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Lands & Peoples Pop Guilt Album Stream
I’m no stranger to this Baltimore band, though so many are, I wanted introduce you to one of the most talented and underrated bands in indie right now, Lands & Peoples. The band’s album Pop Guilt drops next week on Analog Edition Records, which just happens to be one of my favorite blogs, Everybody Taste’s label.
Hype Machine premiered their album stream yesterday and I couldn’t be more excited for you all to hear it. Combining soul drenched harmonies, methodical percussion, fuzzed out guitar ballads with vocals that dance and weave throughout like a match that burns through to the end and eventually becomes a trail of smoke that lingers for hours after. Stand out tracks have been “Ghosts” “In Living Colour” and “Don’t” but really each track holds it in, quite a feat in my book.
The structure and arrangement of songs on this album waiver between psych-pop, playful indie-rock, and a tarnished, southern roots-flecked Okkervil River rock sound. Oh and the title “Pop Guilt” couldn’t be more fitting.
The talent between these two is insurmountable, and this album is a flawed work of genius…and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a dingy brilliance that kids that went to art school have to work at to achieve, and yet Lands & Peoples pull it off like it’s second nature. Truly great stuff.
Pop Guilt drops 3/27 via Analog Edition Records, pre-order HERE.
Young Magic Melt LP Stream
Of course Melt is the only thing I have been listening to since the album stream premiered yesterday on Hype Machine. I have posted about Young Magic so many times GITNB is starting to feel like a goddamn tween’s Tiger Beat-esque fan site more than an indie music blog. Fuck it. Support the music you love. At this point, it’s fair to say, I’m not the only one falling for this trio’s enchantment.
Carpark finally gives us more details as to what the band’s album will be like describing it as, “Heavily informed by West African rhythms, Brainfeeder hip-hop, UK bass, and 60s psychedelic soul. Young Magic’s full-length debut, Melt, expands on their varied aesthetic, at once electronically sequenced and completely organic. Containing recordings from ten different countries, the album flaunts new facets at each turn.”
So pumped for this release. Read my previous posts on Young Magic here, here and here.
After about 15 listens, stand out tracks are Night in the Ocean, Sparkly, Driving Down The Mountain, You With Air, with Slip Time, Sanctuary and Jam Karet taking the top spots, but really, the entire album is a mystified wonderment of darkness-striken delight. Think I dig? Just a little…
Young Magic’s debut album, Melt, drops on Valentines Day via Carpark and comes complete with a silver half moon pendant. Pre-order HERE.
Mia
by Stay Cool Forever
album Live on KSPC
Stay Cool Forever Mia
*GITNB’s Acts To Watch in 2012*
I had the pleasure of catching Stay Cool Forever at this year’s FMLY Fest last week in Los Angeles, and well, they were not what I was expecting, but I was impressed nonetheless. With just a few less members than The Polyphonic Spree, the band has this funky, experimental psych pop sound, with strained, almost punk, almost Of Montreal on acid, harmonies that really isn’t like anything else out there. Their live show stands up to the their recordings, and then some, with a nod (more like a full body bow) to George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, infused with their own brand of complex psych pop. I’m gonna go ahead and say that Stay Cool Forever is on my list of bands to watch in 2012 and then some.
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Gravalanche
When I wrote about Stay Cool Forever, back in June I said, “I first heard about these kids from from 88.7 KSPC Live and immediately fell in love with the raspy harshness of their vocals coupled with the breezy fuzziness of their sound, that is, well kinda hot…in a “I met this chick at a music fest, day two, after not sleeping, minimal food, and doing some drugs that made me want to take my clothes off and touch strangers.” I stand by this statement, and will add some funky baselines in there as well.
Buy SCF’s EP, Whenever from How To Be a Microwave Records HERE.
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West Road
by Arches
album Enough
Arches West Road + Late Last Night
Listening to Philly’s Arches is like Monopoly, it’s going to take a while, but it’s going to be a lot of fun, and you’ll definitely want to play again.
The project of Tom Julien and friends is an experiment you will want to get lost in. The track, “West Road” is a delicate introduction to this work, that slowly pulls back the covers to expose the many layers of Arches sound, while “Late Last Night,” digs in deep with an ardent dreaminess to it. With stressed vocals, wondering guitar hooks with just enough distortion to call it “psych,” Arches is one of my favorites to come out of Philly. This EP walks the fine line of lacksidasical indie pop, and experimental psychedelic shoegaze, that is just so infectious.
So what I’m saying is this, if you choose to only listen to one of the two Arches songs posted here, you will not pass GO, or collect $200. Just stop reading now and go back to Marvins Gardens, before your ass ends up in jail. This is a project you need to spend some quality time with. Passing GO with Arches is well worth the effort.
Get Arches lovely four song EP Enough from their Bandcamp HERE.
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Shawty
by Body Cheetah & Messed Up Coyote
album Clang
Body Cheetah & Messed Up Coyote Shawty
Like a deep south hip hop experiment that dripped through the cracks in the floors and into the basement where a Mississippi experimental psych band was practicing, this nightmarish dream known as “Shawty” has surfaced as a result. The collaboration between NY projects Body Cheetah and Messed Up Coyote just dropped this mind fuck of a psych hop EP Clang that has made me realize the kids are not alright, but probably better off anyways.
If that band The Darkness started taking drugs again, I would imagine they would aspire to sound like a much gayer version of this. Whatever is happening here, I like it, and I want it in and around me.
Check my previous post on Body Cheetah and their jam “The Smell Of Dead Bodies” HERE.
DOWNLOAD “Shawty” HERE.
Body Cheetah & Messed Up Coytote (Woozy Tribe) | Bandcamp | Facebook
MY FAVE VIDEOS OF THE (LAST TWO) WEEKS
#6 SRI AUROBINDO - No Coincidence
I was in San Francisco last Sunday, so missed my countdown. I’m making up for it this week, with extra videos to ensure you stay in bed longer and relax as much as possible today.
Sri Aurobindo is the latest edition to Baltimore’s Friends Records, bringing that scratchy, garage psych noise that I love. Love this vid too. I would save that girl from whatever is making her run backwards, and then take her home with me.
You can snag this tune off the band’s limited “Eyes” 7 inch from Friends Records. The label also put out a killer 2011 Friends Records Compilation that you have to have. It’s definitely one of, if not my favorite compilation of 2011. CLICK HERE for all that glitters.
Sri Aurobindo | Facebook | Friends Records
The Smell of Dead Bodies
by Body Cheetah
album Sl*ts Talk About Heaven
Body Cheetah The Smell of Dead Bodies
After listening to Body Cheetah’s EP Sl*ts Talk About Heaven, for the last two weeks, I have finally come to the conclusion that I am a fan. Describing the essence that is Body Cheetah is something that had my panties in a bunch all weekend. Take a drugged out glam rock energy and combine it with heavy, sludgy, psychadelic qualities and then take notes from early Scissor Sisters and you have the psychoswagger, candy rap known as Body Cheetah.
Apes and Androids are no longer a band, but their spirit lives on, reemerging from the very same NYC hood. Take a listen to the freakishly odd, but in the best possible way, fuck rock they call Body Cheetah. Cocaine, brain sucking and disease never sounded sexier.
DOWNLOAD “The Smell of Dead Bodies” HERE.
Teeth
by ILLLS
album ILLLS e.p.
ILLLS Teeth
Apparently playing playing their first show ever only weeks ago, according to a Facebook invite for a show at Dude Ranch in Oxford, MS, as the opening act for Youth Lagoon, the “mysterious” new band ILLLS have been kicking up some serious dust in the indie music scene. I stumbled onto this band due to that very Facebook invite continuing to pop up on my page of “Friends Events.” I’m actually curious if Fat Possum sponsored the invite as a publicity stunt. Regardless, this is one instance I’m glad I clicked.
With only two incredible garage-psych songs, wielding a slightly du-wop, pop exuberance, released thus far, I am shakin’ in my boots with anticipation for more tunes.
If the rumors are correct, ILLLS is made up of musicians from local Oxford, MS bands Slow Talk (Steven Ross) and Young Buffalo. Which makes sense as the two songs fall in vein of these bands, along with other Oxford faves Dead Gaze, and Dent May. They sound a bit like Portland’s Nurses too. Whoever they are, this newly forged exploration into southern-soaked, experimental gaze is insanely infectious. Can’t wait to hear more.
DOWNLOAD “Teeth” HERE.
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Hey Sparrow (d'Eon Remix)
by Peaking Lights
album 936 Remixes
Peaking Lights Hey Sparrow (d’Eon Remix)
As if the Peaking Lights 936 EP couldn’t be any more amazing, this d’Eon remix is so good it actually pains me to not listen to it on repeat. In case you live in a barn in rural Iowa, Peaking Lights are these genius, freaks of nature that understand how to divulge the darkest depths of your soul, and then turn your ass out, without ever missing a beat. Every one of their tracks is like the score to some mind bending, modern day Dark Side of the Moon-esque, tale about absolutely nothing and yet everything, all at the same time.
To celebrate the re-release of the duo’s 936 EP, Peaking Lights dropped a remix EP with d’Eon, Damu, Maria Manerva and more, that is absolutely brilliant. The selection of artists Peaking Lights has chosen to remix their work is so perfectly off the wall, they were able to create a cohesive piece of work that you can actually listen to from beginning to end, well almost. They let Main Attrakionz slobber all over their genius at the end there, but no stress, that’s what the “next” button is for.
Really, this remix EP is the soundtrack the original Alice in Wonderland was hoping for. Just a few decades too late. Mind has been blown.
Buy Peaking Lights 936 re-release and Remix 12” from Weird World Records HERE.
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Twins (Gem Club Re-imagination)
by Friends With Benefits
Friends with Benefits Twins (Gem Club Re-imagination)
First off, calling anything a “re-imagination” is a fantastic idea and should be used more often by bands and artists. Second, this version of Gem Club’s “Twins,” is one of the most inventive and brilliant re-works I have heard in a long time. It’s dark, it’s harshly reverbed and sounds like it’s been pushed through a chainsaw…but in the best possible way.
The new side project from Brian Bissart of BigColor just released a three song EP under the moniker Friends With Benefits. This project is a brooding and emotional psych pop experiment that howls at you with a fervor that builds and builds and finally explodes with pulsating drums, and twirling noise effects. When listening to FWB, I can’t help but be reminded of another psyched out glam pop favorite, Glitter Bones, not surprising, they happen to be close friends with Bissart.
So the story goes, Menomena and Glitter Bones got together and ate a bunch of acid, they kidnapped Youth Lagoon, corrupted him, and he was forever changed. Friends With Benefits is the result. I’ll take two.
DOWNLOAD “Twins (Gem Club Re-Imagination)” HERE.
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