Luxurious fidelity.

29 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Listen to Wild Nothing's splendid brand new track Your Rabbit Feet from his upcoming EP Evertide, the first on the just founded imprint Warmest Chord that will focus on the released records' design and packaging, putting out only very limited editions of the physical copies. (via Pitchfork)

Wild Nothing - Your Rabbit Feet

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Listen to Wild Nothing's splendid brand new track Your Rabbit Feet from his upcoming EP Evertide, the first on the just founded imprint Warmest Chord that will focus on the released records' design and packaging, putting out only very limited editions of the physical copies. (via Pitchfork)

Wild Nothing - Your Rabbit Feet

While I waited for the world.

28 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Somerville's Gem Club are Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala, and they devoted themselves to wonderfully intimate and slow ballads, with a sad voice supported only by a piano, gentle strings and occasionally some subtle noises in the distance - that's all, but that's more than enough to create magic that leaves us baffled and spellbound.

Gem Club will have an EP ready by July 9, it will be available via their bandcamp page.

Gem Club - Sevens

Gem Club - Acid and Everything

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Somerville's Gem Club are Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala, and they devoted themselves to wonderfully intimate and slow ballads, with a sad voice supported only by a piano, gentle strings and occasionally some subtle noises in the distance - that's all, but that's more than enough to create magic that leaves us baffled and spellbound.

Gem Club will have an EP ready by July 9, it will be available via their bandcamp page.

Gem Club - Sevens

Gem Club - Acid and Everything

I’m not gonna change how I feel.

28 Jun 2010 — NFOP

This is gonna be something really special: NFOP is officially psyched to announce the release of Ghost Animal's debut full length tape Summertime in Heaven (that's most likely gonna be the cover art above), thrown into the realms of us wretched mortals by our already defenselessly adored Summer Time In Hell. The cassette will feature eleven blissed out shoegazey surf pop tunes, all the fuzzy guitar magnificence you're possibly gonna need this summer.

In addition to the earlier featured California Summer pt. 1, In Your Room and Fever Not Dead, the amazingly talented Mr Avishai has kindly made available a couple of other tracks, the beautiful album's title track and its opener Change Your Mind, a brilliant track recorded in a manner Phil Spector would be proud of, probably Ghost Animal's most energetic and impulsive song to date. Moreover, we are blessed with another track, the Amdiscs-released EP only Found God, a slower, classically hazy Jesus and Mary Chain inspired gem with perfectly subtle lyrics. And now, go spark the hype.

Ghost Animal - Summertime in Heaven

Ghost Animal - Change Your Mind

Ghost Animal - Found God

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This is gonna be something really special: NFOP is officially psyched to announce the release of Ghost Animal's debut full length tape Summertime in Heaven (that's most likely gonna be the cover art above), thrown into the realms of us wretched mortals by our already defenselessly adored Summer Time In Hell. The cassette will feature eleven blissed out shoegazey surf pop tunes, all the fuzzy guitar magnificence you're possibly gonna need this summer.

In addition to the earlier featured California Summer pt. 1, In Your Room and Fever Not Dead, the amazingly talented Mr Avishai has kindly made available a couple of other tracks, the beautiful album's title track and its opener Change Your Mind, a brilliant track recorded in a manner Phil Spector would be proud of, probably Ghost Animal's most energetic and impulsive song to date. Moreover, we are blessed with another track, the Amdiscs-released EP only Found God, a slower, classically hazy Jesus and Mary Chain inspired gem with perfectly subtle lyrics. And now, go spark the hype.

Ghost Animal - Summertime in Heaven

Ghost Animal - Change Your Mind

Ghost Animal - Found God

Weakend.

24 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Just very briefly, cause I really don't want you to miss this: Another video by NFOP darlings Yuck which they put on their blog last night. Weakend will be on the band's debut cassette EP, out soon on Mirror Universe.



Yuck - Weakend

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Just very briefly, cause I really don't want you to miss this: Another video by NFOP darlings Yuck which they put on their blog last night. Weakend will be on the band's debut cassette EP, out soon on Mirror Universe.



Yuck - Weakend

Pulled away.

24 Jun 2010 — NFOP

HORSES is Patrick Eberman's delicate bedroom project, airy tunes made for dreaming without overemphasizing the dreamy, beautifully simple guitar lines playing simply beautiful little lullabies over hushed out synths or a subtle piano, sparse percussion and occasionally a hazy voice in the distant.

Some of HORSES' gorgeous beauties are free for download from his bandcamp site, while his debut tape Sincerely Jackie Chan has just been released by Solid Melts. Below, you can listen to the EP's By The Sea and By The Breeze, and to the brand new (roughly a day, to be exact) My Tired Heart, which I'd like to count as Eberman's finest so far.


HORSES - My Tired Heart

HORSES - By The Sea and The Breeze

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HORSES is Patrick Eberman's delicate bedroom project, airy tunes made for dreaming without overemphasizing the dreamy, beautifully simple guitar lines playing simply beautiful little lullabies over hushed out synths or a subtle piano, sparse percussion and occasionally a hazy voice in the distant.

Some of HORSES' gorgeous beauties are free for download from his bandcamp site, while his debut tape Sincerely Jackie Chan has just been released by Solid Melts. Below, you can listen to the EP's By The Sea and By The Breeze, and to the brand new (roughly a day, to be exact) My Tired Heart, which I'd like to count as Eberman's finest so far.


HORSES - My Tired Heart

HORSES - By The Sea and The Breeze

The spirit of youth.

23 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Others have already shown their enthusiasm, but Aaron and Kris are eager to shoot their songs into the blogosphere hoping the love will spread, and for good reason: As The CQ, the two teenagers from Bedford, New Hampshire cherish music that was written well before their birth, yet they do it so perfectly it's almost alarming. The few songs the duo has made available so far are shoegaze par excellence, with fine melodies drenched in reverb and underlying synth patterns, dream pop sparklers that don't need to hide from their obvious predecessors by My Bloody Valentine and the likes, or, in Emmanuel Ducret's words, songs full of musical maturity.


The CQ - Without You

The CQ - Things

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Others have already shown their enthusiasm, but Aaron and Kris are eager to shoot their songs into the blogosphere hoping the love will spread, and for good reason: As The CQ, the two teenagers from Bedford, New Hampshire cherish music that was written well before their birth, yet they do it so perfectly it's almost alarming. The few songs the duo has made available so far are shoegaze par excellence, with fine melodies drenched in reverb and underlying synth patterns, dream pop sparklers that don't need to hide from their obvious predecessors by My Bloody Valentine and the likes, or, in Emmanuel Ducret's words, songs full of musical maturity.


The CQ - Without You

The CQ - Things

Golden State.

23 Jun 2010 — NFOP

Sunbeam Rd. is another San Francisco outfit that endorses Northern California's tradition of garage guitar pop with a certain psychedelic feel to it, but unlike their much beloved pals Young Prisms, Weekend or also Sleepy Sun, the four-piece stays on the brighter side, mostly keeping the whole thing a little less weird while putting more emphasis on harmonies in the songs' structure. Waves may serve as an excellent example, a sun-drenched yet at times sneakily twisted pop anthem. The tune is the opener of Sunbeam Rd.'s beautiful debut EP Turtles, Magnets, Animals, available on cassette and free download via their bandcamp page.



Sunbeam Rd. - Waves

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Sunbeam Rd. is another San Francisco outfit that endorses Northern California's tradition of garage guitar pop with a certain psychedelic feel to it, but unlike their much beloved pals Young Prisms, Weekend or also Sleepy Sun, the four-piece stays on the brighter side, mostly keeping the whole thing a little less weird while putting more emphasis on harmonies in the songs' structure. Waves may serve as an excellent example, a sun-drenched yet at times sneakily twisted pop anthem. The tune is the opener of Sunbeam Rd.'s beautiful debut EP Turtles, Magnets, Animals, available on cassette and free download via their bandcamp page.



Sunbeam Rd. - Waves