Brooklyn’s French Kicks, who have been creating music together for nearly a decade, have recently released their fourth album, Swimming. With each record, the band reinvent and refine themselves, constantly exploring new territories. Their latest effort is no exception. Allowed more artistic freedom by producing and mixing the record entirely themselves, Swimming features some of the quartet’s most melodic recordings to date.
Neil Young / Comes A Time Another one I just like and have been strumming around the house lately. Very sentimental, but I like ‘this old world keeps spinning round, its a wonder tall trees ain’t laying down’ Centrifugal force?
DM Stith recently signed to Asthmatic Kitty, the same label as Sufjan Stevens, and has a new EP out this week titled Curtain Speech, featuring contributions from Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), Rafter, Sebastian Krueger and the string quartet Osso. Think Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear meets Arthur Russell.
The Shangri-Las / Out In The Streets 1:22 – 1:43 is a miracle. I’ve never been so obsessed with twenty seconds of high-hat and high school girl shrieks: it’s a raging teenage fantasy that all the composition notebooks in all the lockers of 1965 couldn’t write better. That the singers have managed to preserve their naivety perfectly in this three minute song may be the reason I feel recording pop music is worthwhile.
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