There’s a new album from Raveonettes, and it’s somewhere between great and awesome. It’s less noisy than Lust Lust Lust, but it’s somehow even prettier and sinister (just glance over the titles). Still catchy as hell. Go get it.
I am not sure how to describe Bear In Heaven. See the tags below. They don’t mean much together. Yet they’re all true. When I heard them for the first time I was genuinely excited, like I was when I heard, say, Pink Floyd or Mogwai for the first time. Perhaps their music goes well with winter. This album definitely needs more time than a couple of listens to be judged. I’ll just keep listening. I’d love to hear your opinions.
Following Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective give us another treat this year in a form of a new EP. In their possibly most accessible record, Graze starts with the usually beautiful Noah Lennox’s singing and Indian folk dance in between. What Would I Want? Sky has been in my head for days, while On A Highway could be a perfect companion to… walking slightly lost on a highway. Perhaps that could be said about the Collective in general – being slightly lost, just enough for us to join and enjoy with them.
Since 13th it says. Hooray!
Onra is a French producer making mainly instrumental hip-hop. Chinoseries is an extraordinary album featuring samples of old Chinese and Vietnamese music mixed with fat beats. Pretty awesome stuff.
The XX are one of my favorite discoveries this year. Their subtle music on the edge of danceable is simply brilliant; simple, but not any simpler. Hear and release it.
As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Arctic Monkeys released their third album this summer. It is the album that (finally?) made me like them. Even though earlier albums had catchier songs (hats off to 505’s beauty, for one), the difference that I feel is that this one’s made by a confident rock’n’roll band with a defined style, exploring and twisting themselves, playing for their pleasure far away from everybody. The fact that it has been recorded in a desert with Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) can also be sensed. The beats are just so sweet and tight.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are continuing from where they were this winter, still going strong, still making every song memorable. Higher than the stars (the song) alone may hold enough beauty for an entire release, together with the remix, which amplifies its magnificent finale.
I will continue writing on this blog.
Now there have been a lot of great music releases since my last post here – some have become very important to me. I really want to mention them, so I think that I will first make a small series of short posts about these essentials.
The Torrent Times 