Last year, Here We Go Magic offshoot TEEN released their debut album In Limbo. Today, the Brooklyn sister-act posted a whispery track called “Ambient” that didn’t quite make the album cut. Take a listen to the minimal ambient synth-piece above.
Last October, Finnish rockers Delay Trees released their sophomore album Doze. We’re pleased to premiere the video for album cut, “Future.” The dream-like cut features footage from a performance and a walk through the snow. In other words, our kind of night.
“Unlike my previous music videos, many which involved intricate preproduction, ‘Future’ was made in the post,” says director Autumn Andel. “It was no easy task to edit to an aggressive song that lasts 6:23 but somehow the video encapsulates the vibe of Delay Trees on October 26, 2012. It was both limiting and liberating to work with only the footage from one unplanned night—my video version lo-fi.”
We’re got the premiere of “Jose Cuervo,” The March Divide‘s ode to small town life, parties, and er…Jose Cuervo. Check out the video below where small town kids make the best of what they’ve got. If you like what you hear, their debut album Music For Film streets February 12.
“I wrote the song way back when I was still touring for a living, like I always was back then, and this one unforgettable day that I had,” says frontman, Jared Putnam. “I had a show in Clovis, New Mexico that night and in Amarillo, Texas the next. Amarillo is only a couple of hours from Clovis, so I drove to the local Amarillo mall to sell CDs and promote the next night’s show. While I was there, I ran into this girl that I would always see at my Amarillo shows. I had never talked to her before, but I had developed a crush on her, and when we started talking and hit it off, I invited her come back to Clovis with me for the show that night, and she said yes. This was December, and I’ll always remember that it was snowing in the desert. After the show, we went to my friend’s house, got fucked up on Cuervo, and I wrote the song. The next day, we got up, went to Amarillo, and I played my show. She was there every time I played Amarillo after that, and I would always play ‘Jose Cuervo’ for her.”
Estonian art-rock band Pia Fraus possess a pile of reverb pedals and aren’t afraid to use them. Today we’re pleased to premiere a stream of their best-of collection Silmi Island, out now via Shelflife Records. Get your dystopian noise pop on below. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to support the band here.
Last night, Ultraísta graced the stage at Jimmy Fallon. Even with drummer Joey Waronker on paternity leave, the band was in high spirits, playing a confident live version of “Gold Dayzz,” a cut from their self-titled debut. Check out the video below.
“Play By Play” is a baby-making slow jam from Brooklyn Francophile, Autre Ne Veut. Like Usher, Prince, and taking a sexy second to hold those you love nice and close? Take a listen below. Autre Ne Veut’s new album Anxiety streets February 26 via Software/Mexican Summer.
Spanish duo When Nalda Became Punk will release their debut A Farewell to Youth on February 5 via Shelflife Records. That alone should tell you how punk they are. (Read: given the label’s indie pop leanings, not punk at all). Luxuriate in the sugar-sweet lead single, “When It’ll Come” below.
The Screaming Eagle of Soul, Charles Bradley, is out to break hearts with “Strictly Reserved For You.” This is first single from his new album Victim of Love (due out April 2 via Daptone Records), and it is a straight-up musical swoon. Take a listen below.
