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January 10, 2012

The Daily Choice: Grass Widow – Disappearing Industries

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Grass Widow premiered their new track on Gorilla vs. Bear last week. The song, “Disappearing Industries”, draws Grass Widow a little deeper in to the garage sound, with their intertwining vocals continuing to be a strong presence. It’s a little off kilter this song, pummeling along with these ladies usual blend of beauty and grime, but with a sort of drunken strain to the bass line. As if Grass Widow had put a few down and then stumbled to their instruments, ready to bring rock to the world.

“Disappearing Industries” will be out on a split with Nature from M’Lady Records.

M’LR 036A – GRASS WIDOW – DISAPPEARING INDUSTRIES by M’lady’s Records

March 15, 2011

The Daily Choice: Robin Pecknold + Ed Droste – I’m Losing Myself

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Call it backlash from the massive surge of Fleet Foxes love, but I’ve started to think that Robin Pecknold’s solo production is just a smite more interesting.  Ring the bells, Pecknoldians, as the prolific front-man released a trio of new tracks just last week.  About the songs:

“These aren’t Fleet Foxes songs, but I didn’t know where else to disseminate it. Pretty mellow jams…One is a duet with my friend Ed Droste from the amazing band Grizzly Bear, one is just a new solo jam, and one is a cover.”

The cut with Ed Droste is slow and sad and feels like a natural combination of the more indie feel of Grizzly Bear and Pecknold’s yen for chamber folk.  Gorgeous music.

I’m away from a computer with the sweet technological advancements of an FTP, so please head over to Gorilla vs. Bear to grab this track.

Robin Pecknold + Ed Droste – I’m Losing Myself

Grab the all three tracks here.

January 26, 2011

The Daily Choice: Hunx and His Punx – Lovers Lane

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The fine tastemakers over at Gorilla vs. Bear just premiered the first single off the new Hunx and His Punx album To Young To Be In Love.  ”Lover’s Lane” drips with an acid-edged puddle of broken-hearted longing.  Shannon Shaw, of the recently DCed Shannon and The Clams, adds a crackling hum as a member of Hunx’s enviable Punkettes.

The album, the first proper LP from the group, will be released on Hardly Art on March 29th.  Furthering the concept that March is the only month this year where any music is being released.

Hunx and His Punx – Lover’s Lane

October 13, 2010

The Daily Choice: Gauntlet Hair – Out, Don’t …

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I love describing a band as a cavernous.  Love the idea of a duo of well-dressed musicians loading their gear in to a monstrous cave with bat guano and brackish water spilling from above.  Love even more the way one would think acoustics sound in a cave, ricocheting from stalactite to stalactite, the drums and guitar warping and weaving themselves down the various corridors.

You listen to Gauntlet Hair’s recently premiered single “Out, Don’t…” and you hear the sweating walls of a cavern.  The drums, the guitars weighty chunk are filtered through solid granite, the pick-ups taking on a machine gun patter, the vocals an ominous float that weaves above the song.

How come we don’t have festivals in caves?

Gauntlet Hair release their 7″ on Mexican Summer soon.

Gauntlet Hair – Out, Don’t…

Source: Gorilla vs. Bear

October 1, 2010

The Daily Choice: Reading Rainbow – Wasting Time

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It’s always an interesting bit of progress to observe a band gaining popularity and having, or choosing, to shed some of their more youthful noise trappings.  Call it forward momentum or cleaning up one’s act, but Reading Rainbow seems to have tightened up their sound a little on their new track “Wasting Time.”  I worry sometimes that the removal of noisy detritus is a form of polishing one’s sound to present a cleaner face to the public, but not in this account.  I think Reading Rainbow got their hands on a fancy studio and a some nice equipment and translated their sort of trashy garage-pop in to a more focused bit of garage rock.  It hums along a clipping pace and loses nothing of the manic energy this bands so ably batters us with track after track.

Clean it up, just don’t lose the edge.

The album comes out on Hozac in late November.

Reading Rainbow – Wasting Time

Source: Gorilla vs. Bear

June 29, 2010

The Daily Choice: Yuck – Weakend

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Yu(c)k – Weakend from Yuck on Vimeo.

It’s a rarity that every track an artist releases prior to them air-cannoning a full length in to our midst ends up on The Daily Choice. But England’s Yuck has me in a full on a tizzy. Their poppy bit of fuzz “Georgia” first stormed on to the internet months ago and I lapped it up like honey-sweetened milk. Weeks later I came across the airplane-landing video for their deliciously sparse heart-bender, “Automatic” and have been spinning it on digital repeat ever since. Thus, perhaps, it is no surprise that their new song “Weakend” catches my ear yet again. More along the sadness-soaked lines of “Automatic”, “Weakend” is an eerie mix of perfectly mixed harmonies. It is ethereal, ghostly, a gauzy bit of fabric loosely caught on the edge of a window sill. It hangs in the air, billowing, gusting, as the wind catches it.

Yuck’s much anticipated album is released on Mirror Universe soon.

Yuck – Weakend

Source: Gorilla vs. Bear

April 1, 2010

The Daily Choice: Sun Araw – Deep Cover (VIDEO)

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I always thought Sun Araw dabbled in ambient space-trips.

This is an expedition to the moon in a vehicle coated with abalone and glitter-paint.

Hold on.  Hold on tight.

DEEP COVER – SUN ARAW from CatCakes on Vimeo.

Sun Araw’s new album ON PATROL drops in April on Not Not Fun.

Source: Gorilla vs. Bear

March 24, 2010

VHS Jam Session 3.24.2010

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Posted this Cults track a while back and am still insatiably obsessed with it.

Lucky for us they just released a video for it, equally as beautiful, equally as mysterious.

Who is this blonde girl?  And why does she throw puppies?

Go Outside from Helene Park on Vimeo.

Cults – Go Outside

Source: Gorilla v. Bear

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Hot Chip, you’re popular dance rhythms do little for my aural capacities, but your absolute spot-on ability to broadcast bizarreness has a city block of my heart all reserved for condos.

I swear.

Hot Chip – I Feel Beter Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos

I can only watch this video once though, as the lazer beaming white skeletor haunts my waking dreams.

Source: Stereogum