fair Maida // Fleet Foxes perform new songs
Fleet Foxes performed 8 songs (6 new!) on Zane Lowe’s BBC show.
Listen to Bedouin Dress below and click through for the rest.
video // John Maus : “Believer”
Professor Maus never quits with the killer jams. This is like listening to Echo & The Bunnymen playing from a hilltop through heavy fog.
John Maus // We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves : Believer :
new favorite musician // When Saints Go Machine
Danish mysteriousness crossed with a fresh update on the soft new romantic sound developed by bands like Talk Talk and Tears for Fears make Peter really like this new band from Denmark—When Saints Go Machine.
new video // Fleet Foxes : “Grown Ocean”
Pretty impressive song and video by one of the favorites around these parts—Fleet Foxes.
new song // Fleet Foxes : “Battery Kinzie”
Sounding more and more like Simon and Garfunkel (which, in hindsight, also makes their other song released from this album sound more like S&G and less like CSN&Y.) And that’s not a bad thing. Peter likes it.
Fleet Foxes // Helplessness Blues : Battery Kinzie :
new song // Ford & Lopatin : “Emergency Room”
The artists formerly known as Games—whose ep “People Play” was one of Peter’s most-liked eps 2010—now go by the more straightforward Ford & Lopatin (their last names) moniker. And they’re released their first single under this handle: Emergency Room.
It’s incredible!
Ford & Lopatin // Emergency Room :
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2011/03/23/mp3-new-ford-lopatin-emergency-room
new song // Fleet Foxes : “Helplessness Blues”
And they’re back—and as gorgeous as ever. Peter really likes the lyrics to this song—expresses a lot of feelings he’s been having lately. Is Robin Pecknold the Paul Simon of our generation? Sounding a lot like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, too . . .
Fleet Foxes // Helplessness Blues : Helplessness Blues :
John Maus // “And the Rain” + “Do Your Best”
Just learning about this professor of philosophy who creates music that rivals Ariel Pink‘s in its ability to sound like an old casette and a future transmission from deep space while never losing it’s pop core.
John Maus // And the Rain :
John Maus // Do Your Best :
new songs // Toro y Moi : “New Beat” + “Still Sound”
Toro y Moi // “Underneath the Pine” : 2011.02.22 : Carpark
New Beat :
new favorite song // Cass McCombs : “County Line”
One part McCartney + one part Wichita Lineman = best new song of 2011 thus far . . .
Cass McCombs // County Line :
coming soon // The Feelies : “Here Before”
Peter’s liked The Feelies for nearly two decades—after checking out one of their albums from the Wheaton, IL library based on the recommendations of a friend who said they sounded like the Velvet Undergound (took me a while to “get” the similarities.) Periodically, Peter needs a Feelies fix, which happened just recently, so he busts out “Crazy Rhythms” or “Only Life.”
But guess what, now the whole world gets a Feelies fix as they have a new album coming out (the first in over two decades)—”Here Before.”
The Feelies // “Here Before” : 2011.04.12 : Bar/None : Should Be Gone :
[via pitchfork]
new song // Best Coast : “Sunny Adventure”
Peter likes how prolific Bethany’s been of late!
Best Coast // Sunny Adventure :
new song // Best Coast : “When You Wake Up”
Best Coast // Summer is Forever : When You Wake Up :
(see also the other half of this split ep)
favorite new song // Rainbow Arabia : “Without You”
Rainbow Arabia // Boys and Diamonds : Without You
new song // Wavves : “Stained Glass (Won’t You Let Me Into Your Heart)”
Wavves // Summer is Forever : Stained Glass (Won’t You Let Me Into Your Heart) :
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