Sunday, July 31, 2011

WU LYF- Brooklyn Girls



WU LYF recently debuted a new song as part of a live session at Maida Vale studios entitled Brooklyn Girls; a reflection on the bands recent trip to NYC and features bassist Tom McClung on vocals. Brooklyn Girls differs from the material on Go tell Fire to the mountain in that it's very stripped down yet just as beautifully haunting.

WU LYF – Brooklyn Girls by pmwtumblr

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Neon Indian- "Fall Out"




Fall Out
, the first single from Neon Indian's upcoming album Era Extraña made it's debut today. The spaced out dreamy single sounds like a mix between a slowed down version of Haddaway's What is love, and Beach House's walk in the park but with a heavy club sound. You can either listen to the song below or enter you email address into the widget below to download it.












Tuesday, July 19, 2011

M83- "Midnight City"



Today after three years of waiting M83 debut the first single Midnight City and first track off the highly anticipated release Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Midnight City, sounds like the ultimate 80's dance party that Patrick Bateman would crash and start killing killing everyone. The shimmery synths act as a lucid dream provoking an intriguing sense of mysticism with an accompaniment by a sax solo that screams sexy. You can either stream the track below or download it here.

Midnight City by M83

Monday, July 18, 2011

WU LYF- "Go Tell Fire On The Mountain"


WU LYF, a band that is truly a diamond in the rough and are rare commodity among their peers. That is to say World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation play the game by their rules, and that is they answer to no one. This is a band that has pissed off the press, only to receive praise for doing so, their cryptic web presence or should I say lack of web presence, makes Radiohead’s presence look like that of someone say Justin Bieber. Frontman Ellery Roberts, presence is completely incomprehensible yet alluring in an artistic way that redefines the basis of experimentation with music. This acts as the main focal point on Go Tell Fire on the Mountain- an album that generates a religious cleansing of the spirit through tribal like drumbeats, scathing guitar chords, and the celebratory moment when everyone raises their beer in unison forming a tight knit brotherly bond.


Go Tell Fire, is unique in that it brings forth a comforting sense of togetherness, an element that usually goes unnoticed in music. When looking at this album listeners will notice that it syncs up to just about everything, the tension of a morning commute, a TV spot of a sporting event even the climatic moments of a film. While one would think that this sound could be achieved within a studio setting, WU LYF on the other hand took a similar route that Arcade Fire did on Neon Bible, which was to record the album in an abandoned church. While recording in an empty church seems like a gimmick in generating intrigue to press hungry for information, the acoustics of a building of that sort provides the necessary essence that allowed the band to capture the sound they were search for. The enriching lush melodic guitar lines carry an extra dimension with each attack and release, while the pipe organ carries out an angelic sustain. What this does for the percussion is enhance each blow, allowing the reverb to enhance the kick drum in a way that takes your breath away. Allowing the band to live up to their self-generated hype.


Each song acts as though it were it’s own little anthem, the albums opener “LYF” lone organ echoes similar sounding chords of the church hymn “Go tell it on the Mountain” and slowly begins to crescendo with the addition of drums and guitar as Roberts goes into a tribal like singing and shouting, embracing his inner animal instincts, giving the song a life of its own. The crème de la crème of the album is last summer’s single “Spitting Blood” that allows the listener to interpret it anyway he/she desires, by the time the song gets to its chorus Ellery and company pit out “we are so happy so happy to see…” that it’s like they’re all raising their glasses as they finish off another beer.


Go tell fire on the Mountain is truly in a league of its own if you were to look at everything else that has been released up to this point this year. WU LYF are one of the few artists that have crafted an album that is actually rewarding in an artistic sense and will most likely be over looked when it comes down to crafting end of the year lists.





Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Drums- "Money"


In roughly two months the Drums will be releasing their follow-up to last year's self-titled LP, with Portamento. Below is "Money" the smiths sounding first single from the album (which has release date of September 5th), along with the creepy album art that features a demonic looking child eating what appears to be a cookie.

The Drums - Money by WorkItMedia