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Elliott Smith - Pitseleh
Here, a favourite of mine.
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Grizzly Bear - Ready Able / video directed by Allison Schulnik
(via headunderwater)
“Surreal mix of sadness, repulsion, and a kind of otherworldly beauty” — Stereogum. Yeah, totally. The more I watch this, the more I find that the otherworldly beauty overpowers the repulsion. “Ready, Able” is my favourite song on the album; could it have anything to do with my liking this video in the first place? Probably.
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Memory Tapes - Green Knight
Is that a basketball dribbling we can hear in there? And also the screeching sound that shoes make on the basketball court? Whatever that is, I love that sound effect. And this track is my favourite on Seek Magic.
Other cool songs from the album already posted by fellow tumblers:
Swimming Field via mmddyyyy
Plain Material via thenotes
Bicycle via Britticisms
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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.
The Joy Formidable @ Koko, London, 27 Oct 09
I had never heard of them until I saw them open for Passion Pit at a recent gig. That was a very nice surprise. Particularly because I was in the mood for that type of music that night. Ritzy Bryan is such a good poser; I don’t know how much of a rock chick she truly is, but man does she play the part well.
They’ve made a few tracks downloadable for free on last.fm. Good stuff but their sound and attitude translate better on stage; they’re just more enjoyable live and loud.
The Joy Formidable - Austere
The Joy Formidable - Whirring
Flick set: The Joy Formidable @ Koko
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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
Japanese ad scored by RAC
No idea what’s going there, but who cares, I find Japanese ads endlessly entertaining.
“I said no photos, you little shit!” — angry Michael Angelakos bashes a fan’s camera with his mic at a recent Passion Pit gig.
….Ok, so, that’s not exactly what happened. Angelakos is too sweet a guy to be doing that. But his mic did collide with my camera. The collision was very minor and totally accidental, I am sure of it. Now, I wish I could say the same of the tiny girl standing next to me: she suddenly disappeared under Michael’s weight and when she resurfaced a minute later she looked somewhat damaged by that unexpected encounter. Ouch.
Flickr set: Passion Pit at Koko, London, 27 Oct 09
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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.
Fuck Buttons’ “The Lisbon Maru” makes a perfect soundtrack to this Codehunters animation clip. Those anime characters are total bad-asses.
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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.
