Since I had pretty neglected posting regularly, maybe its right to give you a proper opt. If ever I continue on posting on this basis, be sure to check out following volumes of this segment before the end of the year. Also dont fret, Id reserve a farewell post for 2008.
In the meantime, enjoy!
P.S. Im not shutting this blog down, Im too in love with Metaphor. We’ll get through this. Haha.
Filed under Au Revoir Simone, Bon Iver, Cat Power, Dance/Club, Indie, La Roux, Little Joy, MDA, Passion Pit, Pop, School of Seven Bells, Treasure Fingers
Let’s just make this clear. I do not render artists in this category to better than the ones I post singly. Filtering what’s awesome among rubble and rubble of popular indie music and alike is my hope.
Emiliana Torrini
I reckon you know I like Torrini. A female songstress and folk-pop songs?
Go ahead, I imagine everyone loves her by now.+/-
Emilana cheerfully describes being sat with a friend in a cemetery in Nice, staring at the gravestones and huge epitaphs; “these beautiful angels and tombstones, how silly – that’s all life comes to. People really want to believe there is something more, it makes them lazy about the moment”.
On a mission for my summer kiss
I close my eyes and wet my lips
But then I miss
And you laugh at my face
Me and Armani
Jungle Drum
Big Jumps
Unemployed in Summertime
Mr. Oizo
I kept exchanging Dr. from Mr. Dr. Oizo. If that’s the case, I suppose the effect would be much different, like hearing the almost drug-induced “Bruce Willis is Dead” after. Even though the track gives me the creeps, I think there are far more dance-induced songs of Dr. Oizo. He is epic.
Though it’s a sure bet he’ll linger in the minds of most only for his omnipresent Levi’s advert and 1999 European chart-topper “Flat Beat,” music-video director Quentin Dupieux turned in some excellent electronic productions as Mr. Oizo.
Jo
Cut Dick
Two Takes It
Little Bit Of Feel Good Remix (Jamie Lidell)
Department of Eagles
A band who spends roughly four years to finished an album (Ear Park) must be something. I have been ignoring this band for months but their songs are unbrokenly shoved in front of my face. What did I learned? Department of Eagles creates trancing songs conveying the simple pleasure and mystique of life.
Ear Park is a colorful and expansive album, an intimate and personal collection of songs; much of the material that Daniel brought to In Ear Park draws on memories from his childhood, especially those relating to his father, who passed away in 2007 and to whom the album is dedicated. Many of Fred’s contributions relate to similar themes of nostalgia and mortality, giving the album at times an elegiac feel. Ear Park is also full of joyful moments, lush production and concise songwriting.
And in the morning comes
You don’t need to breathe so easy
No One Does It Like You
Teenagers
The Horse You Ride
Sailing By Night
Filed under Alternative, Dance/Club, Department of Eagles, Emiliana Torrini, Indie, Jamie Lidell, MDA, Mr. Oizo, Pop, rock
Let’s face it, when you choose songs from your favorite artists, the best to boot are their classics. Take KOL for example… Molly’s Chamber for me, will stay forever even though their hairstyles wont (lol). Its the drums, the drums, the drums… Kudos also to them along others who continue to make original music. How do they do it without being sucked to the prevailing dimension?
Jenny Lewis (born January 8, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a current member and lead singer of the indie band Rilo Kiley, as well as a solo musician. She is also a former child actress.
He winked at Mom
Her pretty face was the first he saw
Was Jack wrong because he loved Mom?
Things were bad, before they got worse
Mom would pinch Jack until it hurt
Mama thought her boy was cursed
Jack Killed Mom
Pretty Bird
Next Messiah
Acid Tongue
Black Sand
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon are a rock band made up of three brothers and a cousin, based in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, United States who play a cross between Southern rock and garage rock. They formed in 2000 and have had a large following with fans of alternative rock.
Free- that’s all that she could bleed
That’s why she’ll never stay
White- bare naked in the night
And lookin’ for some play
Just another girl that wants to rule the world
At any time or place
And when she gets into your head
You know she’s there to stay
Molly’s Chambers
I Want You
Soft
True Love Way
California Waiting
Sex on Fire
The Bucket
Closer
Crawl
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes is a Seattle band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union. The band consists of Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo, and Josh Tillman. The quintet describe their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams”.
Penniless and tired, let your hair grow long
I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong
Memory is an echo silent song
I didn’t understand
He Doesnt Know Why
White Winter Hymnal
Ragged Wood
Blue Ridge Mountains
Mykonos
Oliver James
Drops in the River
Metronomy
Joseph Mount used to be Metronomy. Oscar Cash, Gabriel Stebbing and Joseph Mount are now Metronomy. Metronomy have come to be known for some super-cool remixes, dance-tastic live shows and an aversion to over-production.
i heard she broke your heart again
i heard she broke your heart
well that girl’s a heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
The End of You Too
My Heart Rapid
You Could Easily Have Me
Matthias Gathering
Holiday
Back on the Motorway
On the Dancefloors
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams on November 5, 1974) is an alt-country and rock and roll singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Perfect little doll
Baby face
Broken eyes, and
Vodka glaze
Give me sunshine
Gimme hell
Perfect baby
Help me out
Sun shining in her eyes
Perfect shuffle of her feet
Gimme Sunshine
Come Pick Me Up
So Alive
Oh My Sweet Carolina
Wonderwall
Filed under Alternative, Dance/Club, Fleet Foxes, Indie, Jenny Lewis, Kings of Leon, MDA, Metronomy, Pop, rock, Ryan Adams
To those who’ve been on space for the past months, here is the second volume of some amazing artists who have been creating buzz lately. I may be a bit late but please do support them and their albums.
Little Boots is the solo project of Victoria Hesketh, formely lead singer/ synth player in Dead Disco. The track ‘Stuck on Repeat’ was produced by Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and will be released on limited 12” white-label vinyl in March 2008. The track has received a lot of attention from many popular music blogs. Little Boots will release her first single-proper on the 18th August 2008 on the 50 Bones label. The track; ‘Meddle’ will be available as a limited-edition 7”. The track was produced by both Joe Goddard and Greg Kurstin.
I remeber all the things she did before.
I remeber all the times she cried.
I remeber all the things you promised her,
and no one heard.
Meddle
Stuck on Repeat
Magical(Demo)
Ready for the floor (Hot Chip Cover)
Of Montreal (formed in 1997) are an indie pop band from Athens, Georgia, United States, fronted by Kevin Barnes.
They were among the second wave of groups to emerge from The Elephant 6 Recording Company and the group has a style that is typical of many Elephant 6 bands due to their interest in combining musical experimentation with the basic tenets of pop i.e. catchy melodies and sing-along choruses. The band’s style has been influenced by conventional indie pop, psychedelic music, vaudeville and music hall on their earlier releases and by afrobeat, funk, krautrock and reggae on their recent releases.
It’s so beautiful
Our lunacy
It’s so beautiful
Disconnect the Dots
Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
Gronlandic Edit
Suffer for Fashion
ID Engager
Nonpareil Of Favor
Gallery Piece
Formed at Syracuse University in January 2006, Ra Ra Riot is an amorphous blob (read as: band) that consists of seven highly dedicated individuals, each bringing her/his own experiences as both people and musicians to the metaphorical table. They are dedicated to moving people physically and mentally as a means of affecting positive micro/macro cosmic change. Ra Ra Riot spends its time shaking the hands of foreign dignitaries, practicing, playing shows, eating pizza, writing strange band bios that sound like college application essays and going about the business of everyday life.
What a manner to act
like a heart attack
because lookin back
you woulda worked it like this
A Manner To Act
Each Year
Dying is Fine
Ghost Under Rocks
Can You Tell
Okkervil River began as a mutual project of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), and Seth Warren (guitar). They met and collaborated together when both were still in high school in Meriden, NH. After relocating to Austin, TX in the late 90’s, the duo decided to re-assemble the band with the addition of Zachary Thomas (vocals, bass), Jonathan Meiburg (vocals, banjo), and drummer Mark Pedini. In 1998, the group self-released their first disc, the “Bedroom” (EP), followed a year later with their debut album “Stars too Small to Use”. During the succeeding years, the band regularly played live on numerous occasions, including an appearance at the South by Southwest festival in 2000. The group’s second album, Don’t Fall in Love With Everyone You See, showed up in 2002, re-affirming the band’s cult following all over the Texas music scene. Since that time, Okkervil River has released a few more full-length albums and several EPs. On April 17, 2006, Okkervil River signed with Virgin/EMI in Europe. On August 7, 2007, the band released their fifth full-length, entitled “The Stage Names,” released, again, on Jagjaguwar. Pitchfork identified the album as “Okkervil River’s most emotionally devastating record yet, and without doubt one of the year’s best.”
Sit down, sit down on the proud wave bye, there might not be another star, farther on the line. Look out, look out at each town that glides by, and there’s another crowd, to drown in crying eyes. And see how that light you love now just won`t shine, there might just be another star, that`s high and far in some other sky.
Lost Coastlines
Unless It Kicks
Our Live is Not a Movie or Maybe
For Real
Black
No Key Plan
The Deer Tracks is David Lehnberg & Elin Lindfors, both children of Gävle, Sweden. Despite their earlier success with respective projects (Leiah, Ariel Kill Him & Twiggy Frostbite), all roads led them into this electromagnetic mist of melodies. And so, around the shift of 06/07, they met to shape electro landscapes just as sparkling as the rime that sheeted the long and hard winter nights. Now streaming from this coalition is the tender sadness of the north, coated in its northern lights. Electrifying vibrations meets a gentle forest, where tracks of magic leaves shaped patterns. The castaway’s last hope, a message in a bottle drifting against the stream.
A young boy’s journey from his house to the outer edges of civilization. Star filled skies, forests of birch trees with rich colorful palettes that fill the screen.
Slow Collision
Yes, This Is My Broken Shield
Cast Away
Click to download.
Lil thanks goes a long way…
Special thanks to:
Redthreat
sotb
Cafe Ecletica Music
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
music is art
Tracie Wards
Anyone’s Guess
Stranger Dance
Freeindie
The Man Of Rennes Steals Our Hearts
Uh Oh Disco
last.fm
Filed under Alternative, Indie, Little Boots, MDA, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Ra Ra Riot, rock, The Deer Tracks
Different artists have been surfacing in the blog world lately. Others are extraordinarily good and some are…mediocre or too much indie. I have even featured others here. Now, Im giving you a rundown of some and their tracks with their latest album. Do they deserved the fuss? You find out.
Not in particular order.
The Ting Tings (We Started Nothing)
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The Ting Tings are an English electropop band, with Dear Eskiimo’s Jules De Martino (drums & vocals) & Katie White (vocals, guitar & bass drum). They formed in 2006 while based in Islington Mill, Salford. The Ting Tings’ first single “That’s Not My Name” was released on local label Switchflicker, and together with their second single “Fruit Machine”, were on heavy rotation in British radio (amongst others BBC 6 Music, played regularly by many DJs including a session for Steve Lamacq), are considered indie music hits. “Fruit Machine” was a limited-edition, 500-only seven-inch single on Legendre Starkie Records, which was only available at the group’s gigs at Islington Mill in Salford, Eleckrowerkz in Islington, West Germany in Berlin and at Glasslands in Brooklyn, New York City.
They call me ‘hell’
They call me ‘Stacey’
They call me ‘her’
They call me ‘Jane’
That’s not my name
That’s not my name
Shut Up And Let Me Go
That’s Not My Name
Great DJ
Fruit Machine
Be The One
The Walkmen are five New Yorkers who have played rock music since they were 10 years old. All five originally hail from Washington, D.C. where they attended the same high school and played in several bands. Over the years, and in their many ensembles, they’ve experimented with punk, noise, a lot of “garage” sounds, ska, and rock.
I know that it’s true
It’s gonna be a good year
Out of the darkness
And into the fire
I tell you I love you
And my heart’s in the strangest place
In The New Year
Four Provinces
Dónde está la Playa
Red River
On the Water
Postcards From Tiny Islands
Bloc Party are an English indie rock band. In 2005, the band released their critically acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm. Their second studio album, A Weekend In the City was released on February 5, 2007 in the United Kingdom and February 6 in the United States. A third album Intimacy was released in August 2008 for download and is set for a CD release on October 27.
This is not the time, the time to start a new love
This is not the time, the time to sign a lease
Try not to worry about what`s forgotten
Try not to worry about what`s being missed
Mercury
Trojan Horse
Signs
Ion Square
Biko
Halo
One Month Off
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (born March 18, 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden), better known by her stage name Lykke Li, is an indie singer. Li released her first album, Youth Novels on LL Recordings in the Nordic region on 4 February 2008, prior to a wider European release this June. The album was produced by Björn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John) and Lasse Mårtén. It was released in the United States on 6 May 2008. The 2007 EP “Little Bit” had some success on its release. Stereogum named her an artist to watch in October 2007, describing her music as a mix of soul, electro and powdered-sugar pop.
A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bit
Little bit
Little bit
In lalalala love with me
Little Bit
Im Good, Im Gone
Tonight
Breaking It Up
Dance Dance Dance
Let It Fall
Window Blues
MGMT is a psychedelic synthpop group formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew Vanwyngarden, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Ben Goldwasser (vocals, keyboards, synths, drums), both alumni of Wesleyan University. Their most popular songs are “PlayTime to Pretend” (featured on the motion picture “21” and on the TV shows “Skins”, Gossip Girl” & “90210”, (the music video has reached over 4,000,000 views on YouTube) and “PlayElectric Feel”, their most purchased single on iTunes.
You were a child
Crawling on your knees toward it
Making momma so proud,
But your voice is too loud
Kids
Destrokk
Electric Feel
Time to Pretend
The Youth
Pieces of What
TV On the Radio (Random)
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2001. Their music is difficult to classify and is often described as art rock or post-punk, but is educated by a diverse spectrum of styles including freeform jazz and a cappella music, psychedelia and trip-hop, modern soul and classic ’90s indie rock, giving them a unique and original sound.
My mind has changed
my bodys frame but god i like it
my hearts aflame
my bodys strained but god i like it
Province
Wolf Like Me
Dry Dunk Emperor
Staring at the Sun
Young Liars
Golden Age
Ladyhawke is Pip Browne, a 26 year old New Zealander. After spending time in Sydney in various bands, she has upped sticks even further still, and now resides in London.As a music-obsessed child with very musical parents (step-father a drummer, mother a singer), she soaked up everything from the 70’s and 80’s. From Stevie Nicks and Joan Jett to Nirvana and Hole with Van Halen and Deep Purple in between. The result is a refreshing blend of rock, dance and classic song writing. As well as writing PlayBack of the Van, Pip also plays the drums, guitar and synth on the track.
All of the boys and the girls here, in Paris.
Sing to the night without sight, but with madness.
I can’t keep up, I’m a wreck, but want it.
Tell me the truth, is it love or just Paris?
Paris is Burning
Dusk til Dawn
Paris s’enflamme
Professional Suicide
Back of the Van
Embrace (PNAU)
Cansei de Ser Sexy (Random)
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2001. Their music is difficult to classify and is often described as art rock or post-punk, but is educated by a diverse spectrum of styles including freeform jazz and a cappella music, psychedelia and trip-hop, modern soul and classic ’90s indie rock, giving them a unique and original sound.
CSS owes a lot of its success to word-of-mouth promotion on the internet, starting with the Trama Virtual website, a kind of Brazilian MySpace. A live performance in 2004 at Tim Festival on the same stage as 2 Many DJ’s and Kraftwerk increased their fanbase. In 2005, they signed with trama virtual and in October of the same year their first album was released in Brazil.
Backwards straight to the dance floor
will you still be waiting for me? will you still be my friend?
i don’t wanna bug you
All these crazy, crazy ideas
For i know this ain’t a good place for us to talk
Move
Jager Yoga
Left Behind
Lets Reggae All Night
Music is my Hot Hot Sex
Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
My Morning Jacket (Evil Urges)
My Morning Jacket is an American rock band. Formed in 1998 in Louisville, Kentucky, the band consists of five members — singer/songwriter/guitarist Jim James, bassist “Two Tone” Tommy, drummer Patrick Hallahan, guitarist Carl Broemel, and keyboardist Bo Koster. The band is best known for their reverb-soaked sound and their enthusiastic live shows. My Morning Jacket is signed with ATO Records.
Things they’re saying–
Evil urges baby; they’re just part of the human way
It ain’t evil baby, if ya ain’t hurting anybody
Evil urges baby; they’re now part of the human way
It ain’t evil baby, if ya ain’t hurting anybody, anybody
Evil Urges
Highly
Im Amazed
Touch Me Im Going to Scream Pt. 2
Sec Walkin
Aluminum Park
Lil’ thanks goes a long way…
Filed under Alternative, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Dance/Club, download, Indie, Ladyhawke, Lykke Li, MDA, MGMT, mp3, My Morning Jacket, Pop, Radio, rock, The Bloc Party, The Ting Tings, The Walkmen, TV on the Radio
Metaphor 
Little Joy is Binki Shapiro, Rodrigo Amarante (Singer/Guitarist of Los Hermanos) and Fabrizio Moretti (drummer of The Strokes). While you’re waiting for the The Strokes’ new album, listen to this band. Take heed that Little Joy has stripped off affiliations from any band’s style, their sound is original.
The Next Time Around
Brand New Start
Unattainable
How To Hang A Warhol
Dont Watch Me Dancing
Bon Iver is to release new EP this January, entitled “Blood Bank” and will consist of four songs, yes, only four songs. He had one of the most unforgettable albums this year so hopefully, “Blood Bank” is set to transfixed us yet again.
Blood Bank
Woods
Skinny Love
For Emma
What pushes these songs past mere worship involves cunning collisions of robust rhythm, caressing noise, and heavenly melody, with each element equally crucial. Psychedelic. Alpinism. Modern individualist. School of Seven Bells.
Half Asleep
Chain
Connjur
Face to Face on High Places
My Cabal
This was sent to me a couple of months ago but ignored it til now. You know how it is. Im not so much of a fan of “Fascination” but “Quicksand” is such a gem so maybe I should give her a chance. She is predicted by music critics to pave way into the scene for 2009 along with slightly resembling contender, Little Boots.
Quicksand
Fascination
Quicksand ( autoKratz Drags to Riches remix)
Im guilty with this one. I only heard “Cross the Dancefloor” and it entirely blew my mind and left it soaking on the edge of sanity. You should check it out.
Little Boots – Meddle (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Cross The Dancefloor (Designer Drugs Remix)
Come True Tonight (dub mix)
Delegate Your Turn
100% (Treasure Fingers’ B-Live Pemberton Mix)
Charlyn Marie Marshall or Chan is the name under Cat Power. She started performing way back on 1994. Chan disappeared from the musical scene after that, planning to permanently retire from music but during a sleepless night resulting from a nightmare, she started writing songs again. She just released “The Greatest”, consisting of her versions of classic songs.
Sea of Love
After It All
Metal Heart
The Party
Still In Love
Wonderwall
Wonderwall (Elements of Noise Remix)
Dark End of the Street (James Carr, Aretha Franklin)
Hard Times In New York (Bob Dylan Cover)
This synth-pop trio has an intriguing name since they are a Brooklyn-base band. Blogs have been circulating remix tracks of Au Revoir Simone along with their love for the band. Powered by vintage keyboards, a lockstep beat box, and gorgeous, wide-eyed warbling, the Simones create make-out music for your inner android. What? I think, they mean these remixed tracks are lovely as hell.
Lark
Lark (Ruff and Jam mix)
The Way To There (Mark Anthony Tieku remix)
Paris (Aeroplane and Friendly Fires Cover)
Sad Song (Pacific! Remix)
Fallen Snow (Redux)
A Violent Yet Flammable World (Remix from Reverse Migration)
The Chunk of Change was originally put together as a Valentine’s Day present to Angelakos’ girlfriend. After being prompted to send it to others, the production of the brief, sporadic, and explosive recording of the EP followed. It worked towards the development of Angelakos’ signature euphoric and blissfully melancholic sound. Thus, Passion Pit was born.
Sleepyhead
Cuddle Fuddle
Better Things
Smile Upon Me
Ive Got Your Number