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by Laetitia Sadier
album SILENCIO
Laetitia’s soothing voice and summertime pop never gets old, only more refreshing and necessary. Sometimes it’s essential to pull back the blinders and special effects from all of the bands we’re inundated with. It also helps that I’ve been a massive Stereolab fan since I was like three years-old — I’ll always make room for Sadier’s material.
Laetitia Sadier’s “Find Me the Pulse of the Universe”, taken from the forthcoming full-length SILENCIO, drops July 24 on Drag City.
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Check out this excellent video of “Time Travel” from Portland dream pop quartet Blouse, courtesy of Incase’s Room 205 video series.This track always reminds me of the youthful, lonely and mood-killing atmosphere of The Cure’s brilliant “A Forest” — driving on a deadened beat and one of the best bass lines in human existence. Eventually, Charlie Hilton and Misty Marie (amazing name btw) unveil a giant burst of bright colors as the guitars and synths triple in texture. The ability to let go is this band’s greatest strength.
Speaking of Incase, check out label mates The Soft Moon’s interstellar performance of “Parallels” from our Top 10 Videos of 2011 collection (scroll down).
Following our previously posted video for the dense, sugary, warped pop of “Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)”, Crocodiles debut their new full-length, Endless Flowers, right here. The record officially drops June 5 via Frenchkiss Records but is available for pre-order here.
“Flying to Berlin”, the B-side from Savages’ incredible debut single, is not only available as a digital download but it’s posted for streaming on the Pop Noire SoundCloud page, so you have absolutely no reason to ignore this band and/or know where you stand with one of this year’s most exciting punk acts to emerge from what seems like out of thin air. Sometimes this is how great music happens — slapping you across the face with little-to-no warning — but doesn’t it also feel so exceptionally rare? As a hardcore music nerd myself, I can tell you that Los Angeles is not a city burgeoning with impressive, imaginative rock, by any means. It’s a place that revels in safe, color by numbers bullshit indie rock, and Savages might as well be the fucking Beatles.
The band’s new single will also be out sometime in June as a 7” single via Pop Noire — due to sell out in a matter of seconds once that pre-order news hits the intertrons.
John Tejada applies his fluid and minimalistic textures to Walls’ “Drunken Galleon” on Coracle Remixed, out now through Kompakt. His style is so carefully constructed and repetitive that I genrally lose touch with time in twenty minutes bursts.
If you missed out on Tejada’s highly overlooked 2011 full-length, Parabolas, please get acquainted with the record here.
Montag reveals the fifth episode of his Phases project; releasing one single a month for the entire year. Here’s the video for Phase 5 entitled “New Found Land”, directed by Scott Foley.
Montag’s third installment “P.I.E.C.E.S” still cuts deep.
Stream the New Lines outstanding album, All That We See and Seem, below. ATWSAS was recently repressed on gorgeous 12” white vinyl. Purchase the album here.
Related: In 2008 I put together a not for profit RAM tribute compilation entitled RAM On LA. Released in 2009, the comp focused wholly on Los Angeles artists each taking on one of the LP’s tracks. It’s still available for download, here.
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