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Drawn from memory.

09 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Sometimes, you don't even know what you've been missing. Only recently a dear friend from Florida called my attention to the wonderful Seattle band Carissa's Wierd which turned out to be the long split up predecessor of the all too well known Band Of Horses, and in fact I can't help but thinking about this as a creative step backwards. On the other hand, we don't know the probably dirty details, right?

Anyway, there must've been more folks like me, as Seattle label Hardly Art has decided to reissue Carissa's Wierd's three studio albums this year, accompanied by the compilation They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003, to be released July 13. The song Die, posted below, will be on it and gives an excellent first impression of the band's quiet and melancholic oeuvre. Actually, I wanted you to have the opportunity to get another song, but the label asked me not to make it available for download. But if you should stumble across So You Wanna Be a Superhero by any chance, give it a listen, it might be the saddest yet most beautiful song ever written.

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Sometimes, you don't even know what you've been missing. Only recently a dear friend from Florida called my attention to the wonderful Seattle band Carissa's Wierd which turned out to be the long split up predecessor of the all too well known Band Of Horses, and in fact I can't help but thinking about this as a creative step backwards. On the other hand, we don't know the probably dirty details, right?

Anyway, there must've been more folks like me, as Seattle label Hardly Art has decided to reissue Carissa's Wierd's three studio albums this year, accompanied by the compilation They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003, to be released July 13. The song Die, posted below, will be on it and gives an excellent first impression of the band's quiet and melancholic oeuvre. Actually, I wanted you to have the opportunity to get another song, but the label asked me not to make it available for download. But if you should stumble across So You Wanna Be a Superhero by any chance, give it a listen, it might be the saddest yet most beautiful song ever written.

Carissa's Wierd - Die

Modern life is rubbish.

09 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Yesterday, this exquisite little tune dropped into my inbox after it had circled half the globe. Responsible for these four minutes of sundrenched laid-back electronica are Collarbones, an Australian duo consisting of Travis Cook and Marcus Whale who live in Adelaide and Sydney, respectively, and in fact decided to start this project after they'd met on the internet. Oh, these modern times. At least the above photograph proves (correction: appears to prove - mind Photoshop!) that the two must've seen each other in person at some point of the creative process.

Anyway, Beaman Park is the first single of a forthcoming album named Iconography, due later this year. The track is an excellent teaser and an admirable soundtrack for these sunny days, actually pretty reminiscent of that certain music that people use to call chillwave these days, think Toro Y Moi in particular (before that dude went acoustic). Absolutely delicious.

You can download the whole single via Collarbones' Bandcamp site, and it would be nice if you paid at least a bit, though you don't have to.

Collarbones - Beaman Park Read more →

Yesterday, this exquisite little tune dropped into my inbox after it had circled half the globe. Responsible for these four minutes of sundrenched laid-back electronica are Collarbones, an Australian duo consisting of Travis Cook and Marcus Whale who live in Adelaide and Sydney, respectively, and in fact decided to start this project after they'd met on the internet. Oh, these modern times. At least the above photograph proves (correction: appears to prove - mind Photoshop!) that the two must've seen each other in person at some point of the creative process.

Anyway, Beaman Park is the first single of a forthcoming album named Iconography, due later this year. The track is an excellent teaser and an admirable soundtrack for these sunny days, actually pretty reminiscent of that certain music that people use to call chillwave these days, think Toro Y Moi in particular (before that dude went acoustic). Absolutely delicious.

You can download the whole single via Collarbones' Bandcamp site, and it would be nice if you paid at least a bit, though you don't have to.

Collarbones - Beaman Park

Deerhunter.

09 Jun 2010 — NFOP

These two demure looking folks with that plastic (I hope) deer in between call themselves The Band In Heaven, which underscores our imagination of that place as cold and abrasive. Nonetheless, despite all its gritty fuzz, their demo tune A Tunnel Into Your Dreams indeed reveals some heavenly dream pop that's candidly retro, summoning the ghosts of Black Tambourine or My Bloody Valentine to gather in your room the very moment you listen to it. Haunting.

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These two demure looking folks with that plastic (I hope) deer in between call themselves The Band In Heaven, which underscores our imagination of that place as cold and abrasive. Nonetheless, despite all its gritty fuzz, their demo tune A Tunnel Into Your Dreams indeed reveals some heavenly dream pop that's candidly retro, summoning the ghosts of Black Tambourine or My Bloody Valentine to gather in your room the very moment you listen to it. Haunting.

The Band In Heaven - A Tunnel Into Your Dreams (Demo)

Out of time.

09 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Uh, this one's kinda amazing. Moscow Youth Cult left me baffled and thrilled today with tunes straying somewhere between New Order's synth pop affinity, formalistic noise reminiscent of Fuck Buttons, These New Puritans' experimental streak and not least Salem's harsh darkness, splendidly exploring the frontiers of erstwhile electronic music without ever leaving the present tense. Inspired by "obscure 70s sci-fi films", these two guys of course do not hail from that certain Russian metropolis but from the depths of the English Midlands, and where else than in Nottingham and Leicester could you come up with something so sublime fallen out of time.

Moscow Youth Cult - Modern Easy

Moscow Youth Cult - Phase IV Read more →

Uh, this one's kinda amazing. Moscow Youth Cult left me baffled and thrilled today with tunes straying somewhere between New Order's synth pop affinity, formalistic noise reminiscent of Fuck Buttons, These New Puritans' experimental streak and not least Salem's harsh darkness, splendidly exploring the frontiers of erstwhile electronic music without ever leaving the present tense. Inspired by "obscure 70s sci-fi films", these two guys of course do not hail from that certain Russian metropolis but from the depths of the English Midlands, and where else than in Nottingham and Leicester could you come up with something so sublime fallen out of time.

Moscow Youth Cult - Modern Easy

Moscow Youth Cult - Phase IV

You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.

08 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Our beloved Ernest Greene aka Washed Out, with backing vocals by Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. A lot of thanks to both of you, and of course again to GvB for guiding the way to this little dream.

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Our beloved Ernest Greene aka Washed Out, with backing vocals by Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. A lot of thanks to both of you, and of course again to GvB for guiding the way to this little dream.

Washed Out - You and I

Oh yes.

08 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Ariel Pink's album Before Today is finally out, and without any doubt it's one of the best in 2010, though our notorious German critics were quite overstrained by the record, as expected.

Thanks to GvB, today we were also blessed with the brilliant video for Bright Lit Blue Skies:

Download the album's first single below:

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Ariel Pink's album Before Today is finally out, and without any doubt it's one of the best in 2010, though our notorious German critics were quite overstrained by the record, as expected.

Thanks to GvB, today we were also blessed with the brilliant video for Bright Lit Blue Skies:

Download the album's first single below:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round

Low, Heroes, Lodger.

08 Jun 2010 — NFOP

"Everyone wants to make their Berlin record, and everyone's got a Berlin album in them, so we wanted to put ours out. (...) There's something happening there that isn't happening in New York and is totally exciting." (via NME)

Hm. Well, what the guy wanted to say was that the incredible Brooklynites of !!! have a new album coming, Strange Weather, Isn't It? (indeed), to be released August 23 on Warp.

And now, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day looking for that special something and probably finally record that album that's apparently somewhere deep inside me.

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"Everyone wants to make their Berlin record, and everyone's got a Berlin album in them, so we wanted to put ours out. (...) There's something happening there that isn't happening in New York and is totally exciting." (via NME)

Hm. Well, what the guy wanted to say was that the incredible Brooklynites of !!! have a new album coming, Strange Weather, Isn't It? (indeed), to be released August 23 on Warp.

And now, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day looking for that special something and probably finally record that album that's apparently somewhere deep inside me.

!!! - AM/FM

But beautiful.

08 Jun 2010 — NFOP

And once again, Yuck. Tuesday morning melancholy.

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And once again, Yuck. Tuesday morning melancholy.

Yuck - Automatic

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