Like their Elephant 6 brethren Neutral Milk Hotel, the geniuses of Olivia Tremor Control are re-emerging. However, in their case, its with a full tour and brand new material! I guess there is something in the psychedelic air…

Listen to Olivia Tremor Control’s awesome new track “The Game You Play Is in Your Head, Parts 1, 2, & 3″ and get tour dates on Pitchfork.

Also, do yourself a huge favor and pick up their 1999 album Black Foliage when it is reissued in November. It’s one of the best psych-pop records ever recorded in my opinion.

I haven’t been this impressed with a new album in a long long time. Seriously, folks this is an amazing album. Just listen:

And check out the new video for the first single:

Skying will be released on July 26th on XL…and you and I will buy it.

Seems appropriate.

An excellently haunting new track from Fever Ray, featured on the soundtrack to upcoming film Red Riding Hood.

The Wolf by Fever Ray

I have been listening to this track on repeat for weeks now and it still sounds amazing. like a neo-gothic Stevie Nicks singing some sort of reincarnated version of “Goodbye Horses”. Marry me, Zola Jesus.

Valusia EP is out now on Sacred Bones.

Have a listen to this awesome, synth-poppy version of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Stranger Than Kindness” from Fever Ray.

The Rough Trade Shops Synth Wave 10 comp is out 11/22 and features Walrus faves Led Er Est, Cosmetics, Zola Jesus and Xeno & Oaklander.

(via The Quietus)

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.

Listen to the first track from Eno’s upcoming release on Warp Records Small Craft On A Milk Sea. Pretty wild…

Brian Eno – 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records

Up and coming Swedish sisters First Aid Kit do a beautiful rendition of fellow Swede Fever Ray’s ominous track. Have a listen:
When I Grow Up by First Aid Kit

The cover is featured on the B-side of the 7-inch single “Ghost Town”.

(via 24Bit)

Serena-Maneesh and Stereolab collaboration? Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? No worries though, because here is the glorious result. A blissed-out Krautrock-y carnival…

Grab the limited 12″ version, along with a remix from Lindstrom, from 4AD.

Crash Course in Science was a Philly band formed in 1979 by art school classmates Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny. After releasing a few experimental electronic 7″s through Rough Trade in the UK, the band shifted into full-on synth-pop mode in 1981 with the release of Signals From Pier Thirteen, which has been regarded as “influential to the techno industrial genres and an early inception of what is now known as the ‘electro’ sound. This record is still highly sought after by collectors and fans today.”

“Flying Turns”, which you can stream below, was recently included on the Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 compilation.

Crash Course in Science – “Flying Turns” (1981)

Also, check out this video they made in 1981 for the single “Cardboard Lamb”, which features the band hanging around Philly doing New Wave-y, artsy stuff:

Simple. Slow down “U Smile” by 800%. Ah, much better.

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Jason Pierce eat your heart out.

(via Gawker)