New shit coming soon

Sorry about the crappy posting... new stuff will be coming in the very near future, including a sister-blog weekly program with my friend Julia over at http://itsthemusicgeek.blogspot.com/

Also in the mean time if you've got a Tumblr, feel free to check mine out and follow me, maybe if you're interesting I'll follow you back.

eaststrikewest

eaststrikewest is an Essex based rock band that delivers a very enjoyable mix of post-rock and shoegaze. The beginning of their debut album "Wolvves" starts off in the traditional post-rock manner; instrumental, environmental and powerful, with a sort of Red Sparowes meets My Bloody Valentine sound. The vocals they introduce towards the second half of the album are good, but sometimes feel unnecessary, although "Stumble" is a real great song and the singer's voice is a huge part of it. But being an avid post-rock fan I sometimes just want the music.

eastsrtikewest - Wolvves

Murder by Death & Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers

This was a really great discovery. She has a classic voice, great phrasing, great songs... I'm slightly less convinced about the band -- I could use a bit less pedal steel, for instance, but that might be personal prejudice. Good stuff.

Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - S/T

"Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?" has been on rotation extremely heavily these last 4 or 5 weeks. Its an absolutely amazing album. Old time-y piano and a story of the Devil getting shot in the back after a night of drinking in a dusty Texas town and subsequently said Devil wiping the small town off the map entirely.

Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?

Buffalo Artist Profile: Son of the Sun

I got my hands on an early copy of the album that will be released in a few days.

Check out their Myspace for more information. http://www.myspace.com/sonofthesunmusic

It's a pretty solid album with a good sound. No particular song has really stood out for me, but each is a good song. Nothing groundbreaking here, but nice to know my city can still turn out some good sound.

Son of the Sun - The Happy Loss

If you like this album, buy it when it's released on iTunes on the 22nd of June.

Triumphant return & Janelle Monae

It's been a pretty long time; but my computer has been fixed and I think I'm back for good!

I'm gonna drop some Janelle Monae for y'all today. My buddy Frank who can be found at his Blog of Knowledge tipped me off to her a week or so ago and I've been playing these albums a ton, since.

She's got this soul/funk/pop/rock/R&B medley that is really great. She's just released Suites II and III, of a IV suite concept album, inspired by Metropolis, a silent film made in 1927; (the film is about a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.) The Metropolis Suite(as these works are called) has a similar story.

Here's her talking about the concept behind the new album.

Her alterego is Cindi Mayweather, a female android (Alpha Platinum 9000, model no. 57821) who is mass produced in the year 2719 for the ruling class.

Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase

The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV)

At any rate; check this out, you won't be disappointed. And if you are, tough.

Post Rock

There's nothing better during a subway ride home then a post rock album... I am able to just sink into the music and the atmosphere.

New Century Classics - Natural Process

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun

The Ascent of Everest - How Lonely Sits The City

The Ascent of Everest & We All Inherit The Moon - 2009 Split EP

The Sea and Cake - The Sea and Cake

Snob Scrilla

Snob Scrilla - Day One

Marina & The Diamonds

Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels

Got it for Julia, also myself. Haven't listened to anything but the singles yet though. I really love 'I Am Not A Robot'.

La Roux

La Roux - S/T

Got it for my sisters, it grew on me... it's not a perfect album, and there are some forgettable tracks but some of it is great. Nice change up from Lady Gaga if you want to kick it with some female voxed electropop. Plus Elly Jackson is absolutely gorgeous(much better looking than Gaga too, in my opinion), so that's a plus.

BT

BT - This Binary Universe

One of my favorite electronica albums of all time... this is some ambient-glitch from BT. Pretty different from his normal trance shit, but I love this. There's 3 songs that have a 110 piece orchestra kicking out some jams. And the album, in all of it's orchestral-jazz-glitch-pop-breakbeat-classical entirety is absolutely beautiful.

Benn Jordan

Benn Jordan - Pale Blue Dot: A Tribute to Carl Sagan

Super mellow, ambient sounds by the normally DnB artist Benn Jordan(bka The Flashbulb).

Very spacey, very chill. As the title suggests, it's space rock... inspired by a journey through the Cosmos and the black.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ’superstar’, every ’supreme leader’, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.“

- Carl Sagan

Lightspeed Champion

Lightspeed Champion - Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You.

I fell in love with 'Falling Off The Lavender' Bridge, Devonte Hynes of the Test Icicles' debut album as Lightspeed Champion... so I was elated when I heard about a second release by this quirky Londoner. Haven't heard it all, but what I have heard is quite good.

some Indie and some Deep-blues

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Debut album from C.E.G.... considered one of the best albums of 2009 and I'm inclined to agree.

William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark

William Elliott Whitmore moves me in ways I never thought imaginable. I haven't listened to the entire album yet, but what I've heard so far is great, and his other albums are too.

32 year old, white dude from Iowa with the voice of an 82 year old, black, Delta-blues man from Mississippi.

Stunning.

Sorry about the lack of posts...

I've been staying at my mother's house for the last month and my computer is still at my apartment. So my only internet access is when I borrow her laptop, so I haven't been able to download new music to upload for you guys.

I'll be back, I promise.

exlovers

exlovers - You Forget So Easily

Pretty promising new indie pop band from the UK off Chess Club Records. Brought to the New Noise for Julia.

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was

Sublime STP

Sublime STP - Rewind Selector

Taking its name from some Rasta banter Bradley shouted live at The Palace, Hollywood (10/21/95) - a kind of call for the DJ to replay the track. Rewind Selector is a collection of Sublime's influences, presented to be entertaining, as well as clear as possible for Sublime fans to hear and appreciate some of the same artists that Sublime grew to love and incorporate into their sound. This is done by mix-mashing the original track with Sublime's version; sometimes live, sometimes in studio, but always fully tilted.

Really cool. I'll be posting more mashup in the coming days.

Vampire Weekend

I know, I know... overplayed, overhyped... I don't care. I like this music. It's catchy and it feels good.

I actually haven't listened to this new album yet, but I figure other people want to hear it too, so why deprive my 4 followers of that opportunity? I do however, find it suspicious that they haven't changed the font since their last album... hmmm.


Vampire Weekend - Contra

City and Colour

Post-hardcore band Alexisonfire's frontman(?) Dallas Green's folk side-project. I was introduced by my friend Kale who lives in Vancouver, BC. I was wary at first because I'm not a fan of Alexisonfire, but this guy is really great.


City and Colour - Sometimes


City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love

Gota

Gota Yashiki - It's So Different Here
Pretty good acid jazz album with a lot of 70s-flavored keyboard riffs, spacy effects, and bouncing grooves.

Kashiwa Daisuke

Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I

Kashiwa Daisuke's superb album "Program Music I" has been one of my favorite electronica albums since I first heard it over 2 years ago. It's a rather difficult record to navigate at first listen, but with each subsequent listen, it emotes more and projects something new.
Of the two tracks, the first - "Stella" - is my favorite. It's the more conventional of the two songs, save it's unconventionally long run-time. There's no real specific movement in Stella that I can pin-point a preference to. However the fact that Daisuke was able to compose 36 minutes of introspective, self aware music is awe inspiring. It's an absolutely gorgeous song.