Obviously.
Tanlines :: All of Me
I pre-ordered Best Coast’s The Only Place today, and the tracklist for it, revealed this week, has “Up All Night” as the record’s closing track. “Up All Night” is one of my favorite Best Coast songs, but I can’t imagine this version is what to expect on the new record - the band doesn’t hide behind nearly as much noise anymore. I expect lush Jon Brion strings on the album version, actually.
Regardless, it conveys the heartbreak and loneliness present in Best Coast’s best songs in a devastating way - perfect for a closing track, really, now that I think about it. I’m not about to complain about having two different versions of a great song, anyway.
mp3 - Best Coast :: Up All Night (Jeans Wilder / Best Coast split 7” version) (via Stereogum)
Judging by the twitter and tumblr and music blog reaction to the new Cloud Nothings record, Attack on Memory, this is a minority opinion, but I still think the best Cloud Nothings song is the first one I heard.
Maybe I’m too young (although I’m a year or two older than primary CN guy Dylan Baldi), or too poorly versed in the touch-points on the new record, but I think I really just prefer a song with a catchy pop-punk hook to the direction the band has gone in since. I didn’t care for the first widely available Cloud Nothings full-length much, either.
I should probably add that, somewhat unsurprisingly, the one song I do like quite a bit on the new record is “Stay Useless”, what with its Strokes-y riffs and snide verses.
TEEN DAZE - LET’S GROOVE (FREE DOWNLOAD!)
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE! HAVE THE BEST NIGHT/YEAR OF YOUR LIFE!
Late pass - this is fun!
When I was going on about Sleigh Bells’ new record being my most anticipated album of 2012, I must’ve forgotten that there was new stuff from The xx in the pipeline.
I’m already feeling like there are lots of things I short-changed in 2011! I don’t think I’ve seen this on anyone’s year-end list, but it’s great.
Is there some reason why no one is mentioning that How To Dress Well interpolates a bit of the outro of Alicia Keys’s “No One” here?
Ruin & Ruin 2 are among my favorite EPs this year, so I’m intrigued by the covers album. Also, HTDW has grown on my this year - I prefer his covers and features to his original songs.
“How to Dress Well delivers an ace cover of Elite Gymnastics’ h e r e , i n h e a v e n 3. Completely in his own style, as if it’s a song of his own. It’s the first track from r u i n 3, a collection of covers by the likes of CFCF and HTDW of Elite Gymnastics jams, out mid November on Acéphale.”
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mp3 How to Dress Well - h e r e , i n h e a v e n 3 (Elite Gymnastics cover)
(via indiernb)
Rostam :: Wood
here is a new song, it’s called ‘Wood’, •love, ROSTAM