Office by Alex Penny
Active Child - Hanging On
LA based Active Child’s new release on Vagrant is perfection. Just in time to carve out a large spot in my Summer playlist. Pitchfork’s review nailed the great use of each song’s negative space and how spot on his falsetto was in the work.
They start their month long residency Monday August 1st at the Echo and will be in NYC at the Bowery September 10th.
Kettering-The Antlers
Radiohead - Scotch Mist
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Foals - Spanish Sahara Live In Session [BBC Radio 6]
David Bowie & The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
The Cave Singers - Swim Club
This song is from The Cave Singers’ third studio album, No Witch, which we featured in this week’s WWTB.
It’s rare that I find a song I instantly like the way I do with “Swim Club.” (I am honestly the worst kind of fan: one that needs to be won over and over again.)
The best way I can describe this band is indie with a lot of soul. The lead singer, Peter Quirk, has a beautiful and distinct voice, which he accentuates with staccato. The song has a low-fi quality but there’s something nice about the reverberations of the instruments with Quirk’s voice - it feels like coming home.
James Blake is an English dubstep producer, a classically-trained pianist, and tough-to-nail-down artist. His debut album contains elements of gospel, soul, dubstep, and minimal techno, sometimes laced with restrained and perfect use of auto-tune (a la Bon Iver’s “Woods”). This track, “Measurements”, falls into the gospel bucket, and is just what the doctor ordered for the dreary day we’re having in Nashville today.
Blake’s self-titled debut album is a grower. My first time through the album didn’t garner much reaction, but somehow, over the next few weeks, that one listen was all it took for the entire thing to slowly creep in and bounce around my head. Now that I’ve listened to it over and over again, I find myself reaching for this album anytime it rains or anytime I want to just sit back, relax, and let music wash over me. I suggest you do the same.
(Source: tuneage)
