Oh, rock me, rock me, The New Pornographers. Now this is more like it. After the, I don’t wanna say disappointment, but there I said it, of Challengers, Carl, Dan, Neko and co are back in speaker blowing return to form with this the first taste from their forthcoming album Together, released May 3/4 through [...]
Merge Records recently announced the long-awaited April 20 release of The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box set on limited-edition 10” vinyl. Story has it that Stephin Merritt came up with the idea for while sitting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar, and originally planned for it to be a live musical revue, with [...]
Released on February 15th, (9th in North America) The Golden Archipelago is the third album in a triptych of beautiful and ambitious excursions about man’s impact on the natural world from Austin’s Shearwater. This time singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands – a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden [...]
We all know the Big Pink’s own work is terrific (A Brief History Of Love is out now through 4ad/Remote Control) so it’s no surprise to find out their music taste is also awesome. A mix they did for Fact magazine ranges from the indie influences you’d expect (Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Jesus & Mary Chain) but also [...]
First showcased at Way Out West Vampire Weekend’s new track “Horchata”, from the forthcoming album Contra (January 8 XL) is now available to download. It continues in the indie and afro pop vein of their earlier work but with a rhyming couplet as bonkers as “In December drinking horchata/I look psychotic in a balaclava” it’s [...]
With their latest album Zounds being rewarded with an American release, high hopes are held for these Sydney boys. A solid 8/10 review on Webcuts, Dappled Cities have us in barely restrained sonic rapture. For your listening pleasure download “The Price” (6.2mb, 192kps)
From Vivian Girls’ new album Everything Goes Wrong, here is “Can’t Get Over You”.
Download “Can’t Get Over You” (3.3MB, 128 kps)
After two years of feverish anticipation, Sydney five-piece Bridezilla present their stunning debut, The First Dance, this 7th November on Inertia Recordings. The first taste is the beautiful and beguiling “Beaches”.
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The sun is out, summer is here (in this part of the world) and Animal Collective have decided to get in on the action by releasing “Summertime Clothes” as the second single from their Webcuts-approved Merriweather Post Pavilon album which will be released on June 29 on 12″ and digital single.
“Summertime Clothes” is a [...]
Pavement - Quarantine The Past
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Fucked Up – Couple Tracks
Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain
Spoon – Transference
Beach House - Teen Dream
Hatcham Social - Sidewalk EP
Tune-yards – Bird-Brains
Disappointing, is the answer, if asked the question “What does Webcuts think of the new Spoon album, Transference. Probably for the first time in this Austin, Texas quartet’s career would we feel obliged to say this. Having gone from incredible strength to incredible strength with each successive release from Series of Sneaks on, it seems even the hardened, unwavering fan knew this day would come. “Written in Reverse” has all the pieces, the clatter and clank of piano keys, Britt Daniel’s hoarse voice riding atop of his see-sawing guitar, yet it feels like a song adrift in the search for a tune. Much of Transference feels like it was built from unfinished demos and studio jams in which “Written in Reverse” was chosen as this year‘s “The Underdog“. Unlikely to win new fans and unsettling to old, it will be interesting to see how Transference rides out the year. Out now on Merge in the States and Anti- in Europe.
