DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)
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(Photo: Joel Barhamand)
The first single off A Place To Bury Stranger’s sophomore album follows the record’s maxim: to make the “craziest, most f*cked-up recording ever.” This slept-on Cereal Spiller rework of "In Your Heart" somewhat mitigates the original’s nightmarish reverb and gut-wrenching frequencies, favoring a slicker, snythier ode to 1980. Exploding Head is out now and will hurt your insides in a good way.
A Place To Bury Strangers - In Your Heart (Cereal Spiller Remix)
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A Place To Bury Strangers - The Light (Love And Rockets Cover)
A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You (The Clapp Remix)
DOWNLOAD: The Sight Below - At First Touch (Simon Scott Remix)
If it was possible to lounge inside a black hole, The Sight Below's damp, ballooning sound clouds would be what you'd want to hear. The reclusive Ghostly ambient artist has been working with ex-Slowdive drummer/one-time Brian Eno collaborator Simon Scott, and his new EP, Murmur, features this particularly obtuse Scott remix, two others from Biosphere and Eluvium, and a pair of originals. Pick it up in full here.
The Sight Below - At First Touch (Simon Scott Remix)
Previously:
The Sight Below - No Place For Us
The Sight Below - With Her Kiss (I'd Pass The Sky)
The Sight Below - Twice Failed
The Sight Below - Life's Fading Light
DOWNLOAD: Peepholes - Airforce Trainer
"A 'peephole'," Wikipedia tells us, "is a small opening cut in a door, typically to allow people inside to see outside without opening that door." OK - so quoting Wikipedia is pretty much the laziest thing that anyone can possibly do, but for Brighton duo Peepholes the definition's too apt not to use, "Airforce Trainer" so obviously the result of two lonely people making music in a bunker somewhere. The great thing about the track though is that it'd sound equally at home spinning around and around and around in a jet engine, such is its thrust and the roar of its electronics. Tell me that when those synths rise up from the song it doesn't sound just a little like "Virginia Plain" - "Virginia Plane"?! No, because that would just not be funny in the slightest.
Sounds Like: Gentle Friendly, Roxy Music, No Age
DOWNLOAD: A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Hybrid Moments (Misfits Cover) + Failure
A little dream-pop-punk treat this morning: A Sunny Day in Glasgow covers the Misfits to perfection (this cloudy rendition of “Hybrid Moments” is nearly too good to be true) and posts a “Failure” of their own— rich, bright and melodic. Buy the most-excellent Ashes Grammar out now and hit up all the new tour dates on MySpace.
Sounds like: Animal Collective, Deerhunter
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Hybrid Moments (Misfits Cover)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Failure
Previously:
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - A Mundane Phonecall To Jack Parsons
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Alec Empire - 1000 Eyes
You know Alec Empire, he's been around the block a fair few times; first with Die Kinder, then with the infinitely more popular Atari Teenage Riot, alone through a thousand different style changes and a one-time partnership with Big Pink guitarist Robbie Furze. After all that it seems Empire's now coming into his own, knotting up all the loose ends of a 25 year journey with tracks like "1000 Eyes", a recent single that proceeds all wasted and stately while noise and electronic machinery whirr away in the background. It's still counterculture but it's not ashamed to be classic, and why should it? Empire's earned it, his a voice worth listening to.
Sounds Like: Lou Reed, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Miracle Condition - The Wandering Y
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(Photo: Zach Wagner)
Two thirds of Miracle Condition were in U.S. Maple, the insanely great Chicago band that de- and reconstructed hard rock in such a ridiculously clever way that most of the hard was stripped off, leaving a tension that could feed a family of five for a week. “The Wandering Y” shows that Miracle Condition are onto another great trip entirely, sounding like the Pale Saints if they’d come from Chicago instead of Leeds. Shoegaze meets post-rock? If you must, but those are just words, and this song’s better than words. Grab the track here and join me in counting down the seconds till the band’s self-titled debut comes in November on Tizona. I think there are about 5,443,200 of them.
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: Windmill - Ellen Save Our Energy
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Anyone else’s parents force them to learn a language by using BBC’s Muzzy? Methinks Windmill’s did. The first few seconds of this track sound exactly like Muzzy’s spaceship. Astronef! Then it gets rather trembling as Matthew Thomas Dillon’s wonderful whine meets the sing-a-long chorus, piano, triangle, and tambourine. Epcot Starfields drops today on Friendly Fire Recordings and it is heart-swelling shoegaze that’ll transport you back to childhood faster than this gift ruined my tenth birthday.
Sounds like: The Flaming Lips
Windmill - Ellen Save Our Energy
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Happy Particles - Infinite Jet
I'm not sure if Happy Particles meant to write the elegy for a dying summer or if it just sort of turned out that way, but when "Infinite Jet" crashes quietly into the sun you'll know it's time to leave the beach and go find a new jacket. The Glaswegian six-piece debut their heartbroken slacker anthems live on September 19 at local venue Nice 'n Sleazy. Wonder how this purity blast will go down there?
Sounds Like: Sparta, A Grave With No Name, Smashing Pumpkins
DOWNLOAD: Windmill - Big Boom
We’ve spent our twenties thus far trying to recapture childhood—where school was fun, our style was unmatched, and we were completely sated by a juice box and a new comic book. London’s Windmill knows what we’re after. His newest album Epcot Starfields, to drop September 15th on Friendly Fire Recordings, is based on his memory of one perfect family vacation. “Big Boom”—the aptly titled first single—is a huge joyous burst in the sky. For us, it conjures fireworks and finales and we’ve been grinning like suckers with double-scooped sundaes to this lovable video all morning long.
Sounds like: The Flaming Lips
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