Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere

Unofficial but lovingly made video for Toro Y Moi's Leave Everywhere by Heidi Petty:

Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere from Heidi Petty on Vimeo.

Free download: pə-ˈrād

pə-ˈrād (pronounced "parade") make lo-fi, grungy garage-recorded songs, somewhere between Sonic Youth, mewithoutYou and Sebadoh. In their own words: "we're an experimental, low fi band who tries to create interesting music; focusing on how we like various sounds rather than specific chords, notes, or rhythm. We shy away from traditional verse chorus verse arrangements and are fascinated with the DIY music scene. We like the digital age and digital music but we have a fascination for the old analog world. Playing live is as much of a passion as making music. I hope this makes sense. Its strange to try and describe our music. Thanks so much for listening."

In my opinion these guys sound really interesting, you should definitely take some time to download their first release for free from mediafire. You can also get a tape from Leftist Nautical Antiques.

New Transparent release: Weekend / Young Prisms

The latest release by recordlabel/bloggers Transparent is a split 7" by Weekend and Young Prisms. Weekend released a 10" on Mexican Summer earlier (also known from releases by Washed Out and Pearl Harbour). I really liked their song All-American, sounding somewhere near My Bloody Valentine and Japandroids, only with added vacuum cleaner. That's right: even more vacuum cleaner, but still creating great melodies. Their song from the Transparent 7", End Times, can be considered just as genius. This time they sound a bit more New Wave, thanks to the added edgy bassline. Unbelievably, they manage to create a larger-than-life chorus within their shoegaze-sound, going straight through the heart.

Young Prisms' side of the 7" is just as great as their San Francisco friends. Leaning heavily on layers of vocals and guitars with loads of reverb, their song I Don't Get Much sounds dreamy from start to finish.

You can download both songs from Transparent's nice blog. But really, you should buy a copy for 5 bucks from Pure Groove.

Weekend - End Times
Young Prisms - I Don't Get Much

Here's the cover:

Kendal Johansson - Blue Moon (Big Star cover)

This really is beautiful. From Sincerely Yours, the label of (a.o.) jj and Air France. Which is pretty recognisable here, sound-wise. Get your 7" or download right here.



MP3: Kendal Johansson - Blue Moon

In related news, here is the first video of CEO, for a song called Come With Me:

ceo - come with me from Modular People on Vimeo.

MP3: CEO - Come With Me

Vehicle Blues - Changer

Business is going pretty well for Bridgetown Records, so it seems. This week sees the release of their first “pro-manufactured” release: Changer by Vehicle Blues. The band creates beautiful nostalgic shoegaze and garagepop songs, describing the move from Kansas to Chicago in the winter of 2008. The same-titled song really is promising. Although the album was recorded at home, the band sounds overpowering and ambitious, with anthems that get lodged in your head after listening. Vehicle Blues fits perfectly amongst bands like No Age, Gauntlet Hair and Best Coast, which of course have been creating a lot of attention lately. Next up is Vehicle Blues.

MP3: Vehicle Blues - Changer

Order the album from Bridgetown for just a couple of dollars.

English is the new Nederlands

That's right. From now, all blogposts will be written in English. Hope that I can create more attention for the bands mentioned on this blog that way. Also hope you keep reading. Enjoy!

Wu Lyf - Concrete Gold // Heavy Pop

Really can't wait for this one to land on my doormat, Heavy Pop still gives me chills. Earlier on, I wrote something abour Wu Lyf here (in Dutch only though). Order the 12" at Wu Lyf's site.

Wu Lyf - Concrete Gold
Wu Lyf - Heavy Pop

Small Black - Bad Lover

Vorige maand gaf Jagjaguwar de debuut-EP van Small Black opnieuw uit. Ryan Heyner en Josh Kolenik namen de plaat op op de zolderkamer van hun oom Matt (die eerder te zien was in de fantastische clip voor Despicable Dogs). Nu is er de vrij vervreemdende clip voor Bad Lover:



Luister verder:
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
Small Black - Bad Lover
Small Black - Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)

Flying Lotus - Heave (n) (unreleased)

Waarschijnlijk is dit een outtake van Cosmogramma. Flying Lotus kondigde hem in ieder geval aan via Twitter. Met video en al dus:

Download: Oberhofer - o0Oo0Oo

Erg leuk indiebandje met fijne catchy liedjes uit Tacoma, Washington. Klinkt een beetje als het kleine broertje van Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Harlem Shakes of Tokyo Police Club. Download de eerste EP van Oberhofer, o0Oo0Oo, gratis hier.

Luister:
Oberhofer - Dead Girls Dance
Oberhofer - Away FRM U
Oberhofer - I Could Go