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2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 10.18.11

October 18, 2011 Concrete Opinions Leave a comment

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

2011, music, new music

[new music roundup] 10.11.11

October 11, 2011 Concrete Opinions Leave a comment

A few of my favorite new releases this week, including the complete version of Bjork’s ambitious iPhone and iPad app/LP. Enjoy.

Björk//Biophilia

For fans of: The Sugarcubes, The Knife, Kate Bush, iamamiwhoami, Fever Ray
Key tracks: Cosmogony, Crystalline, Moon

Casiokids//Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen

For fans of: The New Wine, Datarock, Pony the Pirate, FM Belfast
Key tracks: Olympiske Leker, Dresinen, Det haster!, Golden Years

Future Islands//On The Water

For fans of: Active Child, Youth Lagoon, WU LYF, Double Dagger
Key tracks: The Great Fire, Balance, Give Us The Wind, Before The Bridge

High Places//Original Colors

For fans of: The Ruby Suns, Here We Go Magic, Soft Circle, Lucky Dragons
Key tracks: Year Off, Ahead Stop, Dry Lake, The Pull

James Blake//Enough Thunder EP

For fans of: Jamie xx, Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison, SBTRKT
Key tracks: A Case of You (Joni Mitchell Cover), Fall Creek Boys Choir, Enough Thunder

Icarus Himself//Career Culture

For fans of: Woodsman, Laarks, Golden Ages, Sleeping in the Aviary
Key tracks: Wake Up, On Your Side, Half Moon Eyes, Mornings At the Bar

Radiohead//TKOL RMX 1234567

For fans of: Sigur Rós, Portishead, SBTRKT, Thom Yorke
Key tracks: Lotus Flower (SBTRKT RMX), Little By Little (Caribou RMX), Separator (Four Tet RMX), Bloom (Jamie xx Rework)

Still Corners//Creatures of an Hour

For fans of: Blouse, Memoryhouse, Veronica Falls, Gauntlet Hair
Key tracks: Endless Summer, Circulars, Cuckoo, Into the Trees

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

September 20, 2011 Concrete Opinions Leave a comment

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