Gellers - Gellers

****

A great band lead by Shugo Tokumaru.

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Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty 7"

****

A few months ago I posted a link to a live Panda Bear set with a bunch of the songs that will apparently make up Tomboy. I listened to that a lot, and as a result, when Panda Bear started releasing all of these singles, I was already familiar with a lot of the songs. One song in particular stood out to me from that live set: a song entitled Stay/Go, which, as it turns out, was not called Stay/Go at all, but Drone. And now he has released it, along with the song Last Night at the Jetty. Although, as glad as I am that I can finally hear a studio version of these songs, I just keep wondering why he hasn't just put out the album already. All these 7"s are fun, but just put the album out already. Seriously.

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Chad Vangaalen - Soft Airplane

****

Chad Vangaalen is a very well thought of Canadian musician/producer. Listening to Vangaalen is like listening to a more eclectic Neil Young, which is as awesome as it sounds. He also produced both of Women's albums, so that's cool.

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This Heat - Diceat

*****

Diceat is probably one of the most important records of the 80s; you can see it's influence on everything from Radiohead to Black Eyes. It's almost too good. Enjoy it. Really.

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Dosh - The Lost Take

****

Dosh is great. This is his best album in my opinion.

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Therapies Son - Rose Red Rose

I know nothing about this other than the fact that some guys sent a link to it to me on last.fm, but I like it, so now I'm giving you that link...

Therapies Son

OOIOO - Gold & Green

****1/2

OOIOO (pronounced Oh-Oh-Eye-Oh-Oh) is a all female noise band from Japan founded by Bordoms' Yoshimi P-We (the inspiration for the Flaming Lips album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots). This is one of my favorite albums at the moment. Enjoy!


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Weekend - Sports

***1/2

Pretty interesting record. I haven't listened to it much yet, but I like it so far.

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Atlas Sound - Logos

****

Logos is the most recent solo album from Deerhunter's Bradford Cox. It came out between Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. and Halcyon Digest and is very much a mix of those two sounds. I don't know why I didn't post it sooner.

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Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

****1/2

Deerhunter continues to release incredible records. This isn't as good as their previous release, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. in my opinion, but it's still really good!

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Avey Tare - Down There

***

I'm a pretty big fan of Avey Tare's songwriting and I think there are some really standout tracks on this record. That being said, it's just not that awesome as a whole. I guess I just expected Avey Tare's first big solo release to be a little more interesting. Anyways, it's worth listening to, so...
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Panda Bear - You Can Count On Me 7"

****

Track list:
1. You Can Count On Me
2. Alsatian Darn

I didn't get too excited about Tomboy/Slow Motion 7"; the tracks just didn't do that much for me, but these two are solid gold. These are some of Panda Bear's best songs to date and it makes the wait for the Tomboy LP seem that much longer.
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Women - Public Strain

*****

Public Strain is Canadian band Women's second album. Another possible album of the year in my opinion.

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Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement

*****

Possible Album of the Year in my opinion. Lower Dens is a great shoegaze band from Baltimore led by folk singer Jana Hunter.

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Orchid Tapes

A few months ago I got really into Foxes in Fiction, the Toronto, Canada based music project of Warren Hildebrand, and found out that he started a record label called Orchid Tapes. There is some really great stuff on this label, especially Foxes in Fiction, and all of their downloads are free! Check it out: http://orchidtapes.blogspot.com/

Clark - Body Riddle

****

I've been listening to a lot of this guy recently and this album is probably his best. Hope you enjoy it.
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Flying Lotus - IIOIO

***

These are some rarities by Flying Lotus. There are some really incredible tracks on here, and there are also some less than incredible tracks, but if you're anything like me you want all of them.

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The Gaslamp Killer - I Spit on Your Grave

*****

So, I've been on a little bit of a instrumental hip-hop binge as of late. This is another really great album by The Mother Fucking Gaslamp Killer! He is one of all my all time favorite producers. Eat it up BITCHES!

Madlib - Shades of Blue

*****

Madlib's remix of the Blue Note catalog is one of the best hip-hop or jazz records that I have ever had the pleasure of hearing.

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Toro y Moi / Caribou - May 18th, 2010

It's been a while since my last post, and for that I apologize, but it has also been quite a hectic couple months, so deal with it.

Here's the Review:

I should dwell on the fact that I came to show for Toro y Moi, who was great, and how Caribou really blew me away, not being familiar with his new album, but all I find myself thinking is that the crowd was the worst! I was stuck behind what I can only assume was a bunch of X-ed out hipster fucks who thought they were a lot funnier, cooler and sexier (some of you may no what I mean if you were unfortunate enough to be as close to their shittyness as I was) than they actually were. And I know that I shouldn't bring that kind of stuff into a good, professional review, but this isn't a good, professional review and those people sucked! I guess all I'm trying to do is put this out there and hope that one of those people reads it and realizes that when they act like a douche and scream "I'm sexy!" over the music, it ruins the show for everyone else.

On to the actual review: Toro y Moi's live band was great! Some of the songs seemed a little rough around the edges, but they are probably still getting used to playing together, but other that a little roughness their set was great! I've become a pretty huge fan of his over the last few months, and his live performance was all I hoped i would be.

Caribou was also really great! I have only been listening to him for a few days in preporation for the show, and I had purposefully decided to not get Swim until the show so that I would feel more motivated to get it on vinyl. I loved the songs he played from earlier works as well as the more dancy tracks off of Swim. His light show was also really great and complimented the music perfectly. I was also very impressed by his musical range as well as his mastery of all of he instruments he used.

All and all, a really great show (other than some fuckers)!

St. Vincent/Wildbirds & Peacedrums

What a great show! Wildbirds & Peacedrums were amazing! I had never heard of them before this show and was blown away buy them. As a friend of mine at the show said, "phat beats." If you liked their set I recommend their album The Snake. I got it at the show and it's great. And weren't they super fun to watch?

St. Vincent's set was great as well! I was not too familiar with Actor, but am pretty familiar with Marry Me, and the songs she chose from both albums were great. I got Actor on Vinyl at the show, and was lucky enough to get Annie to sign it. All and all, great night.

For video and pics of this show, and others visit this site:
http://www.electricmustache.com/2010/02/photos-videos-st-vincent-wildbirds.html

Panda Bear - De Kreun, Kortrijk - 17.01.2010

This is a live bootleg of some new Panda Bear tracks. Check 'em out!

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El Guincho - Alegranza!

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I didn't get into this album until recently, but it is really, REALLY good!

Blur - Think Tank

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Blur's final album think tank has really grown on me recently. With the exception of the pile of shit "Crazy Beat" it is a really solid album.