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DOWNLOAD: Summer Cats - Hey You
The other day, Kev opined about the gratuitous summer metaphors being thrown around, but it's like, dude, this band actually has the word in their name. Because we are professionals, we've got other stuff to mention about Melbourne's Summer Cats, like the fact that Slumberland, the once "resurgent" and now just murderously awesome American label, is putting out their debut LP on July 14th. It's called Songs For Tuesdays and contains this choppy guitar nugget we've been spinning all day. It feels good and that is not us being lazy.
Sounds like: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Stereolab, Bricolage
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Woven Bones - Your Sorcery
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Dudes, did you hear? "Bones" is the hot new word to sneak into your band name. More on that macabre tip than "crystal". Okay, jokes aside we are really glad to be hearing more from Austin's Woven Bones, who indulge our unending love for all things that resemble the Cramps and the shrill, batty guitar sound they propagated. The trio have a fantastic seven inch, "Janie," out now through Needless Records, and will release this death rattle of a song via another seven for Sweet Rot Records later this month. All that deviant music will be infesting the South and Southwest this summer as the band tours sporadically, including a big show in Austin this Thursday with Holy Fuck and Crocodiles.
Sounds like: The Cramps, Harlem, Crocodiles
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: FaltyDL - To New York
(Photo: Sam Mirlesse)
Out soon through Planet Mu, Andrew 'FaltyDL' Lustman's Love Is A Liability is one of the most incredible records I've heard all year: shot through with clubland soul and urbane poise, sometimes wailing, sometimes groaning, always thrilling. "To New York" is a fairly great representation of what the whole thing's about, revelling on its metropolitan raver stroll through the hardcore, jungle, IDM (sorry), garage, dubstep, grime and wonky (sorry again) heard coming from open windows as ecstatic feet pop and flinch along cooling summer evening pavements.
Sounds Like: Terrence Dixon, Zomby, Dem 2
DOWNLOAD + STREAM: Pariah - Detroit Falls + Orpheus
Someone should really decide what to call this post-dubstep surge of bass-heavy producers. It's hard to call what 21-year-old Londoner Arthur Cazyer does 'dubstep' while the likes of Rusko and Caspa are making so many gains in the popularity stakes - where their knucklehead bass brew lurches and wheezes like terrifying machinery, Pariah swings and struts along sweetly, the wisdom of how to use soul samples gleaned from the late J Dilla. "Detroit Falls" and "Orpheus" will be released at some point; for now, labels are squabbling. You'd be wise to point your ears in their direction today so they can bounce around your head all weekend.
Sounds Like: J Dilla, Burial, MJ Cole
DOWNLOAD: Wheels On Fire - I'm Turning Into You
(Photo: Emily Bobb)
"I'm Turning Into You," like all promising garage singles, deals with the effects of a better half, specifically their ability to twist your behaviors after getting together. You know the drill: your buddy can't meet for beers tonight because the lady's got him making fondue or something. But Athens, OH quartet Wheels On Fire make this sound like something worth celebrating, eschewing bass for doubled up guitar and searing B3 and losing not an ounce of heat or punch in the process. Mississippi powerhouse Fat Possum just released their home-recorded collection GET FAMOUS, which, you know, they just might do. All we can say is that we're less bummed about those missed beers, so things are looking bright.
Sounds like: Black Lips, King Khan & The Shrines, Crocodiles
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wendy James - You Tell Me
In the late eighties, Wendy James broke hearts and stereos with British pop-punk group Transvision Vamp, a quartet that never truly broke in America but racked up a few popular singles and albums in the UK and Europe. After the group split in 1991, James released three solo records, including one written specifically for her by Elvis Costello (1993's Now Ain't The Time For Tears.) Now she's prepping a new one, entitled I Came Here To Blow Minds and recorded at A.P.C.'s studio in Paris, a place we hear has previously only been available to Jarvis Cocker, Jonathan Richman, Wes Andersen and Sofia Coppola. "You Tell Me" is the first leak from the sessions, an enjoyably scratchy garage-pop tune that shows this now-veteran hasn't dulled in the slightest.
Sounds like: Velocity Girl, Veruca Salt, Bow Wow Wow
DOWNLOAD: Dutchess - On The Stoop + Westfalia + White Piano
Brooklyn's Dutchess count original Les Savy Fav guitarist Gibb Slife amongst their ranks, though the trio thrash around a lot less cluttered garage than the borough titans. We're always game for dime store fuzz pedals and drums that sound like they've been thrown down some stairs, but add a very blithe female singer to the equation and our interest is more than piqued. These three tracks–released through our in-house digital label and produced by Damian and Tim from OK GO–are anti-macho garage pop gems, more than worth their weight in fuzz. Pick them up via the links below and also peep the video for "White Piano," directed by drummer Tim McConville.
Sounds like: Be Your Own Pet, Les Savy Fav, Harlem
DONWLOAD: The Monks - Love Came Tumblin' Down
The Monks were a a group of American GIs stationed in West Germany during the 1960s that ALSO happened to breathe dangerous levels of highly influential garage fire.The list of bands you love that loved them is very long and as you can see, they took their craft and look very seriously. Light In The Attic is reissuing a remastered edition of their long lost classic Black Monk Time, not to mention The Early Years 1964-65, an additional Monks compilation on which "Love Came Tumblin' Down" stands out. While the records are on shelves starting today, the track is below and fuh-ree.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Drones - Your Acting's Like The End Of The World + The Minotaur
(Photo: Tony Mott)
Over five albums and around a decade together, The Drones have reminded everyone that Austrailia's best rock bands aren't the ones making money off of out-of-the-box AC/DC riffs and oversized hair. The play dirty, winded garage-folk, downstroked chords crammed under the warbled yowl of singer Gareth Liddiard, who sounds like an alley-sleeping lush given a soapbox and a guitar. Their new record, Havilah, is out now through the record label arm of All Tomorrow's Parties, and below are two prime cuts from its belly. "Your Acting's Like The End Of The World" is our one-week exclusive, a unstrung acoustic album-closer that's a worthy but failed attempt to wrap everything up soberly. Also make sure to pick up "The Minotaur," which sounds like the Birthday Party if they'd stuck around long enough to record with Steve Albini. We're excited to finally get these guys up on the site, and conveniently they're playing all around North America, Europe, and Oz over the next few months. Full list of shows at their MySpace.
Sounds like: The Birthday Party, The Horrors, The Low Anthem
DOWNLOAD: The Magic Kids - Hey Boy
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These guys seem much too young to cram this much boy/girl group-3-part-harmony-wall-of-sound-phil-spector-reloading madness into one song, but I guess that's the way they raise them in Memphis these days. Whether or not they've lived it, they've heard it, and ultimately that's half the battle. If you can't score the movie playing in your head to this song, consider getting a new movie.
Sounds Like: The Beach Boys, The Ronettes
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