Moses

 Chelsea Wolfe is the music of the teenage occult. This is the music of cold fronts, abandoned buildings and winter evenings. The music to fill the spaces between this life and the next.


Moses

MR EP

I get the feeling that for Monster Rally, life is viewed through a fuzzy, scratched, fish eye-ish lens. Their music is the audio backdrop for all sorts of overly dramatised scenarios that played themselves out 30+ years ago. 

Monster Rally- Color Sky 

Monster Rally- Ribbons 

Monster Rally- Steal 

Chad Liam Polley ----> Iain Cluett

Loving the M0nst3r R@lly* vibes.

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    Chad Liam Polley  

    Got their split with Duni*n and the Duni*n stuff is pretty cool. When Chill is crap it's REALLY CRAP, but when it's good it's REALLY GOOD.
    

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    Iain Cluett

    oh totes. My jesus mary and god there is some TOTAL crap on my itunes. Girl singer. Creepy white boy with a korg and his parents records that he samples. Hello tropical nightmare.
    
    But chillwave won't be a genre/era that we will regret. I lo...ve it. Not as much as I used to but whatevs. There was some sick ass shit that came out in 08/09/10.Haterz to the left thank you.

    
    

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    Chad Liam Polley 

    This MillionY0ung* that came out, like, now, is exquisite.
    Replic@nts*. It's VERY good. So the chill isn't dead, yet.

    *Names have been changed to protect those concerned, namely us.

ViCKi LEEKX

M.I.A has released a mixtape entitled ViCKi LEEKX. You can download it here:

ViCKI LEEKX

If you're interested in what crazy shit is on the mixtape, here's the tracklisting:

Tropical Vibes make my booty shake, hard.

 

Whew. It's fresh. It's new. It's very exciting. And I want to dance to it at parties.

The new TANL*NES kicks serious ass. The mad-beats. The energy. The tropical-vibes.

All round booty-shakingness makes this a serious win.

You really must TAKE IT.

Speculation

  

Found this quite quite recently. It was an instant hit on my ears. It's lo-fi as fuck, drenched in noisy-ness and alround BAD SOUNDING. 

 Which means, of course, that i absolutely adore it

the projects name is SPCLTR (as in someone who speculates) and the album name is LIFEST*LE.

It's got that chillwave edge, a delightful messiness (very bedroom-esque) plus the album art is super weird. Look closely. What the fuck is going on in that picture?

TAKE IT

Little Loud

Little loud is some guy from Brighton but nobody really cares about that. What we do care about however, is the brilliantly spacey, slightly chillwavey, cosmic road trip remixes that he has been putting out recently.

Goldfrapp-Believer(Little Loud Remix) 

Yeasayer-Madder Red( Little Loud Remix) 

Toto cover FTW!

Yep. You can see the grain in the cover art. It must be Chillwave.

Who doesn't like Toto? I mean, really. The cover of Africa on this EP is a sure win.

TAKE IT.

Somewhere

New Sofia Copella film Somewhere, starring Stephen Dorff and Dakota Fanning's little sister Elle.

The film was done with the same studio as Lost In Translation. Soundtrack by Sofia's husband's band, Phoenix!

Here's the trailer.

Looks like it will be too lovely!

♥

Christmas Pressies from the Blogosphere!!

My feeling is that you'll probs only be able to DL these by the morrow considering the traffic i'm getting so I guess you can open the files tomorrow, like a REAL christmas present.

So... what's for Exmiss, you ask...?

Well... First on the happylist is that band that's named after the month we're in right now;
They have a 2011 leak, so you can grab this NICE and EARLY. It all sounds good;
I've checked the tracklisting and it's all there. The bit-rate is nice and up there too, so it's not a BAD leak.

Anyhoo...

TAKE IT

Next up on the happy list is one of my personal favourite musicians from the past two years or so.

His music has consistently been pretty amazing; excepting for that bludgeoning Four Volume batch he threw at our faces last month - too much Coxy, too much.

Here's a little Exmiss song pack, with different versions of the one song:

ATLS SND - ARTFCL SNW

But WAIT There's MORE:

BCH HSE (we're refraining from using vowels in an effort to protect ourselves from the ever-present iPolice, so, if you don't know who I'm referring to their name is a House that's on a piece of sand located near the sea... Geddit? Ok? OK.) ... ... ANYHOO;

BCH HSE have released a lil' Exmiss single aswell; It's quite yummy like their FANTASTIC release this year.

                                                    TAKE IT

Enjoy, From the SB team!

AND, Happy Holidays!

A Merry Christmas to Everyone!

A Merry Christmas to all our Sad Birthdays readers! Hope you have a lovely festive season.

To help you celebrate it in the most fun way possible (and save you from the Boney M Christmas album haunting every shopping mall and petrol garage stereo), here's a treat you can share with all your friends and family...

Plaat Japie presents: "A Gettin' Down For Christmas Mix" (DOWNLOAD)

It features "Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney", "Santa Claus Is Smoking Reefer", a cover of Wham's "Last Christmas" by The Puppini Sisters and other merry selections of hip-hop, funk, rock 'n roll, swing, jazz, rare groove, retro pop, reggae and more.

Go get it now and create a playlist for it on your iPod asap!
And need be, it's also conveniently just under the hour and 20 minutes mark for writing straight to CDR.

Tracklisting:

01. The Quad City DJs, 69 Boyz & K-Nock - What I Want For Christmas
02. Busy Boys - Funky Fresh Christmas
03. Milly & Silly - Gettin' Down For Xmas
04. Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
05. Funk Machine - Soul Santa
06. James Brown - Go Power At Christmas Time
07. The Soul Saints Orchestra - Santa's Got A Bag Of Soul
08. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues
09. Harvey Averne Band - Let's Get It Together This Christmas
10. The Jackson 5 - Up On The House Top
11. Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby
12. Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
13. The Puppini Sisters - Jingle Bells
14. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Santa Claus Is Smoking Reefer
15. Vince Guaraldi - Skating
16. Esquivel - Here Comes Santa Claus
17. The Free Design - Close Your Mouth Its Christmas
18. Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters - White Christmas
19. Ella Fitzgerald - Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney
20. The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
21. The Crystals - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
22. The Beach Boys - Santa's Beard
23. El Perro Del Mar - Oh! What A Christmas
24. Irene - Christmas on the Beach
25. The Maytals - Happy Christmas (The Christmas Song)
26. Cocoa Tea - Christmas Is Coming
27. The Puppini Sisters - Last Christmas (Wham cover) [bonus track]

Plaat Japie will also be dropping tracks off this mix along with some others in his exclusively Christmas songs set at the HO HO HO DOWN! party this Thursday night at Kitchener's.

BONUS:

  
Here are my favourite tracks from the new "A Christmas Gift for You from Moshi Moshi" compilation:

Slow Club - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Ingo Star Cruiser - Just Like Christmas

New single from Toro Y Moi!

Sweet sweltering seafood sex - new song from Toro Y Moi, yum!

After Causers Of This (one of our favourite records of 2010) and a couple of remixes, an EP and a 7", our boi Chaz steps up to 2011 with his next album, Underneath The Pine, due end of February.

Brand spanking new single "Still Sound" enjoys somewhat of a more French retro pop styling. A handsome bassline struts the disco-funk, loungey jazz keys twinkle away and his sweet register rides some nifty effects to further enhance the urgency of his sentiment. To top it all off, super smooth production makes it all come together in a way that would make both Phoenix and Tahiti 80 blush.

Whether or not this new direction comes hot off his recent Les Sins dabbling, ditching the more chill wave tinged sound completely on his latest release remains to be heard. It's definitely more in line with older tracks like "Low Shoulder" and "Talamak" that opts for more dance floor friendliness. Or perhaps it's simply the sporting of some new found sex appeal. To be frank, I don't care. I'm just looking forward to hearing more stuff that's as outstanding as this:

Toro Y Moi - Still Sound

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More Pop, In The Sun

Death Cabi Ben Gibbard's cutie and our favourite silver screen starlet (aside from Scarlett) Zooey, has been singing in a duo with favourite flatpicker and smooth americana crooner M. Ward for a while now. After their debut album Volume One was released in 2008, she also collaborated on his 2009 album Hold Time, lending her sugary vox and harmonies to a lovely honky-tonk slow jammed rendition of Buddy Holly's "Rave On". The informal moniker suggests it's a fun fun fu-un thing for both She and Him, a happy-go-lucky outing; and this video of their single (off their new album Volume Two released round the beginning of this year), avers it deliciously.

So here ya go, some more timeless pop for the summer, "In The Sun", by She & Him:

She & Him - In The Sun from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Look out for the hula hoop montage in the, uhm, montage...

♥

Here's a Summer mix for y'all...

(A) Summer Is Here...

This guy just oozes awesomeness. I'd do him.

A1 - King Of The Beach//Wavves       
A2 - Drunk Girls//LCD Soundsystem   
A3 - Lust For Life//Girls   
A4 - Logos//Atlas Sound   
A5 - (AM)//N.I.//Interlude   
A6 - Deadbeat Summer//Neon Indian   
A7 - Feel The Love//Cut Copy   
A8 - Plain Material//Memory Tapes   
A9 - New Theory//Washed Out
A10 - Blessa//Toro Y Moi   
A11 - Fiery Atlas (Intro)//Rooftops//Outro   

(B) Summer Confuses Me.

This is the most beautiful girl in the world.

B1 - Baseball Cards//Wavves   
B2 - Different Mirrors//Lotus Plaza   
B3 - Beach Comber//Real Estate   
B4 - Sometimes//Beach Fossils   
B5 - Locust Valley//Women   
B6 - Status Quo//Ducktails   
B7 - Helicopter (BBC6 Ver.)//Deerhunter   
B8 - When I Look Back//Pill Wonder   


TAKE IT TAKE IT TAKE IT UH!

Small Black Cover Besty Coasty! New 7"!

Just like the Ra Cailum post: Look at that image. How effing cool is it?

Anyhoo. I have the new Photojournalist 7" for you. It's got a slightly different version of the original song, with a more vinyl-heavy sound (higher mids, lower bass and highs, more warmth)

PLUS

It has this amazingly fucken amazing cover of Besty Coasty's Sun Was High (So Was I). It reminds me of this Rancid/NOFX split from back in the day; It seemed as if NOFX did Rancid's songs better than they did.
Seems the same on this 7".

TAKE IT.