Death Cab EP. thurlow.

Death Cab for Cutie has an EP coming out on April 14. It's called the Open Door EP



Of samples from Amazon, it sounds like a solid Death Cab album. Not too changed up, but why would you with such a working formula? Ben Gibbard's voice on anything becomes gold, so look out for this EP. In full versions there's probably a stand-out single that will show up everywhere. (Like the above video)

thurlow
little bit of happy mellow. Found them on Myspace, it's like if Mates of State decided to mellow out and use one singer more than two singers. They also have there own sound of course off of the Mates of State reference. There 8 track EP seems like just about the right size. Hope to get it soon.
http://www.myspace.com/thurlowmusic

The Sixty-Eighth Day.

The formula for music last year lies somewhere in loud happy music (ex Mates of State, Santogold, and so on) or very dark acoustic music with lots of harmonies and beards (Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, and so on).

Already, the mixing of the level of happiness with loudness of the music has been changed up. Bruce Peninsula, for example, creates some haunting songs around a chorus of up to 10 people. Neko Case builds some happy music on her quiet, but full, record. All we need now is a very contemplative happy song from a man with a beard. Or maybe the opposite; Colin Meloy could grow a beard and his very loud, in the end miserable, album could satisfy all aspects of beardyness, sorrow, and volume.

BTW: Demigods by Mega Wand and Steamroller by Bruce Peninsula fit oddly well together if played at the same time by accident... Steamroller at a much lower level.

thanks to The Musicologist for the Mega Wands find(check under the others. with love
for his blog.)

The Sixty-Sixth Day.

It's Blitz!
By the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, it's the perfect popish album to come out this year. With the easy to enjoy, but not really capturing, sound which anyone can agree on. I'm glad it came out, and the album is prefect for just that, agreeing on a cd in the car where you can feel your indie edgeyness, but your mother can also sing along.

The only reason I would at all be a disgruntled customer would be of the lack of Yeah Yeah Yeahs essence. Fell In Love With the Night is undoubtly my favorite song by them. Maps is also up there, with the aggressive drums, simple but rough guitar, and smooth vocals or Karen O. They lose themselves a little behind the disco fever.

The album does show some progression in the band, in the use of electronics, and such, opposed to only vocals, drums, and guitar. Karen O.'s brand of vocals still adds all the vocal catches and breathy yells. I can just imagine drummer Brian Chase grooving with the Disco beat and instrument man Nick Zinner felling a little like a mad scientist creating the disco-era-parallel backing sounds under his emotionless facade.

Check out the 80ish dance moves from Karen O.

The Sixty-Fourth Day.

This truly is just hilarious.

http://hypem.com/#/track/793288/Franz+Ferdinand+-+Womanizer+Britney+Spears+Cover
Womanizer by Franz Ferdinand.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xmmwwjymq32

The Sixty-Third Day.

The Decemberists are amazing. The best album in a long time. Best album because it is amazing from beginning to end, and it is only the most enjoyable as the whole album.

I know I wasn't very impressed with them when their album came out, but I didn't listen to the whole thing through. A hour+ car trip changed that all, and maybe listening to a live recording as well. (go http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=51936526&id=267972899 to get the live recording from NPR)

DO NOT think of this album as singles at all. It is a piece, an epic as described on NPR. The story isn't extremely complicated, but I did get lost a little to the amazing music and swept-up-edness of many of the songs. The female voices are beautiful and powerful, epically of one My Brightest Diamond lead, Shara Worden.

The Sixty First Day.

Check these out. Tell me how they are.
I'm gonna be gone for about two days, away from internet and all, but these bands struck my interest.

Weird Weeds
Passion Pit
Explode Into Colors
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Crystal Stilts


yes these are SXSW bands. I'm late to the game but riding that fact out.

The Eighth Playlist.

Balkan Brass (and some other) Music

1. Kocani Orkestar - L'Orient Est Rouge(the also have a song called KO v. Animal
Collective on their myspace page. It's interesting
enough to check out.)
2. Balkan Transit - Petruno Pile Sareno (ignore the light jaunty flute, more of the
deep bass drums in what this track my have
contributed to sound this year.)
3. Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band - Demiranov Cocek (seriously sounds direct from
Beruit's current album.)
4. Balkan Brass Band - Underground cocek

5. Angelite-The Bulgarian Voices - Krai Rekata (it's probably just the multiple
voices, but pieces of this seem like Bruce Peninsula
sought out the Bulkans this year as well.)
6. Zlate Uste - Memede

7. Angelite-The Bulgarian Voices - Sadba (an attempt to find the same deep,
passionate low brass instruments Zach Condon so
masterfully used in March of Zapotec in songs like
"The Shrew" and other songs.)

Brass band is on the left, Krebsic Orkestar is on the right.