MP3: New Korallreven – “Sa Sa Samoa” ft. Julianna Barwick

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Very Warm

Last time we heard from Korallreven, we got the amazing single with Victora Bergsman “As Young As Yesterday”, one of my favorite tracks of the year. This time, we get a very chill, buildup track featuring Julianna Barwick, one of the blogs’ favorites of this year. It features Barwick’s very high, almost angelic vocals adding a layer of unearthly-ness to it. Gradually some driving percussion is added to the mix and also what sounds like some non-western choruses as well. Overall a very strong track and I am excited for their album coming out soon entitled “An Album by Korallreven.”

CHECK IT OUT!

GET THE “SA SA SAMOA” HERE (File+Save Page As)

GET THE PREVIOUS TRACK, “AS YOUNG AS YESTERDAY” HERE (File+Save Page As)

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Radical! – Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Yo Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer – “Attaboy”

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Very Warm

Any string musician’s eyes would perk up at the sight of seeing Yo Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer being on the title of this post. For Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile, the bluegrass fans got all giddy, I bet. These four fantastic musicians teamed up to make one heck of a collaboration album called “The Goat Rodeo Sessions” which featured all of the musicians in their prime element, crafting some of the best “fiddle-esque” music I’ve ever heard. One standout on the album, which you should get, is the first song “Attaboy” which sounds like multiple traditional fiddle style tunes smashed together with all of the supreme musical ability of the four musicians. Feels good, man.

INSANITY! Bet the regular viewers, if there are any, are scratching their heads. There has never been any fiddle style type of music on here before! BUT ALAS, I am a huge fan. There just aren’t many really good tunes that have surfaced these days, unfortunately. There are some great bands and tunes out there though. Y’all should look ’em up. This one is a mind explosion.

CHECK IT OUT!

 

Have a great day!

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New Black Keys: “Lonely Boy” + Video

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Very Warm

The Black Keys do it again, musically and visually with their newest single “Lonely Boy” that is for their December 6th release El Camino. The track sounds like a traditional southern blues-rock classic already, with it’s T-Rex reminiscent guitars and Auerbach’s signature croon. This track literally rocks. Also, the video is awesome. Cannot deny it.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

If you preorder the album you can get a free download of the track! Awww yeahhh!!!

 

Have a great day!

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Radical!: How to Dress Well – Radioactive

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Very Warm

I’m FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS ONE, GUYS.

So this song has been out for a few months now but I’m finally doing it justice. This song is originally done by Marina and the Diamonds, but How to Dress Well, one of my favorite acts of last year (and this year), reworked it to make it his. This track is the epitome of pop songs created from the 90’s, then drenched in good vibes. Sounds otherworldly and in space.

Gah. This song is just really really good. I hope you enjoy it.

Have a fantastic day!

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Radical Tracks: Charli XCX, Atlas Sound, Summer Camp, Sleep ∞ Over

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Very Warm

CHECK OUT ALL THESE KICKIN TUNES, BROS AND BRETTES!!!

Charli XCX – “Nuclear Seasons”

FREE DOWNLOAD OF THIS SONG RIGHT HERE: http://www.charlixcxmusic.com/

Atlas Sound – “Flagstaff”

FREE DOWNLOAD OF THIS SONG RIGHT HERE: http://stereogum.com/853181/atlas-sound-flagstaff/mp3s/

Summer Camp – Down

Sleep ∞ Over – “Stickers”

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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Radical Track: Grimes – “Oblivion”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Very Warm

Grimes is the stage name of Claire Boucher, who has been burning the music blog front for about a year now with her very dark remixes and strange sounding pop songs. For the most part, I wasn’t really impressed or interested in the music she put out (sorry, Claire if you’re reading this. But you’ll enjoy the next part!)

That all changed with the release of her new song “Oblivion” which features a sweet bass synth line and feather light vocals. I really like it and it also helped me get introduced into a few of Grimes’ remixes of Young Galaxy and Washed Out which I really enjoy as well.

CHECK THIS JAM OUT:

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Radical Track: Massive Attack x Burial – “Paradise Circus”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Very Warm

The other side of the Massive Attack x Burial collaboration features a chilling remix of one of Massive Attack’s singles from their album they released last year, Heligoland.

This track has the signature Burial feel on it where you feel like you’ve transported to a bus stop bench on a sort of popular street for soulless business men and unsuccessful, unhappy lobbyists. It’s most definitely raining in this scenario, like all other Burial songs, and you seem to be surrounded in an essence of internal strife as well as external. The internal conflict possibly deals with problems within the character, not though someone else. The internal strife is what drives each of his tracks to become the great, brooding pieces of work they are. Burial infuses the Massive Attack track with his signature style and makes it something totally different and beautiful.

Everything Burial has released thus far in his career has not disappointed me and he reigns supreme as one of my all time favorite electronic artists of all time. I EXTREMELY recommend looking up all of his stuff, along with Massive Attack’s stuff. Both are very talented groups and demand your immediate attention right now.

Here’s Massive Attack x Burial – “Paradise Circus”

 

ALSO, Check out the other collaboration track, “Four Walls”

 

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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Balam Acab Remixes Lana Del Rey’s Live “Video Games”

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Very Warm

Balam Acab just put up his remix of one of my favorite songs of the year, Lana Del Rey’s great song “Video Games.”

This is the Later with Jools Holland version, so you hear the small ornaments that Del Rey puts on her song. Along with Balam Acab’s great signature sound added to it, this song has a whole new face on it. A very well done remix.

Download it fo’ free right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?kaq7cbg3fy709d5

That is a nice segue into my next topic, where I’ll be posting my favorite remixes of songs from this year. There won’t be very many and I probably missed a lot of really good ones since I just started midway through the year. Nevertheless, it would be nice to send me some sweet remixes that you all enjoyed.

Have a nice night, everybody!

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Radical Tracks: How to Dress Well, Born Gold, Phantogram and MORE

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Very Warm

TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY? I’M A MADMAN!

…Well maybe, or I just like music. A lot.

How to Dress Well – Suicide Dream 2 (Elite Gymnastics Baptism)

Born Gold – Decimate Everything

Phantogram – Don’t Move

Beyonce – Countdown

Also: AMAZING music video!

Joker – The Vision feat. Jessie Ware and Freddie Gibbs

James Blake – Once We All Agree

Tycho – Hours

HAVE A GREAT DAY, EVERYONE!!!

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RADICAL ALBUM: Born Gold – Bodysongs

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Very Warm

Hello all,

Remember last year when I was hyped out about a band called Gobble Gobble and their great song “Lawn Knives”? Well Gobble Gobble has returned, only under the name of Born Gold. The music has definitely not changed in the slightest; it’s still the hyperactive blast for your ears like it was before.

The first two songs on this album are the two singles they released last year “Lawn Knives” and “End of Days” which were two of my all time favorite tracks from last year. So they definitely started the album off right with those two. They followed the two previous singles with one of their newer singles “Decimate Everything” which is another GREAT song. Another awesome song is “Alabaster Bodyworlds” which is similar  Some songs don’t have the best of introductions, like “Eat Sun, Son” which starts off with a disassembled array of strange sounds and very sharp synth noises. Then it warps into an actual poppish song, totally apart from the introduction. The lyrics are also extremely strange. They always were. They still are. When you can tell what they’re saying, anyways. Talking about wombs, veins, blood, crazy alien things that don’t make sense… the list goes on. But it’s alright, cause this stuff is a blast.

This band definitely has a signature style which is characterized by intensely quick and hard-hitting beats and a ton of textures and melodies going on you almost get overstimulated from all of the dimensions of the music. Seriously, it’s like your ears and brain are on a sugar high created by this music; the equivalent of just doing a line of cane sugar. There is an unlimited amount of chopped up and distorted synths that it’s mind-altering, a bit. I’m not saying that this is a bad thing, not at all. It’s just that not a lot of music you get the feeling of 100% excitement and energy all the time, every single listen. This music definitely isn’t for everybody. It’s like radio pop music put into a food processor and injected with ten different industrial chemicals to create something alive out of something once-dead. I like it. Something like I haven’t heard before.

The reason I bring this album up is because they are offering a free download of the album on their bandcamp page right HERE so you can get it RIGHT NOW! You can also stream it on Soundcloud to see if you like it before you download it FOR FREE. If you were to get just a few songs from it, I would suggest the first three songs and the last two, if you were to get ANY of them. I seriously recommend the whole album because it’s free AND it’s INSANE.

Pick this one up. I highly recommend it.

SCORE: 85

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