Southern California label Art Fag Recordings–most notably responsible for last year’s Summer anthem: “Sun Was High (So Was I)“–is the latest home to the native Heavy Hawaii. If you remember their breaking-out with incredibly catchy “Sleeping Bag” featured on Bathetic’s eternally awesome Summer Bummer (Get Laid, Get Wasted) compilation (which is long gone), then you’re already aware of the hammocked lazy-day vibes radiating from their tunes. “Teen Angel”, one of many highlights from their upcoming proper EP, highlights HH’s uncanny vocal harmonies and is near perfect timing as these Summer days are beginning to dwindle. As mentioned, these tracks will be available via Art Fag towards the end of the month.
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Aside from the video for their “Moonlighting”, it’s almost been exactly a year since we’ve heard anything new from Navajo Bixby. Like their earlier tracks, “Down Under” is built around sunkissed-loops deeply rooted in 50-60’s beach pop and a walking guitar riff that is dripping with Summer tones. While they have some similarities to the (hate to say) chillwave sound, this duo’s creative approach puts them at the head of the class. What we’ve been getting from these guys are undeniably catchy pop tunes….consistently.
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Unouomedude (you-know-you-owe-me-dude) draws more than a few similarities to Toro Y Moi, both using their musicianship to create melodic looping-pop-rubies, though with Unouomedude there is less glitching and more pitching harmonies. Currently you can download his newest collection of songs titled Marsh via bandcamp and as always you can test the waters below with his infinitely-catchy gleeful-jam “Buildings”.
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Our Rhode Island blog-brother Salad Fork has put together a good-natured Compilation for World Hunger which includes an abundance of of emerging artists. Seeing as we’ve given a whole-buncha-lovin to Craft Spells in the past and Emily Reo has sprung up recently as well, we thought we’d re-feature their track on the comp. The song is a call-and-return 80s fog-machine ballad in which you can practically flesh out in your mind a garishly overdone video accompaniment–carnal street corner stares, neon signs and the whole kit and caboodle. You can download the entire Salad Fork Compilation here. Check out the Craft Spells/Emily Reo instant-repeater below.
Craft Spells & Emily Reo – Love Well Spent
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Been hearing a bit about this band lately and finally had a chance to listen to them, they hail from the essentially untapped musical market of Japan that either strikes gold or not, Ice Cream Shout seems to be the former. They bring back that sense of the late 80s–early 90s where artistic music was figuring out what to do with itself post-new-wave and before the shoegaze gates busted open, bands like Yo La Tengo or Sonic Youth come to mind.
Ice Cream Shout – Tattooed Tears
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Continuing with their constant churning of (multi)repeatable tunes, Weed Diamond come back with a couple demo recordings of their newest visions. These tracks may explore different moods from one another with “Chalice” as a slow-burning grower and “Field on Fire” being a long-lived pop marathon (5+ miuntes!), but both are soaking with lovely 90s lo-fidelity. With no mentions of a label or release info, it is still unclear of what their intentions are with these. Still, I’d rather have the mp3s than nothing at all…
Weed Diamond – Field on Fire
Weed Diamond – Chalice
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Late last month we posted the a-side to The Splinters upcoming 7″ on Southpaw Records. The flip-side, “Hot Hands”, is yet another psychedelic quest and reason to grab this limited piece of wax. Only 500 pressed with the first 100 on colored vinyl. Order now.
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Alec Feld’s latest project, Golden Eye, is probably one of the most naturally complete sides he’s taken a part of. Apart from his solo-made disintegrating loops of Expensive Looks or the radically political hip-hop jams from Public Safety, Feld has teamed up with a few of his college friends in Massachusetts and turned more towards psych and surf-y influences. Well said words from the man himself proclaim the music as, “west coast sound meets east coast forests, equal parts land and sea, short but sweet…”
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And here is the new Cloud Nothings, out on the same date, same label, though its a four song 7″ (love those) and will apparently never be repressed, also these songs are exclusive to True Panther and not on the collection being released by Car Park later this year. This song is a natural jolter for all those dispirited by the breezy Real Estate track.
Leave You Forever by truepanther
This entry was written by , posted on August 19, 2010 at 11:39 am, filed under New Tunes and tagged cloud nothings. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
