SXSW DOWNLOAD: HEALTH - In Heat (Javelin Remix)
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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SXSW DOWNLOAD: The Splinters - Mysterious + Splintered Bridges
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 - Splintered Bridges
SXSW RCRD OF THE DAY: The Whigs - Kill Me Carolyne
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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.
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SXSW DOWNLOAD: Pure Ecstasy - Voices
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.
SXSW PREMIERE: Choir Of Young Believers - Wintertime Love (Sian Alice Group Remix)
This is another cover-operating-under-the-guise-of-a-remix, London's Sian Alice Group elongating "Wintertime Love"–one of the mellower songs on Choir Of Young Believers' This Is For The Whites In Your Eyes–into eight minutes of slow-wind, punch-drunk rhythms that sound like waves lapping against the hull of a catamaran. Beyond euphoric and surprisingly tropical, too.
Choir Of Young Believers - Wintertime Love (Sian Alice Group Remix)
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SXSW DOWNLOAD: The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond In The Dark
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Another mangy, heard-through-a-decades-old-radio guitar-pop nugget from San Francisco's Fresh & Onlys, pulled from a new EP for Captured Tracks called August In My Mind. You can actually buy the wax in a discounted bundle here that also includes new 7-inches from Wild Nothing, Minks, and The Soft Moon–more righteous jams for your scratch, which is never a bad thing. The Fresh & Onlys are, naturally, ripping through Austin this week; their schedule for the next few days and beyond is after the click-through.
The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond In The Dark
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SXSW RCRD OF THE DAY: Dr. Dog - Stranger
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Pardon the pun, but Philly's Dr. Dog–in all their jaunty, freewheeling, nonthreatening gang-likeness (that's the entire band you hear singing harmonies)–are the sound of brotherly love. "Stranger" is the first single from their new album Shame, Shame and, like most Dr. Dog songs, sounds like something you'd be psyched to find in your parents' attic–wholly vintage (ballad snares, dusty pianos) but ultimately cooler than anything else you own.
Shame, Shame is out on April 6 via Anti-. The band begin a three-show stint in Austin tonight, details on those below the fold.
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SXSW DOWNLOAD: The Golden Filter - Hide Me
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Unlike most folks in Austin, windswept electro-disco duo The Golden Filter actually have legitimate reason to be hoovering Lone Stars: they just announced their debut album, Voluspa (a spa of volume, perhaps?), is coming out on June 15 in the U.S and April 26 in the UK. No word on who's releasing it Stateside, but Brille will be handling the overseas duties. Tejas residents/visitors have three opportunities to catch them this week (info after the break), all others can do like us and bliss out to the LP's first single below.
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