August 2012

A music compilation by the music producers at Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in New York.

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Top Tracks of 2012

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Best Songs of 2012

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2012

My favorite new songs in 2012. A few were released in 2011, but found their following in 2012. Feedback appreciated. 

2012 Gems

Coachella 2013 Preview

Got It All [This Can't Be Living Now]

Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now)

From Grimes' "Visions"
Arbutus Records 2012

Visions

Oblivion

Grimes - Oblivion

Default - Out Now
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/default-ep/id487005655?uo=4
Remixes from Dan Carey, Tom Furse (The Horrors), JD Twitch and Walls out January 16th.

Debut album out 30th January 2012
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/django-django/id485436065?uo=4
Because Music

Django Django - Default

From the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, out March 6 on Merge Records.

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The Magnetic Fields

Andrew in Drag

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The Magnetic Fields "Andrew in Drag"

Reign Of Terror

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

JUMANJI Prod. By HUDSON MOHAWKE & NICK HOOK

The wait is over!

Baroness have reemerged after 3 years of touring, writing and recording!!!!

Baroness' Yellow &amp; Green finds a band that has developed into more than just giants of the metal underground, they are now fully formed hard rock titans. Fans of the band have come to expect nothing less than constant evolution from Baroness and that is precisely what the band has delivered, but in ways noone could have anticipated: the hooks are immediately seared into your brain, riffs that take just one listen to fully lodge themselves in your consciousness and vocals that are sung both heavily and beautifully. Some songs are more delicate than Baroness ever hinted to before while others are straight up arena rockers—yet all along Yellow &amp; Green is unmistakably the Baroness that the world has come to love and look to for Record Of The Year quality rock and roll. It’s not hard to imagine any one of the 18 songs that fill out the Yellow &amp; Green 2CD/2LP being rock radio anthems, and deservedly so. At no risk of hyperbole Baroness’ ‘Yellow &amp; Green’ is on a very short list as one of the new millennium’s best rock records.

Baroness - March to the Sea

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Far East Movement - Little Bird

From the album 'A Thing Called Divine Fits', out August 28, 2012 on Merge Records.

Divine Fits are Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, and Sam Brown.
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A Thing Called Divine Fits

Divine Fits "Would That Not Be Nice"

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Released through Luv Luv Luv Records 2012

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PAYS TO KNOW

From the new album 'Landing On A Hundred' coming October 2012 - to support the Kickstarter project or pre-order the album, visit Kickstarter for more information at http://kck.st/codykickpre. 

Kickstarter

That's Still Mama

Off the album Give In - out now on Roll Call Records
Buy the album here: www.ItsOnAnOn.com

See the "Ghosts" video: http://youtu.be/fnupmO1dlnw
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ON AN ON - Ghosts

Get Stop Talking on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/PacificAirStpTlkiniT

Stop Talking

Float

From 'The Flip Is Another Honey' 
http://mikedoughty.com/TFIAH

The title of Mike Doughty's 'The Flip Is Another Honey', taken from a 1957 Variety Review of a Jerry Lee Lewis single, means "the b-side is also fantastic." Doughty covers tunes from surprising sources, like John Denver, Cheap Trick, and the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a cover of the John Denver song, sung with Rosanne Cash; "Sunshine" finds Doughty rapping Doughty-esque-ly around samples of Denver's voice. "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" is a straight-up version of the song from Guys and Dolls; "Reach Out" is an obscure Cheap Trick tune from the soundtrack of the early 80's animated film Heavy Metal--which segues into a version of Josh Wink's 90's EDM classic, "Higher State of Consciousness". Except for three songs that were performed live, in the studio, with a cello and piano, Doughty played, or programmed, every sound.

Sunshine - From 'The Flip Is Another Honey'

Roses

• Third and most accessible album by icelandic experimental pop artist Sin Fang
• Recorded & produced by Alex Somers (producer of Sigur Rós & Jónsi)
Although there is a certain reassuring quality to evergreens – you can rely on them to never drop their foliage – it’s the flowering plants, the ones that bud, blossom, and bloom, which really light up and even define a season. This is exactly what happens on Flowers, Sin Fang’s third solo album: Seabear’s founder and mastermind unlashes a melodic spring storm and explores even more corners of the lush and baroque gardens he spent the last five years in.
Following his Half Dreams EP, Flowers is a solo album that nevertheless opens with a lot of collective chanting, a sense of deep rootedness, togetherness, unity, shared experience: “We were young boys, smoking in the woods, I showed you how”, are the first words Sindri Már Sigfússon aka Sin Fang scatters across the less-beaten tracks, only to leapfrog across the lawn and switch on the stage lights for his own take of stadium pop. Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your ears: A song like “What’s Wrong With Your Eyes” would indeed sound infinitely awesome in a stadium setting – it’s so massive, so outspokenly pop, when the beat meets layered vocals and the piano comes in just at the right moments. “I was thinking a lot about pre-teenage and teenage feelings,” he explains. “The exaggerated feelings and dramatic thoughts that most teenagers go through: Love and rejection, the constant ups and downs... I thought Flowers was a good name for that theme as they are used both for sad and happy occasions.”
A few albums and EPs and make-shift DIY beards later (he went from paper to knitted goods and now likes them freshly watered and soon withering), Mr. Sigfússon has obviously learned how to cultivate the heaviest crops of the pops: indie-rooted but vast, quirky at times but crystal-clearly aiming at the stars in other places, there’s more tracks with huge sing-along gestures, more of that well-rounded surround experience now stripped of any insecurities. This is a bold statement that’s a million miles away from cliché Icelandic indie stuff, but instead shows that you can indeed be a sucker for outlandish prison tattoos and at the same time go for rather timeless orchestrations that unfold like springs, followed by summers and autumnal winds.
There’s clearly a ghost at work here, still carrying him away, as he gathers more and more rosebuds and moves from epically marching (“Look At The Light”) to overgrown power pop (“Not Enough”) and back via lots of oh-uh-oh-uh-oohs (going up and down like those distant hills you can’t stop staring at) to fast-paced bliss (“Sunbeam”). “Weird Heart” takes a look at the things one doesn’t care about as one gets older (“so many things don’t mean a thing to me”), while “Feel See” is a call for like-minded individuals out there, as it moves from section to section, pushing onwards, now hesitant and soft-spoken almost, soon hopeful about the answer to the question it poses: “Is there someone that feels like me, that there’s nothing to feel or see?” There’s lots. To feel. To see. To discover and dive into. At least in this garden there is.

Sin Fang - Young Boys

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Catatonic. Taken from the album "Lost Songs", Century Media Records, 2012.

Catatonic

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...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Catatonic

"Psycho" by Petra Haden from the new album 'Petra Goes To The Movies,' out now

Petra Goes To The Movies

Psycho Main Title (from Psycho)

Petra Haden - Psycho

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Written by Calvin Markus and Travis Bunn.
Vocals by Calvin Markus
Additional Vocals by Liz Nistico (@holychildmusic)

Mastered by Luke Burba

LYRICS
Trash in a gold frame in a velvet case
I'm burning out my flames
A circular staircase to put us back in place
All back
Erased

My best is yet to come
Like eventually the sun will just burn out
Yeah my best it yet to...

Come outside my hands are freezing cold
Let's just start running 'till we're completely alone

Push your doubts away
Like a velvet wave, like a velvet wave

My best is yet to come
Like eventually the sun will just burn out
Yeah my best it yet to...

Come outside my hands are freezing cold
Let's just start running 'till we're completely alone
Forget out pasts, forget our valuables
I've got this feeling that you're all I need for warmth

Feel

Dette er låtene fra Sunturns' nye sjutommer, pluss bonussporet Autumn Affairs!

Sunturns - Aleksander

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You thought you knew Torqux? Think again. Formerly producing under two separate aliases, Torqux & Twist, the duo have now combined their efforts into the full-time project we can now call Torqux. Safe to say, we are over the moon to be dropping their first release 'Blazin'' which features the no-nonsense vocals of one of the UK's fastest rising stars Lady Leshurr. 

The package includes a remix courtesy of the Annie Mac approved Dimension. Proving why he is currently one of the hottest names in drum & bass, Dimension keeps the no-nonsense ethos turning this one into a 'tops off' dancefloor cut. 

Finishing the package is a track entitled 'Hit Me' which see's Torqux integrating their sub-heavy basslines accentuated by vocals more akin to Daft Punk's French house. The outcome is all rather breath taking and with this being the debut EP for the duo, the future is looking incredibly bright!

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Divine Fits "Would That Not Be Nice"

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