MP3s For Your Weekend
So I was thinking if I posted best new music in more bite-size chunks people might find it easier. Also when I don’t try and stretch it to 15 songs I think the quality’s a little better.
Phoenix
For a healthy young adult, 150 beats per minute is about the target heart rate you want to maintain when exercising. It’s also coincidentally the BPM of Phoenix’s new track 1901 and that’s appropriate because it absolutely pulses. The French indie-pop rockers have always had plenty of electronic influence – their guitarist was in Daft Punk before they were Daft Punk – but this new work sounds like they’ve taken in a sip of the Justice led wave of punky electro that emerged around the time they finished recording 2006’s It's Never Been Like That. But unlike so many other purveyors of the style they still remain oozing with Versailles class. And all of a sudden I have a new most anticipated album for 2009.
Phoenix – 1901 (from the forthcoming Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix LP out May 26)
Phoenix – Second to None (from 2006’s It's Never Been Like That)
Great Lake Swimmers
So Great Lake Swimmers are one of the most unabashed folk bands I’ve ever heard. They sound like perfect Georgian or South Carolinian instrumentalists, but moved north into the even more laidback and wild Canada. They have a sound that suits the wild, great clean rivers full of carp fished by men in flannel with beards. But Pulling On A Line also has its Chutes too Narrow-esque indie-popness making it as catchy as it is rustic.
Great Lake Swimmers – Pulling on a Line (from the forthcoming Lost Channels LP out March 31)
The Antlers
This Brooklyn three piece tap into a raw part of human emotion when it comes to their songwriting. Even the lyrics of Two sounds lonely despite being surrounded by swirls of feedback and lo-fi distortion. It’s one of many epic, emotive tracks on their LP Hospice. It starts with a simple acoustic chord progression before sucking you in.
The Antlers – Two (from the Hospice LP available free online at antlersmusic.com)
Comments
"For a healthy young adult, 150 beats per minute is about the target heart rate you want to maintain when exercising. It's also coincidentally the BPM of Phoenix's new track 1901 and that's appropriate because it absolutely pulses."
- Best song intro ever!
1901 is great. The electro additions work well for them.
Looking forward to the LP.
Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling on a Line is also very nice.
Thanks for the new music.
Things to do:
- turn around
Things which I find I get a little bit every now and then:
-lonely and you're never coming 'round
-tired of listening to the sound of my tears
-nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
-terrified and then I see the look in your eyes
-restless and I dream of something wild
-helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
-angry and I know I've got to get out and cry
-terrified and then I see the look in your eyes...
And I need you to make an AFL Dream Team:
-now
-tonight
-more than ever
-within the next 10 days, 21 hours and 45 minutes
P.S. dig the Phoenix songs!