Anna von Hausswolff – Mountains Crave

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

It has a Beach House Feel to it with a little Arcade Fire. I love the organs!

Shot during the recording of Anna’s Ceremony album.

Anna von Hausswolff – Ceremony (2012)

Something to think about:

Forget everything you knew about music. Anna von Hausswolff disturbs it from the joints, affects one as a fist and shake a like a hail storm in June. Accompanied by handclaps and a stubborn but stunning church organ embedded music landscape into Ceremony.

Ceremony is both a pop album, and is not. The easy dystopian in Mountains Crave loosened by Anna von Hausswolff song that dot safely slides between notes. Songs like No Body and Epitaph of Theodor includes the current music masses that are entirely instrumental, beautiful, but big in their sadness. From extremes to the extremes are songs like Liturgy of Light, where a lone voice of glitter and Harmonica as In a symphony of rhythms, crackling cords and tones that are forced out of their orbits.

With the economy as a main ingredient and the song as an unshakable core sweeps Anna von Hausswolff with a headlong into the eye of the storm. The road there is paved with epic Sova, in which a single line of text in Swedish only makes me smile before I devour latency seriously. Anna von Hausswolff sings “jag vill inte sova mer … kommer aldrig vanka mer” (“I do not want to sleep more … will never wander more.”)

Ceremony is a record that is both dark and sublime, where the church organ’s majestic sound turns on what we thought were physically possible.

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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Only In My Dream

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

I really like this! Definitely one of my favorite songs.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (2012)

Here is a wee Bit of Info:

Before Today was the band’s 4AD debut, offering the first sign that the intriguingly scatalogical music Ariel had been making for over a decade was finally ossifying into a coherent form. Indeed, the lead song from Before Today – the inimitable ‘Round and Round’ – was awarded Pitchfork’s track of the year for 2010, and further plaudits were heaped upon the long player as it cropped up in near-all end-of-year polls. For many it seemed that Ariel had finally reached the wider audience his early recordings had hinted was possible. And with Mature Themes, Haunted Graffiti have forged a record that raises the bar once again.

Installing themselves in a studio space in downtown-LA, Haunted Graffiti began a lengthy process of writing and recording.Mature Themes is a self-produced affair, with former member Cole MGN drafted in to provide some drum programming and additional mixing duties. Far removed from Ariel’s early bedroom recordings, Mature Themes is a product of a more collaborative process, with the often-overlooked virtuoso musicianship of the band bought to the fore. “There are definitely not any links to my lo-fi origins”, Ariel recently told Spin magazine. “It’s so diverse but so different from anything I’ve done before. In a sense, it’s really the record I wanted to make back when I made Before Today, but couldn’t. We had time to let our hair down and try new things.”

While the creative process was new, familiar Ariel Pink signatures remain. In fact, Mature Themes feels like the definitive Haunted Graffiti record, a patchwork of modern America, its esoteric reference points and moments of lyrical lucidity a twilight excursion through backwater LA and late-night TV channel hopping.

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Peter and Kerry – I Don’t Know

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

Enjoyable pop with some fun tunes. Check out this video. Now I want to go bowling! They are from London, like the Olympics.

Peter and Kerry – La Trimouille (2012)

A bit about the album:

Peter and Kerry’s La Trimouille is the absolute embodiment of fizyy, happy electro pop. Their music welcomes eighties synth influences besides modern pop artists and cult classics like Belle and Sebastian. At times the influence of Cajun Dance Party can be heard, and at others there is a hint of Two Door Cinema Club, and then, bizarrely, Human League and Grizzly Bear. This record epitomises the carefree and youthful impact of the summer season, coupled with the foreboding presence of age and growing up. Here Peter and Kerry attempt to grasp their youth as it slips through their fingers, and the result is an upbeat but desperately frantic record. The duo manage to hone these two atmospheres to near perfection, allowing for a charming, eclectic record.

The stand out features of La Trimouille are the harmonious relationship between Peter and Kerry’s voices. Kerry’s vocal is soft and soulful and Peter has the ability to either perfectly compliment it (like in Montmorillon) or become a chaotic perpendicular strand. The result is a diverse range of vocal experimentation for two people. Elsewhere, popcorn metronomes (like in Fifty in the $lot$) and delightfully eighties’ synths and melodies contrast with sometimes beefy drum beats and delicate keyboards. The incorporation of so many elements, part-trance-like chanting, and part-sweet and soulful vocals, contribute wholeheartedly to the diversity of the record. Stand out tracks include Cirque, a narrative of self-discovery and assertion, and  Annie, which highlights Peter and Kerry’s diversity of approach to atmosphere and style, delightfully upbeat in comparison to Cirque, and equally as good.

Either way, Peter and Kerry show with their debut album their ability to successfully conquer different genres and themes within one record, and still manage to make it sound distinctly different from anything that has been produced before them. Kudos.

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Ripple And Murmur – Riddles in the Dark

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

Song is really good! Music video, not so much but it’s worth a listen to. Check it out. Very beautiful.

Album: Ripple And Murmur – Reverie (2012)

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Saint Motel – Puzzle Pieces

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

I enjoyed the video and the music as well!

Saint Motel – Voyeur (2012)

Reviewish:

Saint Motel, “Voyeur.” Saint Motel is a pop band from Los Angeles that delivers a joyous, exuberant mix of styles on its debut album, “Voyeur.” Its opening track, “Feed Me Now,” for example, blends Latin horns and rhythms and drifting melodies while song No. 2 gets its title and introductory notes from big band leader “Benny Goodman” before shifting into some swing.

That kind of eclectic mix continues across the record as singer A/J Jackson puts some sweet melodies in the songs of love, lust and friendship, like the catchy, shifting “Daydream/ Wetdream / Nightmare,” the stately, background-vocal drenched “1997” and the driving “Honest Feedback.”

That’s just half of the 11-song record that’s part glam, kinda garage-y, sometimes lush and always poppy. I caught Saint Motel by chance at South By Southwest in March and really liked them live. They’re even better on the record.

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Exlovers – Emily

Posted on July 31, 2012 by sapu8367

Here is a good song. I like it. No music video here, just the music from Exlovers.

From the album Moth (2012). Edited Cover Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Royal Concept – Gimme Twice

Posted on July 30, 2012 by sapu8367

The song is great. I haven’t seen much of the music video to tell you the truth. Give me a sec. It’s pretty ok. Anyway if you like Phoenix, you will like this song.

From the self titled EP The Royal Concept [EP] (2012)

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DIIV – How Long Have You Known?

Posted on July 30, 2012 by sapu8367

Quite the song. Music video ain’t much but it’s worth a listen. Hail from Brooklyn, New York.

Album: DIIV – Oshin (2012)

Pitchfork has an album preview.

 

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Tame Impala – Elephant

Posted on July 30, 2012 by sapu8367

This song Rocks! Check it out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0jqPvpn3sY

Just the single of their upcoming album Lonerism. Here is the Single Cover.

Check out the album or pre-order it here. Website

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Mikaela Davis – I’m Just Tryin’ to be Your Friend

Posted on July 30, 2012 by sapu8367

Oh, she is good. Super catchy and I love the harp. I think I’ll feature the Harp on my next “My Classics” because of this (and who might I feature?).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4QoKm1hBBtM

From the self titled album Mikaela Davis (2012)

Some Comments:

If heaven has an orchestra of harp-strumming angels, someone should probably take a head count. Twenty-year-old Mikaela Davis began playing the harp in third grade. Since then she has studied with Grace Wong, the principal harpist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and she now attends the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. She has used that musical pedigree to conjure a sound that picks the indie-folk genre up from its roots and lets it loose into an ethereal jet stream.

In addition to her studies and regular live performances, Davis has just put the finishing touches on her debut self-titled album with the help of Brian Moore at Redbooth Studios in Rochester. Moore says of Davis, “It is artists such as [Mikaela] that inspired me to open Redbooth. Not only does she have a beautiful voice, but she plays harp without skipping a beat. She makes the intricate balance of fluttering vocal folds and fingers on strings appear effortless…Simply magical.”

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