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The Big Pink: Future This

While this new batch doesn't have anything as catchy as "Dominoes" or contemplative as "Velvet", The Big Pink dials up it's flair for Cure-esque anthemic 80s-pop right off the bat with a one-two opening salvo of "Stay Gold" and "Hit The Ground (Superman)". On "Give it Up" Furze and Cordell get blippy with their elctrodes and a could-be female chorus which I suspect is their voices modulated to high heaven.  read more

Red Hot, 4AD Raise $1 Million for Charity

4AD and The Red Hot Organization have raised $1 million for charity with the proceeds from the Dark Was The Night album....  read more

Watch Blonde Redhead's 4AD Session

Label babies Blonde Redhead appear on the newest installment of 4AD Sessions....  read more

Blonde Redhead: Penny Sparkle

Just a dull sheen On Blonde Redhead’s eighth full-length, the formerly noisy NYC trio continues to slink along the moody, spacey path laid out by its previous three albums. This time, the band has recruited the duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid (who’s produced Fever Ray and remixed Massive Attack and Bat for Lashes) and brought back Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Depeche Mode) to mix the album. If that laundry list of artists doesn’t hint at what to expect, just know that words like “sexy” and “ghostly” will be drastically overused in reviews of Penny Sparkle. These...  read more

Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest

A welcome departure Deerhunter has graduated, by degrees, from conjuring moods to writing proper songs, and fourth album Halcyon Digest finds Bradford Cox and company strip-mining new aural territory and toeing the line between structure and abstraction. Opener “Earthquake” lowers a looping trio of sounds—a snare trill, a struck match, a tape noise swipe—into a deep sonic chasm where legions of guitars and dissolving vocals dominate. The synthesizer early in “He Would Have Laughed” soars into kaleidoscopic infinity, and the feather-light “Sailing” has just enough melody to stick in your head. “Coronado” injects jaunty jangle-pop with saxophone honks—a first for...  read more

Listen to Deerhunter's New Album, Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter’s forthcoming full-length (due Sept. 28 via 4AD), Halcyon Digest, is now available in its entirety for your listening pleasure over at NPR....  read more

Watch Blonde Redhead's Video for "Not Getting There"

Get an eyeful of the teal-tinged video for the second single from BR’s Penny Sparkle....  read more

Download Stornoway's "Zorbing"

Download Stornoway’s “Zorbing.” Stornoway’s debut album, Beachcomber’s Windowsill, will be released Aug. 10 on 4AD....  read more

The National: High Violet

Brooklyn rock outfit admirably follows up its own masterwork If MGMT colors its musical canvas with fluorescent candy-scented magic markers, and Coldplay favors the niceness of pastel watercolors, The National’s output resembles a painstaking charcoal sketch with dramatic interplay between light and shadow. The five-piece’s cerebral rock ’n’ roll makes no apologies for its bleak emotional tenor, and I still can’t listen to their 2007 masterpiece Boxer without imagining myself slouching down the midwinter streets of Manhattan alone at 3 a.m., watching my icy breath spill into the dark like cigarette smoke. That record unfolds in a series of dramatic...  read more

Efterklang: Magic Chairs

Echoes in a crowded room If my non-existent Danish and the Internet serve me correctly, “Efterklang” means something like “reverberations” or “remembrances,” and the beautiful duality of that half-translation captures the flavor of this band’s music. With its third album, Efterklang has casually drifted from the more overtly classical structures of its earliest work toward tighter rock songs rendered with the elegance and precision of cut glass....  read more