Dreams is a highlight from Taken By Trees'Other Worlds, an album front-to-back inspired by chanteuse Victoria Bergsman's visit to the Hawaiian Islands. The Dreams 12" features extended instrumental and dubbed out remixes by Henning Fürst of The Tough Alliance. Out soon on Secretly Canadian.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti have revealed a new and original song from forthcoming album, Mature Themes, out August 21st on 4AD records.
Purity Ring releases their single, entitled Fineshrine, off their upcoming album Shrinesto be released on July 24 (available for preorder now). "Megan James’ lyrics are at once grisly and tender, a blood-soaked love song that sits atop Corin Roddick’s mammoth, ear-burrowing production." Listen to Fineshrine below.
Haleek Maul, who is from the island of Barbados, but was born in Brooklyn, just turned 16. His debut album, entitled Oxyconteen, out now for free on Merok Records, has a slew of references to drugs, sex, suicide, and murder. Haleek is managed by Milo Cordell, owner of Merok Records, who has put out albums by the likes of Active Child, Rainbow Arabia and Salem – Cordell is also a member of the band The Big Pink. Haleek is already getting a lot of love from listeners and non-listeners of rap, because the album seems to be an amalgamation of a lot of different genres. Oxyconteen, rife with the aforemention subjects, has the perfect amount of teenage angst, but there is something about Haleek that is more dimensional and creative that makes his debut album deserve a closer listen. Download the full album here.
Haleek Maul – Fraulein (Prod. King Britt)
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Today, Juveniles, the young synth-pop trio from Rennes, France release their video, directed by Edward Housden, for the track Through the Night off their current EP. The film features a the classic gym team practicing in a nondescript basement studio with their tyrannical, overbearing coach.
This haunting and beautiful short film, which is much more than a music video, is for the Sigur Rós track Fjögur Píanó off their current album Valtari is directed by Alma Har'el and stars Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen. The acclaimed Icelandic band Sigur Rós recently asked a dozen filmmakers to each choose a song from its new album, Valtari, and shoot a video inspired by the music as part of their Mystery Film Project. All the directors received the same $10,000 budget and zero instructions from the band.
This great track comes from Starving Weirdos member Brian Pyle's new musical project Ensemble Economique from a split EP with Lee Noble entitled Motion Forever due out on Hands In The Dark on June 20.
Now open at Agnès B's Howard Street gallery an exhibition entitled Musique Plastique, a group exhibit "exploring the ongoing interaction between the visual arts and music." Curated by Jean François Sanz, the show will feature music-themed pieces by the likes of Jean Tobias Bernstrup, Hisham Bharoocha, Etienne Charry, Brian DeGraw, Daniel Johnston, Jonas Mekas, Thurston Moore, David Shrigley, Alan Vega, Ben Vida and Liz Wendelbo. Musique Platique is on view until August 25 at 50 Howard Street, New York, and be sure to head to the Agnès B gallery website to download a compilation by the artists involved.
David Byrne & St. Vincent have just released the opening track Who from their collaborative album Love This Giant, to be released worldwide September 11 by 4AD under exclusive license from Byrne’s label Todo Mundo. Recorded over two years largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ, the album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with Byrne and St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) co-writing ten of the album’s twelve tracks, and each artist penning one song individually. The album centers around an explosive brass band and is propelled by John Congleton’s drum programming.
Music video, directed by Alasdair McLellan, for Violet's (Pixie Geldoff) I Come Undone from the AA side of her debut single Y.O.U.
On August 28, Manchester-based smooth glitch romantigoth producer Holy Other will follow last year's debut EP, With U, with his full-length debut, Held, via Tri Angle. Here is the single Love Some1 off the upcoming album...
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti will release its new album, Mature Themes, on Aug. 21, it's the band's second album for 4AD and the official follow-up to its 2010 breakthrough album, Before Today. The first single from the album is a cover of Donnie and Joe Emerson's "Baby," and features guest vocals from Dam-Funk. The song will also be released on July 10 as a limited edition one-sided 12" via 4AD. Dam-Funk will also open up several dates of APHG's Fall tour.
After releasing and taking the video down a few times over the last two days, The Flaming Lips finally premier the music video for their collaboration with Erykah Badu, a cover of the standard The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, which appears on the collab-heavy release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends to be released June 26 on Warner Brother Records. The clip was directed by George Salisbury and features a naked Nayrok Badu, Erykah's sister, covered in glitter and a plethora of other liquids.
New video by Actually Huizenga From the Album Wet Look
Been listening to this track on repeat. Teen is set to release their debut full-length, In Limbo, on August 28th via Carpark Records. Brooklyn's Teen came together when Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, left her post in the latter band in order to make music with her sisters Katherine and Lizzie and their good friend Jane Herships. Forgoing girl-group gimmickry and fervor, the band’s digital-only debut EP, Little Doods, fleshed out a sound of languid, lo-fi psyche pop redolent of Paisley Underground bands like Opal and Rain Parade. Since releasing the EP in April 2011, the band have steadily honed their sound around New York and readied their first long-player, In Limbo. Recorded in summer 2011 in a barn in rural Connecticut and engineered by Jen Turner of Here We Go Magic, In Limbo keeps the band grounded in their own world of psychedelia while heightening fidelity and giving songs the room to take shape. The first half of the record puts pop at the fore with opener Better, a Suicide-esque march toward euphoria through repetition. In Limbo was mixed and produced by Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom, and his influence subtly makes itself known throughout the album.
The DIA (Detroit Institute of Art) will present the first American museum exhibition to focus on the photography of artist, poet, and performer Patti Smith. Smith's photographs are infused with personal meaning and highlight the rich relationships between art, architecture, poetry and the everyday. This selection of images from the past decade reveals the artists, poets, authors, family and friends from whom Smith draws inspiration. The exhibition includes 70 black and white gelatin silver prints and a small selection of original Polaroids and items from Smith’s personal collection. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be on view from June 1st to September 2, 2012 at the DIA, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
Directed by Fleur & Manu and Produced by DIVISION, Reunion is part two of the story that commenced with Midnight City. Together, these two tracks are the soundtrack for a pack of gifted kids with telekinetic powers who escape from an institution and run wild through a desolate cityscape. In the first video we witness their liberation, with Reunion we experience their defiance. Reunion is the second single off of the massive sixth M83 album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming.
"Play it loud & enjoy." The Jullien Brothers have released a new video featuring the music of Niwouinwouin, aka Nicolas Jullien. The video is directed by Jean Jullien and his brother Nicolas who together make up the creative duo. The video features illustrations from Jean Jullien's book Silhouettes published by Lendroit.
