March 19 2010
Javelin kind of pulled the short stick on this one, saddled with the unenviable task of revamping "In Heat," Get Color's bruising, grating, noisebomb of an opener. Dudes take the difficult source material in stride though, finding a sweet spot somewhere between old school b-boy fodder and squishy nu-funk synth twinkling. HEALTH are sitting out the Austin melee this year, but Javelin are in the home stretch of an eleven-show marathon tour through the capital. Your list of the last few chances to see them, Austinites, also means the last time we have to write some version of "after the jump" this week. Everybody wins!
HEALTH - In Heat (Javelin Remix)
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Nothing complicated about The Splinters–four women from the Bay Area chirpily asserting their vision of garage-pop: less hazy than Vivian Girls, less vintage than Dum Dum Girls, less stoned than Best Coast. Just unclutttered, punky, and fun. "Mysterious" and "Splintered Bridges" are from a debut LP called Kick that just came out through Double Negative. The remainder of their Austin schedule is after the break.
The Splinters - Mysterious
The Splinters - Splintered Bridges
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You'd say this was 'Eighties', but does the past exist in Scandinavia? Everything 'Eighties'-influenced that comes from that part of the world - Air France, jj, Telephones all spring to mind - sounds so clean, as if to make the suggestion that anything ever had any influence upon the music would be rude. Must be the snow, and it's piled on "Daylight" in fresh blankets - see if Villa Nah can keep their tracks covered for the duration of debut album Origin, out May 17th.
Sounds Like: Future Trends, Cut Copy, Black's "Wonderful Life"
Villa Nah - Daylight
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Poor Plan B. The rapper-turned-soul-singer's only just gotten away from the streets, but Chase and Status producer 16Bit seems determined to drag him back: this remix of "She Said" founded on that dubstep wobble that sounds like it guzzles petrol from brown bags and eats pitbull terriers with the skin still on. The Londoner's new album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, will be out on April 12th.
Sounds Like: Rusko, Caspa, Pendulum
Plan B - She Said (16Bit Remix)
Both Brad Laner and Alex Graham have made alchemical, disjointed electronic music for heralded clearinghouse Planet Mu, Laner under the name Electric Company and Graham under the mouthful-of-a-pseudonym Lexaunculpt. The two first met over a decade ago, and it's taken them the intervening years to finally make a record together. The Internal Tulips' Mislead Into A Field By A Deformed Dear (album title of the year?!) is that record, though it's a step away from cerebral motherboard tweaking and towards a shared love of delicate, sunkissed pop. Saying it sounds like Grizzly Bear as produced by Autechre wouldn't be inaccurate. "Mr. Baby" is the free taste test below, the rest arrives digitally on March 29 and physically on April 13 through Planet Mu.
The Internal Tulips - Mr. Baby
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The Whigs recorded their first album in a fraternity house in Athens, GA, on spring break when they were still students at the University of Georgia. Several years later, they've released In The Dark, their third and most ambitious studio effort–a super bombastic, notably hi-fi reach for the big leagues. Touring arenas with Kings Of Leon will bring that out of you. Download one of its many spearheaded cuts here, and do your best to catch them this week if you're down in Austin--they lack basically nothing as a live act.
In The Dark is available now via ATO.
The Whigs - Kill Me Carolyne
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March 18 2010
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Paul Weller in the mix! No, those words still don't sound quite right to us either, but this brace of reworkings by London bassheads Zinc and Leo Zero is doing much to mess with our preconceptions: the former placing Weller's gruff vocal in an alien realm of bass-heavy house, the latter in more familiar, heartfelt Northern soul territory. Both were put together to herald the release of a new Weller album - Wake Up The Nation will be with you in April.
Sounds Like: David Guetta, The Everly Brothers
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (Zinc Remix)
Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry (Leo Zero Remix)
Pure Ecstasy's Nate Grace recently told Pitchfork he was "barely doing anything" before the band formed. "Just sleeping, mostly." Um, glad you woke up, dude? Or sort of woke up? We say this because Pure Ecstasy's songs, loaded with endorphinizing melodies though they are, sound like the brainproduct of someone who's not entirely "awake." They're drowsy–waterlogged with hissy reverb and in seemingly no rush to finish themselves, like at any moment they could just stop playing for no explicable reason. And that casualness is half the reason they're so enchanting (the other half being those melodies).
"Voices" is from a forthcoming, limited-to-500 7-inch for Acephale, which you can pre-order directly from the label right here.
Pure Ecstasy - Voices
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