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DOWNLOAD: Sainthood Reps - Monoculture
Boy grows up in a suburb listening to local punk bands and picks up his own instrument. Boy makes demos and brings these to his usual partner in crime. The two realize they're onto something and find two more. So goes the story of Long Island's Sainthood Reps (and perhaps East Coast music culture in general), except in this case they happen to share guitarist Derrick Sherman with the not-so-obscure Brand New. This music finds little crossover appeal, however, as the band sticks to a tight, '90s-influenced post-rock sound. "Monoculture," the title track from the group's upcoming LP, features a pointed distortion that ends up the driving force of its songs. Grab the record August 9 on Tooth & Nail.
PREMIERE: Family Fodder - Death And The Maiden
Emerged, first, from the UK post-punk scene that spawned This Heat, The Pop Group, Slits and so many others back when the Seventies were turning awkwardly into the Eighties, people have been waiting for Family Fodder's new album Classical Music for over a decade. "Death And The Maiden" does its best to live up to the record's name, but Nico and pervert poets are there, too, among the plucked and soaring strings. Classical Music is out November 1 through The State51 Conspiracy.
Family Fodder - Death And The Maiden
PREMIERE: Flowers And Sea Creatures - At Night
The genesis of Flowers And Sea Creatures's debut EP, Test Pressing, is basically an updated version of the classic discovery story. Graham Baxter and Kosta Megalos starting writing together in their adopted home town of Montreal when, like countless others, they started seeking the attention of a label via email. One was Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly, whose swift, enthusiastic response ended up sitting in their spam folder for almost two months. (It's always in the spam folder.) Mistake remedied, the pair soon found themselves recording Test Pressing with eminent dance movers Ewan Pearson and The Revenge. "At Night" bears the latter's stamp, a weighted, super pitched down disco burnout broken up by grey chords and Baxter's hair-raising pipes. The whole EP lands—through Buzzin' Fly, of course—on September 20.
Flowers And Sea Creatures - At Night
DOWNLOAD: Science & Industry - This Is How It's Meant To Be
Science & Industry is a collabo between Greenskeepers overlord James Curd, Chris Holmes and JDub, which, in layman’s terms, means do not play the following with a hangover or a bad attitude. Below, we present a hot, joyous, and beastly introduction to the band. “This Is How It’s Meant To Be,” is at once sincere yet cheeky, heavy and light, and a whole other mess of contradictions that never keep it from being utterly movable. Their debut EP Let Go, Let's Go is out now on Liar Liar Records via our pals at Rock Steady.
Science & Industry - This Is How It's Meant To Be
DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)
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(Photo: Joel Barhamand)
The first single off A Place To Bury Stranger’s sophomore album follows the record’s maxim: to make the “craziest, most f*cked-up recording ever.” This slept-on Cereal Spiller rework of "In Your Heart" somewhat mitigates the original’s nightmarish reverb and gut-wrenching frequencies, favoring a slicker, snythier ode to 1980. Exploding Head is out now and will hurt your insides in a good way.
A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)
Previously:
A Place To Bury Strangers - The Light (Love And Rockets Cover)
A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
Mazzy Star chanteuse Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig are back as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions after an 8-year break to deliver a sophomore dose of wandering, disembodied melodies. “Trouble” is the dimly-lit stage in a smoke-stained lounge, where the air is heavy and each note is a blissful narcotic. Through the Devil Softly drops today on Nettwerk and is awash with gauze-wrapped chords and misty vocals invoking a sparse landscape of love and loss. Get busy getting lonely here.
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
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DOWNLOAD: Jamie T - Chaka Demus (Ben Bones Remix)
When I interviewed Jamie Treays a few months back, he told me that one of the main influences on his new album Kings & Queens was the work of Nineties reggae-troubadour Finley Quaye. While Quaye's not exactly a de rigeur touchstone for modern day indie rock bands, the comparison wasn't as surprising as it perhaps should have been - Jamie's work has often exuded that easy, drunken Saturday feel tracks like "Even After All" and "Sunday Shining" revel in, while his voice is similarly skewiff; even if T is at times more Daffy Duck than Quaye's Satchmo squawk. This remix of "Chaka Demus" by Pacemaker cohort Ben Bones keeps things yoot and fresh but, in keeping with Jamie's latest fixation and the solo work of Ian Brown, it's hard to figure out if this one's designed for the mosh pit or the coffee table.
Sounds Like: Micachu, Finley Quaye, Rancid
Jamie T - Chaka Demus (Ben Bones Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Twin Atlantic - Caribbean War Syndrome + Lightspeed
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The Scottish Blink 182. That’s what Twin Atlantic conjures and it is hypnotizing. The well-timed drums, the sing-along pop punk, the danger of the screaming fangirl stampede. It’s all there! But you know? Today is not a day to shun mass-emo-Commonwealth joy just because it's familiar. Instead it’s a day to look Top 40 in its unflinching eye and give a happy sneer because these Glaswegians could knock Britney off for good. Their tracks are as universal as belly-flopping in the pool at high school graduation and on top of that, these blokes have toured with Smashing Pumpkins. Twin Atlantic's new album Vivarium comes out stateside on Red Bull Records on Sept. 15th.
Twin Atlantic - Caribbean War Syndrome
