The perfect thing to leave you with for the Halloween weekend. Bizarre, somewhat frightening and highly entertaining. For more info about the video, check out Pitchfork’s exclusive interview with the band.
Look at this, just in time for Halloween! Trippy and insanely fun Austin band The Octopus Project recently stopped by the Art in the Age store in Philly for an in-store performance and these rad videos are the result. They performed a track from their new album Hexadecagon and one of my favorites – “Music is Happiness”, from their 2005 album One Ten Hundred Thousand Million. Yvonne’s Theremin playing is other-worldly!
Well well well look what the cat dragged in…4 great new releases that you can stream in their entirety. Why thank you, cat!
Brian Eno’s new Warp release Small Craft on a Milk Sea is streaming on NPR. The music is pretty amazing, but it could definitely use some vocals.
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Warpaint’s excellent debut The Fool – a proggy mix of old Cat Power and ’90s all-girl indie – can be streamed at the Hype Machine.
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Treat your ears to the sounds of Philly’s latest indie export, Sun Airway, by streaming their blissed-out debut Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier on 3VOOR12. It’s been getting all kinds of (well-deserved) buzz.
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Austin’s instrumental psych outfit Octopus Project continue to refine their sound and expand your mindgrapes with Hexadecagon, which is streaming now on Spinner.
On repeat. Soooo good!
{MP3} Tapes ‘n Tapes – “Freak Out”
Tapes ‘n Tapes‘ third album, Outside, will be out 1/11 on their own label Ibid Records.
This new track from Philly’s favorite indie son, Kurt Vile, gives us a taste of his forthcoming album due out next year. It’s cleaner and shinier than his debut, but no less enjoyable. Have a listen…
{MP3} Kurt Vile – “In My Time”
See dates for Kurt’s upcoming tour on Matador’s site.
Here is some more rad Philly music for ya. Sweet Lights conjure up an ethereal, epic mix of Pernice Brothers, old My Morning Jacket and that unexplainable thing that gives you goosebumps.
{MP3} Sweet Lights – “Are We Gonna Work It Out”
The self-titled album was co-produced and mixed by Jeff Zeigler, the man behind Kurt Vile’s highly praised Childish Prodigy and you can stream it and purchase it here for $7 or more.
Check out Soars, another PA band on the rise, getting some love for their awesome new video on Stereogum:
“Jamie Harley directed this eerie, moving video with clips from the 1960 Japanese horror film Jigoku. The title translates to “Hell” (watch the original trailer at YouTube). The depictions of hell — fire and brimstone, heads stuck in the dirt (no skull-gnawing, though) adds some hard edges to the Pennsylvania band’s foggy, drifting single.”
Get their debut album now on La Société Expéditionnaire.
Loving the animation style in this new Flying Lotus video directed by Beeple.
Directed by Klip Collective, Philly’s rising stars Sun Airway release a subtle, but beautiful first video for the track “Put the Days Away”, pulled from their upcoming debut album Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier on Dead Oceans.
Themselves and Baths join forces to serve up an awesome track that is way more interesting than most things happening in Hip-Hop these days.
{MP3} Themselves – “Deadcatclear II” (Baths Remix)
(via AZ)
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