A lot went dooooown this week (including several excellent album releases: Titus Andronicus, Broken Bells, the Morning Benders and more), so here goes it.
Definitely the biggest thing of the week, this is the first single from their upcoming album, Congratulations, and I love it. I think they sort of pulled what Spoon did with Transference in that they tried to go out for a slightly more experimental sound that they almost knew more people wouldn't like it, as if they wanted to reject some of the mainstream success they had. I would compare its sound most to "The Handshake" from the previous album. Not sure if I agree with Pitchfork's comparison to the Beatles buttt....
PS Album Artwork Win (I just can't wait to see what is underneath it... more on that in another post).
mp3: Flash Delirium (Yayyy mp3s... they are actually all hotlinked from Pitchfork, thus making it OK with Googlé?)
Light Pollution :: Good Feelings
Some more goodness from the always great Carpark Records. Anthemic, up-beat, trad indie-guitars... Woohoo!
mp3: Good Feelings
Born Ruffians :: Sole Brother
An enjoyable new release from what I think of as Vampire Weekend replacements... not as great as some of the stuff from their first album but I still enjoyed it. Slightly slower, a little groovier...
mp3: Sole Brother
Neon Indian :: Sleep Paralyst
Ehhhhh... The track did grow on me though. Oh and the Wall Street Journal has an article about Chillwave...
mp3: Sleep Paralyst
Yeasayer :: O.N.E.
The new video from Yeasayer is soooo different from all their other videos... it's trippy (*Sarcasm... tone of voice just doesn't come through the interwebs...)! But yes, it is certainly one of the trippier ones, although it does have a "plot" (but of course the "plot" ends up making no sense). In a nutshell... creepy guy walks into party, but it looks cool. Not my favorite song from a very good album (more coming in another post...), but still worth watching. There is some Tron Chess in it... more on Tron Below
Yeasayer "ONE" By: Radical Friend from ODDBLOOD on Vimeo.
-- A Teenage Elephant
In Other News...
-Stars anounced a new album due out in June
-New Daft Punk can be heard in the epic trailer for Tron Legacy below...
-Also since I put one trailer in, I felt like I would put another in. If Inception is anywhere near as good as its trailer, it will be unreal.
(Woo, Woo, that's the sound of the Idea Police)
