With all the shit that’s been going on recently I haven’t really found the time to post anything, or even keep up to date. There’s been so many new things happening to me that the thought of actively seeking MORE new things to digest seems crazy. Regardless, I have picked up one or two things that have been the most recent soundtracks to my confusion.

Having been on a severe Death From Above 1978 diet for the past month with a touch of Jesus and Mary Chain may explain why Crocodiles‘ Summer of Hate found it’s way into top rotation/repeat on my now defunct ipod. (grrr love/hate technology)
Searing synth-laced noise-pop, full of directionless rage born from the boredom of the disenchanted.

MP3: Crocodiles – I Wanna Kill

MP3: Crocodiles – Summer of Hate

On the flipside, Mount Eerie’s third LP Wind’s Dark Poem, which has been described as Phil Elverum’s “Black Metal” Album (with touches of Twin Peaks thrown in for good measure), has also managed to crawl under my skin. For those who only know Elverum as that guy from The Microphones who makes that lo-fi emo folksy ambient shit, this album will surprise those who though they had him pigeon-holed and presents a performer who is coming into his own. Dark brooding walls of guitar distortion ebb and flow around Elverum’s abstracted lyrics of nature and decay. The varying textures here better capture the full tone of his lyrical compositions then his previous, aesthetically narrower work.

MP3: Mount Eerie – Lost Wisdom Pt. 2

MP3: Mount Eerie – Stone’s Ode

Two excellent purveyors of tape-hiss and ethereal pop. Ducktails have been getting a fair bit of exposure from blogs like GorillaVsBear and the like, with comparisons that they’re a tropical version of Wavves. Ducktails sound like something being broadcast from the middle of a distant heatwave on a far away island.

MP3: Ducktails – Backyard

Gary War is 60’s pop rock sent through a time tunnel and sonically ripped apart in the process. Everything shimmers underneath layers of fleeting, barely held together guitar sounds and vibrating vocal lines on the edge of falling apart.

MP3: Gary War – Clues

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, or ‘a little night music’ as it would be translated, is UK Deejay Riton’s latest side project and if your even slightly into any form of krautrock electronica (Kraftwerk, Neu! etc) then you’ll really dig this. The album definitely takes a huge cue from the German sounds of the past, but puts a fresh spin on all, and must have taken someones liking as Modular have even stepped up to release it. Good to see theyre starting to give the label a more varied sound.

MP3: Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Bardolator

Now another Modular release, the Tame Impala EP, should be released on Oct 11, but to get a little taster here’s a little remix I stumbled upon. Honestly I could go either way on these guys. From what Ive heard already its sounding like more derivative psychedelic rock (without the afro) with possibly not enough substance to lift them up. But you never know.

MP3: Tame Impala – H.f.g.w. (canyons drunken rage)

I can honestly say that it only took one listen of Deerhunter’s new album, Microcastle, to propel them into my top 5 bands of all time. It is fantastic dreamy, psychedelic indie at its best, and made me care a whole lot more about the very talented frontman Bradford Cox. Even his side project, Atlas Sound, is great though it has a rather softer tone. My favorite track off the Atlas Sound album below.

MP3: Atlas Sound – Recent bedroom

This album slipped right past me last year even though it was one of the highest rated albums of the year on several sites. Its The Field’s debut album ‘From Here We Go Sublime’, probably known before this for his remixes of Gui Boratto and Maps. This track is actually a really beautiful piece of ambient techno that works its way into a very smooth choppy beat. The whole album actually is worth a listen too.

MP3: The Field – Everyday

Also I hope everyone is still bearing with us for October 10th (apologies for the lack of eye candy on the site as we work switch the designs). Alot of big changes and big surprises are coming that all our regular readers and fans can join in and be a part of too.