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On this week's Cloud Sounds, a weekly playlist of new music curated by The Skinny, we dip into some of the further reaches of this week's new tracks, bringing you a mercurial selection, leading off with the magnificent Thrill Jockey Records from Chicago, home to Tortoise and ADULT., presenting a new track from The Skull Defekts, a devastatingly brutalist slice of heavy psych rock from the Gothenburg band, taken from their album Dreams From The Known Unknown, out 8 April.

We follow that up with Eagulls, offering up a slice of scuzzy post-punk-meets-grunge, and reminding us of their hilarious open letter, posted on their blog in January, which took potshots at a myriad of hipster cliche band-types. Then there's the Carpenter-esque synth workout of SEØUEL, Canadian Gothic electro from TR_ST, majestic instrumental electronic hip-hop from Illum Sphere, from his stunning debut Ghosts of Then and Now (we had a chat with him this issue), lush neo-soul from Liverpool's Ninetails, and lo-fi stoner rock from Sub Pop's Chad VanGaalen. 

In the second half, we've got the welcome return of Glaswegian mentalists Casual Sex - they offer a live recording from a gig at the Mao Disney Club at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Then we've got Indian Red Lopez, bringing us slick synth-pop from Aberdeen, more new gear from Sub Pop in the form of melancholic Austin, TX outfit Shearwater, a dose of claustrophobic menace from Carla Bozulich (ex-of The Geraldine Fibbers), Bad Seed Mick Harvey weighs in with a Gainsbourg tribute, plus there's an extended slice of ethereal, ambient neo-classical from A Winged Victory For the Sullen. 

We finish off with some bubbling, glitch-filled electro from SBTRKT, taken from an instrumental EP series he has planned before the next album, and finally, a new track from hip-hop legends Slum Village, with a beat by J-Dilla, and featuring Dilla's younger brother Illa J and Young RJ. Check out the whole playlist below, and follow The Skinny on SoundCloud to keep up to date with our favourites. 

Cloud Sounds #5: 14 February, 2014

February 12 cold sunny day in Paris

chilly

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Songs suggested by Anthony Fantano of theneedledrop

needledrop 2/14

Spring in your step..

Misc

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"Subtle electronics, hazy guitar grooves and strained, muted vocals... a beautiful mediation from the humdrum of every day life; a retreat to lose yourself in… wonderfully infectious." - Gold Flake Paint

Girl With The Gun form initially as a duo between 2006 and 2007 in Italy.
Matilde Davoli and Andrea Mangia aka https://soundcloud.com/populous give life to this psychedelic electro-folk project, resetting their musical past. She has years of electric guitars and sweet vocals in the indie-pop band https://soundcloud.com/studiodavoli behind, he' s breaking out from his electronic experimentations on his also new project https://soundcloud.com/thelifeandlimb.

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Girl With The Gun - Hold On For Cues

FLOSSTRADAMUS & YELLOW CLAW FT. GREEN VELVET - "PILLZ"
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Produced by: Flosstradamus & Yellow Claw
Vocals by: Green Velvet
Lyrics by: Curtis Jones (Green Velvet)

Flosstradamus & Yellow Claw ft. Green Velvet - "PILLZ"


February 2014 sees the two piece German monster MANTAR release their debut album on Svart Records. Recorded earlier in 2013 and titled "Death By Burning", the album is a raw, self produced and 100% DIY display of power. The half German, half Turkish band has existed for less than a year and released one limited run 7" - probably sold out by the time you read this.

MANTAR manages to sound even and heavier than most five piece bands you may know, in spite of the fact that no bass guitar was used on this record. Just drums and guitar set for destruction. Forget about Rock `n Roll. This will hurt. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet feedback orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motorhead, Darkthrone. You name it. Don`t call it sludge though. Everything as black as possible. A soundtrack for the final battle.

Svart Records will unleash the black 10 track attack on February 7th on CD, LP, tape and digital.

Mantar: White Nights

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Free Download

Victor Niglio feat. Mr. Man - Jiggy (VIP)

Innocence single from the new album INNOCENCE out Jan 28, 2014 on Thrill Jockey Records

Innocence

The War On Drugs 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian.

Pre-order now:
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Amazon/physical stores: http://smarturl.it/warondrugs_amazon
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The War On Drugs
Artist Page http://secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=warondrugs
Official Site http://www.thewarondrugs.net/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheWarOnDrugs
Twitter https://twitter.com/warondrugsjams
Instagram http://instagram.com/warondrugsjams


The War On Drugs "Red Eyes" from 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian

Red Eyes

Buy it on iTunes

The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

Taken from Kelis' new album 'Food', released on April 22, 2014 on Ninja Tune.

Order 'Food' at <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfoodit">iTunes</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfoodam">Amazon</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/kelisfood">Ninjashop</a>

<a href="http://iamkelis.com/">iamkelis.com</a>

<a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/">ninjatune.net</a>

Food

Rumble

The Haden Triplets' "The Haden Triplets" is available here: https://thirdmanstore.com/the-haden-triplets

Third Man Records is proud to present the debut album from The Haden Triplets, daughters of Jazz bass legend Charlie Haden. These are songs steeped in history and sung in a close harmony that could only be achieved from sharing a lifetime of sisterly togetherness and a near psychic vocal interplay that can only come from being born mere seconds apart from each other. It's been rendered and produced beautifully by American music legend Ry Cooder. This is an album expanding on an American musical tradition. It is not pastiche or a tribute, but rather a direct antecedent and extension of the original folk legacy that is being exhibited within these songs.

The Haden Triplets

Slowly

The Haden Triplets - "Slowly" Clip

Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra
"Take Away These Early Graves Blues"

From the album Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
Out 21 January 2014 on Constellation

cstrecords.com/cst099
tra-la-la-band.com/

Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • "Take Away These Early Grave Blues"

Carla Bozulich
"Deeper Than The Well"

From the album Boy
Out 04 March 2014 on Constellation

cstrecords.com/cst102
www.carlabozulich.com/

Carla Bozulich • "Deeper Than The Well"

The Coathangers
"Suck My Shirt" CD/LP/DIG
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Pre-order: www.suicidesqueeze.bigcartel.com/
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
www.thecoathangers.com
http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Artist Instagram: @thecoathangers
Label Instagram: @suicidesqueeze

Springfield Cannonball by The Coathangers

Ninetails - Radiant Hex

Remix by @the1975

Deluxe edition of Post Tropical out now // Including previously unreleased material, remixes and solo recordings. Bonus tracklisting below.

1.	When I Leave (bonus track)
2.	You Know (bonus track)
3.	New Romancers Ft. Moors (bonus track)
4.	Red Dust (live / solo version) 
5.	All Points (live / solo version) 
6.	Cavalier (1975 remix) 
7.	Cavalier (DPAT remix) 
8.	Glacier (Atu remix)

Purchase 'Post Tropical' On:
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Amazon http://smarturl.it/PostTropicalAmz
Store http://smarturl.it/jvmstore

Post Tropical

Cavalier (The 1975 Remix)

Download on iTunes

The B.A.D Is So Good

OUGHT
Once More With Feeling EP

Preview of full-length album available 28 October 2014 on Constellation: http://cstrecords.com/cst108

Ought • "Waiting"

Carla Bozulich
"Lazy Crossbones"

From Boy
Out 04 March 2014 on Constellation
cstrecords.com/cst102

Carla Bozulich • "Lazy Crossbones"

DJA BEATS
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WWW.DEREKALLEN.NET
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DJA - Lil Whimsy

Brolin – Flags Mixtape

Ninjashop: http://smarturl.it/fenrisnt
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/fenrisit
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/fenrisam

This is the first track to be streamed from Machinedrum's forthcoming Fenris District EP - the latest chapter in his Vapor City dreamscape.

12" / Digital released 24th March via Ninja Tune.


Fenris District

iTunes

Machinedrum - Back Seat Ho

Blood Electronic Music video edited by Arni Gestur and produced by Tjarnargatan: http://youtu.be/fKvtEMBWmf4

http://www.sequelsounds.com
https://www.twitter.com/sequelsoundx
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DAS IST

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records. 

Black Lips-Justice After All

Available now to download on iTunes here: http://po.st/BDmtfiTunes    

Ready your speakers...http://po.st/BrodyDalleSignUp // Brodydalle.com http://po.st/BrodyDalleWeb

The first track off the forthcoming solo album from Brody Dalle, frontwoman of The Distillers and Spinnerette, out now.
Song also features Shirley Manson (Garbage) and Emily Kokal (Warpaint)

Website: http://po.st/BrodyDalleWeb
Facebook: http://po.st/BrodyDalleFB
Twitter: http://po.st/BrodyDalleTW
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Newsletter: http://po.st/BrodyDalleSignUp 
Live Dates: http://po.st/BrodyLive


Diploid Love

Meet The Foetus / Oh The Joy

Ninja Shop: http://bit.ly/IllumghostsNT
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Amazon: http://smarturl.it/illumghostsaz

Taken from the Illum Sphere album 'Ghosts of Then and Now' released February 10 2014 on Ninja Tune.

http://illumsphere.com
http://ninjatune.net

Ghosts Of Then And Now

Illum Sphere - 'Ghosts Of Then & Now'

Capitol

'Cant Stop Playing' premiered on http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/giganta-cant-stop-playing-premiere

Giganta - Force will be released on Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune on the 17th March.

http://werkdiscs.com/giganta/

www.werkdiscs.com / www.ninjatune.net

Label: Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune
Release date: 17th March 2014

Pre Order
Ninja - http://smarturl.it/forcent
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/forceit
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/forceam

Force

Can't Stop Playing

Giganta - Cant Stop Playing

Pink Mountaintops 'Get Back' out April 29, 2014 on Jagjaguwar.

Pre-order now at
iTunes smarturl.it/pinkmountaintops2
Amazon smarturl.it/pinkmountaintops3
SCD Bundle smarturl.it/pinkmountaintops
Indies smarturl.it/pinkmountaintops4

Pink Mountaintops
Artist Page: http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=pinkmountaintops
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pink-Mountaintops/115659901826505
Twitter: twitter.com/pinkmtps
Instagram: instagram.com/stephenmcbean

Pink Mountaintops - "North Hollywood Microwaves" from 'Get Back' out April 29, 2014 on Jagjaguwar.

Buy on iTunes

Pink Mountaintops - Ambulance City

Telekinesis, featuring Cody Votolato on guitar, covers "Nu Bruises" by Superchunk.  Original version from the album Indoor Living, out now on Merge Records.


Telekinesis "Nu Bruises" (Superchunk Cover)

Waterfall

TOBACCO Ultima II Massage out May 13, 2014. 

Download "Eruption": http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/tobacco-eruption
Order Ultima II Massage: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/tobacco-ultima-ii-massage

TOBACCO - Eruption (Gonna Get My Hair Cut At The End Of The Summer)

✞✞✞ NOT MINE ✞✞✞

Lyrics:

You’ll never understand until you’ve been there.
Been down so much, that all you can manage to do now is sit there.
Thinking back at all the choices that you made to get there.
Pumping a fist to the sky telling god “it ain’t fair.”
But yo, we ain’t there.
How could it be with all this devastation and desperation surrounding me.
So put me in the ground ‘cause this life has just been pounded out of me,
The only reason I ain’t sleeping now ‘cause I got mouths to feed.
Why can’t I catch a break?
Why can’t I step away and wake up one morning and think that things wont be a mess today.
I gotta break the cycle somehow,
Sick of this pain, I'm sick of living this way.
Okay, I’m done now.
Not having fun now, there’s just so many reasons.
Feel as if my soul’s a broken puzzle and I’m missing pieces.
It’s real easy for you to judge them when you see them,
But you’ll never truly understand unless you’ve ever been there.
A place where hope was thin in the air.
If things are gonna get better tell me a ‘when’ and a ‘where’.
Sitting and staring in the mirror, nobody’s there,
That I know, feeling so alone and I’m scared that nobody cares.
My nights consist of so many prayers.
I once had so many dreams, I once was going somewhere.
Try and following steps before you start to compare,
Me to you and you don’t know me, now you think that that’s fair?
I never thought my path would lead me to the point I’m at now.
But before they get up, some people gotta fall down.
Some fall harder than others, they thought they had it all down.
Me, I take these experience and jot them all down.
But how do you cope when you think that hope is nowhere around?
How do you know where to go if you haven’t been found?
Yo, I’m saying it’s draining living this pain that I’m in.
You’re quick to judge me but you haven’t been the places I’ve been, c’mon.
You’ll never understand until you’ve been there.
Been down so much, that all you can manage to do now is sit there.
Thinking back at all the choices that you made to get there.
Pumping a fist to the sky telling god “it ain’t fair.”
But yo, we ain’t there.
How could it be with all this devastation and desperation surrounding me.
So put me in the ground ‘cause this life has just been pounded out of me,
The only reason I ain’t sleeping now ‘cause I got mouths to feed.
Why can’t I catch a break?
Why can’t I step away and wake up one morning and think that things wont be a mess today.
I gotta break the cycle somehow,
Sick of this pain, I'm sick of living this way.
Okay, I’m done now.
Not having fun now, there’s just so many reasons.
Feel as if my soul’s a broken puzzle and I’m missing pieces.
It’s real easy for you to judge them when you see them,
But you’ll never truly understand unless you’ve ever been there.

CVL† SH‡† - ßƟD¥ ßΔGƵ

"Line of Fire", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.

Buy the track on Amazon: http://glnk.it/1v4
or on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1v5

http://www.junip.net
http://www.mute.com
http://www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:

What would you do
If it all came back to you
Each crest of each wave
Bright as lightning
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining

Standing on higher ground
But when you hear the sounds
You realise it's just a whim (/the wind)
And you notice it matters
Who and what you let under your skin

If put to the test
Would you step back from the line of fire
Hold everything back
All emotions and desires

Convince yourself to be someone else
And hold back from the world
Your lack of confidence
What you choose to believe in
Dictates your rise or your fall

With no one else around you
No one to understand you
No one to hear your calls
Look through all your dark corners
When you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire

I'd do the same as you would
Would do the same as you
Step back from the line of fire

Junip - Line Of Fire

Mne horoso s toboj

Get Lucky (Daft Punk cover)

We are an independent record label based in Montréal, releasing experimental music we care about in the most careful ways we can.

Carla Bozulich • "Lazy Crossbones"

Constellation Records