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DOWNLOAD: Mew - Repeaterbeater
Cosmic Danish rockers Mew are currently on tour in Europe with Nine Inch Nails, where Trent Reznor's been tweeting that they are "so good live it kind of pisses me off." Way to make friends, you guys. The band also have a new album, "No More Stories..." (the title is actually a six line poem we aren't going to print) out August 25th on Columbia, with "Repeaterbeater" being the first, albeit brief, piece we've heard. If it's anything to go by, this will be yet another inimitable album of distracted, rapturous pop that half of our friends won't understand and the other half will adore. If Reznor's tweets are anything to go by, it will be a "grower." Our money is on it just being awesome.
Sounds like: Muse, Nine Inch Nails, The Cooper Temple Clause
DOWNLOAD: Johnny Foreigner - Camp Kelly Calm
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Wararrrrraaa-arrgghgghghghghggh! Johnny Foreigner are here and they're really fucking excited again. We posted "Feels Like Summer" a little while back and "Camp Kelly Calm" picks up where that track left off, with raucous hollering and guitars that sound like they're short-circuiting in vast pools of fresh sweat. You can pick up both of these tracks plus another - "Wow. Just Wow" - at the band's website. Meanwhile, a video for "Feels Like Summer" can be found after the jump. In it, the band are really fucking excited. Again. Warragghhh! Guhar! WarraaaghghgaaaaaHAH!
Sounds Like: Hundred Reasons, Los Campesinos!, At The Drive-In
Johnny Foreigner - Camp Kelly Calm
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Johnny Foreigner - Feels Like Summer
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Suckers - Afterthoughts & TV (Live On Viva Radio's Me + You)
Another great exclusive from the guys at Viva Radio and their Me + You program. Brooklyn's Suckers recently stopped by their space to play a grip of new ones in addition to this, a song from their recent IAMSOUND-released debut EP. On record, "Afterthoughts & TV" swims through glassy guitars and layers of vocals, but when it's paired down to acoustics and hand drums, it morphs into a loaded, slumping jug band tune. We never heard the Grateful Dead influence until we heard this version. Head to Viva Radio to hear the whole session.
And for those in the hood, Suckers will be opening for MGMT tonight at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn. They also have a Thursday night residency all month long at Pianos in Manhattan.
Suckers - Afterthoughts & TV (Live On Viva Radio's Me + You)
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DOWNLOAD: Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
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Not to be confused with Fool's Gold the label or Fool's Gold the awesome (not awesome) Matthew McConaughey movie, Fool's Gold the band includes half of sunkissed LA group Foreign Born alongside former members of the Fall and We Are Scientists, among others. "Surprise Hotel" sounds like the name of a seedy seaside flophouse, where one could presumably hear this sort of shimmying Afro-pop wafting up from a stereo on the beach. The song stems from their debut album, set for release on IAMSOUND (home to Telepathe, Suckers, and Little Boots) on September 29th.
Sounds like: Foreign Born, Sean Kuti & Egypt 80, The Very Best
DOWNLOAD: Esser - Long Arms + Work It Out (Sinden Remix)
The first thing you notice about Benjamin Esser is his hair, a done-up coiffe that resembles ourselves being held upside down or a brunette version of Guile from Street Fighter. But along with undying swag, the London resident knows his way around a pop song. "Long Arms" is him at his most brash, though for you remix hounds we've included a Sinden refit of the tune "Work It Out" as well. Esser's Braveface is out not in the UK, Chocolate Industries will be releasing it here in the States later this summer. For a more in-depth discussion with the man, check this recent FADER TV feature.
DOWNLOAD: Sian Alice Group - Close To The Ground (Edit)
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Who else spent the weekend digging into Off The Wall? Wiped me out, my limbs now seemingly disconnected from my brain. But I'm taking refuge in Troubled, Shaken, Etc.–the new LP from earthen, epic Brits the Sian Alice Group–because it makes my extremities feel like they are exfoliating with each press on the xylophone or whisper from Ms. Sian (last name not Alice). This edit of "Close To The Ground" is light on the fog, a trimmed version of its album state, but it'll get your shit going in that "I just slugged a bottle of Kombucha" kinda way. Troubled, Shaken, Etc. is out August 4th via The Social Registry.
Sian Alice Group - Close To The Ground (Edit)
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DOWNLOAD: A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape
As if we need to be convinced to check a mixtape calling itself "a journey where no musical boundaries exist!," The Echo Bass Sessions is also the newest release from A Gun Called Tension, Dann Gallucci and Sean Reveron's inscrutably awesome punk/dub/electro-whatever project. Since Gallucci played in the Murder City Devils and Modest Mouse and Reveron collaborated with the Beta Band, sung for Exodus 77, and co-founded Rockers NYC, this mixtape sounds like the record collection of some dudes who listen deep and wide. Which is essentially what it is. And we haven't yet mentioned that the last track is an evidently super rare collaboration between Reveron (as Koolie Ranks) and 2Pac. At least, that's what he told us.
Sounds like: Public Image, Ltd., TV On The Radio
A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape (Full Album Download)
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DOWNLOAD: Summer Cats - Hey You
The other day, Kev opined about the gratuitous summer metaphors being thrown around, but it's like, dude, this band actually has the word in their name. Because we are professionals, we've got other stuff to mention about Melbourne's Summer Cats, like the fact that Slumberland, the once "resurgent" and now just murderously awesome American label, is putting out their debut LP on July 14th. It's called Songs For Tuesdays and contains this choppy guitar nugget we've been spinning all day. It feels good and that is not us being lazy.
Sounds like: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Stereolab, Bricolage
DOWNLOAD: The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking
When we first heard this song we were like, "Okay, cool, it opens with guitar feedback, always a good look." Then the bass line started–a chunky stumble down the fretboard–and we thought, "Guess these dudes aren't playing around." Finally the drums came in, the verse started, and we kind of coasted until 1:47, when the word "growing" gets belched so wildly we were finally sold. Brooklyn's The Jaguar Club won't be winning any band name awards, but their rusty, Smiths-gleaning garage rock (people have been calling them new wave, but that's frankly inaccurate) has been one of our better random finds. Their new album, recorded by Ken McMahon (The Walkmen, Frightened Rabbit), is due soon, and they play early tonight at the Annex in New York for Club NME. Long live the power trio.
Sounds like: The Walkmen, White Denim, Browns
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