Here We Go Magic are gearing-up to release their third album, A Different Ship, via Secretly Canadian on May 8. Produced by longtime Radiohead and Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich, the record is a sonically-rich leap forward – exactly the sort of evolution we love for a band entering veteran status. So obviously wanting to know more, we got the group's guitarist, Michael Bloch, to go On The RCRD and tell us about how the IRS and Time Warner were influences, the addictiveness of tea and how a big dinner party with the entire music industry might be amusing.
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Chris Clark faces his albums with a bold perspective – each one another step in his solo journey yet also an opportunity to explore something totally new. His new one, Iradelphic (out now on Warp), is definitely his, well, sexiest. I mean, it opens with a fingerpicked guitar, has more allusions to jazz and fusion than you would imagine and even features some soulful vocals. For a man with a mastery of skeletal beats, this is as between-the-sheets as it gets.
We got Clark to go On The RCRD and tell us about how Public Enemy changed his game, how Walter White of Breaking Bad fame served as an inspiration (be careful, kids) and how the music industry rewards artists for staying in a confined lane.
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Through hard work, great songwriting and visceral, intense live performances, Baltimore's Lower Dens became one of the more hyped, interesting indie rock bands with their debut LP Twin-Hand Movement. Now, the band is poised to return with a new one called Nootropics (May 1 via Ribbon Music) – a record which reached the peak of my anticipation list with its spellbinding, Kraut-infused single "Brains."
Read on as band member Will Adams steps-up to tell us about his (and our) favorite character actor, the positive influence of surrounding yourself with learners and how elusive the best qualities in a great song can be.
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Nite Jewel, the project of LA's Ramona Gonzalez, explores the fine line between all-caps POP and textured sonic moods. On past work like the excellent Am I Real? EP, she found hooks in murky, lo-fi puddles, but she's really graduated on her latest effort One Second Of Love. As expected with a more confident, acclaimed artist, there's no hiding behind anything this time around.
We got Gonzalez to go On The RCRD to tell us about how TLC started her music journey, the influence of magical realism and why it's best to just ignore the world when you're making a record.
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Whether there's a single microphone in the room or glossy producer Steve Lillywhite at the board, Oberhofer practices a pointed hyper-melodic pop that's hard to resist. We got him to go On The RCRD and tell us why it's good for creatives to have scientist friends, what albums truly mean and how he would love to telepathically communicate with animals.
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Youth Lagoon is Trevor Powers – a Boise resident that has caused a stir over the last year with his endlessly catchy, uber-personal songs. We got him to go On The RCRD and tell us about how Kid A changed his life, his biggest influences, how teleportation could come in handy and why people should just step back and spend some time with records.
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Interstellar is the perfect title for Frankie Rose's new album. The former Vivian and Dum Dum Girl continues a stunning evolution on the record (out February 21 on Slumberland), creating otherworldly pop music with a distinct atmosphere and ear-wedging hooks that will likely score your next few months. With such a bold voice, we had to ask Rose to go On The RCRD. Find out about her life changing album, favorite comedian and photographer, as well as her thoughts on the music industry in 2012.
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While getting you the finest new jams to listen to will always be our main squeeze, sometimes it's good to gain a little context into our favorite artists – a quick view into their brain that might demonstrate why we love their sounds so much. That's the idea behind our new series On The RCRD. We use a flip on the classic Proust Questionnaire and let our favorites, well, do whatever with it.
Up next is Panda Bear. With an angelic voice, expert yet experimental sense of pop music and contender for most influential record of the last decade in Person Pitch, Panda Bear presents a rare combination of spirituality, headphone candy and even dancefloor-primed songs. His domesticity and anti-materialism present an interesting flip in an era defined by lifestyle marketing. Check out our exclusive Q&A to find out his life changing record, most influential basketball commentator and comedian, favorite piece of gear and much more.
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