempo synth ballad filled with Ian Curtis-esque monotone vocals. The song is off their upcoming album Ltd. Form which should be out sometime next year.

Silk Fowers- Band Of Color.mp3 

Twin Shadow by Com Truise






For me, Com Truise for Chillwave is sorta like Bush for Grunge; They were sort of there, people knew about them, they garnered a following but when people mention grunge, they don't say Bush. It will always be Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Sound Garden. I feel like Com Truise, as good as they are, will always live in the shadow of Neon Indian, Washed Out, Toro y Moi and Small Black. Pity. Anyways, Com Truise have been making some pretty remixes recently. Have a listen:

Twin Shadow- Castles In The Snow( Com Truise Remix).mp3 

Neon Indian- Sleep Paralysist(Com Truise Eyelid Remix).mp3 

Com Truise-Sundriped.mp3 

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Joe And Will Ask

I had heard some blogs raving about Joe And Will Ask a while back. Didn't really give them a proper listen up until a few days ago( You know how it is. There's like three million new bands putting out mp3s every single day). They kept popping up on the triple W so I gave them a listen and now I know what the fuss is about. I'm not a huge fan of House. Never have been. Said I never would be. But these fuckers have changed my mind. I guess their music has a decent amount of techno churned in there so I don't feel too bad.

Joe And Will Ask- Clive Onion.mp3

Joe And Will Ask- Man The Cannons.mp3


New Atlas Sound- Bedroom Databank






Atlas Sound have released two records this week. Bedroom Databank volumes 1 and 2. As the name sort of suggests, they are home demos. Here are some mp3s from both of them:


Atlas Sound- Strange Parade.mp3

Atlas Sound- Autumn Cascading Into University Courtyard.mp3

Teen Daze by Gobble Gobble






So SBD favourites, GOBBLE GOBBLE have done a remix of another SBD favourite, Teen Daze. Checkkit:

Teen Daze-Shine On You Crazy White Cap(GOBBLE GOBBLE's Dive Off A Beach Pier Into A Lake Of Clotted Blood Remix) 

For those of you who don't know either of these bands, here's an mp3 from each of them:

GOBBLE GOBBLE-Lawn Knives 

Teen Daze- Shine On You Crazy White Cap

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti- Round And Round Video


Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round & Round from Delo Creative on Vimeo.

Ariel Pink is a weirdo

 

Arcade Fire- The Suburbs Video.

TEETH-See Spaces



It was pretty hard finding out about Teeth. For one, their name makes a google search pretty flippin' hard( I saw a whole other type of nasty, diseased mouth that nobody should ever have or see). It seems as though these three are from Dalston by way of Brooklyn by way or Los Angeles. They're one part pretty Asian and two parts men who are shadowed by the pretty Asian. They've been getting a lot of hype recently and it seems one of their major selling points is that oom Karl ( Lagerfeld ) is major into them. In terms of endorsements, that registers pretty high. Pitchfork described them as "Raucous joyous skronky dancey whatever-wave with more ideas than time and more pep in its step than a five-year old on a Pixie Stick high". Yeah, that.

 TEETH-See Spaces

 

Us Kids Know-Tick Stapping Video

Heres a video that Jolburg's favourite post-twee two piece did last year:











Passion Pit does Arms

Just got a remix that Passion Pit did of Arms.So naais:

Arms-Heat And Hot Water(Passion Pit Remix) 

Here's the original

Arms-Heat And Hot Water 

Btw, We're using mediafire now because zippyshare is buw shiit.

PO PO






Their name comes from the German word for butt. They're Pakistani Americans. Their music moves between the grungiest of grunge, garage, pop and, in certain songs, a bit of witch house.

POPO-Bummer Summer.mp3

POPO-Knife Iz Yung.mp3

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Stange Talk

Strange Talk are Stephen Docker, Gerard Sidhu, Travis Constable and Gillan Gregory, are based in Melbourne and they have been getting a lot of attention lately with their perfect pop tune ‘Climbing Walls’. Their debut EP, made in conjunction with UK Producer Eliot James (Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party) is slated for release early next year. Strange Talk’s track ‘Climbing Walls’ is included in Kitsuné’s tenth Maison compilation, "The Fireworkds Issue".

Strange Talk-Climbing Walls.mp3 

 

Grimes






Claire Boucher is Grimes. She's from Montreal. Her music is a mix of ghostly vocals and gloomy melodies with some looping to keep it current. Her album Halfaxa was released on September 30th. 

Grimes-Weregild.mp3 

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New Tennis-Take Me Somewhere






So Tennis are releasing an album next year(January 18th to be precise. It's called Cape Dory.
As they are a buzzband, they have done their best to release every song on their forthcoming album via mp3 blogs before they actually release their album. That's why yo' asses are poor.

Well whatevs, the song is pretty pretty. Here:

 Tennis-Take Me Somewhere.mp3

Mooi, ne?

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The War On Drugs

They're from Philadelphia. They sound a bit like Bob Dylan if Bob Dylan was born in the 80s.
 Their story isn't very interesting but their music is pretty bitchin'. Anyways:

The War On Drugs-Baby Missiles.mp3 

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Nu-Look

So I redesigned the blog. Yay or Nay?

New Patrick Wolf-Time Of My Life video

Time Of My Life is the first single off of Patrick Wolf's fifth album( apparently it's going to be called "The Conqueror") which is set for release sometime next year.








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Jupiter does Anoraak

So Parisian Lazer-Disco duo Jupiter have released a remix of "Try Me" by fellow Parisian Anoraak.






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New Smith Westerns-Weekend

Smith Western release "Weekend" a new track which will feature off their sophomore effort  on January 18th. The lead track into Dye It Blonde sounds much deeper and a little less lo-fi that dominated their debut effort but still brings much of the same character from that album. Tjekkit: 



 Smith Westerns - Weekend by forcefieldpr

Here's a video of a song entitled "All Die Young" which will also be on the new album: 

  



Miami Horror- Holidays Video



Miami Horror's new video for Holidays. The song features Alan Palomo of Neon Indian/ Vega. 


Miami Horror- Holidays
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