The Technology of Love.

17 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Brooklyn resident Patrick McIntyre, the dude who had blessed us with the splendid Waiting 4U way back in June, finally returns with a finished EP recorded on behalf of his alias HOUNDSds (yes, still puzzled as well). The Technology of Love includes five new pieces of slow burning, dreamlike electronica, firmly standing in the 21st century yet taking a nostalgia-drenched look back, evoking blurred pictures of long-gone places. Listen to the title track below and get the whole thing over at bandcamp.

HOUNDSds - The Technology of Love

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Brooklyn resident Patrick McIntyre, the dude who had blessed us with the splendid Waiting 4U way back in June, finally returns with a finished EP recorded on behalf of his alias HOUNDSds (yes, still puzzled as well). The Technology of Love includes five new pieces of slow burning, dreamlike electronica, firmly standing in the 21st century yet taking a nostalgia-drenched look back, evoking blurred pictures of long-gone places. Listen to the title track below and get the whole thing over at bandcamp.

HOUNDSds - The Technology of Love

Spellbinder.

17 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Prudence Rees-Lee and Alex Nosek are Hammocks and Honey, a Melbourne duo that has recorded the five songs of their debut EP Spellbinder at a beach house over the course of a single weekend, and just as you'd expect from such a constellation, Hammocks and Honey's songs are lush pieces of purest dream pop, carried by Prudence's ethereal voice over Alex' pulsating beat works and a somewhat blurry, otherworldly and decade-transcending synth section.

Spellbinder is the first record to be released by Melbourne's Special Award Records and is due November 22 on solid gold vinyl, limited to 250 copies. You can stream the whole EP already at the duo's bandcamp.

Hammocks and Honey - Undone

Hammocks and Honey - Sleeping Carriage

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Prudence Rees-Lee and Alex Nosek are Hammocks and Honey, a Melbourne duo that has recorded the five songs of their debut EP Spellbinder at a beach house over the course of a single weekend, and just as you'd expect from such a constellation, Hammocks and Honey's songs are lush pieces of purest dream pop, carried by Prudence's ethereal voice over Alex' pulsating beat works and a somewhat blurry, otherworldly and decade-transcending synth section.

Spellbinder is the first record to be released by Melbourne's Special Award Records and is due November 22 on solid gold vinyl, limited to 250 copies. You can stream the whole EP already at the duo's bandcamp.

Hammocks and Honey - Undone

Hammocks and Honey - Sleeping Carriage

Fall is official now.

16 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

My lovely pal Matt from my favorite Virginia garage pop label Funny / Not Funny Records has sent me a mail this morning to call my attention to his little imprint's brand new Fall 2010 Mix Tape, a collection of 13 unreleased tracks as well as songs from current and forthcoming F/NF releases, among the featured artists being ex-Titus Andronicus member Andrew Cedermark, Matt Leech himself with his beautifully distorted psychedelic pop, and the 60s infused jangling Young Sinclairs who we had on these pages earlier this year.

Head over to the label's site and get yourself started with three unreleased tracks of the three mentioned artists.

Andrew Cedermark - Why We Exist

The Young Sinclairs - Bright Day

Matt Leech - Empty House

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My lovely pal Matt from my favorite Virginia garage pop label Funny / Not Funny Records has sent me a mail this morning to call my attention to his little imprint's brand new Fall 2010 Mix Tape, a collection of 13 unreleased tracks as well as songs from current and forthcoming F/NF releases, among the featured artists being ex-Titus Andronicus member Andrew Cedermark, Matt Leech himself with his beautifully distorted psychedelic pop, and the 60s infused jangling Young Sinclairs who we had on these pages earlier this year.

Head over to the label's site and get yourself started with three unreleased tracks of the three mentioned artists.

Andrew Cedermark - Why We Exist

The Young Sinclairs - Bright Day

Matt Leech - Empty House

To Catch a Thief.

16 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Seattle three piece Sports just dropped these tunes into our busy inbox, and their chill and slightly glooming electro synth pop immediately grabbed my attention, two blissed-out slow burners hanging between colder strands of new wave and some rather opaque late nineties to early naughties indie stuff. Prepare yourself for some late night exercise.

Sports - To Catch a Thief

Sports - Heatwave (Demo)

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Seattle three piece Sports just dropped these tunes into our busy inbox, and their chill and slightly glooming electro synth pop immediately grabbed my attention, two blissed-out slow burners hanging between colder strands of new wave and some rather opaque late nineties to early naughties indie stuff. Prepare yourself for some late night exercise.

Sports - To Catch a Thief

Sports - Heatwave (Demo)

The ambient is growing.

16 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

As the season is changing, so is the music. We've been introduced to such a big amount of splendid, hot ambient and lo-fi music projects this fall of both new familiar faces, and the list simply continues to grow. A couple a days ago Brooklyn based Sanju Sebastian sent me a link to his brand new music project Sebastian the Crab (why the name, I don't know) whom just recently put out his EP How Does It Feel for free downloading at bandcamp. Sebastian the Crab's sound is somehow both hot and cold at the same time, with warm, (slowed down) The Whitest Boy Alive -like tunes in the foreground, at the same time as the cold, season changing atmosphere is sneaking up on you in the background. Read more →
As the season is changing, so is the music. We've been introduced to such a big amount of splendid, hot ambient and lo-fi music projects this fall of both new familiar faces, and the list simply continues to grow. A couple a days ago Brooklyn based Sanju Sebastian sent me a link to his brand new music project Sebastian the Crab (why the name, I don't know) whom just recently put out his EP How Does It Feel for free downloading at bandcamp. Sebastian the Crab's sound is somehow both hot and cold at the same time, with warm, (slowed down) The Whitest Boy Alive -like tunes in the foreground, at the same time as the cold, season changing atmosphere is sneaking up on you in the background.

With a fake flower in your hair.

15 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Thrifty Astronaut is the recording moniker of Nick Jones, yet another Fort Collins, Colorado resident who has simply been blessed with too much musical talent. Already been featured on the brilliant Act So Big Forest Triton compiltation that we'd recommended on Tuesday, he has also only recently put out his debut full-length Caffeine Heartache, an album stuffed with lo-fi glory, jangling guitar melodies over the sounds of toy keyboards and drum machines, plus a real sense for ironic lyrics - and not taking yourself too seriously is just what we'd need much more in music nowadays. Listen to two album tracks below, a sarcastically twisted ode to the Golden State and a high school loser's self-pity ballad, and get the whole thing over at Jones' bandcamp.

Thrifty Astronaut - Another California Song

Thrifty Astronaut - Boys Who Huff Glue

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Thrifty Astronaut is the recording moniker of Nick Jones, yet another Fort Collins, Colorado resident who has simply been blessed with too much musical talent. Already been featured on the brilliant Act So Big Forest Triton compiltation that we'd recommended on Tuesday, he has also only recently put out his debut full-length Caffeine Heartache, an album stuffed with lo-fi glory, jangling guitar melodies over the sounds of toy keyboards and drum machines, plus a real sense for ironic lyrics - and not taking yourself too seriously is just what we'd need much more in music nowadays. Listen to two album tracks below, a sarcastically twisted ode to the Golden State and a high school loser's self-pity ballad, and get the whole thing over at Jones' bandcamp.

Thrifty Astronaut - Another California Song

Thrifty Astronaut - Boys Who Huff Glue

Swanox - Dawnrunner.

15 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

The year 2010 just keeps on pleasing me with completely unanticipated pieces of the most amazing music. This time, it's California slacker Anthony Boruch aka Swanox who's made my day with his terrific Dawnrunner, a cassette just short of the forty minute mark that is a splendid take on slowly meandering, noise infused psychedelia, a night ride to dark yet appealing places. Britt Brown has dubbed this "loner drone-folk", and this just about nails it. Recorded at his San Francisco home on a Fostex X-12 over a period of roughly eight months until this May before getting the thing mixed down in LA, Dawnrunner is an amazingly tight and coherent effort both musically and atmospherically, hypnagogic yet with a personal and unique interpretation of the term. The tape is available now via Not Not Fun at an edition of 100, and believe me you do want this.

Swanox - Dawnrunner

Swanox - Ripley Station

Swanox - Cross the Water

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The year 2010 just keeps on pleasing me with completely unanticipated pieces of the most amazing music. This time, it's California slacker Anthony Boruch aka Swanox who's made my day with his terrific Dawnrunner, a cassette just short of the forty minute mark that is a splendid take on slowly meandering, noise infused psychedelia, a night ride to dark yet appealing places. Britt Brown has dubbed this "loner drone-folk", and this just about nails it. Recorded at his San Francisco home on a Fostex X-12 over a period of roughly eight months until this May before getting the thing mixed down in LA, Dawnrunner is an amazingly tight and coherent effort both musically and atmospherically, hypnagogic yet with a personal and unique interpretation of the term. The tape is available now via Not Not Fun at an edition of 100, and believe me you do want this.

Swanox - Dawnrunner

Swanox - Ripley Station

Swanox - Cross the Water