kinnietheexplorer:

Good morning. Here’s the second free download from Kinnie The Explorer’s new album, this one’s called ‘Empyrean’.

Forplay’s prescriptions are over-the-counter and highly recommended.

Kings of Convenience’s Quiet is the new Loud is an excellent way to submerge yourself into a bottle of Scotch. The album can be extremely peaceful and awfully melancholic at the same time. However, there is a time and place for melancholy and that time is not Christmas night.

Christmas night is probably best complemented by Versus (Quiet is the new Loud Remixed), and a responsible dose of nyquil (if you’re ill).

Sounds Like: AIR, Jose Gonzalez, Fink

Goodie Bag
Kings of Convenience - Gold for the price of Silver (Erot vs. Kings of Convenience verson) (Left-Click)

Forplay’s latest obsession

Haven’t listened to anything else in the last three days. At this point, retracting what I said in a previous post, I would totally attend a Kinnie the Explorer concert. Might even carry some underwear to throw on stage.

Sounds Like:Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros

Goodie Bag
Kinnie the Explorer - Scissor Dance (Left-Click)

Forplay wonders what comes post post-rock

Kinnie the Explorer while good music - is better suited for couches than concerts. Which makes me wonder - was the rise of Post-Rock some Occupy Wall Street type protest against concert enthusiasm? It seems that the entire genre has traded panties and bras littered on stage for “air concertos” (it is crazy what instruments people are willing to air play) in the crowd.

Sounds Like: Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros

Wild Beasts have set their third album release date for May 9th in the UK, and 10th here in the US. The 20 second trailer for Smother that is sprawling the internet gives no indication of where the Beasts took the forthcoming album, so might as well use the opportunity to showcase some of the brilliance from Two Dancers.

Goodie Bag
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers II (Left Click)

notjustnoise:

Seabear / I Sing I Swim

Goodie Bag
Seabear - I sing I swim (Right-Click)

(Source: lizbee)

Either I haven’t posted this track until now, or my memory is severely failing me. Regardless, both possibilities point to me going mad. Here’s to being better late than stupid.

Goodie Bag
Culver City Dub Collective - Eloise (Left-Click)

My recent urges for rock, indie experimental folktronic rock, have led me back into Monogold. Unfortunately a fortnight’s worth of laundry kept me from seeing their show tonight. Since I was taught very well not to kick the can down the road, I am not going to delay the reintroduction until their March 11th show.

Goodie Bag
Monogold - Ivory Teeth Golden Tusk (Left-Click)

on the light, on the low

To Lose Someone//Taken By Trees

There are few songs that I purchase instantly upon hearing - this was one of them. Victoria Bergsman - you won’t know her as the female vocal on ‘Young Folk (Peter, Bjorn & John), but you will recognize the familiarity and comfort she brings to the song.

On this album, East of Eden, Bergsman ventures to the volatile lands of Pakistan to bring a sound that is part Qawwalified (flutes, tabla, and tambourines included) with just enough traces of western ethereal pop to keep it alternative rather than world. Blastphemous jokes aside, this is a brilliant song. Excited to check out the rest of the album. Reminds me of Trespassers William with a little more to get lost in.

In a word, exotic.

In a few, cross-cultural pollination.

Here’s my money, iTunes

Hooting and Howling//Wild Beasts

Few albums have deserved recognition this year. Love 2 barely survived a listen through - it was plagued with mistakes such as ‘Tropical Disease’ and ‘Night Hunter.’ Yeah Ghost fell victim to experimental urges, Kid Cudi got lost somewhere between trying to establish his hipster status, and wanting to be Kanye and Jay-Z showed us that too many architects spoil the blueprint (3).

However, Two Dancers is a refreshing sound in a genre (indie) that is rapidly growing bland and unimaginative. I don’t know if it is the convincing falsetto of leader singer Hayden Thorpe, or  the addictive metronomic grooves - but the album has dominated the headphones and car stereo alike.

Goodie Bag
Wild Beasts - Hooting and Howling (Right-Click)

Silent Tuesday

*Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini*

So this was a rather disappointing week for music releases. I could not get into the new Zero 7 album (and I thought listening to it at 1am might help it’s cause too). Kid Loco’s album, Kid Loco: The Remix Album, features jazzed up remixes of old tracks by artists like Bacuzzi and Waldeck…but it isn’t much to write home about.

During my desperate scour of all the internet had to offer, I did come across this catchy little track. Not a new release, but worth a listen.

…A bit too much of the female vocalists? what say y’all?