#nowplaying: February '15

Freakin February

Features new music from Crooked Fingers, Sufjan Stevens, Great Lake Swimmers, Crocodiles, Tallest Man on Earth, Mac McCaughan, Built to Spill, and more!

That Sound Mixtape Vol. 21

2015

2.27.2015

KEVIN MORBY - Harlem River
WOODSIST071
CD/LP/DL
release date: November 26, 2013

http://www.woodsist.com/

KEVIN MORBY - Miles, Miles, Miles

Wrestle Yü To Hüsker Dü

Download the new EP - http://smarturl.it/iMyTypeEP

Lyrics:

Take a look around the room, 
Love comes wearing disguises. 
How to go about and choose. 
Break it down by shapes and sizes. 
I'm a man who's got very specific taste. 

You're just my type. 
You got a pulse and you are breathing. 
You're just my type. 
I think it's time that we get leaving. 

When there's loving in the air, 
Don't fight it just keep breathing. 
I can't help myself but stare. 
Double check for double meanings. 
I'm a man who's got very specific taste. 

You're just my type. 
You got a pulse and you are breathing. 
You're just my type. 
I think it's time that we get leaving. 

You're just my type. 
You got a pulse and you are breathing. 
You're just my type. 

SAINT MOTEL - My Type

From the Underlay EP, out August 19, 2014 on Merge Records
Digital: http://www.mergerecords.com/underlay

Underlay

Twerps "Hypocrite"

From the bonus EP "Juvenile Oratorios" available in full with purchases of HTH's latest LP on vinyl - for sale at live shows and from this label: http://www.re-vinylrecords.com/

Copyright 2014 Reverse The Tape Decks ASCAP

Recorded and mixed by Ryan Walsh in August 2014
Mastered by Machines with Magnets

BAND: Ryan Walsh, Ryan Connelly, Brian Rutledge, Nicholas Ward, Joseph Marrett

Devil Level Zero

From the album Policy, out March 10, 2015 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/policy

Policy

Order from Merge

Will Butler "Take My Side"

To celebrate the first European tour in 20 years from Dunedin's finest, we announced a special tour release, 'Stand By'. Featuring two never before release tracks, 'Find Your Own Way Home' and a cover of 'Solitary Man'. All audio is re-mastered especially for the 2014 European Tour.


The Chills - Liberty Or Love

POP ETC's cover of "Follow You Down" (Gin Blossoms Cover)

New album 'Souvenir' out now
Vinyl + CD: smarturl.it/shopsouvenir
iTunes: smarturl.it/isouvenir 
Amazon: smarturl.it/asouvenir 
Spotify: smarturl.it/spsouvenir

Follow POP ETC:
POPETC.com
facebook.com/popetc
twitter.com/popetcetera
instagram.com/popetcetera
Snapchat: popetcetera

Follow You Down (Gin Blossoms Cover)

From the upcoming album Bad News Boys. Out February 2015!

The King Khan & BBQ Show - Alone Again

"Mr. Fish" is the second single from Pile's upcoming album "You're Better Than This," released on March 3rd via Exploding In Sound Records.

Pile - Mr. Fish

Yowler :: 7 Towers

From the album Beat the Champ, out April 7, 2015 (North America) / April 13 (Europe) on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/beat-the-champ

Beat the Champ

The Mountain Goats "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero"

Order from Relapse: http://bit.ly/royalthunder
Order from iTunes: http://geni.us/CrookedDoorsDLX
Order from BandCamp: http://royalthunder.bandcamp.com

Available now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Relapse Records.

Official links:
http://www.facebook.com/royalthundermusic
http://twitter.com/royalthunderatl
http://instagram.com/royalthunder
http://royalthunder.bandcamp.com/

http://www.Relapse.com
http://relapserecords.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/relapserecords

Royal Thunder - Forget You

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Multi-Love” from THE ALBUM ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

SCD/direct: http://smarturl.it/umo?iQid=sc // Amazon: http://smarturl.it/umo_amazon?iQid=sc // iTunes: http://smarturl.it/umo_itunes?iQid=sc // Indies: http://smarturl.it/umo_indies?iQid=sc

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Artist Page http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=umo
Website http://unknownmortalorchestra.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/unknownmortalorchestra
Twitter https://twitter.com/UMO
Instagram http://instagram.com/unknownmortalorchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Multi-Love” from ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Multi-Love

Pre-order on iTunes

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Multi-Love"

Second single off 'Document Untold'
http://radiatorkingmusic.com/
https://radiatorking.bandcamp.com/
facebook.com/radiatorkingmusic

Hardwired

'Last Year' is the taster track from Joanna Gruesome's forthcoming new album 'Peanut Butter', out 11 May via Fortuna POP! (UK), Slumberland (US) and Turnstile (ROW).

Rival groups will be disappointed to learn that the record is a further experiment in combining hyper melodic pop music with sonic violence. Officials have confirmed that the album contains a record number of hooks, traces of nut and elements of jangle pop, British hardcore punk, atonal music, screaming and drone organs. Yet they have issued warnings of "a marriage of radical politics with peanut butter spread". "Last Year" is a song about experiencing tragedy and the occult in a water park.

Like their debut, the new album was recorded by MJ from Hookworms, with the aim of heightening the group's "pop" and "aggressive" elements to excessive and hitherto unrecorded levels. As songwriter Owen Williams explains: “We tried to make it shorter, more economical and attempted to pack as many hooks and screams in as quickly possible in order to avoid short changing the consumer or wasting her/his/their time. Lyrically it’s more obtuse and surreal but also attempts to mock trad masculine rock themes whenever things do get more lucid. But sometimes musically we embrace them by doing embarrassing guitar solos. I'm not sure how much else I'm at liberty to say but one thing I will disclose is that the record is a response to threats posed by rival groups."

Building up to the album's release, Joanna Gruesome will play the following UK gigs.

17 April - Islington Mill, Manchester http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981
18 April - Stereo, Glasgow http://stereocafebar.com/
23 April - Scala, London http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/scala/853979
2 May - Live at Leeds, Leeds http://www.liveatleeds.com/
3 May - The Haunt, Brighton http://www.seetickets.com/Event/joanna-gruesome/the-haunt/853981

Last Year

Rose Windows

Glory, Glory

Rose Windows - Glory, Glory

From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

From the album Dignity & Shame, out now on Merge Records.
www.mergerecords.com/dignity-and-shame

Dignity and Shame

Buy from Merge

Crooked Fingers "Call to Love"

Off 2009's 'Person To Person', available to own at: http://bit.ly/persontoperson_scd

Watch the video: http://bit.ly/earlywarnings_vimeo

A holiday escape to the oceanside is meant to keep the tribulations of daily life at bay. Yet every joyous moment of vacation is undercut with a strange melancholy as you do the math on the finite nature of your getaway. So, you take your sweet, sweet time with that cold drink and offer a cheers an extra time or two.

The songs of LA's Foreign Born's, Person To Person, are cut through with this same duality: celebration in spite of trouble on the horizon.

While the songs are propelled by benga-flavored beats, fuzzed-out synth bass, clucking tropical cowbells- from soaring horn sections to emotive string arrangements, its frontman Matt Popieluch's emotive, Aschcroft-y delivery that always keep the songs in check.

One can't help but imagine this was the mood of Foreign Born's mid-summer retreat to Sunset Lodge Studios, where bass parts were laid down in the wee hours of morning and the hot tub bubbled late into the night. The result of the session is an album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as greats like (dare I say it?) David Bowie (There, I said it). But the band is able to bypass the "songwriter" label by delivering a much more collective sound -- you know, like a BAND. African high-life guitars are countered with New Wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its pallet open to most any influence -- from U2 to The Feelies. If the Walkmen weren't afraid to go out in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops, you may have a sound close to this... like it could be Phil Spector's mid-70's 'lost recordings' inspired by the depth of second-line drum bands from New Orleans.

It's been said that Foreign Born is an anthem band without "the" fist-pumping anthem, which may be true. And this is OK, because the trade-off is for an album far more cerebral and sustaining. The thing with summer anthems is that they only last a summer, Foreign Born delivers the soundtrack for the backyard BBQ of the ages.

Foreign Born is Lewis Pesacov, Matt Popieluch, Garrett Ray and Ariel Rechtshaid

"The songs that make up this record are as meticulously recorded and executed as pop music gets. They're as dense and lush as they are stick-in-your-craw catchy." - POPMATTERS

"the band [has a] feel for anthemic '80s rock shaded by complex arrangements and cathartic moments that make the likes of Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire so appealing"- LA TIMES

"Percussion-loaded pop ballads, hypnotic bridges, and danceable rock edges"- SPIN Magazine

"Foreign Born's new music is inhabited by cries for help, shouts of hope and pleas for healing, all underpinned by rhythms so relentless and restless they seem connected to our turbulent times. And it's not a stretch to think of this album as Foreign Born's "Music From Big Pink." - BUZZ BANDS

(SC182 released: 06/23/09)

Person To Person

Early Warnings

Own the album

Foreign Born - "Early Warnings"

The first single from the self-titled LP out March 24 on Seagreen Records. Preorder the album:
http://seagreenrecords.bigcartel.com/product/pocket-hercules-cs-pre-order
www.pockherc.com

Pre-Order

Pocket Hercules - "Divers"

From the album Non-Believers, out May 5, 2015 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/non-believers

Non-Believers

Mac McCaughan "Lost Again"

The Tallest Man On Earth - 'Dark Bird Is Home' out May 12th: http://bit.ly/sagres_blog
Read the lyrics: http://bit.ly/sagres_lyrics

Pre-order SCD/Dead Oceans: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe?iQid=sc.sag
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_itunes?iQid=sc.sag
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_amazon?iQid=sc.sag
Your local record store: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_indies?iQid=sc.sag

Pre-order now

The Tallest Man On Earth - "Sagres"

Built To Spill's new album 'Untethered Moon' is now available. Order at http://builttospill.com/untetheredmoon. Find your local record store at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues.

Order Untethered Moon:
Official Store- http://smarturl.it/btsue
Google Play- http://smarturl.it/bts.google
iTunes- http://smarturl.it/bts.itunes

Never Be The Same

Never Be the Same

Download

Label: Chisel Records
Engineered by: Aaron Bastinelli
Recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks
Mixed/Mastered by: The Fat Pack

Available on:

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/s-t-ep/id962469488

Amazon: 
http://www.amazon.com/S-T-Fat-Heaven/dp/B00T52RPK2/

Bandcamp:
https://chiselrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-2


Roxy

The Tallest Man On Earth - 'Dark Bird Is Home' out May 12th

Pre-order SCD/Dead Oceans: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe?iQid=sc.db
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_itunes?iQid=sc.db
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_amazon?iQid=sc.db
Your local record store: http://smarturl.it/ttmoe_indies?iQid=sc.db

Dark Bird Is Home

The Tallest Man On Earth - "Dark Bird Is Home"

A non-profit, community-produced documentary series about the vision and process of recording music. Download & Remix Tracks. Share your work with the Community.
Free mp3 of "Not For Nothing" - http://weathervanemusic.org/shakingthrough/mutualbenefit?dl=1
Watch the full episode, Download & Remix the song - http://weathervanemusic.org/shakingthrough/mutualbenefit
Become a member - http://weathervanemusic.org/membership
Buy Weathervane Recording How To's - http://weathervanemusic.org/donate/store

Shaking Through: Vol. 6, Episode 2
Released: 5/6/2015

SONG CREDITS
Song Title: Not For Nothing
Producer: Brian McTear
Engineer: Matt Schimelfenig
Mixer: Matt Schimelfenig
Recorded at Miner Street Recordings, Philadelphia
Executive Producer: Miles Fender, Bill Hawkins, Peter English

PERFORMED BY
Jordan Lee
Mike Clifford
Jake Falby
Dillon Zahner

VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Karl Beyer
Executive Producer: Miles Fender, Bill Hawkins, Peter English
Series Producers: Brian McTear, Gabe Greenberg
Director of Photography: Drew Saracco
Artist Feature Edited By: Ryan Cambage
Production Video Editied By: Dave Jannetta, Larry DeMark, Gabe Greenberg
Camera Operators: Paul Hinson, Anthony Zagarella
Still Photographer: Christopher Petro
Video Sound Mixer: Matt Poirier
Field Audio Engineer: Matt Poirier

SPECIAL THANKS
Miles Fender
Bill Hawkins
Pizza Brain
ReAnimator Coffee
			

Mac McCaughan "Lost Again"

MergeRecords