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The Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine
Embryonic is such a great album. I couldn’t choose which track to post between this one and that one. 
Also, Karen O’s turn in I Can Be A Frog is too cute for words.
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The Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Embryonic is such a great album. I couldn’t choose which track to post between this one and that one. 
Also, Karen O’s turn in I Can Be A Frog is too cute for words.
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Mumford & Sons - I Gave You All
“But you rip it from my hands, and you swear it’s all gone
And you rip out all I have, just to say that you’ve won
Well now you’ve won”
This song is like a punch in the guts. Marcus Mumford’s voice and lyrics are so full of drama that the live stage is probably the best arena to experience them properly. On that note, I’m kicking myself for having missed them live the other day just because “I couldn’t be arsed” (just as I should be kicking myself for using what has to be the ugliest British expression known to man).
Mumford & Sons’ debut album is fantastic: folk music with a lot of attention-seeking instruments like the cello and the trumpet, which add richness and layers to the music and give it a dramatic kick. And let’s not forget the banjo for those of us who like the taste of bluegrass now and again. 
Sidenote: Looking back at the BBC Sound 2009 selection (Mumford & Sons were on it), I like a lot of the acts appearing on their long list, but there are probably only a couple of them that I’m confident l’ll still be listening to a few years from now…Florence, for one. And Mumford & Sons, definitely.
Other M&S songs to have landed on my shore: White Blank Page & The Cave
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The Middle East - Blood
(This, actually, is a reblog from vivapedro via veronique)
One listen of “Blood” is all it took to get me highly excited about this Australian band (admittedly, I get excited easily).
The song is available as a free download on TheirSpace but I strongly recommend giving their entire 5-song EP a listen: if “Blood”, “The Darkest Side” and “Fool’s Gold” have a folky vibe, “Lonely” and “Beleriand” have more of a post-rock sound with the type of trippy instrumental build ups I particularly like. A truly wonderful selection of songs.
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Mates of State - My Only Offer
via auhasardrobert:
“Bought a home we bartered right.
Two kids, Two car delight.
Posed pictures on the walls.
Small talk in the bedroom halls.”
— Mates of State, My Only Offer
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Some are quick to criticize the happy-silver-lining that seems to prevail in most of their songs, but as Karen Schoemer pointed out in an excellent NY Magazine feature, “it dawns on me that perhaps Gardner and Hammel aren’t immune to the struggles and pains of ordinary existence—they just choose not to dwell on them. “Overall, we’re positive people,” Gardner says. “We’ve always looked on the bright side.”
I only know their music in passing but always enjoy what I hear when I hear it. I really should check them out properly. This particular song has the knack to get stuck in my head every time and to stir up the horrifying urge to sing along.
Auhasardrobert has also posted here another very catchy tune of theirs.
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Fuck Buttons - Olympians
hungryghoast:
“like Kraftwerk firing pink noise at the inside of Vangelis’ skull as he composes “Chariots Of Fire.” In Goa.” - Warren Ellis
Oh look! Isn’t that me standing on that very crowded platform at Pitchfork station, trying to jump on the Fuck Buttons band wagon? Yes, it is. And I can see that the peeps already on board are looking rather irritated by that sudden influx of button fuckers. Tough shit, I say, they’ll just have to make room.
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Phoenix - Rome (Neighbours & Devendra Banhart Remix)
“Like a lazy Ukulele, softly strummed among the ocean side palms, Neighbors and Devendra have longed to remix ANY Phoenix tune. We LOVE and have LOVED Phoenix since Alphabetical, and have wanted to do more than just ogle at their awesomeness for quite some time. With the release of their luminary Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix we got the chance to un-floccinaucinihilipilificate our dreams and with awesome, oceanic glee, we took Rome for a ride….. a mellow, meditative one, let’s bring out the candle-lit side, a side of the song suited for lucubration !” — Devendra Banhart
Download here
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El Perro del Mar - Let Me In
When this tumblrette says of an album that it’s all good, I pay attention. So I went to Spinner and gave the latest El Perro del Mar a full spin. Yep, it’s all good imo2. Which makes singling out one track a rather difficult task. “A Better Love” and “Let Me In” are two great examples of songs that use simple melodic hooks that I get blissfully sucked into. 
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Sufjan Stevens - Movement III - Linear Tableau with Intersecting Surprise
I’ve been trying to stitch Movements III and IV together but to no avail. I’m giving up. Fuck, it’s annoying… Movement III is my favourite track on Sufjan’s latest album but I think that movement IV works really well in the context of its predecessor so it would have been nice to have them both here in one audio file. Anyway, moving on…
This album is really growing on me today, now that I’m in the mood for it. Best enjoyed as a whole, as with most orchestral symphonies I guess. I’m choosing to ignore the fact that the music is a celebration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway as I find the idea contrived and pompous. I’m also trying to ignore the artsy-fartsy visuals of heavy traffic and hoola hoopers that are sold with the album (I had a quick look at a clip on Pitchfork and it made me roll my eyes so hard it actually hurt).
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Lykke Li - Possibility
veronique:
This track is stunning. The more I listen to the New Moon soundtrack (yes, from the Twilight Saga), the more I fall in love with it. I’ll probably end up posting most of its contents by the week’s end…
Lovely. A lot of the songs on the New Moon soundtrack are.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
(via britticisms)
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Lake - Gravel
(via britticisms)
From Let’s Build A Roof, I also like “Don’t Give Up” and “Madagascar”
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Chinsagu no hana
Monotonous yet beautiful and moody, from Sakamoto’s On Beauty.
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Battle In Water
This track might not be very representative of the stripped-down, pagan blues they’re known for (check out the awesome “There Is No Light” and you’ll understand what I mean), but me likey so me blogey.
