Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
We Are Animal - Idolise
The New Pornographers - Together
Foals – Total Life Forever
Suzanne Vega – Close Up: Vol 1, Love Songs
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever
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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).
