Artist: Washed Out Album: Paracosm Label: Sub Pop Records Released: August 13, 2013 Four years after the synthed-out explosion of Washed Out’s “Feel It All Around,” front-man Ernest Greene is asking us to ‘feel’ it once again on his second full-length album, Paracosm. Pioneer of the hipster-coined genre “chillwave,” Greene mastered the lo-fi, laptop-pop sound with his debut album, Within and Without, by using heavy synthesizers and shoegaze vocals. In […]
Artist: The Mowgli's Album: Waiting For The Dawn Released: June 18th 2013 Label: Photo Finish Records/Island Records Website: themowglis.net The Mowgli’s describe themselves as “...8 friends from Los Angeles who are making music with love, and making love with music.” This band does just that, make music with love. The Mowgli’s are a rare sight in music. The whole purpose behind their music is to spread a gospel of love […]
Artist: Body Parts Album: Fire Dream Released: October 29, 2013 Label: Father/Daughter Records Body Parts is an L.A. based group with an experimental pop and synth sound. Fire Dream will be their debut album. The album is set to be released on October 29th. Frontman, Ryder Bach says that the album is about a nightmare he had, and is based on themes of life versus death and dreams versus reality. […]
Artist: The Head and the Heart Album Title: Let’s Be Still Label: Sub Pop Released: October 15th 2013 The long-awaited sophomore release from Seattle based indie/rock/folk group The Head and the Heart refuses to fall flat, and in fact does quite the opposite. On Let’s Be Still, the group unites in a way that perhaps wasn’t possible during the creation of their self-titled debut in 2010 and 2011. In 2010, […]
Artist: Tired Pony Album Title: The Ghost Of The Mountain Released: October 1, 2013 Label: Polydor (UK) / Heaneyville (US) Tired Pony’s seven core members, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, Iain Archer, Peter Buck of R.E.M, Richard Colburn of Belle and Sebastian, Scott McCaughey, Troy Stewart and Garret Lee, were brought together by Lightbody in May 2009 after his long term ambition to make a country album developed into a […]
Artist: Lily Kershaw Album: Midnight in the Garden Released: September 2013 Label: Nettwerk Records Twenty-two year old Los Angeles native, Lily Kershaw released her debut album Midnight in the Garden September 2013 after releasing two tracks “Ashes Like Snow” and “As It Seems.” Kershaw blends indie vocals as she reveals her heart and soul to her listeners in a poetic sort of justice that cannot be spoken. Each track collides […]
Artist: HAIM Album: Days Are Gone Released: Sept 27, 2013 Label: Polydor Records After repeatedly seeing HAIM’s new album hyped everywhere from Donald Glover tweeting about it to them being the spotlight DJ on Spotify, I decided to give the album Days Are Gone a listen. This talented trio from L.A. has a sound that is impossible to hate. Composed of sisters Danielle and Alana Haim and drummer Dash Hutton, […]
Artist: Courtney Barnett Album Title: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Released: October 15th, 2013 Label: Milk! Records Website: courtneybarnett.com.au Procrastinators, meet your new poet laureate. Courtney Barnett is a singer-songwriter-guitarist from Melbourne, Australia with a gift for tapping into the consciousness of the archetypal slacker. The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, her debut full-length, sets her deadpanned musings against an inviting backdrop of mellow, Pavement-meets-Neil-Young-and-Crazy-Horse […]
Artist: BANKS Album Title: London Label: Harvest Records Released: Sept. 10, 2013 Website: hernameisbanks.com/ For those of you who are not familiar with BANKS’s music, you will find her electro-dreamy-pop sound to be an interesting one. Listening to her music is like looking at a coin; BANKS can show two very different sides of who she is as an artist and what she is capable to transmit through her music. […]
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