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Micachu & the Shapes: ‘OK’ MP3
Some beautiful experimental rackets going on here. Micachu & the Shapes (Mica Levi) unveil “OK”, a collage of cutlery fights and speak-and-spell noise explosions working in perfect harmony.
Never, Micachu’s second full-length album, drops July 24 via Rough Trade.
Savages: ‘Flying to Berlin’ Stream
“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.
In the Sun
by Grey Gardens
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Just when you thought Black Tambourine’s catalog had been raided with nothing left but a few broken guitar strings, here’s an aggressive JAMC-style rumble — reinterpreted by the impressive punk/noise pop barrage of Grey Gardens (via).
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You Are The One
by A Place To Bury Strangers
album Worship
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“Guitars as jet engines; guitars as haunted electronics; guitars as filling-melting white heat: A Place To Bury Strangers’ new album ‘Worship’ is explosive, visceral, and dark.”
Download the new track, “You Are the One”, from noise pop champions A Place to Bury Strangers. The description above perfectly summarizes the band’s career to date. I also really like the direction they’ve taken. Worship is due June 26 via Dead Oceans.
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I love this cloudy and murky as fuck dream-pop band. Check out Pink Playground’s new official video for “Sunny Skies”, directed by Tim O’Sullivan. Still not sure if I’m hearing vocals or just a blurred feedback of guitar delays.
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Lost You
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“I Lost You” by A Place to Bury Strangers // Onward to the Wall EP (2012)
A Place to Bury Strangers are known for pummeling eardrums with melodic noise and shredding shoegaze guitars, but their new material as of late has felt somehow more accessible without pulling back from the onslaught of sound. The leadoff track to their new ep, Onward to the Wall (“I Lost You”) finds it’s charging rhythm early and then proceeds to layer on the ghostly reverb from buzzsaw guitars and haunting, distant vocals, but it’s the melody that leads the song in an oddly catchy place, that even includes what some might count as something of a shout along chorus. They’re by no means letting up, but they’re certainly making it easier for new fans to join the ride. Definitely recommended for fans of The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Soft Moon, and Crystal Stilts.
(pre-order) “Onward to the Wall” by A Place to Bury Strangers (via Dead Ocean)
The new EP from the kings of chaos-rock-explosion-pop (just making up new genre names every week, no big deal) is off the fucking charts.
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Half Red, Half Way
by All The Saints
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As a former Algebra teacher it’s extremely important to understand how fractions work, your future depends on it. For instance, to add them you must have common denominators. The new album from noise-rock-blur-gaze trio All The Saints, Intro To Fractions, comes out on January 30 through Souterrains Transmissions. It has very little to do with mathematics, but it’s clear that these dudes all love 90’s heavyweights My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana and The Pixies in equal parts. “Half Red, Half Way” is somewhat nostalgic yet shows the trio moving on from their influences. It’s more experimental and shapeless than Fire On Corridor X was, and it’s better too.
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A Setting Sun - Cosmic Trigger Pt. 1
Instead of coming home from work and immediately turning on the television, something I’m guilty of doing on a daily basis, I urge you to resist for one whole night. Last weekend, I decided I was going to spend my weeknights in almost complete silence, or at least experiment with zero visual stimulation. Television, in general, is the most worthless thing I own. With the excepton of a few professional sports seasons and a handful of cable network programs/dramas, I don’t really like it anymore.
For this exercise I would only play a couple of different forms of music in the background such as ambient and lighter experimental electronica, which both work really well — including A Setting Sun’s recent Moodgadget release, December. Jay Bodley transforms piano and guitar treatments into a tapestry that varies from shredded noise textures to loops and waves of warm sun. Give “Cosmic Trigger Pt. 1” a try.
Captured Tracks wins again. The best little label on Earth is reissuing Medicine’s Shot Forth Self Living, and one of my all-time favorite and most influential records, The Buried Life. You will never hear anyone making guitar sounds like Medicine did on these two records, ever. Think of it this way; if Kobe Bryant is My Bloody Valentine and Medicine is LeBron James who wins in a one-on-one half-court game?
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