Music Video: Hooray for Earth - Realize It's not the Sun

Premiered earlier today on No Fear of Pop, one of the best blogs around.

Fruit Flesh - Cater Gator/ Cocaine

I want to call Jake Tobin's psychedelic pop tortured, but I can't help feeling hesitant about it. After all, up to this point Fruit Flesh has always been summer music and nothing attached to the name can really be described "heavy." The newest couple of tracks (a digital single on bad panda) epitomize this tightrope act with wafts of saxophone and twinkling synths on top of choruses like "I can't handle anymore." Listen to the mp3s and don't beat yourself up for feeling confused.

Cater Gator - Fruit Flesh (via bad panda)

Cocaine - Fruit Flesh (via bad panda)

Future Islands - Before the Bridge

Yesterday Stereogum premiered the A side to Baltimore new wavers Future Island's new 7". Before the Bridge is even glossier than usual, but Sam Herring's vocals are as harrowing and shaggy as they've ever been. If you're interested, buy the single from Thrill Jockey Records quickly - there's only 750 copies available.

Before the Bridge - Future Islands

Music Video: Computer Magic - The End of Time

Computer Magic - "The End Of Time" from stereogum on Vimeo.

Holy Other - With U

Based House mastermind Holy Other dropped a new EP up for streaming over at the zones. Stream it below and get ready for the June 7th release on PBR&B/Based OGs Tri-angle records.

Holy Other: With U by alteredzones

Cults - Abducted

Listen to Cult's very own Record store day single on NPR(bottom of the page).

Abducted rocks harder than your average Cults song, but it has their trademark creepy vocal samples and transitions into the 60s telephone in space feel of OMG. Awesome cover art too.

Thanks GVB!

Update:

There's an mp3 floating around a few blogs on hypemachine. It may or may not be a radiorip and I may or may not feel the need to take it down later.

Abducted - Cults

Wise Blood- Losing my Mind (Live)

I don't really know how I slept on this for so long, but NYCtaper has the audio from Wise Blood's opening set for Wu Lyf at Glasslands last Friday night. If you didn't hear any of the post SXSW hype, I'll sum it up for you: Apparently he's an entirely different beast live. Straight up rapping/yelling replace the usual falsetto chants and live drums help add to the urgency. Wise Blood thrives on paradox, and his live show just adds another dimension. To be honest, its almost reminiscent of Nu Metal, but the divide between what we've heard from '+' and Laufman's live presence can keep even the largest skeptics fascinated.

Check out a new song we've only heard in live form below and grab the whole set (including Solo 4 Claire featuring Wu Lyf's singer!) here.

Losing my Mind (Live) - Wise Blood

Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress

Head on over to Stereogum to hear a third new Fleet Foxes track off of their upcoming album "Helplessness Blues" out on May 3rd. I'm still feeling Battery Kinzie a bit more, but none of the previews of this album have disappointed.

Porcelain Raft - Talk To Me

I always feel like a lmstrmr when I repost something from P4k, but dammit Porcelain Raft is awesome!

Talk to Me - Porcelain Raft

The Wall - Porcelain Raft (Yuck cover)

Welcome Back Sailors - SEASONS

Unholy Rhythms put out an absolutely killer Valentines Day mixtape on Monday. My personal favorite track comes from "Welcome Back Sailors." Coincidentally, I found Welcome Back Sailors no more than two weeks ago. "I'll Be There" has literally been on constant repeat for me since I first discovered them, and the new track Season was a welcome addition. New wave vocals and positively delightful harmonies set these guys apart from the chillwave hordes. Y'all know how much I love comparing bands, so I'd call Welcome Back Sailors some sort of chillwave Yellow Ostrich.

Season - Welcome Back Sailors (Unholy Rhythms premiere)

I'll be there - Welcome Back Sailors

Yuck

Yuck's self titled LP came out yesterday. GO BUY IT. IT'S INCREDIBLE. and if you have the chance, SEE THEM LIVE. THEY'RE INCREDIBLE.

Holing Out - Yuck

The Wall - Porcelain Raft (yuck cover)

Ela Orleans

I've been intrigued by Ela Orleans since I Know was featured on Grrrzzly's first mixtape at the beginning of this year. My obsession solidified with her inclusion on two separate label compilations for Beko. Along with label-mate Dirty Beaches, Ela Orleans is the leader of the pack in extending the current weirdo-vintage trend into the 50s. Her 12" split with Dirty Beaches is about to be released on La Station Radar (an incredible label thats essentially forming the impending 50s revival) and there are another three records coming from Ela in the coming year. Watch two Neo-Noir performance videos and grab the new track from Clandestine's Beko compilation below.

Ela Orleans "Myriads" from movies for ears on Vimeo.

Ela Orleans "Beat Goes On" from movies for ears on Vimeo.

Light at Dawn - Ela Orleans

Ela Orleans - I Know

I'm not sure how official this music video is, but I think it fits pretty well. Besides, this song is just too good not to post. I Know has been buzzing through my head since it was first brought to my attention on grrrizzly's first mixtape.

Beggars in a New Land - Teething EP

"Beggars in a New Land" just released an EP with the cassette rookies Crash Symbols. I'd never heard of Beggars, but the Get Off The Coast connection was enough to peak my interest. Teething is Crash Symbol's third release to date, and they've started out almost outrageously strong. (In case you missed it, Crash Symbols opened shop with a bang in November with an incredible compilation. Check out links to the compilation and another one of their releases below) Beggars aren't afraid to classify themselves as Chillwave, and neither will I. Compared to their peers though, Beggars sounds outright enormous. Chillwave's dance influences are pulled right up front on Teeth and their kitschy synths and drum machines somehow manage to sound like they'd fill arenas.

Crash Symbols Compilation

Hear Hum - Psyche Circles (expect more from Hear Hums on ATHID in the near future!)

Wild Life - Strike Hard Young Diamond

So today I was on a forum (can't remember where) and the conversation turned to the untimely demise of Delicious Scopitione (I could have cried). There is a hole in my heart that only Delicious Scopitone could ever fill. However, someone mentioned blogs that help ease the pain (aka that post the same music) one of them I'd never heard of was called Iamnosuperman. Several seconds later Iamnosuperman was officially on my blogroll. If you're wondering why I'm telling you this, you obviously haven't noticed that I like to (at least somewhat) justifying my reposts.

So with out further ado here is an awesome EP they posted about earlier today!

It sounds like these guys have been listening to Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary quite a bit. But I can't honestly hold that against them. I mean if you're going to be heavily influenced by an album you might as well pick one of the greatest Indie albums of all time (in my humble opinion at least). They seem to cut out a bit of the paranoia that I love about Wolf Parade but they replace it with even more energy.

I like Delicious Scopitone more than I like my own blog...

Delicious Scopitone is great. For starters, they share my love for Coma Cinema and Wise Blood(actually they might have started my love for Wise Blood, I can't really remember) plus I download probably 3 out of every 4 songs they upload. Not going to lie, they have better taste in music than I do, I mean really, if you had to chose between reading DS and reading this blog I'd tell you to chose DS any day of the week.

So anyways, I think all that lovin' justifies a repost from time to time! So here's a music video I saw on their site that I've listened to on repeat for about 20 minutes now.

The first time I heard this song I didn't really realize that it was a remix (or Edit I guess, from the sound of it all they did was slow it down and maybe take out some superfluous synth) and hearing the original afterwards was just kind of weird. Don't get me wrong though, the original is not too shabby itself!