Dntel has a new album called Aimlessness the Spring (release date June 5) on Pampa Records. It's the first proper new Dntel (a.k.a. Jimmy Tamborello, also of Jimmy Tamborello fame as well as his more well know collaborations Figurine and The Postal Service with Ben Gibbard) album since Dumb Luck in 2007. "Bright Night" is the first full-on song released from the album, and it's an almost new school jazzy take on electronic music. It has plenty of blips and stop-and-start action, but with a layer of something more energetic and sophisticated on top of it.

Dntel - "Bright Night"

Laetitia Sadier - There Is A Price To Pay For Freedom (And It Isn't Security)

Let me start with a personal gripe, how many goddamn Mission of Burma reviews and profiles have to be written using the framework of their (gasp) "reunion" of 2002? People (i.e. music writers) get over it! Mission of Burma are just another band releasing a new album (their fifth studio album), Unsound (Fire Records), this week. "Dust Devil" is the first single from said album. It was made available for streaming a while back and when I first heard it I thought, "Gee Golly Gee, MoB never suck." The Burma's simply have IT. 

That being said "Dust Devil" isn't likely to go down in history as their best song ever. Just under two minutes in length, the tune is all about the guitar playing. Good Roger Miller fuzz and topsy-turvy riffs start the banging head. A surf/spy theme guitar (as only the MoB guys can thrash through) along with crashing harmonic note cluster chords makes this quite an album opening BLAST (for it is Track1). This band is a unit though. Touches like backing vocals and the always-amazing Peter Prescott (drums) conk me on the noggin. This band rules! Time to listen to the album in full. My early prediction: As good or better than The Sound The Speed The Light, but not as stunning as The Obliterati. - By Jeff Daily

Mission Of Burma - Dust Devil

Police Teeth. http://policeteeth.blogspot.com/ Where have these guys been hiding? Seattle apparently, and the song "Bellingham Media Blackout" is the kind of blues-tinged punk come post-punk that sets your teeth on edge. Maybe that's where the name came from? Anyway, "Bellingham Media Blackout" is the kind of song that will set your day on fire and keep it burning all day long. They're James Burns on vocals/guitar, Chris Rasmussen on vocals/bass Richy Boyer pounding away on the drums; and their new self-titled album arrives on October 16 via Latest Flame. http://www.latestflame.com/

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