flowed "flow" ep 2011

Formado em Maceió, AL no ano de 2011 por Mário Alencar (baixo e voz), Leonardo Santiago (guitarras) e João Victor (bateria), o Flowed já chegou ao primeiro EP, chamado apenas de “Flow”, assustando ouvidos mais sensíveis.

O resultado é uma interessante mistura de Dinosaur Jr. e Sonic Youth e Pavement, com bons ecos de grunge. Ou seja, há muita sujeira, ruídos, microfonia e energia jovem fluindo aqui.

O Flow EP É um disco pra ouvir alto, começando com direta “Glow”, o exemplo maior dessa mistura, a menor do disco. “Negative Air” lembra o Nirvana de “Bleach” propositadamente mal gravado. – ou “cru”, se preferir. “Everything’s Blowing” começa com um rife setentista, algo que provavelmente você já ouviu em alguma parte da discografia do AC/DC (?!!), o que de modo algum compromete Aliás, é capaz do rife grudar na cabeça e você nem perceber – essa é uma das funções de um rife, afinal de contas. “Lucifer Rising” compete à categoria de música mais barulhenta do ano. Já ganha de cara o nosso apreço. Mas o melhor mesmo está na ensurdecedora-com-transbordamento pop, “Fool” e o ápice fica por conta da insanidade de seis minutos que é “Sometimes I Think About His Death”. Se seu ouvido está moldado à trilha sonora cativa de#indiesfestivos, talvez seja melhor nem tentar.

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dot dash "spark>flame>ember>ash" 2011

Dot Dash is a post punk pop band from Washington D.C. If this bio had one of those “RIYL/Recommended If You Like” sections, it might drop names like The Jam, Joy Division, or The Byrds… or perhaps it would bring up an apparent appreciation by Dot Dash for the ancient sounds of the Postcard, Whaam and early Creation labels… But those kinds of judgments can really only be made by you, the listener. As is often the case, Dot Dash has a whole “they are ex-members of” thing going on: Guitarist/singer Terry Banks and bassist Hunter Bennett were in punky power poppers Julie Ocean. Before that, Terry was in a bunch of jangly guitar bands, including The Saturday People, Tree Fort Angst, Glo-Worm and St. Christopher. Guitarist Bill Crandall was in the mod/pop band Modest Proposal. Drummer Danny Ingram began musical life in Dischord-label punks Youth Brigade before moving on to Strange Boutique and, later, U.K. guitar-wranglers Swervedriver. Dot Dash plays shows, mostly around D.C., but occasionally out of town, whenever they can. In the recent past they’ve opened for Urge Overkill, The Godfathers, The Trash Can Sinatras, The Chameleons, Hugh Cornwell and The Capstan Shafts.

spark>flame>ember>ash is released by Canadian indie label The Beautiful Music.

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Next Show is Thursday January 5 at The Black Cat in Washington D.C.:


Fantastic return of Terry Banks.

Tragedy Destiny - Dot Dash by thebeautifulmusic

2011 some favourites

minks "by the edge" 2011

Brooklyn's Captured Tracks label doesn't quite have a "house sound," but it is striking how many of their releases share an approach to guitar. Recent records from Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, and Catwalk all have a similar penchant for long, languid melodic lines over gaps of quiet space. You can add to this list the debut LP, By the Hedge, from Boston indie pop outfit Minks. Their first outing has that loose, lovingly warm six-stringed feel all over it, whether it's used to take a song to its end ("Cemetery Rain") or to fill up an entire track (the dolorous instrumental "Indian Ocean").

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Minks - Ophelia by neumagazine

young dreams "young dreams" ep 2011

Young Dreams have signed to Modular and are releasing a new LP in 2012. As a celebration of sorts, they were kind enough to offer a new band-titled track today that has their beautifully produced tropicalia meets beach boys meets norwegian sound in full force.

a pleasant dream

junior boys "it's all true" 2011

Ontario’s Junior Boys have been charming us with their soulful brand of electro-pop for a good few years now, but they’ve never sounded as much fun as they do on new album It’s All True.

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Junior Boys - ep by ObscureSound

the weeknd "house of balloons" 2011

The Weeknd is 21-year-old Toronto resident Abel Tesfaye. House of Balloons is his debut album, distributed freely online, and it’s quite unlike any other RnB collection to have emerged in 2011.

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The Weeknd - The Party & The After Party by Teeeefy

the drums "portamento" 2011

Yet Portamento is richer still when it changes tack. Searching for Heaven’s analogue synth burble is perfect for Pierce’s languid declaration, and If He Likes It Let Him Do It (how Morrissey would kill for that title) grows in stature when a Theremin-toned synth soars through the chorus, sounding closer to the uncanny lush pop of The Associates. I Need a Doctor isn’t far behind, either. Next to them, though, Days and In the Cold resemble throwaways. In other words, here’s to The Drums’ Pet Sounds.

mi cabeza

dakota suite "the hearts of empty" 2011

this is the music that was meant to be a counterpart to ‘the end of trying’ recorded over a couple of days by david in his house it’s a late night smokey jazz side to dakota suite. dakota suite.

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dakota suite - the hearts of empty - the hearts of empty (karaoke kalk) by pdis_inpartmaint

10 favourite songs from 2011, part 2

dakota suite - the hearts of empty - the hearts of empty (karaoke kalk) by pdis_inpartmaint


No Agenda (Hammock featuring Steve Kilbey of The Church) by hammockmusic


Raising Tower Blocks by Bad Dancers Collide (Glimpses E.P.) by Beth Carley


Pinemarten - Never Far Away by The Recommender


Destroyer, "Kaputt" by blatanti


King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Aurora Boring Alias by Jon Hopkins


Tropic of Cancer - A Color [Blackest Ever Black, 2011] by Blackest Ever Black


Tennis - Marathon by Palma Pinter


Young Dreams - Young Dreams by modularpeople

real estate "days" 2011

That idyllic tone permeates Days, and in lesser hands could deprive it of tension or variety. But Real Estate have such a knack for classic-sounding melody that every song quickly engages on a musical gut level. It's a quality their music shares with the jangly hooks of early R.E.M., the breeziness of later Pavement, and the garage twang of the Fresh & Onlys. But their closest kin are New Jersey forefathers the Feelies.

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Real Estate - It's Real by DominoRecordCo

ducktails "killing the vibe" ep 2011

However, with a little help from some cleaned up instrumentation, crisped production and an impressive pedigree of new contributors (including Animal Collective vocalist Panda Bear, solo multi-instrumentalist Dent May and Woods’ Jarvis Taveniere), the “remixed” version of “Killin’ The Vibe” doesn’t just render the previous version obsolete, but topples the better part of Ducktails’ entire discography.

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Ducktails - Killing The Vibe (feat. Dent May) by Forte Distro

ducktails "III: arcade dynamics" 2011

Categorized by David Keenan as part of the "hypnagogic pop" movement, Ducktails realizes a shared cultural memory and nostalgia through various genres. Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics is Mondanile's third official full-length LP and first for Woodsist Records. 

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10 favourite songs from 2011

I Really Do by Seapony


Heavenly Beat - “Faithless” by Creeping Wave


Your Tomb by CraftSpells


The Embassy - You Tend To Forget by EDPMC Vincent !!!



Beach Fossils - Calyer by nikileighbuds


Beach Fossils - Plastic Flowers by ginoballon


dive - sometime by thissceneisntdead


Into Black by BLOUSE

blouse "blouse" 2011

Blouse are a hazy Portland trio who picked their name out of a dry cleaner's window and have actively identified as dream pop. But the West Coast threesome's pillowy, nostalgic abstractions veer from the sweeping histrionics of M83 or breezy gestures of various Scandinavians toward a woozy, romantic restlessness: Pains of Being Pure at Heart birthed by Madchester, Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval in The Breakfast Club, Metric for philosophy majors. 

take the pills

slow loris "routine glow" 2011

As it currently stands, Slow Loris is unabashedly a bedroom-pop act. Routine Glow was recorded entirely in Doyle’s Madison apartment, with all of the production quality of a bedroom recording project—which is to say it (like a lot of stuff these days) sounds like Panda Bear. The album’s textures are glossy and cloaked by reverb, but the songs themselves are too thoroughly and familiarly of-the-’90s to be cast into the same pool of over-saturated pop.

we love music (filesonic)

hammock "asleep in the downlights" ep 2011

Hammock is an American two-member post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. With music created in between production and songwriting projects over the course of two years, Hammock combines live instrumentation, electronic beats, and droning guitar into atmospheric music similar in style to the work of Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky, and Stars of the Lid. Here with Steve Kilbey (The Church).

warehouse songs

karibean "love, tears & spiritual blessing" ep 2011

I Karibean rappresentano l'ennesima conferma che alcune delle cose più interessanti in Italia negli ultimi tempi stanno arrivando dalla nostra East Coast.

L'ep Love, Tears & Spiritual Blessing (in free download) si apre con una vibrazione Beach Boys, limpida e tranquilla, come arrivare in spiaggia la mattina presto, guardarsi intorno, respirare a fondo e avere voglia che sia una grande giornata. E poi parte We Need The Sun: gli Housemartins che scivolano sul surf, i Vampire Weekend a banco. Non manca nulla. Muovi un passo sulla sabbia ed è proprio così, molto semplice: tu - hai - bisogno - di - sole. C'è un'aria che soffia dal mare, sono le armonie vocali dei Karibean. C'è una brezza rock'n'roll che scompiglia le sei corde e i riflessi sull'acqua, si riempie di echi come nella perfetta Gregorian Spring, un'invito Sixties a cui non so dire di no.

Sorrido. Chitarre e melodie, che l'estate è arrivata. 

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psychic ills "hazed dream" 2011

Hazed Dream is a record that fits more precisely into its time and place. With their mumbled verses and slacker spirituality, Warren's compositions aren't terribly distant from Kurt Vile's effect pedal-enhanced folk-rock, albeit lacking in some of the Philly-based rocker's gift for conjuring pastoral sprawl. In the subdued soloing, you can hear echoes of San Francisco retro noodlers Wooden Shjips. Psychic Ills hung on to their schtick long enough that they seem to have phased back into tune with their peers.

early tuesday morning


Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream by sacredbones

bad dancers collide "glimpses ep" 2011

"Bad Dancers Collide" is a collaboration between singer-songwriter Beth Carley and Mark Tranmer (who also works with gnac and The Montgolfier Brothers). The Glimpses 5-track E.P. is available now on double colour 7" vinyl ... HERE ... . The E.P. will also be released in digital form on 12th December 2011. Bad Dancers Collide are currently rehearsing for future gigs. Digital version out on amazon. Indispensável!

Raising Tower Blocks (from Glimpses E.P.) * Bad Dancers Collide by mark tranmer