Thrice – The MySpace Transmissions

Awesome.

01. Broken Lungs
02. The Earth Isn’t Humming
03. Daedalus
04. Come All You Weary
05. Lost Continent
06. The Lion and the Wolf

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Anberlin – New Surrender (Exclusive Tracks)

Anberlin is releasing their new album, New Surrender, on September 30. A pre-order for the upcoming album is available throughout the Warped Tour in the US. The pre-order comes with a USB device on a wristband, containing a direct link to a digital download of the album, available on release date, September 30, 2008. The USB also has four exclusive tracks, including:

“Breaking” (Alternate Acoustic Remix)
“Hello Alone” (Remix)
“The Unwinding Cable Car” (Remix)
“The Feel Good Drag” (Remix)

Here they are for you. And yes, I’ll be buying the disk when it comes out.

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Lykke Li – Youth Novels

Li Lykke (stage name Lykke Li) is a singer from Stockholm. This album was released this past February but surfaced in Europe earlier this month & I can’t stop listening to it!

I recommend:
-Dance Dance Dance
-I’m Good, I’m Gone
-Let it Fall
-Little Bit

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City and Colour Discography

City and Colour is an acoustic side-project fronted by Dallas Green, rhythm guitarist and singer for the Canadian band Alexisonfire. I’ve posted some of his stuff before, but I thought I would compile his discography for anyone who is interested. Great stuff; even the live album doesn’t disappoint.

The Death of Me EP
(2004) *only 2000 copies were pressed

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Missing EP
(January 2005) *only 1000 copies were pressed
and yes, there’s only supposed to be one track

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Sometimes
(November 1, 2005)

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Live
(March 27, 2007)

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Bring Me Your Love
(February 12, 2008)

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The MySpace Transmissions EP
(June 2008)

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Live Session EP (iTunes Exclusive)
(June 24, 2008)

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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Searching For The Hows And Whys

One-man band Sam Duckworth, from Southend, Essex, UK, writes socially-motivated acoustic songs, set to a background of scatty electronic beats running from his laptop; what you might call “folktronica”. Influences include Roni Size, Athlete, Gomez, Elbow, The Streets and Rival Schools.

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Horse Feathers – Words Are Dead

I’m sorry that it took me so long to post this! This cd is a favorite of mine. I first had the pleasure of seeing this ridiculously talented ensemble last September with Caroline Smith & Johanna Kunin. “Hardwood Pews” and “In Our Blood” are two of my favorites!

For more band info & tour dates you can check out their myspace!

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Johnny Foreigner – Waited Up Til It Was Light

Without a doubt one of the most heavily hyped bands of 2008, Johnny Foreigner follow a similar format to other success story ‘Los Campesinos‘ with male/female call back vocals over sprawling guitars and lots of noise but less twee. Essentially the is a lot going on here but the album some how is more infectious and downright more impressive then ‘Hold On Now Youngster’ by Los Campesinos, the main reason for this is down to the production choices made… whilst not bare it’s certainly a lot less polished and more lo-fi then Campesinonses effort… with a hyper active attitude, clever lyrics and tonnes of depth this is easily one of the best album releases of the year & is easily one of the best debuts I have heard for a long long long time.

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Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover

I don’t want to say a lot because the music kind of speaks for itself but Sunset Rubdown was originally started as the solo project of Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug. His baby is now all grown up and full of energy on “Random Spirit Lover”. Check it out!

“The Mending of the Gown”

Was it the mending of the gown, or the running,
and the running and the running it around?
She said my name and my spirit are both corrupt
and if you hold me close, you gotta hold me up.
It was the tender mending of this slender gown that brought me bending to the ground.
Now you’ll wear any old thing, oh you’ll wear any old thing.
So she wrapped herself in swallowing up the fever to the air of the broken wind
It’s an actor thing, she’s just pretending. It’s an actor thing, she’s just pretending.

P.S. The beginning of this song is pretty amazing so all you guitar players can learn how to play it by watching this video by this guy:

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Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling

Canadian folk singer Basia Bulat has already gained fame in Great Britain and is slowly but surely making her way to the U.S., with good reason. Her beautiful voice well-represents her lovely lyrics and the instrumentals backing her up are top notch to boot!

As you can probably tell, I’m quite fond of unique female vocalists, especially when I find lyrics I can connect with.

“I Was a Daughter”

If you want to build this house with me
Oh what a story
This is how they’ll all remember me
We were the lucky ones that would survive the flood
With potted flowers in our blood
Pretendin that we don’t know where we bleed
All the pretty fall

We fell asleep but we couldn’t hear their little words
We swam in the rivers, sang with the birds
Gave away our hearts before we knew what they were
What a pretty fall

Didn’t even know

We sang out with the birds

Gave away our hearts before we knew what they were

What they were
Oh what they were

Simply stated, the album won’t disappoint.

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Subtle – exitingARM

Subtle are considered by many to be one of the finest musicians currently active in music today & with good reason, all of their albums have been stone cold genius…. so with this heavy weight placed firmly on their shoulder how do this experimental hip hop group fair? Well the answer is quite simple in this case & that is, rather well indeed….. NO!… I was wrong they don’t fair rather well, they fair better then RATHER well, they have put out the album of their career so far & I will tell you why this is & it comes in the words of ‘FOCUS’. Sure the group are just as eclectic as ever and I never felt the need to criticise the groups focus before but on this album it just all makes sense more so then ever, it’s not jarred at all & where as in their previous albums they would swing one way rapidly to another in the space of 3mins this album seems to have all the same elements but used more coherently and sparingly & it works brilliantly.

The album is as usual heavy and dense and produced brilliantly, the dense nature of the album means the is something to discover each & every listen…. the melodies within are hooky and very on the up but on first listen this may not seem the case, notes and drones dance and inter lay within one another & it’s not until you listen to this album repeatedly will you even begin to get the patterns and see the true beauty, its pretty at first but now on my 6th listen I find this album all the more captivating & generally surprising… it’s a hard thing to get right & I honestly thought it would lack the depth of the earlier albums due to it’s surprisingly approachable first listen.

I have heard ‘Third’ by Portishead, ‘April’ by Sun Kil Moon & ‘Alopecia’ by Why? but for me I think this album out does them all and so far is the best album of the year & I would be very suprised if anything beats it.

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