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2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 10.04.11

October 4, 2011 Concrete Opinions Leave a comment

Here are a few of my favorite new releases this week. First up is actually one from last week that I missed, but it’s too good to pass up. Enjoy.

Youth Lagoon//The Year of Hibernation

For fans of: Vacationer, Lips Songs, Purity Ring, Gross Magic

Key tracks: Montana, Afternoon, Cannons, Bobby

Feist//Metals

For fans of: Cat Power, Broken Social Scene, St. Vincent, Angus & Julia Stone

Key tracks: How Come You Never Go There, A Commotion, The Circle Married the Line

Talkdemonic//Ruins

For fans of: Lymbyc Systym, The Octopus Project, Couch , El Ten Eleven

Key tracks: Revival, Violet, City Sleep, Midnight Pass

We Were Promised Jetpacks//In The Pit of the Stomach

For fans of: Frightened Rabbit, Tokyo Police Club, Los Campesinos!, The Airborne Toxic Event

Key tracks: Act on Impulse, Medicine, Picture of Health, Sore Thumb

Zola Jesus//Conatus

For fans of: Salem, Glasser, Cold Cave, School of Seven Bells

Key tracks: Vessel, Avalanche, Shivers, In Your Nature

2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 9.27.11

September 27, 2011 Concrete Opinions Leave a comment

So this is a bit late, but I was at the Big Black Delta show at The Satellite last night (very good show btw, definitely worth checking out if you have the chance), followed by a pretty hectic day of work, and I may have had one too many PRB tall boys at the show. Needless to say, today I wasn’t exactly the olympic caliber blogger I aim to be today.

But enough excuses, here are a few of my favorite new releases this week. Enjoy.

Big Black Delta – BBDLP1

For fans of: M83, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Mellowdrone, SONOIO

Key tracks: Huggin & Kissin, Betamax, Put The Gun On The Floor, IFUCKINGLOVEYOU

(hint: BBDLP1 is available for free download at bigblackdelta.com)

Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams

For fans of: Vivian Girls, Best Coast, Frankie Rose and The Outs, Crystal Stilts

Key tracks: Bedroom Eyes, Coming Down, Always Looking, Crystal Baby

J. Viewz – rivers and homes

For fans of: Violet Vision, Younger Brother, Washed Out, Blackbird Blackbird

Key tracks: Salty Air, Rivers and Homes, Far Too Close, About the Sea

The Knux – Eraser

For fans of: The Roots, Kid Cudi, Jurassic 5, Kidz in the Hall

Key tracks: Run (feat. Kid Cudi), You Can’t Lose, 1974 (feat. Natalia Kills), Eraser

Teen Daze – A Silent Planet EP

For fans of: Blackbird Blackbird, Memoryhouse, Two Bicycles, MillionYoung

Key tracks: Surface, The Harvest, Watch Over Me

Twin Sister – In Heaven

For fans of: Crystal Stilts, Beach House, Real Estate, Tennis

Key Tracks: Gene Ciampi, Stop, Kimmi In a Rice Field, Bad Street

Honorable Mention:

9th Wonder – The Wonder Years

Kasabian – Velociraptor!

Wilco – The Whole Love

2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 9.20.11

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some of my favorite new releases this week…

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical

For fans of: Fanfarlo, Alec Ounsworth, The Spinto Band, Handsome Furs, Architecture In Helsinki
Key tracks: Same Mistake, Maniac, Hysterical, Misspent Youth

Lisa Hannigan – Passenger

For fans of: Damien Rice, The Cake Sale, The Swell Season, Gemma Hayes
Key tracks: A Sail, Home, O Sleep, Paper House

Nurses – Dracula

For fans of: Le Loup, Foreign Born, Here We Go Magic, The Ruby Suns, Megafaun
Key tracks: Fever Dreams, Extra Fast, Trying To Reach You, New Feelings

Weekend – Red EP

For fans of: No Joy, Young Prisms, Minks, Tamaryn, The Soft Moon
Key tracks: Hazel, The One You Want, Sweet Sixteen

Joseph Gordon-Levitt – hitRECord RECollection Vol. 1

This is a very unique and interesting release…and too difficult for me to sum it up. Visit hitRECord.org for details and more.

2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 9.13.11

September 13, 2011 Concrete Opinions 1 Comment

Lots of new music today, here are a few of my favorite new releases…

Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing

For fans of: Fruit Bats, Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, Dr. Dog

Key tracks: Mission Moon, Love the Way You Walk Away, American Goldwing, Might Find It Cheap

Girls – Father Son Holy Ghost

For fans of: Smith Westerns, Parenthetical Girls, Cults, Panda Pear

Key tracks: Love Life, Honey Bunny, Saying I Love You, Vomit

The Kooks – Junk of the Heart

For fans of: Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Wombats

Key tracks: Junk of the Heart (Happy), Is It Me, How’d You Like That, Eskimo Kiss

Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer

For fans of: Client, The Knife, Fischerspooner, Goldfrapp

Key tracks: White Elephant, Mirage, Ace of Hz, 90 Degrees

Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

For fans of: Johnny Flynn, Noah and the Whale, Emmy The Great, Slow Cub

Key tracks: Flicker and Fail, Night After Night, All My Rage, Salinas

Mates of State – Mountaintops

For fans of: Tilly And The Wall, Rilo Kiley, The Submarines, The New Pornographers

Key tracks: Palamino, Maracas, Sway, Mistakes

St. Vincent – Strange Mercy

For fans of: Joanna Newsom, Grizzly Bear, Thao & Mirah, Dirty Projectors

Key tracks: Strange Mercy, Chloe In the Afternoon, Cruel, Year of the Tiger

Toro Y Moi – Freaking Out EP

For fans of: Washed Out, Blackbird Blackbird, Beach Fossils, Teen Daze

Key tracks: I Can Get Love, Freaking Out, Sweet

2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 9.6.11

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Some of my favorite new releases for Sep. 6, 2011…

The Drums – Portamento

For Fans of: Surfer Blood, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines, Foals
Key Tracks: I Don’t Know How To Love, Money, Days, What Your Were, I Need a Doctor

♫ The Drums – I Don’t Know How To Love ♫

The Rapture – In the Grace of Your Love

For Fans of: Holy Ghost!, Friendly Fires, LCD Soundsystem, Cut Copy
Key Tracks: How Deep Is Your Love?, Sail Away, Come Back to Me, In the Grace of Your Love

♫ The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love? ♫

Sleeping in the Aviary – You and Me, Ghost