March 18, 201114 yr Anyone heard the new Strokes album then? Finally had a listen! Initial thoughts are that it sounds a touch scattershot and rather ponderous at times. Since the album is more of a team effort than ever before, I guess that's to be expected. 'Machu Picchu', 'Gratisfaction' and of course, 'Under Cover Of Darkness' are pretty gosh darn great (if you'll pardon my French), while 'Taken For A Fool' (a Nick Valensi effort, apparently) is ridiculously catchy and just generally better than it has any right to be. Will give the rest a bit more time to sink in before passing overall judgement, though.
March 18, 201114 yr Author ^ Machu Picchu is my favourite from the album Pretty awesome live cover of Tame Impala's Solitude is Bliss by Mark Ronson & the Business Intl.! --> [link] (mp3 also contains interview and live performance of Somebody to Love Me, sans Boy George . Cover starts at 12:45 if you want to skip to it)
March 18, 201114 yr ^Randomly, the first time I heard Tame Impala was while watching one of those 'my favourite new band' interview bits with none other than - yes, Mark Ronson. So it's not too surprising to hear that he's covered one of their songs. Pretty good version though.
March 18, 201114 yr So Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes has just released 3 beautiful solo tracks, one of which features Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste You can download them free here --> [link] (Link posted on their official Twitter, so it's all above board)
March 19, 201114 yr merci beaucoup.ok for some reason triple J radio is playing and I checked all my tabs and i don's see anything. Are you pulling something sneaky don?
March 19, 201114 yr Author Loving the current Art vs. Science single. I never used to like these guys at all, but I'm starting to come around
March 19, 201114 yr Matt, is it the Strokes stream you're after? You can hear it on the band's own site too.
March 22, 201114 yr And because it's been a whole page page since I posted anything to do with Anna Calvi...
March 26, 201114 yr Is there a new AIH album? And nice rec on the Anna Calvi album M*. I haven't been listening to her as much as I should (Blame Mr Casablancas et al.) but her vocals are superb *swoon* There are so many new albums being released at the moment I can't keep up
March 27, 201114 yr New Fleet Foxes single! Available as a free download on their website --> [link] Very impressive Garfunkeling by Robin. If this tune is anything to go by, the album could something very special indeed.
March 27, 201114 yr ^Last I heard, it was pencilled in for the beginning of May. I believe the band ended up re-recording much of the album, having previously said it would be released before the end of 2010.
March 27, 201114 yr I remember originally it was supposed to come out what around X-mas time in 2010. Oh well I can wait, it looks like it's gonna be amazing Defs buying it
March 28, 201114 yr If Enid and Rebecca from 'Ghost World' were to ever form a band, I strongly suspect that it would sound almost exactly like this. For fans of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Warpaint and The xx.
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