Today brings our second gift from Bobby Birdman off his upcoming New Moods. “Weighty Weight” is a slow-burning track, coasting in and out of guitar plucks and white noise. In the new vid, a hypnotic TV glare lures us in with skate videos, priming us for optimum scare when Bobby’s creepily half-lit face emerges out of nowhere. Look, man, we didn’t know anyone was home, so we’ll just back out of here, all right? We don’t want any trouble.
Uninhabitable Mansions could be considered a super-collective, what with band members from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Au Revoir Simone, Dirty on Purpose and Radical Dads. As you’d suspect, they make big, strummy, fading-light pop that hits right into the soft spot of your swelling indie heart. You should have that thing looked at, dude. Pick up the album here after lifting the two excellent tracks below and check in with the band's MySpace for updates on their 2010 tour schedule.
Glass and a Half Full Records (populated by the good people behind this) is a new project supporting the campaign celebrating Cadbury Dairy Milk’s recent fair-trade certification. “Zingolo” features Ghanaian MC Tinnyand Paul Epworth (Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires) and its profits fund educational programs in cocoa growing communities in Ghana—where Cadbury’s been sourcing cocoa for 101 years. Below, check the Doorly remix—a big Afro-beat banger that gets nasty at the two-minute mark, and help the cause by purchasing the original here.
Looks like VHS or Beta wrestled with their dance demons and came up synth. It’s a fitting progression for a band best-known for the rock side of their hybrid party act. On the Feel it When You Know EP, edits by Lucky Date and Mark Verbos appear alongside this one by LA Riots—a high-gloss, glammy anthem to blast in the dark. Perfect, now that the sun sets at 4 PM. Hit up Beatport for the rest of the electrohouse bundle and stay tuned—we hear more (and dancier!) digital singles are in the works.
Below, Evil Nine bring new hurt to an old favorite—N.A.S.A.’s “Whatchadoin” featuring Spank Rock, Santigoldand M.I.A.—sharpening it into quite the ear-bleeder. In between “beavering away” (heh) on their new album due out late next year, they’ve also been slicing up Alex Metric, Friendly Fires and Don Diablo while tweeting f-bombs. A word of advice? Don’t click on that Vice UK link.
Sweden’s answer to new-new-wave, The Mary Onettesmake woozy, 80s-inspired pop. Though oft-lauded for their unabashed leanings towards the more mass side of The Cure and New Order—the side where we all begrudgingly agree those bands were not actually for romantic misfits alone—the fellows take a moodier (but no less catchy) turn on their latest album. Islands drops November 3rd on Labrador while two excellent, keyboard-riddled tracks await below.
After two installments of the Friends of Friends series, Ernest Gonzales—San Antonio’s Exponential Records owner and resident knob-tweaker—will be releasing a full length early next year. In the meantime, there’s an EP appetizer called Self-Awakeningwith remixes and covers by Faunts, Yppah, CYNE and this one by Mexicans With Guns—a staticky, unsettling whiteout for this dreary day. Fold into it and stay dry.
A few years back, it seemed every act was heavy on beards, light on shirts, and roaming around in vagabond packs, stealing shoes and using buttons as currency. We miss that. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are this year’s merry pranksters, and their bajillion-piece band makes both cathedral music and campfire tunes. Check tour dates here and below, snap up “Home,” available for a limited time, and “40 Day Dream” for a sampling of their big, beautiful and worthwhile record Up From Below. It’s Lake Wobegon meets Arcade Fire, and through an insanely awesome promo you can buy the album for $1.99 tomorrow only, right here.
This exclusive PANTyRAiD flip of Freeland’s “Do You” is a twitchy tide-over for the track the duo (that’s MartyParty and Josh from The Glitch Mob) is currently tweaking just for us. Below, the boys let the electronica ride for forty seconds before shorting into their patented strain of crunk-dub, which twists and turns and stutters and bleeps for five minutes before it sighs softly home. Freeland's remix album drops digitally today, and you can stream PANTyRAiD's own The Sauce, before buying it proper at Beatport or here.
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