The Wombats – This Modern Glitch
I wasn’t sure how good this album was going to be, but man this album has been great to wake up to when feeling groggy. The Wombats are a three-piece indie band from Liverpool, England. They are composed of two native Liverpudlians; front man Matthew Murphy, provider of voice, guitar and keyboards, drummer and b-vocalist Dan Haggis and bass and additional vocalist Tord Øverland-Knudsen, a Norwegian who has made his home in the city. The three met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. The school gave them the chance to play gigs to over 20,000 people in China. This was one of the band’s first trips to play outside the UK.
- Our Perfect Disease3:44
- Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)3:46
- Jump Into The Fog3:52
- Anti-D4:41
- Techno Fan3:59
- 19964:20
- Walking Disasters4:17
- Girls/Fast Cars3:36
- Schumacher The Champion4:50
- Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves) (Acoustic Version)3:57
- Jump Into The Fog (Acoustic Version)3:44
This album just came out in March and I accidentally found it while looking for some albums from the female street punk band The Devotchkas. After looking them up I asked a few friends about them, and only a couple people were listening to them. DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, and Bolero, music with American punk and folk roots. They take their name from Anthony Burgess’ Nadsat (the language used throughout ‘A Clockwork Orange’) word for “young girl,” which is itself derived from the Russian word devochka(девочка) of the same meaning. Based in Denver, Colorado, the quartet is made up of Nick Urata, who sings and plays theremin, guitar, bouzouki, piano…
Sorry for the delay, Grooveshark wasn’t getting along with my uploads. This is a new album from Tokyo Police Club which I was excited to hear. Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. The band consists of Dave Monks (Vocals, Bass), Josh Hook (Guitar, Percussion), Graham Wright (Keyboards, Vocals) and Greg Alsop (Drums, Percussion). In 2005, Tokyo Police Club started by accident one day in the ordinary suburb of Newmarket when Greg, Josh, Dave, and Graham decided that they missed playing music together, their previous band having broken up several months before.
I am a bit late with this release as it came out February of this year, but here it is in case it slipped past you like it did me. Portugal. The Man is an experimental indie rock four-piece centered around frontman John Baldwin Gourley’s abstract musical approach and corresponding upbringing. He was raised in a sort of technological isolation: his log cabin home in the winter wasteland of the fringes of Wasilla, Alaska was powered by a generator and had no telephone. Both of his parents helped completely immerse him in the unique lifestyle that comes with a land of seasonal darkness and perpetual cold with their jobs as dog sled mushers.
I finally have internet at my new apartment, and man do I love the speed. Uploading this album was a breeze, so I might end up digging through my old CD collection and uploading some indie albums I bought a while back. Already championed by the LA scene and the Rough Trade shops in the UK, Olympia, WA’s Gun Outfit are an avalanche of intensity and excitement. Dim Light is reminiscent of Meat Puppets, X, Dinosaur Jr, and Hüsker Dü. I haven’t listened to the entire album, but I like what I have heard so far. Playing SXSW got them some well deserved exposure and I look forward to seeing more of them.
This is just a filler album until I am fully recuperated from my ~120 mile bicycle ride I did this last weekend. Sometimes there are concert memories you will always remember. Two years ago one could see Missent to Denmark live on their first Mini-Tour as a support act around Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Four young lads, who went on stage to collect the audience’s minds for one hour with their filed arrangements, great melodies, small gestures, a big love for details and a devotedness for their songs.
Harlem is an American garage rock band comprising vocalist/guitarist/drummer Michael Coomers, vocalist/guitarist/drummer Curtis O’Mara and bassist Jose Boyer. Harlem started in Tucson, AZ before relocating to Austin where they generated a mountain of attention, both with their live shows and their self-issued 2008 album Free Drugs. They are on tour now, so be sure to check their myspace for tour dates.
The Postelles are part of an ideological bloodline that connects The Velvet Underground to the Ramones to Blondie and Television to the Walkmen, artists with unique and varied sensibilities, certainly, but who have in common an allegiance to the unabashedly unadorned rock song. If you like this EP look for their EP ‘White Knight’. Both EPs are pretty elusive, so good luck. Considering Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes is producing their new album, I expect this band to gain some more traction.
Not much information on them from myspace or last.fm except that they are from New York. Seems like a lot of these bands (Think soundtrack to Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) have been coming out of New York. I tend to like most of them, this one included.
Nada Surf is an American alternative rock group formed in 1992. The New York band consists of Matthew Caws (guitar, vocals), Ira Elliot (drums, vocals) and Daniel Lorca (bass, vocals). The band is best known for the song “Popular” from their 1996 album High/Low. The song reached #11 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and propelled the album to #63 on the Billboard 200. Anyhow, this is their new album they released this year.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
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