The original version of Four Tet‘s brand spankin’ new single, “Love Cry,” dipped our toes into the lysergic dance waves emanating from Kieran Hebden’s higly anticipated follow-up to 2005’s Everything Ecstatic. Now, listen to a radio rip of dubstep maven Joy Orbison (Peter O’Grady) remixing the dancefloor beast. He changes it into a slightly more blissful/uptempo affair. Mark your calendars folks. On January 26th, Tet’s nine-track LP There Is Love in You drops, via Domino.
The “Love Cry” single is out now and its accompanying Remixes 12” is slated for November 23rd. LDN house/nu-jazz beatsmith Roska supplies the other treatment. (via Gorilla Vs. Bear)
The Field
“I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet (Gold Panda Remix)” MP3
Nov 11, 2009
The title of The Field‘s forthcoming remix comp, Yesterday and Today Remixe, may remind me of those horrid McDonald’s McCafé commercials, but this “I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet” re-rub is far from horrid. The new treatment is by the promising U.K. artist Gold Panda. (Also check his delicious single “Quitters Raga.”)
He pushes Axel Wilner’s chopped-up dreamscape into a dubstep haze by adding even more bpm to the Yesterday and Today opening track. The Remixe comp is out December 7th on Kompakt. Yesterday and Today is out now, via Anti-/Kompakt.
Yellow Fever
“Hellfire” MP3
Nov 11, 2009
Austin, TX minimal pop rockers Yellow Fever formed in the summer of 2006 and already released two EPs and a 7” on Hugpatch Records. The duo, consisting of Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones play a catchy slapdash assortment of bass/drum/keyboard/vox on their debut LP, recorded with Luis Martinez (Bill Callahan‘s drummer). Think of a slightly calmer version of The Young Marble Giants and you’re getting close. The single above (“Hellfire”), is taken from the pair’s self-titled full-length, out December 1st on the Vivian Girls’ Wild World imprint. Yellow Fever is in the midst of wrapping up a U.S. tour with VG and Fergus & Geronimo. Yellow Fever‘s full tracklist is below:
Yellow Fever:
01 Ratcatcher 02 Cutest 03 Donovan 04 Psychedelic 05 Donald 06 Alice 07 Cats and Rats 08 Metarie 09 Hellfire 10 Joe Brown 11 Culver City
Atlas Sound
“Doctor” (The Five Discs cover) MP3
Nov 11, 2009
Bradford Cox (Atlas Sound/Deerhunter) let loose the eighth edition of his Virtual 7” series with a nostalgic cover of “Doctor,” from the ‘late 50s/early ‘60s Brooklyn doo-wop group The Five Discs. The B-side (“The Screens”) is closer to the stripped-down, quasi-ambient music heard on the Cox’s latest Atlas Sound LP, Logos. Download the harmonica-laden cut in a package with A-side “Doctor,” via the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound blog; or just peep “Doctor” above. Also, check out Atlas Sound’s recent Logos’ Rough Trade EP.
Class Actress
“All the Saints” MP3
Nov 11, 2009
On December 9th, Class Actress (aka singer-songwriter Elizabeth Harper, producers Scott Rosenthal and Mark Richardson) will release their debut EP, Journal of Ardency, on Terrible Records, the new label run by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor. The Brooklyn-based electro-pop threesome construct ‘80s-esque new wave music that samples the vinyl beats of early Depeche Mode and The Human League.
Here’s a preview of the EP in the form of “All the Saints.” Harper’s sexy/smoky vox floats over a bed of big drum-machine beats and tinkling synths. Some people in the blogosphere have coined this sound as “goth pop” (or as the band jokes, “goth prep”) and that’s not too far off. Check out more tracks on their MySpace.
Memory Tapes
“Easy Pert Mom” MP3
Nov 11, 2009
Memory Tapes (aka Dayve Hawk) is offering a new single on his blog, for free. “Graphics” b/w “Easy Pert Mom” sond quite close in sound to this year’s very promising debut LP, Seek Magic. Download the hallucinogenic “Easy Pert Mom” above and “Graphics” (Sci-Fi Edit) here. The latter is a reworked song from Seek Magic.
Best Coast
“When I’m With You” MP3
Nov 10, 2009
Bethany Cosentino’s day job is unspooling drone-y space jams for Pocahaunted (the band released an album on Troubleman Unlimited), Now she’s venturing off on her own with the noise-pop bedroom act Best Coast. The L.A. musician already has a 7” on Art Fag, and now BC is bringing us a new single, through the Fool’s Gold/Foreign Born imprint Black Iris. Download the A-side above and steam the B-side, “This Is Real”. “When I’m With You” builds into quite a little surf-noise anthem about tough love. Cosentino’s “I hate sleeping alone” line is crushes you. The single is available digitally today. The former FADER intern is touring her home state now. (via FADER)
Also, check out this very ‘60s-esque fan video for “When I’m With You.” The clip uses an excerpt from the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).
The Fiery Furnaces
“Keep Me in the Dark” (Eleanor Friedberger Version) MP3
Nov 09, 2009
The Fiery Furnaces have done a lot of weird things in their career so cover themselves doesn’t seem too strange. The brother-sister pair released a digital-only LP today that features each artist doing solo versions of the songs from their own 2009 LP, I’m Going Away.
Take Me Round Again is available now at Thrill Jockey’s online store (it’ll be on iTunes tomorrow) and features 12 new takes of I’m Going Away cuts, six recorded by Matt Friedberger in Michigan and six recorded by Eleanor Friedberger in New York. According to a press release, “All that remains the same are the words.” Further comments from the siblings on the project are below. You can listen to/download Eleanor’s folk-pop rendition of “Keep Me in the Dark” above.
Eleanor: “I’ve gotten into the habit of rewriting songs Matt has written, just as a way of practicing and singing at home. Originally, I had wanted to record a folk-style record called Eleanor Friedberger sings the songs of the Fiery Furnaces. I thought it would make a nice greatest hits record, but reworking I’m Going Away before it even came out seemed a lot more exciting.”
Matthew: “After asking people to send us their re-write of I’m Going Away before having heard it [www.thefieryfurnaces.com/site/deaf-descriptions/], I thought we owed it to them to make an actual alternate version of the record. And not just leave all the new arranging for live shows.”
Take Me Round Again:
01 I’m Going Away (Matthew Friedberger) 02 I’m Going Away (Eleanor Friedberger) 03 Keep Me in the Dark (Eleanor Friedberger) 04 Cut the Cake (Eleanor Friedberger) 05 Even in the Rain (Eleanor Friedberger) 06 Drive to Dallas (Matthew Friedberger) 07 Keep Me in the Dark (Matthew Friedberger) 08 Ray Bouvier (Eleanor Friedberger) 09 Cups + Punches (Eleanor Friedberger) 10 Take Me Round Again (Matthew Friedberger) 11 Cut the Cake (Matthew Friedberger) 12 Staring at the Steeple (Matthew Friedberger)
Fiery Furnaces:
11-10 Toledo, OH - Frankie’s Inner City ^ 11-11 Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag ^# 11-12 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall ^# 11-13 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre ^# 11-14 St. Paul, MN - Turf Club ^# 11-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Red Room ^# 11-18 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey ^# 11-20 San Francisco, CA - Slim’s ^# 11-21 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theater ^# 11-24 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre ^# 12-04 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Campus Center (Bard College) 12-05 Bronx, NY - Fordham University 12-11 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 12-12 New York City, NY - Bowery Ballroom 12-30 Chicago, IL - Schubas 12-31 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall