Just a friendly reminder that your Monday could be much worse, as you’re most likely not currently incarcerated or the target of an assassination attempt.
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Remember yesterday when I mentioned my utter lack of recognition for the impending cold and snow? Here’s another reason to pretend winter is just a bad dream. Off of the brand new Michael LP by Les Sins (who you may know better as Chaz Bundick, who also releases music under his Toro Y Moi alter-ego), out now on Carpark.
Why not back to back tracks from Merge.
Some stray Lee Ranaldo.
Most of Lace Curtains’ new album A Signed Piece of Paper is quirky, unassuming indie pop, but “The Fly” is a whole different beast. Something about the guitar tone reminds me of Women, if they sanded down some of their sharper edges and made an art pop album instead of jagged post punk. Yes, I realize that description only makes sense in my own head. “Shakes his little feet and rubs his little hands. Slips you a CD of his nu-metal band” is a frontrunner for lyric of the year.
…performed live for Echo Locale. Is this what always goes on inside womens’ rooms?
Video for “Your Love is Killing Me”, a highlight off of van Etten’s AOTY contender Are We There.
A few years ago, I went pretty deep into a Chilean psych rabbit hole, and now I’m starting to rediscover some of the music that came out of my short infatuation. I can barely find any info on The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane, but I’m glad I stumbled upon their self titled (and possibly only?) LP somehow.
Truth be told, I’m not entirely certain why Pains… always strikes a chord with me. There’s a ton of bands making arty, slightly shoegazey indie rock, but something about their guitar tones and vocals always hits a nice, fuzzy, warm spot in my brain. “Kelly” is one of the finest examples of what they do well.
In my head, Ought exist in an alternate universe where an adolescent Jarvis Cocker started a pop-punk band in high school, then spent an entire summer in exile getting real deep into the Pavement discography. “New Calm, Pt. 2” is on the group’s forthcoming Once More With Feeling… EP, due out tomorrow.