On November 7, Philadelphia’s rockin’ folker Kurt Vile is set to release a brand new 6-song EP on 12″ vinyl/cd entitled So Outta Reach. The EP contains 5 original songs initially recorded during the sessions for Smoke Ring For My Halo but not used for the album, which were reworked with producer John Agnello this [...]
Jump on this free singles compilation from Canada’s greatest pop-rock export, Sloan. Recently celebrating their 20th anniversary and the release of their 10th album, The Double Cross, this 14 track mix brings you up to speed.
Following the tragic loss of bassist Sean Stewart in March of 2010, Australian electro-noirists HTRK make their welcome return via double A-side 12″ single “Eat Yr Heart”/”Sweetheart” released ahead of their forthcoming second album Work (Work, Work). With a rumbling bass and an echoing 808, “Eat Yr Heart” is clearly cut from the same bleak [...]
Released last week and reviewed here was Coastal Grooves by Blood Orange, the latest musical project by ex-Test Icicle and Lightspeed Champion Dev Hynes. A lo-fi urban-sounding synth-pop record, Coastal Grooves has Hynes playing the Prince card and relishing the role, producing something fresh and unexpected. Originally appearing on two 12″ singles, you can listen [...]
There’s nothing more frustrating or confounding for a band to be dealt such hardships as was handed down to Sheffield’s The Long Blondes when their guitarist and songwriter Dorian Cox succumbed to a stroke at the unlikely age of 27. Their second album “Couples”, released only a few months before, was such a mammoth leap [...]
“I won’t lie; it’s heart on sleeve. Have you ever numbed yourself to avoid pain only to oscillate between the subconscious and conscious? Ever felt compelled to address Life itself? Things can be so awful but at least they can also be bliss.Hope you listen to the song and feel something”. So says Dee Dee [...]
Described as invoking memories of Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, as well as the emotional synth-pop of M83 circa Saturdays = Youth, Swedish duo I Break Horses are clearly on the right path. Having released the album’s title track a few weeks ago, they’ve followed this with the hypnotic opening track, “Winter Beats”, as a free [...]
M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) return with “Midnight City” the first single takn from their forthcoming double album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, released on October 17. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson (Beck, NIN, Goldfrapp), the album includes contributions from Zola Jesus, Brad Laner (from 90’s band Medicine) on guitar, and Saturdays = Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby. With [...]
Seedy synth outfit Cold Cave have remixed Belle & Sebastian‘s “I Didn’t See It Coming”, to appear on a forthcoming B&S 12″ single for “Come On Sister” released through Matador on July 26. Cold Cave frontman Wes Eisold had this to say about the remix: “In 1998 I lived on a street called the Eastern [...]
London ex-garage-goths The Horrors might’ve caught doubters by surprise with the career redefining and lifespan prolonging wonder that was Primary Colours, but this time we’re ready for you. Their third album Skying is out next week via XL records, and finds the band self-producing the album, and retaining the same sonic thrill that ran the [...]
The Too Pure Singles Club returns in 2012 with a bang (or is that a rattle) with the sound of Icelandic mantra magicians Dead Skeletons. For the uninitiated, Dead Skeletons came into existence in 2008 when band member Jon Saamunder needed music for an art installation in the Reykjavik Art Museum. Enlisting the help of friends Henrik Bjornsson and Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt the trio penned the songs which would eventually become the Dead Magick album, a 72 minute, 12 song journey through space and time, life and death. “Om Mani Peme Hung” is the sound of Neu! on a meditation retreat engaging in a spiritual hypno-chant. Now repeat after me… Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung… (subscribe to the Too Pure Singles Club here).
