DOWNLOAD: Mi Ami - Latin Lover
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Raucous San Fran 'drum punks' Mi Ami have let loose a brand new track to showcase their forthcoming Thrill Jockey album Steal Your Face. "Latin Lover"'s biggest accomplishment may be its eking out of a new, unique noise - it's not lo-fi, it's not angry, it's not really club, it's not retro and it doesn't sound like it cares too much about the future. What it is is wild and buzzed, seeming to soundtrack the exact moment the party goes skewiff. See fun at odd angles on the band's tour, which begins in the US later this month, before heading to Europe in May and the UK in June.
Sounds Like: Bow Wow Wow, Liars, The Rapture
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RCRD OF THE DAY: Echo And The Bunnymen - Proxy
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Legendary elder statesmen of post-punk Echo and the Bunnymen are blowing back into the scene with The Fountain, a shimmering, pop-addled descent into atmospheric, nu-melodic depths. "Proxy," heard here first, finds frontman Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant at their most massively boppable--trading sing-a-long duties like fresh-faced newbies whilst clanging their instruments with the skills possessed only by 30-year vets. Next up: their kick-off show at Coachella, before a string of just-announced tour dates across the country.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom (Los Campesinos! Remix)
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Are you ready for some declaratives? 'Cause you're about to get an exclamation point bomb! Los Campesinos!'s reversioning of prom-time for You Say Party! We Say Die! invokes a spastic shuffle as pure and right as any 90's homecoming ever could. It's like snagging your tulle on his exhaust pipe--sure you ruined the dress, but you arrived on a motorcycle when those other chumps carpooled. You can catch Vancouver's most superlative dance-punk act on the road (mega list of tour dates right here) before XXXX hits stateside on February 9.
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom (Los Campesinos! Remix)
Previously:
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Teenage Hit Wonder (Camp America Remix)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Downtown Mayors Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule!
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Like I Give A Care (RAC Mix)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Monster
You Say Party! We Say Die! - You're Almost There (DJ Rexford Remix)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Monster (RAC Remix)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity (Montag's I Love Her Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: LoneLady - Immaterial
There's a freshness to LoneLady's sound that seems to stand at odds to the early Eighties, British post-punk world tracks like "Immaterial" clearly inhabit. It's hard to pinpoint exactly where that freshness comes from - maybe in crystalline guitars, or the reverb on drums that sound beaten in crisp, night air. Wherever it's emanating from, it's a blessing - newly signed to Warp, her debut album Nerve Up looks set to be one of the year's best.
Sounds Like: The Siddeleys, Kate Bush, Orange Juice
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wild Palms - Over Time + sniTch Remix
North London’s Wild Palms are scrappy self-starters whose tropical-concrete-post-punkish single “Over Time” gives our weak winter hearts a reason to keep on beating. But the sniTch rinse kind of makes our chests seize up with nasty industry, as thin air echoes and danceable waves bang up against our organs with each clip. Below, stream the original and download the hurt; and buy Wild Palms’ excellent offerings here.
Sounds like: Talking Heads, These New Puritans, White Denim
Wild Palms - Over Time (sniTch Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wetdog - Tidy Up Your Bedroom
Wetdog ain't gonna win any awards for cleanliness. "Tidy Up Your Bedroom" is as sloppy and bedraggled a jam as the nomenclature here would suggest, all hungover guitars like pin-pain-in-the-brain and vocals casually asking, "Is this pop enough, darling?" somewhere in the background. It's a dirty, dirty mess. Aren't all your favourite bands that way, though?
Sounds Like: The Raincoats, The Sticks, (earlier) Abe Vigoda
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DOWNLOAD: Pylon - Beep
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Because just reissuing a criminally overlooked band's debut isn't enough, DFA are now going the distance and re-releasing the second Pylon LP, Chomp. That is something we might use the word "kudos" for. "Beep," like all great Pylon songs (there are many) is incisive and headspinning, an obviously fundamental part of Thee Indie Rock DNA. Seriously, tell us Karen O does not regularly emulate the way Vanessa Briscoe Hay yells "five minutes!" in this song.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Former Ghosts - Mother
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Former Ghosts offer a particularly cool adaptation of ’80s-born DNA, a remixture of the elegant Gothicisms that defined the early years of labels like 4AD, Mute and Factory: spectral, electronic, haunted and haunting. “Mother” is from Fleurs, the debut album from the dark-star trio of Freddy Ruppert (This Song Is a Mess but So Am I), Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Nika Roza (Zola Jesus), and it’s got so much restrained emotion that the air around it seems to quiver. Fleurs comes out October 20 but the band’s tour starts tonight in Phoenix (full dates after the break). The bad news is that Roza won’t be on this tour due to her studies, as she explains here. The good news is that Freddy and Jamie will.
Previously:
Former Ghosts - The Bull and the Ram
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