Antony and the Johnsons Ready Swanlights EP
Antony and the Johnsons will release Swanlights, a four-track EP, on April 16 through Record Store Day. Secretly Canadian and Rough Trade will subsequently release the album on April 26.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDownload The War on Drugs' "The History of Plastic"
Download The War on Drugs’ “The History of Plastic” here.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Free MP3Björk Featured on Antony and the Johnsons's "Flétta"
Icelandic icon Björk soars through the single from Antony and co.’s fourth release Swanlights. Ironic album name?... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe War On Drugs Reveals New Album Details
Former Band of the Week The War on Drugs has announced that a new album is on its way.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDownload Jens Lekman's New Track, "The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love"
Perhaps at the exact second you read these words, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman is working on new material for a follow-up to his last album, 2007’s Night Falls On Kortedala. To tide everyone over until this album’s TBA release date, he has revealed a new song, “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love,” which is available for free.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsHere We Go Magic: Pigeons Review
Luke Temple’s atmospheric folk takes flight. It’s been an especially fruitful year for Luke Temple. Since the psych-folk singer re-branded himself as Here We Go Magic in 2009, he’s released a self-titled debut, gained four band members, toured with The Walkmen and fellow Brooklynites Grizzly Bear and crafted a follow-up, Pigeons. The music is richer, more atmospheric and stranger than ever. This sophomore release is more collaborative than his debut, but the main aesthetic—electro-ambience buoyed by airy, dreamlike vocals—remains the same. With Temple’s sleepy voice, songs like “F.F.A.P.” and “Casual” sound like distorted bedside lullabies. Though Pigeons feels at times... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDownload Damien Jurado's "Cloudy Shoes"
Download Damien Jurado's "Cloudy Shoes."Jurado's Saint Bartlett is out now on Secretly Canadian.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Free MP3Antony and the Johnsons Ready New Album for October
Following their acclaimed 2009 release, The Crying Light, Antony and the Johnsons will return this fall with their fourth LP, Swanlights.... read more
Found in: Music, Newsjj: jj nº 3
Swedish duo loses itself in the ether jj evokes a world where pop music’s ultimate pursuit is immaculate fluff, and that’s not an insult. Between its burbling timbres and breathy vocals, its feathery production and demure touches, the duo’s first album—confusingly titled jj nº 2 (“nº 1” was a single)—seemed to be set on a warm beach inhabited by day dreamers fanasizing about flitting around foreign continents (the bouncy single “From Africa to Málaga”) over lambent, near-Hawaiian guitars and Peter Gabriel-ish production. It featured an interpolation of Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” that was every bit as buttery and sugar-powdered as the... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDownload BLK JKS' "Zol!"
Download BLK JKS' "Zol!"BLK JKS' Zol! EP will be released June 8 on Secretly Canadian.... read more
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