The band “the new year” just released their 3rd album today, if anyone’s interested…..if you’re familiar with the band you already know what it sounds like (they’ve made the same album for years) but like those other albums it’s pretty good.

if you don’t know who the new year are, it’s basically Bedhead with a different drummer/bassist.

i’ll FTP it when i get home.

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Anyone have any of this guy’s music? I’m really digging it and wishing I had more.

Does anyone listen to this band?

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Tribal drumming, multiple vocal tracks, crazily strum acoustic guitars… sound like someone in particular? Yes. Yes it does, though perhaps with a bit more structure and ROCK and a little less weirdness. And that’s why I like it. A little less off the wall, sometimes even reminds me of Plants and Animals. Very good stuff.

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So the 8th saw another new album from Beck, this time enlisting the help of white people’s favorite DJ, Danger Mouse (of the Grey Album, Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, misc. other projects that start with G). I wasn’t expecting too much after his previous two somewhat middling attempts, but I have to say, after my first full listen, I’m really surprised by how much I like it. It starts off like his last two, sort of “this is good, but I don’t know that I’ll want to listen to it much.” But by the end, it really takes on its own character and I was completely absorbed—enough so that I had to immediately start it over again when it was done.

Definitely worth checking out.

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For fans of great guitar work and smart instrumental music. Up on the FTP. Worth it for the track “Montreal” alone.

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I’m behind on this, but Aesop Rock’s newest album None Shall Pass, largely put together with abstract hip-hop dj Blockhead, is absolutely destroying me. I haven’t felt this excited by hip-hop since the first time I heard Dalek. There’s not a single skippable track on the album. Check it out in my folder.

Stuff maybe nobody is interested in. But maybe…..

The new album from the rapper that put out an album on Tuesday whose name is not 50 Cent, and two from Tegan and Sara. The Rapper Whose Name Is Not 50 Cent is done, and the lesbian sisters are uploading now.

Another comp of old music for the scrabbling masses. This one, again from my boss, features a wealth of old zydeco recordings. Everything from Clifton Chenier to Buckwheat Zydeco to Fats Domino. Grab it on the FTP. And if you haven’t checked out the Night Train to Nashville comp yet, be sure and grab that while you’re there.

St. Vincent – Annie Clark from both Sufjan Stevens (yay!) and the Polyphonic Spree (blarg!) releases a solo album that is equal parts bizarre and melodic. Incredibly diverse, chaotic, and deliberate compositions and arrangements make it as fun to listen to as Katamari Damacy is to play; that is, it’s seems to elicit the same kind of strange joy. Be sure to also check out this mesmerizing one-woman performance of Paris is Burning.

Bowerbirds – WOW SO GOOD. The second album in as many days to hit me full in the face and make me listen to it on repeat. Even Gosia perked her ears up from downstairs to ask who it was. Sparse and roomy folk gives way to occasionally poppy, occasionally minor-keyed type stuff that sometimes sounds like blonde redhead and belle and sebastian teamed up to make a sea shanty album. What makes the album stand out are the odd flourishes that quite literally take you by surprise, from unexpected chorus calls to what sounds like a thousand hands slapping a thousand cardboard boxes.

The albums don’t have much in common, so be sure to check out the other if you don’t like the first one you listen to.

I finally got around to checking out the new album from every hipster’s favorite nordic psychadelic group Dungen the new solo album from Mattias Gustavsson (of every hipster’s favorite nordic psychadelic group Dungen) and I’m absolutely loving it. How does it sound? Well, if you could convert sounds to images, it would look like this, this, this, this or even sometimes it’ll look like this. In short, it sounds like a great addition to the unfortunately short list of classic blissed out psychadelic rock albums that have come out since the flower power wave crested. And although Dungen frontman Gustav Ejstes only makes a few appearances, his guitar playing can still sound strikingly like this.

Oh, and for all you xenophobes, this time around is in english!

Do you like Nina Simone?