Woodkid - Iron EP (2011)

Really don't know how to describe this... a lower pitched Tallest Man on Earth sings over a lot of cinematic theatrical elements. Really folky feel. Decide fo' yehselves!

1. Iron
2. Brooklyn
3. Baltimore's Fireflies
4. Wasteland
5. Iron (Remix By Mystery Jets)
6. Iron (Remix By Gucci Vump)

WWJRD

Bourgeois Noir - Weakly From Below (2012)

Max put together a new demo! Some of these were on the other demo I posted but there are some new ones on here as well. 

The XX - Coexist 2012

01 Angels
02 Chained
03 Fiction
04 Try
05 Reunion
06 Sunset
07 Missing
08 Tides
09 Unfold
10 Swept Away
11 Our Song

fd

Mountain Man - Made the Harbor (2010)

This is fantastic all girl folk that Brett introduced me to by accident when he was investigating the hardcore band also called Mountain Man. Anyway, this album is fantastic. 10/10/10000000/10000000.

01. Buffalo
02. Animal Tracks
03. White Heron
04. Mouthwings
05. Dog Song
06. Soft Skin
07. How’m I Doing
08. Arabella
09. Sewee Sewee
10. Loon Song
11. Honeybee
12. Babylon
13. River Song

rs

BlackBlack - S/T 2006

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

listen

think the pillows, heart eyes, and best coast

1. Blackblack - Emerald Forest (01:45)
2. Blackblack - The Most! The Best! The Greatest! (02:44)
3. Blackblack - The Energy Song (01:27)
4. Blackblack - Honey In Your Ears (03:46)
5. Blackblack - Skulls (02:56)
6. Blackblack - Ogre Mountain (02:59)
7. Blackblack - I Wish I Were A Scientist (02:03)
8. Blackblack - Algorythx And Gurantaxtaxq (04:34)
9. Blackblack - Royal Dragon (04:15)
10. Blackblack - Sophia (02:04)
11. Blackblack - Firefly (04:08)
12. Blackblack - The Long Boat (01:33)
13. Blackblack - We, The Grimlocks (02:58)

mf

Byrgeau Noil - Untitled Demo (2012)

Algernon

Tax It

Butcher's Daughter

That You Want

You can put them in whatever order you want too! Click image for mediafire link.

Support!

Heartbeater - Slow Waves 2010

for some reason, this sounds like old voxtrot and old kings of leon mashed. with some acid kicks.
from nashville.

or mebbe true widows if they had a frantic weekend after being cut off from benzos.

or maybe zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1. Intro 01:20
2. Dark Horse Rising 03:16
3. Slow Waves 03:52
4. Blackout 02:58
5. M.I.A. 03:02
6. 100 lbs 05:01
7. Heartbeater 02:46
8. Vaporizer 03:00
9. Do You Still Recall 04:21

http://meltfacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/heartbeater-slow-waves

The Men - Open Your Heart 2012

this might not last, and it might be the end of the entire blog. even chelsea emailed me asking for this! eNdTiMeZ!1

listen to the men. dance at the men. give your money to the men.

pitchfork already loves it, and you should too, because its really great fun. and it totally sounds like old foo fighters at the beginning. and a shit ton of it is amazing instrumentals. and if you remember your analogies;

leave home : open your heart :: rohnert park : zoo, with more insane jackie-o-type noodling. kind of. i dunno. i got a similar sense from each transition.

01. Turn It Around
02. Animal
03. Country Song
04. Oscillation
05. Please Don't Go Away
06. Open Your Heart
07. Candy
08. Cube
09. Presence
10. Ex-Dreams

http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/66114357/file.html

Sweet Weapons - Have A Kick Ass Summer EP 2012

HAKAS HAKAS HAKAS

01. The Big Green
02. Blue Crush
03. Summer Catch
04. Strange Brew

http://www.mediafire.com/?jkpgnalv54w9t7r

R E A L M A G I C - mp3s (2011)

Straight outta Denver! Similar to Purity Ring and White Hinterland...

No Things Left mp3
Hard 2 Keep mp3
Crip Tics mp3
Wise Blood - "Nosferatu" (REALMAGIC Remix) mp3

The Middle East - Recordings of the Middle East (2008)

Highlights are Blood and Lonely. thx aus.

01. The Darkest Side
02. Beleriand
03. Lonely
04. Blood
05. Fool's Gold
06. Pig Food
07. The Fall of Man
08. Tsietsi

Mediafire.

Purity Ring - Ungirthed 7" (2011), Belispeak (2011)

Their entire discography is not the worst way to spend ten minutes.

Belispeak mp3

Ungirthed 7" (2011)

"Oh gosh, fellas, let me explain this to you one more time. You have to wear the purity rings because that's how we can sell sex to little girls, h-ha! See, if we make the posters with little girls reaching for your junk, then you have to wear purity rings or else the Disney Company looks bad, h-ha!"

Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshman Year (2005)

I'm obsessed. Hop Along is equal parts cute and lyrically enthralling, and honestly the greatest thing to ever come out of Philadelphia. Everything about this album is perfect.

01. _
02. Sirens
03. For Sebastian From a Friend
04. Elizabeth & Elizabeth
05. The Cactus
06. Failure
07. The Big House
08. Of My Brothers and the Bear
09. Organ Song
10. Hi Too Loo Rye
11. Laments of a Mattress
12. Bruno is Orange
13. Bride and Groom Hot Air Balloon
14. The Goose & The Wren
15. Workers
16. A Drummer's Arm

Download here.

A Place to Bury Strangers - Onwards to the Wall EP 2012

i lost you, i lost you, i lost you, i lost you


id3s vary on #4

1. I Lost You
2. So Far Away
3. Onwards to the Wall
4. Nothing Will Surprise Me
5. Drill It Up

http://www.mediafire.com/?hdfvgxyjx38336y

Pontiak - Echo Ono 2012

i listened to the whole thing in reverse order, which is why i have a really weird impression of it. but i recommend starting with 'stay out, what a sight' and then doing it in order. that song is beautiful.


1. Lions of Least
2. The North Coast
3. Left with Lights
4. Across The Steppe
5. The Expanding Sky
6. Silver Shadow
7. Stay Out, What a Sight
8. Royal Colours
9. Panoptica

http://www.mediafire.com/?jud9vbbvdgwh44v

A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head 2009

from brooklyn. fuzzy and washed and metallic shoegaze with lots of assorted minor psychedelia. very catchy.

1. It Is Nothing
2. In Your Heart
3. Lost Feeling
4. Deadbeat
5. Keep Slipping Away
6. Ego Death
7. Smile When You Smile
8. Everything Always Goes Wrong
9. Exploding Head
10. I Live My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart

http://www.mediafire.com/?b0zxw139363r6b5

The Ladies - They Mean Us 2006

rob crow

01. Black Caesar / Red Sonia
02. Recycler Ia
03. Vacation, Asphyxia, Vacation
04. Empathy On A Stick
05. Recycler Ib
06. Non-threatening
07. Black Metal In The Hour Of Starbucks
08. Nice Chaps, Buddy
09. So Much For The Fourth Wall
10. Recycler 2
11. And Them
12. Mandatory Psycho-Freakout

http://www.mediafire.com/?izooimbzgby

Dead End Sons - Positive Ways To Look At Negative Things 2012

punktionary says LIYL defeater and blacklisted, neither of which i hear too well. im really out of my element, and i have no idea what i should be comparing this to. i kind of see some blacklisted in there...i guess. it's like a slow, melodic, title fight playing post-rock.

jake i need help. listen and describe.

also the background guitar that occurs occasionally in 'two aces' makes me wish i severnaya'd more. or ever.

1. Let Them Die
2. Blight
3. Two Aces
4. Into The Light

http://www.mediafire.com/?qq8ymmqepimbfs3

LOL - Me Me 2011

so this is mistabishi, two other dudes, and girl vox. this does a better job:

"lol's debut album Me Me defies genre boundaries, pulling influence from drum & bass, dubstep, indie rock, house and beyond. Indeed, the whole point of the group, seemingly, is to take genre boundaries, and redraw them completely. It's this lack of classification that makes Instra:mental's NonPlus records such a perfect home for the album. With a smorgasbord of tempos and styles released across the label, it's anyone's guess as to what is coming next from the imprint.

Made in a bedroom in a warehouse in Hackney Wick by three unemployed, disillusioned and directionless friends—Catie, Maggie and Jamie—Me Me effortlessly sums up these feelings. Lyrics such as "squeeze me too much," hint at the slightly sinister undertones that inevitably accompany the "self-obsession, social anxiety, drug abuse and failed relationships," that the group state were primary influences behind the album.

Maggie's voice has a Disney-esque sound oddly enough, but there's also a fair bit of sleaziness as well. It's a perfect complement to the often grimy basslines that abound as well Jamie's flat yet satisfying voice. In the soulful "Trophy Wife," we also get to hear Cate's London-tinged, perfectly enunciated rap. The album is not just about the basslines and vocals. It's very much defined by its textures, which range emotionally from aggression to depression and everything in between. Take, for instance, the final three songs—a trio which might as well be one. Beginning with "VHS," whose echoing steel drums seem created to ease the 7 AM comedown, we're led into "White Noise," an ethereal piece whose simple accompaniment of the indistinct vocals accentuates their dreaminess. Finally, after a tape rewinds, you're shocked by the uncontrolled offensiveness of "Hello Hell"—the reality of the morning after perhaps.

The oddest thing about Me Me is that it shouldn't work: If someone told me to listen to a vocal dubstep/electronic/post rock/shoegaze album made by three unknown friends out of a warehouse in Hackney, I'd tell them where to shove it. But, as things on NonPlus often do, it somehow makes a lot more sense when you simply listen to it."

- http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=8925


it's pretty cool, like a passive-aggressive british crystal castles.

if it werent for the mistabishi mix from september, i dont think i ever would have heard it. that's up next. 'hello hell' is actually a really good self-contained description of his mix; there's a severe sense of 'current value playing pop-step' that makes the whole thing ridiculously macabre.


01. Trophy Wife
02. Quarter Life Crisis
03. Squeeze Me
04. Pinch Me
05. Dare Me
06. Face Me
07. Degrade Me
08. VHS
09. White Noise
10. Hello Hell


http://uploaded.to/file/aj2cmhjx

Old Silver Key - Tales of Wanderings 2011

members of alcest continue to do whatever the hell they feel like, members of drudkh continue to distance themselves from NSBM. the result sounds like a mix of amesoeurs and alcest, as expected, and is thus real purty.

itd be interesting to inject clair cassis into all the inbreeding. or mikko aspa. can you fucking imagine what the midway point between alcest and deathspell would sound like? alcest gets the intro and as soon as mikko plays a note the whole thing becomes fetid and sickening and desperate. man that sounds rad.

1. What Once Was And Will Never Happen Again
2. November Nights Insomnia
3. Cold Spring
4. Nineteen Winters Far Away From Home
5. Star Catcher
6. Burnt Letters
7. About Which An Old House Dreams

http://www.mediafire.com/?9p91k77fpdhj013