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[watch] Cults//Everybody Knows
[hot off the press] Diamond Doves//Eat Your Heart Out
Diamond Doves was formed in 2010 by longtime friends and musical collaborators Nick Kinsey, Brigham Brough and Wyndham Garnett. The sound of Diamond Doves is the meeting of their three distinct vocal, instrumental and compositional personalities. With a seemingly endless instrumental palette and a penchant for genre-hopping, Diamond Doves draw from a wide range of influences both foreign and domestic, new and old. Their sound at times recalls the mass and drive of Funkadelic, the studio experimentation of Os Mutantes and the democratic ethos of The Band, yet it clearly owes a lot to the pop-craft of contemporaries like Animal Collective, The Walkmen and Kanye West…[more]
While you wait for Diamond Doves’ debut LP (due out this Spring), i’m pleased to share with the brand new track “Eat Your Heart Out”.
[premiere] The Jealous Sound//A Gentle Reminder
A Gentle Reminder is the long-awaited follow-up to The Jealous Sound’s debut LPKill Them with Kindness, which was named one of Spin‘s best albums of ’03 and described by Pitchfork as, “somewhere between the professionalism of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American and your favorite slice of homegrown emotion.” The newest LP promises not only to be a worthy successor of the highly-praised debut, but reveals the foursome at the top of its craft.
To get the word out about the debut LP and U.S. Tour, the band is premiering a full stream of the album, which will be available for a limited time from now until midnight on Tuesday! The stream is available on SoundCloud and below. Enjoy!
[on the rise] Oh! My Blackbird
Alt-folk trio Oh! My Blackbird, fronted by lead vocalist and guitarist Annie Sullivan, harness the magic of close vocal harmonies and pissed off lyrics. With Nick Jozwiak (cello, bass, auto harp) and Veronica Kohl (tambourine, vocals), they create a tight yet playful folk pop sound. On March 6th, they will release their full-length album Dare Me.
Inspired by classical music — particularly choral music and madrigals — and 60’s and late 70’s folk revival, mixed with 90’s-00’s era rock, their sound is driven by tight vocals and witty, often venomous lyrics. Sullivan tells introspective tales of real life experiences that are steeped in traditional pop — like a string of really bad boyfriends — mixed with a mystical folk mentality.
Oh! My Blackbird released their first EP Too Much Future in May 2011, followed by Drop Dead EP in October 2011. Look for more of the band’s acoustic folk pop sounds, combined with mystical and psychedelic elements on Dare Me. Recorded in January 2012, Dare Me was produced by Oliver Ignatius (Ghost Pal) at the Cobble Hill based recording studio Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen. [source: feeling anxious]