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The Shout Out Louds are working on a new album, titled Work, and the first single off it is called Walls. The band is have been oled up in a Seattle studio with Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Modest Mouse).
Bob Dylan / She Belongs To Me
Great lyrics. A different kind of love song. A portrait.
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Sweden-based El Perro Del Mar, known informally as Sarah Assbring, has recently released her third full-length album, Love Is Not Pop (The Control Group) and supported Peter Bjorn and John on their North American tour.
Joy Division / New Dawn Fades
I fell into a dark Joy Division crack last Summer. Usually that’s a very good sign that I’m not feeling so good. Still, I think I managed to pick something good out of it for the first time. New Dawn Fades is one of those moments where Ian Curtis’ lyrics hurt so much, you don’t know where to turn. It’s like this slow build-up to heartbreak. The ending of this song, where he’s singing, ‘It was me waiting for me, hoping for something for more. Me seeing me this time, hoping for something else,’ breaks my heart anew every time I hear it.
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Australian rockers Powderfinger’s new album Golden Rule was again recorded with Nick DiDia, who was responsible for their massively successful Internationalist, Odyssey Number Five, and Vulture Street albums. The band are the headliners for the Big Day Out and Homebake, and are also curating a festival in Brisbane.
Rolling Stones / Gimme Shelter
From the guitar intro solo genius and riffing, through Mick’s insightful lyric, to when Mary Clayton’s spine chilling vocals break at the peak of the song, it is a benchmark for me as to how a song can have restraint and be heavy at the same time. It wreaks of a band in fine form. I’m also a sucker for a dirty harmonica. Give me dirty harmonica!
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Animal Kingdom hail from North London. Their new album Signs and Wonders was recorded at Seattle’s Electrokitty Studios with Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Band of Horses). The band has shared the stage with acts as diverse as Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Camera Obscura, Snow Patrol and a UK tour with the Silversun Pickups.
Joy Division / Disorder
Joy Division have got to top my list of bands I wish I’d seen live. Their sound is chaotic, tense and danceable, all at the same time. Peter Hook has written some of the best bass lines of all time, too. This track is a proper classic.
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Produced, engineered, and mixed by Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla (whose other production credits include The Decemberists and Tegan & Sara), Telekinesis’ debut album, Telekinesis!, is full of big-hearted songs, written quickly and from the gut. Consisting solely of pop genius Michael Benjamin Lerner (drums, guitar & vocals), Telekinesis is 2009’s most prodigous indie-pop newcomer.
Brian Eno / Cindy Tells Me
Really, everything off of Here Come The Warm Jets is pretty incredible, but this song is a personal favorite. I seriously love how the crazy shrill jet sound comes in and how it is so incredibly loud. Like, if you are wearing earphones, it’s physically painful! It’s just amazing, and only Eno can pull it off.
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The newly released self-titled debut from Britain’s newest songbird, Polly Scattergood, is reaping praise for her delicious brand of indie pop that glides seamlessly between the defiant, the confessional, and the anthemic.
Bonnie Prince Billy / I See a Darkness
This song breaks my heart. I find the darkness of his words very comforting. I love the way he tells a story in his songs — though they are sometimes uncomfortably honest. It’s like reading some beautiful poet’s diary.
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London-based four piece Burn Down Rome are on the fringes of the burgeoning alternative-hardcore scene with a thumping debut album — Devotion — and a Playlist that gives props to some of the contemporaries whose adventurous approach they take their inspiration from.
The Smiths / Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
The Smiths are the single biggest influence for Burn Down Rome. Everything from the riffs, to the ethic, to the lyrics, we love. Stop Me gives me shivers every time I listen to it. Below is a cover by Roy and Dale from the ska-punk band the Eclectics.
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