Adam Newton – Dryvetyme Onlyne – Houston, TX
Beach House – Devotion
Buxton – A Family Light
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Portishead – Third
Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
TV On The Radio – Dear Science
A Weather – Cove
- You can check out Adam’s full list here.
Ben Hendricks – Annabel – Kent, Ohio
1. The Twilight Sad – “Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did.”
2. Dinomania – “Text Messages”
3. Death Cab for Cutie – “Cath…”
4. M83 – “Kim & Jesse”
5. Tin Armor – “The Roof and the Rod”
6. See Urchin – “To Be Yours”
7. The Notwist – “Boneless”
8. Des Ark – “Two Hearts are Better Than One”
9. No Age – “Teen Creeps/Things I Did When I Was Dead”
10. Cheap Girls – “Kind of on Purpose”
God, how wonderfully 80’s/cheesy/glorious is the new M83 album, Saturdays = Youth. “Graveyard Girl” is the first single/video from the album.
The Very Hush Hush began in 2003 as the project of two classically trained pianists. Grant Hazard Outerbridge and Peter Bo Rappmund cover about every base imaginable on their second album, Evil Milk. While I am not familiar with the band’s first effort, this record is said to offer a nosier approach than the duo’s first album. Evil Milk works rather well as the noisy tendencies of the band clash with the subtle beauty of the duo’s piano background. Glorious feedback and rhythmic melodies wash over these movements as the band sounds almost improvisational in their varied approach. The Very Hush Hush choose not to delve into coherent vocals very often but when they do, on the tracks “Soul Projector”, “Wisteria Head” and “Maximillion,” it makes for a lovely proposition. “Gilded” closes the album off in a moving fashion spotlighting the duo’s piano work before spiraling into a wave of feedback. Touching all corners between My Bloody Valentine and shoegaze to glitch pop, Evil Milk is an impressive study in patience and talent.
Genre: Shoegaze/Electronica/Pop
RIYL: Apparat, Benoit Pioulard, M83
Label: Sao Bento Music
Soul Projector
