Beautiful jazz cover of the Thom Yorke song by Christian Scott. Taken from his album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow.
“I swear on my tache, it’s decent hash”.
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Footage of their Christmas Dublin show after the jump. Richie Kavanagh! That was some show. “ROISIN! I want to fight your father!”.
A look at Jamie in the studio working on his new album Compass. Appearances from Beck, Feist, James Gadson, Nikki Costa, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear plus a preview of the new tunes. Maybe, Jamie has finally found a way to marry his disparate eclectic styles: “I can rightfully hold a compass and feel like I’m not lost. I’m going where I want to go.”
I wasn’t too fond of the title track (below) but I’ve hopes for this one all the same. More..»
Like the Not Squares video recently, most of the time it’s the simple concepts that work the best for music videos. In this case, bodyslamming in the wall of death. Shot beautifully by Special Problems.
Jonathan Boulet is from Sydney, Australia and is signed to Modular. The tune above reminds me of Grizzly Bear’s ‘Deep Blue Sea’ sung by Kevin Drew. Here’s a great remix of his by The Album Leaf
MP3: Jonathan Boulet – A Community Service Announcement (The Album Leaf remix)
Mary, Derek and Dervla FTW!
Next time you’re DJing or playing tunes at a party, you know you’ll want this in your arsenal. It’s an audio rip of the Youtube video with the intro included. You’re welcome. The video that started it all off after the jump.
MP3: Crystal Swing – He Drinks Tequila (rip)
Song removed because I’d like to move on with posting music I actually enjoy. It was a silly post that got out of hand. I want this blog to be about positivity and this is not that.
It’s a pleasure to tell you that Nouveaunoise will finally release their debut album Paraphrase Accolade in May this year. One of the last things I heard from them was their State mix nearly two years ago which is still superb.
The duo know how to produce deeply-arranged electronica with an emotional heart using crackled samples that eschews the cut and paste formula that comes with modern software methods. Rather like Four Tet, their songs feel like spliced moments of melodies intertwining around each other matched with nuanced beats and percussion. Very live-sounding.
Here are two tunes: One you may know from a while back ‘Cinnte’ and another ‘Goni’ which has some subtle backing vocals and warped acoustic guitar. Love it. Watch out for a tour closer to the album which will be supplemented by a live drummer.
MP3: Nouveaunoise – Goni
Here’s their properly amazing Bonus Party remix:
MP3: Super Extra Bonus Party – Propeller (Nouveaunoise remix)
You can also pick up these tunes on Bandcamp for free.
Congratulations to Adrian Crowley for winning the Choice Music Prize 2009 for his album Season of The Sparks earlier last night. A surprised, shocked and humble winner he was. A video of Jim announcing him as the winner is below.
Afterwards, the And So I Watch You From Afar juggernaut which shows no sign of stopping played a not-so-secret show in the Mercantile on Dame Street after their performance in Vicar Street, which was by-far and away the best short set of the night.
Here’s a pic of Tony ASIWYFA on the stacks in Vicar Street: More..»
Club 8 and their furry friends.
This time around featuring Flying Lotus, Penguin Prison, The Ambience Affair, The Radio Depart, Padraig McCauley, Lucky Soul, Club 8, Primary 1 and Secret Cities.
- Toronto producer Pilotpriest says this track was mistaken for a song from Daft Punk’s Tron soundtrack. It sounds nothing like Daft Punk. Imagine Fuck Buttons if they weren’t allowed use distortion and you’re almost there. This is an epic twelve-minute long piece which builds from ambience before a beat drops nearly FIVE minutes in. it goes from this rise to a fall and back to ambience again. I love a good beat tease. [iTunes]
One of the bands on my must-see list for SXSW list this year especially after hearing their debut today for the first time is The Morning Benders. Big Echo sounds exactly how you’d expect an album from a Grizzly Bear producer to sound. ‘Excuses’ is their big pop moment of course but there’s plenty here to suggest much more. I look forward to delving deeper. Big Echo is out next week on Rough Trade. Listen to it by pressing the more button.
