Evidently, Darker My Love learned the hard way that LA ain’t a land of angels. (Hell, all you gotta do is drive with windows down on Alvarado St). The LA band's track “Pharoah Sanders Tomb,” percolates with trippy psychedelic sound effects and brackish guitar grind, ala Austin’s The Black Angels after a day sizzling on an LA sidewalk. Meanwhile, the shrill, subhuman echos teamed with the sarcastic tone of "I feel so comfortable" towards the end of “Pharoah,” tickles ones' inner demons. Dark and festering – the band plays like they’re ready to destroy those technicolor sunsets and concrete freeway jungles one chord change at a time. We're addicted.
Sounds Like: The Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blackstrap, Spacemen 3
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The first thing you will likely hear about Fiasco is that they are very young (all three are still in high school) and that they have been shredding gnar in DIY spaces around their hometown of Brooklyn since they were just able to legally rent Twister. Like a hard-headed lovechild between Lightning Bolt and The Gun Club, Fiasco’s garage-prog is all sixteenth-note clipping and squeaky punk riffage; juvie jamming for wild, bottle-breaking souls. Their debut album Native Canadians is set to drop October 14 through Impose, and they’ve graciously hooked up an exclusive download of the record's leadoff track “Steve Herman,” which manages to pack every aspect of Fiasco’s ear-drum annihilation into a concise three and a half minutes. Detonate below.
Sounds like: Lightning Bolt, The Gun Club, Awesome Color
Exclusive Download: Fiasco - Steve Herman
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Last week we were lucky enough to post an exclusive cut from Bodies Of Water's forthcoming sophomore full-length, A Certain Feeling. Judging by the Top Ten rankings, it seems like you guys are as into it as we are. That's a cool feeling.
Even cooler is the following: part two of our special Bodies Of Water feature, an interview with gutiarist/vocalist/husband/chef, David Metcalf. Read it or else. More.
Exclusive Download: Bodies Of Water - Gold, Tan, Peach And Grey
Download: Bodies Of Water - I Guess We'll Forget The Sound, I Guess, I Guess
In just under two weeks Bodies Of Water will be carefully placing copies of A Certain Feeling, their sophomore full-length and Secretly Canadian debut, on shelves all across the land. There is a lot of said land, so they have their work cut out for them. Nevermind that. Before that magical day arrives, we have a tasty treat for you. Below you can download "Gold, Tan, Peach And Grey," opening track and polychromatic pop epic of Monument Valley-like scope and flavor. They have flavor -- SO MUCH FLAVOR.
And be sure to check back in the coming days for an interview with Bodies Of Water's David Metcalf. We talked just the other day about coyotes, goochers, covert ops, French Toast, Euro 2008, and just about everything that didn't have anything to do with music or their new album.
Sounds Like: New Pornographers, Arcade Fire
Exclusive Download: Bodies Of Water - Gold, Tan, Peach And Grey
We first saw Beach House after reading about them on just about every blog ever, and then catching them open for one of our favorite bands of the past decade, Grizzly Bear, at the Bowery Ballroom about a year ago. We figured that if they were somehow connected to the Bear then they couldn’t be all that bad, and we were swept away by their chilled out folk jams, using a soothing organ as their primary instrument.
Beach House are prepped to release their second record, Devotion, Tuesday on Carpark Records, and we have a song from it for download: the enchanting “Gila”. It sounds like Nico, old school Cat Power, and Galaxy 500 all rolled into a few minutes of folky bliss.
Download: Beach House - Gila
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