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DOWNLOAD: El Perro Del Mar - How Did We Forget
Need we remind any New Yorkers out there, while focusing on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you may want to snag tickets for Joe's Pub tonight or Bowery Ballroom tomorrow night to see El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li. If we weren't subtle enough yesterday with the Lykke Li exclusive, we will reiterate today: the golden-tinged music coming out of Sweden these days is putting a perpetual smile on our faces. The tracks below of El Perro Del Mar are light, lofty and billowing- at times liturgical, most times ethereal.
Plus doesn't Sarah Assbring evoke the tom-boyish waif Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Goddard's "Breathless"? Ba oui- especially in the pict above.
Sounds Like: Lykke Li, Kaki King, Jens Lekman
DOWNLOAD: Hot Silk Pockets - What's The Matter
Let’s end the week with some awesomely sweet British indie pop, shall we? What’s so great about the whole indie pop/twee/C86 scene is that so many bands who are all so aesthetically and stylistically on the same page, so if you’re into it you can rarely go wrong. In New York we have the mind-bogglingly amazing Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the moment, but across the pond Drowned in Sound are championing Hot Silk Pockets, a group whose members hail from all across the British Isles, and joyfully bridge the (albeit wafer-thin) gap between The Popguns and ‘80s post punk oddities …And the Native Hipsters. Their song “What’s the Matter” is essential listening for anyone who was really sad when Life Without Buildings broke up and consider Rip It Up and Start Again their personal bible.
Sounds like: Ponytail, The Popguns, Beat Happening
FEATURED: Bad Veins
Congrats to the guys in RCRD LBL band Bad Veins, who on Friday are going to be presented with the Target Music Maker Award for Best Emerging Artist at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival! This is a huge coup for the band obviously, whose light-hearted indie pop is getting more and more popular—the award is being presented by music supervision maestro Alex Patsavas (who chooses tunes for hit series Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl). After getting the award (and a check for $10,000, holler) the band will perform a set at Webster Hall.
Check out some choice Bad Veins RCRD LBL singles below:
DOWNLOAD: Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony
Check out this new Tilly and the Wall song, off of their upcoming album O: kind of genius, don’t you think? It’s entitled “Cacophony” and, unlike “Beat Control” (which is so brilliant we kind of can’t even describe it) “Cacophony” brings back the old school Tilly sound: intricate indie pop propelled by a beats made by tap dancing. We know, has there ever been a cuter band?
DOWNLOAD: The Wave Pictures
Rejoice! We’re releasing two more tracks from cult London indie pop band the Wave Pictures, and they’re literally bursting with pop brilliance. “We Dress Up Like Snowmen” is the a more jovial version of Belle and Sebastian’s school boy tales, and “Now You’re Pregnant” is like an updated Smiths ballad and has lines like: “I don’t need therapy/Because I’ve got cigarettes”. In the world of the Wave Pictures, everything is catchy and relentlessly tugs at the heartstrings. The newer songs aren’t quite as lo-fi as the tracks we’ve posted previously, which sort of gives up hope: maybe the Wave Pictures will be the band to eradicate all of the boring nu-Britpop clones? We can only hope…
Download: The Wave Pictures - Now You Are Pregnant
Download: The Wave Pictures - We Dress Up Like Snowmen
Here are the band’s previous RCRD LBL singles:
Download: The Wave Pictures - Airplanes at Brescia
Download: The Wave Pictures - Long Island
The Wave Pictures have just signed to Moshi Moshi, so we're sure we'll be hearing more from them in the near future...
VIDEO - Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists
Can we talk about the ker-azy vocal overdubs in this song? Kudos to Los Campesions! for using all of their members wisely. Like most Camps songs, "My Year In Lists" is about professing your love for someone through letters/mixtapes/poetry (how reassuringly twee), and it's a slice of pure indie pop gold.
CONTEST: Last call for Dirty on Purpose at Mercury Lounge!
As we've blogged before, we have a pair of tickets to the indie pop event of the season for one lucky RCRD LBL reader. We're super stoked to see Brooklyn heroes Dirty on Purpose, Mahogany and Shooting Spires together under one roof, so if you haven't entered the contest already, you still have a chance: send an email to contests@rcrdlbl.com with "DIRTY ON PURPOSE CONTEST" in the title. Winners will be chosen randomly. Good luck, and in the meantime check out these awesome DoP downloads!
STREAM: Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control
Saying we were pleasantly surprised when we heard “Beat Control”, the new single by Omaha-based indie pop mega-band Tilly and the Wall, is sort of an understatement. We’ve always been a fan of their particular style: golden vocals, happy-go-lucky songs about falling in love, etc, but “Beat Control” is something different. Something new. It’s the second coming of The Go-Go's, Elastica and We’ve Got a Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It all rolled into one. It’s also, somewhat obviously, the second coming to Tilly and the Wall, the record where they shed their old selves and delve into something new: a sort of electro-pop, indie disco anthem for the ages. It's the ultimate all girl summer fun jam, so we decided to stream “Beat Control” for you guys today, as well as the official remix from the digital-only single (available now on iTunes—get it while it’s hot!).
Stream: Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control and Beat Control (Remix)
Buy Beat Control at the Saddle Creek online store
Tilly and the Wall at Team Love
DOWNLOAD: Netherfriends - Stop Smoking Asshole Cigarette
Netherfriends hail from Chicago and make synth indie pop straight from the heart. “Stop Smoking Asshole Cigarette” weirdly reminds of um, Weezer, is that OK? We think so. Like a cool, never-went-jocky version of something on Pinkerton. Check it out at the link below, lots of “ba-ba-ba”s to be had.
VIDEO: Young Galaxy - Come and See
Seems like Canadian label Arts & Crafts pretty much have the market cornered on North American indie pop, and their latest world export is Montreal's Young Galaxy, who make tunes that sound like Belle and Sebastian if they were brought up on the Beach Boys and the Pixies and not Felt and Orange Juice. Check out their new video, "Come and See", above!
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