March 2012
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February 2012
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Nothings Sounds 10: The Best of February
I may need to amend the title “The Best of February” to something a little more accurate - something like “The Best of February… On Spotify.” Being limited by the fact that Spotify apparently doesn’t have all the music ever, great releases such as the ones by Burial, Shlohmo, Hooray!, Teen Suicide, and numerous others that would have made this mix...
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NSB Discussions: Sleigh Bells
Welcome to the first NSB Discussion! In this segment, a few of us Nothing Sounds folk will gather in google docs to discuss something (nine times out of ten, a new album). To kick it off, Kevin, Eric, and I took some time to discuss Sleigh Bells’ sophomore offering, Reign of Terror. The talk wandered a bit to other issues - the future of indie rock, unnecessary potshots from me directed at...
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Other News of Note
New Audio
With 537 comments on the Soundcloud and countless mentions all over the web, it’s doubtful you haven’t heard the collaboration from Diploand Usher. Go ahead and give it another listen, though. [link]
Mouse on Mars’ Parastrophics comes out on February 28th, but you can hear it on XLR8R now [link]. At the very least, take a listen to “Polaroyced.” [link]
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Nothing Sounds 9: Soundtracks
So how about those Academy Awards? I had resigned myself to most of the losses that I feared, but I still feel Rooney Mara is perfect (no Swedish followers, don’t leave! I love Noomi too!). On a quasi-related note, I’ve been toying around with the idea of a soundtrack-themed playlist, but I just didn’t seem to have the knowledge of enough soundtracks - at least, I didn’t...
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“When We Saw” - arrange
For someone who thinks of himself as a rather big supporter of Arrange (mainly in spirit, for I am quite poor), I have posted surprisingly little about New Memory here. The Kickstarter to get it pressed only has a few days left, and he only has a little ways to go. Being the wonderful human being that Malcom Lacey is, I know he would truly appreciate any...
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Grimes - Visions
Review: Joe Brown [2/23/12]
The music that Grimes creates feels as if it is the pop music of the 1980’s processed through the filter of the 2010’s. Synthesizers, drum machines, airy vocals and a generally carefree vibe characterize nearly every song on Visions, Grimes’ third full-length album and debut with 4AD. Claire Boucher, the Canadian-born girl behind the Grimes name, has made no...
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Watch“Polarized” and “Ghost Bones” - QUALMS
QUALMS have posted a two-track teaser over at Bandcamp for the cost of “name your price” off of their upcoming Big Broken EP which is set for release on March 6th. “Polarized” is a robust electronic-infused track that is asking to be put on repeat for the next hour. “Ghost Bones” features their...
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Other News of Note
Black Breath’s Sentenced to Life approacheth (March 27th on Southern Lord), heralded by “Mother Abyss.” We’re not always as soft as we seem - just most of the time. [link]
The Caretaker’s new new mini-LP Patience (After Sebald) - soundtrack to the film of the same name using Leyland Kirby’s sculpting of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise - is available for...
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Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Review: Joe Brown [2/19/12]
Ice Cube bastardized the phrase “put your back into it” in 1999. For a set of words that once literally meant exerting immense effort by utilizing one of the largest sets of muscles in the human body to accomplish a task, it is a shame that the first thing that comes to mind for many people upon hearing the phrase is to infer it means to fuck someone mindlessly with...
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Burial - Kindred EP
Review: Eric Kossina
There was something off about Burial’s last outing. The Street Halo EP came out after most thought Bevan would never release solo material again — I would have understood if he locked himself away and became dubstep’s Kevin Shields, especially after the Burial mystique became so involved with the sound of dubstep. Untrue seemed impossible to follow up with every...
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Seeker Lover Keeper - Seeker Lover Keeper
Review: Joe Brown
Seeker Lover Keeper is a group of three of Australia’s most prolific and successful female songwriters. Each of the ladies in the group - Sally Seltmann, Holly Thornsby and Sarah Blasko - have had varying levels of success as solo artists and contributing songwriting credit for more widely recognized artists, which makes it all the more surprising how seamlessly Seeker Lover...
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Arrange - Five Years with the Sun
Review: Kevin Tappin
When Five Years with the Sun was first introduced, Malcom Lacey called it his “goodbye letter to South Florida.” The difficult part about having statements like this though, is how closely we may choose to hold the respective artist to that statement. To do so in this case allows Five Years to play out much like a book of memories. The details range in how they...
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Other News of Note
Arrange’s Five Years With the Sun isn’t even out yet (that happens this week) and we’re already being treated to bits of the following mini-LP New Memory. Listen to the new sampler and melt. [link]
Somehow, I forgot that we were getting new Burial material. Luckily, we don’t have to count on me for anything important, and the typical y excellent 3-track Kindred EP is...
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Watch“Für Felix” - Julia Holter
I’ve taken to posting a fair amount of Julia Holter (only a time or five in the last few months), so it’s fair to say that I’m a fan. It’s also fair to say that I’ve already said quite a bit about the upcoming Ekstasis, due out on RVNG Intl. on March 8th, and so I’ll let this old-but-now-new-again, Eric Fensler-directed...
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Other News of Note
Late post because I got out of work and then slept for six hours. Apparently I missed some game.
The new Air album is only a few days away, but why wait if you don’t have to? Perhaps you’ve stumbled across it already, but if you haven’t, go take a listen to Le Voyage Dans Le Lune on NPR. [link]
Maybe you’ve already heard, but Bon Iver won’t sacrifice their art for...
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Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
Review: Kevin Tappin
To understand what Dylan Baldi was trying to achieve with his band’s second album, you don’t have to look any further than “No Sentiment.” He begins the song with the lines, “We started a war/ Attack on memory/ No easy way out/ Forget everything,” not only revealing the album’s namesake, but also putting things into perspective. In...
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