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[mix] October 2011

Here’s a look back at few of my favorite tracks from last month.  Some of these pick were released this month, while others just now popped up on my radar.  Either way, these tracks were in heavy rotation all month long and I think you’re in for a treat.  Enjoy.

♪ M83 – Raconte-Moi Une Histoire  [more M83]
♪ Phantogram – Don’t Move  [more Phantogram]
♪ League – Your World  [more League]
♪ Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down  [more Dum Dum Girls]
♪ Tennis – Tell Her No (The Zombies Cover)  [more Tennis]
♪ Guards – Crystal Truth  [more Guards]
♪ Blood Orange – Champagne Coast (Clock Opera Remix)  [more Blood Orange]
♪ Youth Lagoon – Montana  [more Youth Lagoon]

What were your favorite tracks this month?

 

[new music roundup] 10.18.11

Some of my favorite new releases this week, including the highly anticipated new 2-disc LP from M83.  Enjoy.

Class Actress//Rapproacher

For fans of: Austra, Phantogram, Summer Camp, Discovery
Key tracks: Keep You, Weekend, Love Me Like You Used To, Missed

 

Gauntlet Hair//Gauntlet Hair


For fans of: Dunes, Dominant Legs, Sleep ∞ Over, Les Sins
Key tracks: Top Bunk, Keep Time, Mop It Up, Lights Out

 

Library Voices//Summer of Lust


For fans of: Rah Rah, The Wooden Sky, Hannah Georgas, Two Hours Traffic
Key tracks: Generation Handclap, If Raymond Carver Was Born In The 90s, Que Sera Sarah, Anthem for a New Canadia

 

M83//Hurry Up We’re Dreaming


For fans of: Washed Out, Active Child, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky
Key tracks: Intro (feat. Zola Jesus), Midnight City, Wait, My Tears Are Becoming a Sea, Raconte-Moi Une Histoire

 

Niki & The Dove//The Drummer EP


For fans of: Those Dancing Days, Kite, Little Marbles, Young Galaxy
Key tracks: Last Night, Mother Project, Manon, Sundog

 

Penguin Prison//Penguin Prison


For fans of: Feldberg, Human Life, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Holy Ghost!
Key tracks: Don’t Fuck With My Money, The Worse It Gets, Golden Train, A Funny Thing

 

Psychic Ills//Hazed Dream


For fans of: Cave, Oneida, Jackie O Motherfucker, Bardo Pond
Key tracks: Mind Daze, Midnight Moon, That’s Alright, Incense Head

 

Real Estate//Days


For fans of: Beach Fossils, Kurt Vile, Woods, Atlas Sound
Key tracks: Green Aisles, Easy, It’s Real, Out of Tune

 

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin//Tape Club


For fans of: Voxtrot, Headlights, Mates of State, Telekinesis
Key tracks: Yellow Missing Signs, Coming Through, Let’s Get Tired, The Clod and the Pebble

 

Other notable new releases:
Body Language//Social Studies
The Deep Dark Woods//The Place I Left Behind
Four Tet//Fabriclive 59
Forest Fire//Staring At the X
Gigamesh//Gigamesh EP
Kimya Dawson//Thunder Thighs
Kissing Party//Wasters Wall
The Reminding Ideas//House of Weather
States//Room to Run

[on repeat] The White Panda//Midnight Life

Mashup maestros The White Panda never cease to amaze me.  Their most recent offering, “Midnight Life”, combines two unlikely artists — one of my favorites, M83, and one of my not-so -favorites, Kanye West.  The result is a high-energy track that’s sure to put some extra pep in your step and I for one will have it on constant repeat this weekend.

Head on over to thewhitepanda.com, where you can stream and download “Midnight Life” for free (along with pretty much every other track they’ve put out).

[hot off the press] M83 + Zola Jesus

If Anthony Gonzalez, better known as M83, didn’t already have you excited about his upcoming double LP when he released the oh so good track Midnight City, you will be now.  Just a couple of days ago, Mr. Gonzalez dropped the opening track from Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and it features the vocal contributions of Zola Jesus (along with some impressive vocals from Mr. Gonzalez himself).  I’ve only heard these two tracks from the new LP, but i’m confident it will be on a plethora of year end lists come December (including my own).

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is set to be released on October 18th and M83 will be on tour in support of the LP this Fall.

♫ M83 – Intro (feat. Zola Jesus) ♫

[watch] The Art of Flight

The Art of Flight is the followup to 2008’s That’s It, That’s All.  Both are snowboarding films featuring Travis Rice, expensive Red Bull helicopters doing stuff they shouldn’t be doing, and crazy, good cinematography and production, courtesy of Brain Farm.  Now i’ve only seen the trailer for The Art of Flight, but if it’s soundtrack is anything like That’s It, That’s All, we’re in for a treat.  In fact, it was That’s It, That’s All which first introduced me to one of my favorite bands, M83.

And speaking of M83, as I was watching The Art of Flight’s trailer, I thought for sure it was a new M83 track from the forthcoming album (Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, out Oct 18th).  But alas, I was wrong…but not completely.  The track in question is called Fire Shall Devour Them by The Three Corners Of The Earth, and The Three Corners Of The Earth just happens to be a collaboration between Anthony Gonzalez from M83 and Curt Morgan from Brain Farm.

Anyways, be sure to check out the trailer below.  Even if you’re not a fan of snowboarding, I promise you’ll enjoy the video.