PREMIERE: Light Asylum - Shallow Tears (Kool Thing Remix)
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This Kool Thing remix to "Shallow Tears" by Light Asylum would perfectly score that pivotal moment in a horror film where the femme gets out of the shower and you watch with anticipation as a slasher waits in the closet. Everything can't stay cinematic forever, though. A beat drops over those chintzy synth strings to create foggy goth glory. It's like someone accidentally slipped some poison in the ecstasy. Oops!
DOWNLOAD: Trophy Wife - White Horses (Esben and the Witch Remix)
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At the start of Trophy Wife's breezily psychedelic "White Horses", singer Jody Prewett announces that he's "never seen the world in such colours/I want them to go on." Why is this relevant? Well, because it's a lyric from the song, obviously, but also because Esben and the Witch pay absolutely no attention to Prewett's desire and turn what was quite a charmingly translucent track into something stark, gothic and monochrome. Like all of Esben's music, things here feel serious and epic—find out what James Yuill's done to the original version of Trophy Wife's "The Quiet Earth" when it and this arrive as a double-A side single on February 28.
Trophy Wife - White Horses (Esben and the Witch Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Violens - Another Strike Restrained (Sadguitarius Remix)
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This remix by Sadguitarius aka Ben Goldwasser of MGMT appears on Violens' Summer 2010 Mixtape, a compendium of goth/gaze classics and newer related jams the band released to drum up anticipation for their debut LP, Amoral, which is out in September. It slides in comfortably between MGMT's now-overt acid weirdness and Violens' mid-eighties England fascination—an updated, fashion-less take on rainy day drama-rock.
Violens - Another Strike Restrained (Sadguitarius Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
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This one goes out to all the women whose men have died at sea. Zola Jesus specialises in siren songs, and this new version of "Sea Talk" benefits from tighter, cleaner production: the original's smears sharpened to the extent that they now most rapidly recall Martin Hannett's work on "Atmosphere". Zola Jesus's debut full-length Stridulum will be out in August.
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DOWNLOAD: OPTMSM - Marblehead
Hard to take a band seriously that claims to be "driven by upbeat cynicism, a focus-group mentality and a precise awareness of hyped blogosphere trends" and that's probably because we're not supposed to take them entirely seriously. That said, we're into OPTMSM–a new cough-syrup-in-yr-drum-machine project from Dinowalrus' Pete Feigenbaum and Bachelor Of Arts' Angus Tarnawsky–because they sound like Bauhaus fighting each other with lightsabers.
PREMIERE: O. Children - Ruins (Drop The Lime's Afterhours Mix)
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"Save yourself and run into the sea," sings O. Children's gigantic frontman Tobi O'Kandi, and suddenly it's only too clear what awaits the poor soul at the centre of "Ruins" - yes, A Fate Worse Than Death. If anything, Drop The Lime's reworking of the track is even more likely to persuade you to surrender to the crashing tide, the original's radio-friendly rock omens mired in a thick dubstep-ish sludge.
O. Children - Ruins (Drop The Lime's Afterhours Mix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Zola Jesus - Smirenye
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It's probably too late for ghoul puns now, but you suspect that for Zola Jesus it's Halloween all year round. Taken from recent album The Spoils, "Smirenye" is as haunted as anything else Nika Rosa Danilova's put her name to thus far, either alone or alongside Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Freddy Rupert in Former Ghosts. Former ghosts? What do ghosts become after they die? Where do they go? Do they weep? Zola knows. Just look into those eyes.
Sounds Like: U.S. Girls, Kate Bush, Trailer Trash Tracys
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: IVANSXTC - The Deepest + Breathe
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It's not hard to see why everyone's so hype about IVANSXTC - the guy's anonymous and sounds like Mike 'Blank Dogs' Sniper singing SALEM songs. A more accurate equation for hype I never heard, but if he keeps spewing out tracks like "The Deepest" and "Breathe" it'll all be justified; Suicide-al crooning indie-friendly melodies that do war with steamy atmospherics and none-more-ominous bass grumble. Good shit.
Sounds Like: Zola Jesus, Roy Orbison, SALEM
