EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Rhinelander
Sometimes we listen to technical music because it's nice to know that there are still people out there who practice their instruments 9000 hours a day, and sometimes when in that mood we listen to Cougar, who are precise and sharp and dense but also have a little bounce to them. They let go of "Rhinelander," from their recent album Patriot, on the eve of a show at New York's Mercury Lounge this Sunday (11/22). It sounds like Gregorian prog.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Ernest Gonzales - I'm Here You're There (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
After two installments of the Friends of Friends series, Ernest Gonzales—San Antonio’s Exponential Records owner and resident knob-tweaker—will be releasing a full length early next year. In the meantime, there’s an EP appetizer called Self-Awakening with remixes and covers by Faunts, Yppah, CYNE and this one by Mexicans With Guns—a staticky, unsettling whiteout for this dreary day. Fold into it and stay dry.
Ernest Gonzales - I'm Here You're There (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
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Rainbow Arabia - Holiday in Congo (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
XRABIT & DMG$ - Follow The Leader (Mexicans With Guns Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Freeland - Do You (PANTyRAiD Remix)
This exclusive PANTyRAiD flip of Freeland’s “Do You” is a twitchy tide-over for the track the duo (that’s MartyParty and Josh from The Glitch Mob) is currently tweaking just for us. Below, the boys let the electronica ride for forty seconds before shorting into their patented strain of crunk-dub, which twists and turns and stutters and bleeps for five minutes before it sighs softly home. Freeland's remix album drops digitally today, and you can stream PANTyRAiD's own The Sauce, before buying it proper at Beatport or here.
Freeland - Do You (PANTyRAiD Remix)
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Freeland - Under Control (Alex Metric Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
Kent quintet Codes In The Clouds makes philosophically-named, dreamy post-rock scores that belong onscreen. Blasting in the background as we watch our anti-hero’s getaway into green, pastoral hillsides, hard mist, and frothy, cold seas. “Don’t Go Awash In This Digital Landscape” precisely instructs us to keep lucid and not fall into the swells. But the track is too lush with epic highs and lows for us not to do just that. CITC’s North American debut Paper Canyon is out now on Erased Tapes.
Sounds like: Explosions in the Sky, M83
Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Lymbyc Systym - Ghost Clock
Posted 9/15/2009 11:20 AM by Hillary Kaylor
Tags: shoegaze, indie, instrumental, experimental, postrock
Lymbyc Systym are brothers Michael and Jared Bell who hail from Austin by way of Phoenix and craft richly layered, moody tunes. Tunes that’ve been the impetus for much spilled ink, including this monster post from us last year. New album Shutter Release hits November 10 on Mush Records and it’s both fragile and epic in its twisting instrumentals and radiating swells. Below, “Ghost Clock”--a taste of the record’s soaring sounds meant for driving fast and far.
Sounds like: M83, Broken Social Scene
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Foil Épée Sabre
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Whoa. We got a hold of a b-side from Cougar’s single “Stay Famous,” and found a calming, instrumental, banjo ditty that made us feel like the world was right again. Understand the Wisconsin five-piece usually blows our ears out, Battles-style. Patriot comes out September 15th and we’re excited and chagrinned—we promise never to pigeonhole a band (however awesome) ever again.
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DOWNLOAD: Buildings - For You + Now
Buildings have been around for about a year, which, let's be real, is pretty great for a post-whatever D.C. punk band. Things just don't last long down there. Their debut album, Endless, out August 11th on Sockets, is full of craggy, conspicuously pretty songs like "For You" and the more effects gurgled "Now." May longevity befall them.
Sounds like: Doubble Dagger, Tropic Of Nelson, Ponytail
DOWNLOAD: Black Mold - Metal Spider Webs + Tetra Pack Heads
(Photo: Marc Rimmer)
Black Mold is Chad VanGaalen, Chad VanGaalen is Black Mold, so the bio goes. VanGaalen’s been pulling accolades for a while, but as his electronic alter-ego, Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz is a dreamy debut, an instrumental biopic of sorts. “Metal Spider Web” invokes a Japanese garden interlude while “Tetra Pack Heads” is the type of stuttering feedback, if played backwards, should unlock the secret level in Zelda. Flemish Eye drops the album on August 11th and hangover/writing your memoir/3am introspectives await below.
Sounds like: The Books
DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Stay Famous + Mike Ladd Remix
Wisconsin agit-prog quintet Cougar just linked with Ninja Tune's Counter imprint for their new album, Patriot, due out September 1. "Stay Famous" is the first MP3 to surface; a buggy, beastly, three-headed worm of a jam that moves from polite post-rock to what sounds like Fugazi riffs dunked in battery acid. We've also got a line on Mike Ladd's smashed-up remix of the tune, a version we are feeling for its blatant disregard of proper gain levels. Remember kids, distortion can be beautiful. Cougar head out on tour with Maximo Park in September, dates up at their MySpace.
Sounds like: Battles, Mr. Bungle, Japanther
DOWNLOAD: Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
A lot has changed in the five years since Tortoise last graced us with new material, not least of which includes a transformative new president and the current recession. With so much change around them, the band seem to have undergone a significant shift themselves: Rather than another album of chin-scratching post-rock, they aim for psychedelic instrumental rock on Beacons of Ancestorship, out June 23rd via Thrill Jockey. After listening to "Prepare Your Coffin," listeners could easily interpret the album title to mean Tortoise are looking back at some of the greatest rock instrumentalists. Its searing guitar leads spiral ever higher as they become intertwined, recalling Frank Zappa, Soft Machine or even King Crimson at their most concise. For a group often associated with academic noodling, this loose and fiery side Tortoise is a welcome surprise.
Sounds like: Dungen, Frank Zappa, Russian Circles
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