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

I know you well enough by now.

14 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Josef of Austin's Lay Bac put a new tune up last night: "It's about a girl I had a feeling for a while ago but I wrongly analyzed the signals." No worries dude, happened to all of us. If all bitter sorrows sounded as easy and lush as this beautiful little gem. But that's why you're the artist, after all.

Lay Bac - Hopen

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Josef of Austin's Lay Bac put a new tune up last night: "It's about a girl I had a feeling for a while ago but I wrongly analyzed the signals." No worries dude, happened to all of us. If all bitter sorrows sounded as easy and lush as this beautiful little gem. But that's why you're the artist, after all.

Lay Bac - Hopen

Wolf Pantolones.

13 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

The Oakland, California three-piece Beep! is a side project of the mighty and well-known tUnE-yArDs, and the pretty heavily jazz-infused percussion-dominated banger Wolf Pantolones is the first teaser of the band's forthcoming album City of the Future, due later this year. Season of joy, folks.

Beep! - Wolf Pantolones

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The Oakland, California three-piece Beep! is a side project of the mighty and well-known tUnE-yArDs, and the pretty heavily jazz-infused percussion-dominated banger Wolf Pantolones is the first teaser of the band's forthcoming album City of the Future, due later this year. Season of joy, folks.

Beep! - Wolf Pantolones

Long Walks On The Beach.

13 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Some Washington, DC fella apparently blessed with the very German name Fritz has just sent me a mail to draw my attention to his little bedroom pop project Long Walks On The Beach, and the tune he'd attached immediately made me forget about a way too long day at the library - metaPhysical is a wonderful little pop gem, simply structured but with an absolutely irresistible melody and a rhythm that will keep your head banging in joy. And euphoric as I am right now, I've also attached another, equally compelling song I've just found over at the dude's bandcamp.

Long Walks On The Beach - metaPhysical

Long Walks On The Beach - TRUE LOVE or bust

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Some Washington, DC fella apparently blessed with the very German name Fritz has just sent me a mail to draw my attention to his little bedroom pop project Long Walks On The Beach, and the tune he'd attached immediately made me forget about a way too long day at the library - metaPhysical is a wonderful little pop gem, simply structured but with an absolutely irresistible melody and a rhythm that will keep your head banging in joy. And euphoric as I am right now, I've also attached another, equally compelling song I've just found over at the dude's bandcamp.

Long Walks On The Beach - metaPhysical

Long Walks On The Beach - TRUE LOVE or bust