Echo Lake

ARTIST / BAND: Echo Lake

MP3: "In Dreams" / "Young Silence"

ALBUM: Young Silence

FILE UNDER: Ambient / Pop / Psychedelic

LABEL: No Pain In Pop

INFO: In the summer of 2010, Thom Hill met Linda Jarvis while studying at Camberwell Art College in South London. The two instantly connected after discovering the ex-choir girl's voice perfectly complemented the tracks Thom had been crafting in his bedroom, and they decided to work on a new project together, which would come to be known as Echo Lake.

Matching driving rhythms with ethereal, gorgeous melodies, Echo Lake is an arresting take on the droney side of psychedelia's pop frontier. The band's demos were quickly discovered by indie label and blog No Pain In Pop, who signed the band and posted some of the songs on the blog. The tracks garnered critical praise almost immediately, and were featured on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs Bear and The Fader. 

The songwriting duo decided to take a bit of time off from school to record and put together a band with some friends from Thom's hometown of Birmingham. Keen to avoid the stigma often attached to bedroom projects' live performance, they shed the backing tracks the recordings were based on and replaced with a tight, loud set up for shows.

Echo Lake's debut EP, Young Silence, is set to be released via No Pain In Popon February 14 (UK) and February 15 (US). Recalling a pre-Sub Pop Beach House crossed with a more raw side of My Bloody Valentine, it's as bold and complete of a statement as you can expect from a band so young. 

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Muzorama's Best of the recent (Jan.2011) by muzorama

 

Radical Face - Doorways

Les Jupes - Myth #3 (The Mountain)

The Happy Hollows - High Wire

Frightened Rabbit - My Brother Tom, the Green Beret (The Philistines Jr. Cover)

In Grenada - Distance And Temptation

Ezio - A Small Dream

VALLEYS - Ordinary Dream

The Asteroid #4 - Wild Opal Eyes

Club 8 - Closer now

Silver Swans - Holidays

Eksi Ekso - Kills of the Flood Tide

Jen Wood - Pills

Lille - Tall Shoulders

Rachel Goodrich - Na Na Na

Rebekah Higgs - Little Voice

The Liptonians - You Know I Did

Caroline  Lufkin- Swimmer

John Blaze

Sleeping In The Aviary

ARTIST / BAND: SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY

MP3: Sleeping In The Aviary -- "You Don't Have To Drive" / Sleeping In The Aviary - "Y.M.C.A. (No, Not That One)"

ALBUM: Great Vacation!

FILE UNDER: Rock / Classic Rock / Comedy

LABEL: Science Of Sound

INFO:

The lineup of Kozel, Phil Mahlstadt (bass), and Michael Sienkowski (drums) churned out their debut album, Oh, This Old Thing? in 2007. The disc's intense bursts of lo-fi pop-punk drew comparisons to The Thermals, Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes and Nirvana.  Then another side of the band’s musical personality was captured on SITA’s sophomore album from 2008.  Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel was a move towards indie-folk heralded by the addition of fourth member, Celeste Heule, on accordion and musical saw.  Kozel switched from electric to acoustic guitar for many of the songs, and also found himself screaming just a little less, exposing more of a tender side. This album cued comparisons to artists such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, Baptist Generals and even Bob Dylan.
For 2010, Great Vacation once again finds the band in fresh musical territory, and also with a newly-added fifth member; Kyle Sobczak on guitar.  Layers of backup vocals (including multiple tracks of gargling, which Kozel describes as “the new reverb”) and additional instruments such as harp, trumpet, banjo and mouth harp accompany stories of scuba diving, sinking on a ship, space-like love, an S&M session gone awry (or did it?) and the occurrence of irony the day before one dies.  The ten songs on the album were tracked and mixed by the band themselves in their Minneapolis attic.

THE ASTEROID #4

ARTIST / BAND: THE ASTEROID #4

MP3s: "Ignition Slated For Eight" / "Wild Opal Eyes"

ALBUM: Hail To The Clear Figurines

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Folk Rock / Experimental

LABEL: The Committee to Keep Music Evil

INFO: Ups & Downs, Twists & Turns….That is an appropriate way to describe the path traveled by the Asteroid #4 since the latter half of the Clinton years. Hail To The Clear Figurines is the sixth album by Philly psychonauts, The Asteroid #4.

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Caroline Lufkin

Caroline Lufkin
Caroline - "Swimmer" by ChinaShopMag

G e o t i c

ARTIST / BAND: G e o t i c

ALBUM: Mend (download album for free)

FILE UNDER: Minimal / Ambient

LABEL: s/r

INFO: Music project of Will Wiesenfeld (Bath)

Jorjick&SirG

 

Jorjick & SirG feat. The Cure's "Forest" by Jorjick&SirG

Silver Swans

ARTIST / BAND: Silver Swans

MP3: “Holidays”  / “Secrets” / “Anyone’s Ghost” (The National Cover)/ “Secrets” (Letting Up Despite Great Faults Remix)

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Tricycle Records

INFO: The Silver Swans are three fictional characters in the Wonder Woman stories. Each Silver Swan has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice. Her "swan song" is capable of devastating a small area of land with its destructive force. By creating a low-level humming, the Silver Swan can form a protective shield around herself that can deflect bullets and projectiles. They also have the telepathic ability to control birds and re-arrange matter with the sound they generate.

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I'll Be Hometapes For Christmas

Madison

ARTIST / BAND: Madison

MP3s: "Santa Baby" / "#1 (RAC Remix)"  / "Hot Hot Love"

ALBUM: The Noise Some People Make

FILE UNDER: noise pop

LABEL: G Records

INFO: It may still be a long time coming (January 11, 2011), and it may not have anything to with Oregon (except for the recent RAC remix) or even the West Coast, but Madison’s debut EP, The Noise Some People Make, is electro-hot.  And it may be only four swift songs, clocking in at under 13 minutes (we have two of them for you below!), but they’re soon to be burning up the dance-pop charts across the country.

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The Luyas

ARTIST / BAND: The Luyas

MP3: "Tiny Head"

ALBUM: Too Beautiful to Work

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Indie

LABEL: Dead Oceans / Idée Fixe

INFO: The Luyas are four musicians named Jessie Stein, Mathieu Charbonneau, Pietro Amatro and Stefan Scheider. They made a record called Too Beautiful to Work at 6 Nassau in Toronto, Ontario, and call Montreal, Quebec home.

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Rachel Goodrich

ARTIST / BAND: Rachel Goodrich

MP3: "Na Na Na"

ALBUM: Light Bulb EP

FILE UNDER: indie pop, folk, Psychobilly

LABEL: s/r

INFO: Rachel Goodrich is an American musician and pioneer of "Shake-a-Billy" based in Miami, Florida. Her music has also been described as an "eclectic blend of vaudeville-inspired indie pop, swing-jazz andcountry-folk."^[1] Her first album, Tinker Toys, was self-released in 2008 to critical acclaim, including a feature in the New York Times which dubbed her as a "queen of the Miami indie rock scene".^[2]

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Braids

ARTIST / BAND: Braids

MP3: "Plath Heart" / "Lemonade"

ALBUM: Native Speaker

FILE UNDER: Indie, Psych Pop

LABEL:Kanine

INFO: BRAIDS’ was formed by four best friends in their last year of High School in Calgary, Alberta. Convincing one another to skip university, they stayed in the garage all year and practiced obsessively, even while their fingers froze during the cold prairie winters. Then, at only 18 years old, they took the bold step of moving across the country together to Montreal, where they began crafting their self recorded/self produced debut album Native Speaker.

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The Liptonians

ARTIST / BAND: The Liptonians

MP3: You Know I Did

ALBUM: Let's All March Back Into The Sea

FILE UNDER: rock

LABEL: head in the sand

INFO: In 2008, completely unheralded, The Liptonians emerged from a basement in Winnipeg with an "earnest little pop-rock gem" (Uptown Magazine). Much to their  surprise, the album picked up a Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Pop Recording, garnered rave reviews, charted on college radio across the country, became a regular on CBC Radio and paved the way for three cross-Canadian tours. The strength of their dynamic live show scored them opening slots for bands like Silver Starling (Last Gang Records) and Chicago indie rock legends, The Sea and Cake.

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Tracey Thorn

Tracey Thorn 'Why Does The Wind?' (Ewan Pearson Radio Edit) by buzzinfly

Jonsi

 

Smashing Pumpkins

ARTIST / BAND: Smashing Pumpkins

MP3: Tom Tom

ALBUM: Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol II: The Solstice Bare

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Virgin

 

INFO: The newest single "Tom Tom" is here for download!   If you haven't already scooped up your copy already of the second EP, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol II: The Solstice Bare is in still available for a short time in The Smashing Pumpkins store  or at various physical and online retailers.  Again, it is limited edition and contains a 4-song CD, and a beautiful 12-inch vinyl picture disk featuring "Freak," "Spangled," "The Fellowship" and "Tom Tom" as well as the unreleased B side "Cottonwood Symphony." Go get yours before they're gone.

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