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DOWNLOAD: Glenn Jones - Of Its Own Kind
It doesn't take much to make beauty. Glenn Jones knows this and exemplifies it well with a simple acoustic guitar on "Of Its Own Kind" off his upcoming Thrill Jockey debut The Wanting. Surely indebted to fingerpicking icon John Fahey, Jones combines technical ability with a knack for conjuring melodies as natural as soil. It's the ability to put virtuoso playing at the service of emotion that makes him standout. The Wanting comes September 13.
PREMIERE: Mike Bloom - Til It's Over
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You've heard Mike Bloom before, you've just never realized it. After contributing to recordings and tours with Rilo Kiley and Jenny Lewis, as well as membership in Julian Casablancas' band (... the other one), Bloom has finally taken the solo dive. "Til It's Over" is a warm, meandering number, his playful acoustic skills taking center stage with backing vocals courtesy of Rilo's Blake Sennett. Skilled enough to keep an easily tired genre lively, Bloom throws in some interesting chord progressions along the way. HIs debut album, King Of Circles, will be available on Little Record Co on June 6—pre-order now to receive an exclusive non-album track.
DOWNLOAD: Crystal Fighters - Plage (Abbey Road Debuts recording)
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It's nice to get your head stuck inside a piece of music that feels like it's flinging you into the future, but some things just endure, and they do so for a reason. While Crystal Fighters usually make music so stuffed with different styles and genres it's nigh-on impossible to trace them all, here they strip things back for a recording at London's world famous Abbey Road Studios. Abbey Road celebrates its 80th birthday this year, and songs played on acoustic guitars about going to the beach at dawn with a beautiful girl are equally as timeless. This recording took place for Abbey Road Debuts, a new UK TV show starting on Channel 4 in April. Other acts that'll feature in the series include SBTRKT, Mount Kimbie and Trophy Wife.
Crystal Fighters - Plage (Abbey Road Debuts recording)
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PREMIERE: William Fitzsimmons - The Tide Pulls From The Moon (Acoustic Version)
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In the land of bearded balladeers, no man reigns like William Fitzsimmons. The psychotherapist-turned-folk-hero has not yet released his fourth studio album, but lest you commence your next crying jag without a soundtrack, behold. The intimate, tender “The Tide Pulls From The Moon,” flickers to an end after only three minutes: somehow both too soon and just in time. Too short because it’s singularly vulnerable and thereby wonderful on the ears, and exactly right because it’s singularly vulnerable and thereby imposing a herculean strain on the heart, which may not survive a moment more. The strong among you may pre-order Gold In The Shadow here, before it's officially available on Nettwerk come March 22.
William Fitzsimmons - The Tide Pulls From The Moon (Acoustic Version)
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DOWNLOAD: Caribou - Sun (Kidstreet Remix)
Waterloo acoustic/electropop siblings Kidstreet have the potential to be majorly twee simply by that preceding description alone, but in their remix of Caribou’s sonic sizzurp “Sun,” nothing is precious. The recent Nettwerk signees do right by the original—it’s still chilly, still chanty, and still overflowing with gorgeous, skin-crawling creep. Use it for a good cry, sway, or walk through dirty snow. Buy more here, and be treated to refits/cameos by Rampue, Panic Bomber and Jeremy Glenn.
Caribou - Sun (Kidstreet Remix)
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PREMIERE: Primary 1 - You Belong To Me (feat. Anna Prior)
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Slight change of pace here for London's Primary 1, who unplugs to cover a duet American popular culture's been returning to since 1926. Among other things, "You Belong To Me" has been used in eBay ads and Steve Martin's classic of idiot cinema The Jerk, while Eddie Vedder sung it with riot grrrls Sleater-Kinney at their last show a few years back. Here, Primary's drummer Anna Prior (also of Metronomy) picks up the part of the female vocal for an acoustic version so sweet you'll have to reawaken your ears with insulin shots. Primary 1's debut album is out February next year through Atlantic, and if you haven't seen The Jerk, you need to check that shit out pronto. Best opening line in idiot cinema history?
Primary 1 - You Belong To Me (feat. Anna Prior)
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PREMIERE: Gamble House - Rising Tides + Bonny Doon
At the heart of Gamble House lies the culmination of Ben Becker’s freshman bedroom whispers, now fully realized as lush, ‘60s-inspired gems. Pretty with banjos, glockenspiel, and omnichords, these quivering tunes are a whimsical respite from, well, everything that may be keeping you down today. “Rising Tides” and “Bonny Doon” are gratis here; the rest is on the band's eponymous debut.
DOWNLOAD: The Tallest Man On Earth - King Of Spain
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Swedish-born, American-sounding folkie The Tallest Man On Earth inked a deal with Dead Oceans for his new album, The Wild Hunt, and, perhaps in an effort to further confuse us about his heritage, unleashed this freebie about an ambitious, gallivanting Spaniard. Musically, it's still just dude and his guitar, simple and untainted, like he was already playing and someone just thought it wise to drop a mic down in front of him.
The Wild Hunt arrives on April 13.
The Tallest Man On Earth - King Of Spain
Previously:
The Tallest Man On Earth - It Will Follow The Rain
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