Diamond Watch Wrists - Icecapped On Both Ends (2009)

Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) is one of the most renowned
producers of avant-rock and hip hop around today. Over the past 12
months he's remixed the likes of TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS and
Cornelius as well as having collaborated in the past with Battles and
School of Seven Bells.

Zach Hill is an incredible, self-taught drummer, hailing from
California. He's played in bands with Chino Moreno (Deftones), Rob Crow
(Pinback), Marnie Stern and will soon be drumming with The Mars Volta,
as well as playing in his main group Hella.

Together they've formed Diamond Watch Wrists, and released the album
'Ice Capped at Both Ends'. The album shows an entirely new form of
Herren creations, organic songs featuring Guillermo's plaintive vocals,
guitar and studio wizardry, Hill's singular drumming as well as
previously unheard nods to 60's European acid-folk, classic American
singersongwriters and krautrock.

Ty Braxton (Battles) also guests on 'Simple Love Notes (5 Years
Later)'.

While would call the Diamond Watch Wrists material, 'simple songs about
Herren everyday things' they, of course, strike the listener as much
more.

Deceptively complex in their arrangements, the songs never fail to
strike a fascinating balancing act between brooding and uplifting,
making for an uncommonly well-rounded album.

Limited edition CD - 300 copies only

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Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)

Not due for release for more than a month from now, this album is a groundbreaker for David Longstreth. An awesome blend of avante-garde and traditional indie rock.

1. "Cannibal Resource" - 3:55
2. "Temecula Sunrise" - 5:05
3. "The Bride" - 2:49
4. "Stillness Is the Move" - 5:14
5. "Two Doves" - 3:42
6. "Useful Chamber" - 6:28
7. "No Intention" - 4:17
8. "Remade Horizon" - 3:55
9. "Fluorescent Half Dome" - 5:45

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Blank Dogs - Under and Under (2009)

*** FIRST EVER 5-STAR RATING ON THIS BLOG ****

THIS IS A MUST HAVE !!!

Blank Dogs are a mysterious Brooklyn-based one-man band. Little is known about the main song-writer and the musicians he performs with live. In photos he always wears a mask or head wrap covering his face.

Over the past four years, Blank Dogs have released numerous vinyl LPs, 7" singles, cassettes and CDs. Their first live performance was held in New York in September, 2008.

Blank Dogs will release, Under And Under, their debut album on In The Red Records on May 26. JB Townsend of the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls will be featured on the album.


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Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (2009)

Highly anticipated third album from Jason Quever's cosmic dream-pop project fully delivers. Quever is a guest member of numerous bands (including Vetiver, Beach House, and Skygreen Leopards), and the living room/recording studio wizard behind numerous others (Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs, Donkeys, and more) .


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Crystal Antlers - Tentacles (2009)

Another band in my long line of beloved "crystal" bands. No, I'm not cooking meth in the garage.

The group explodes through the unclaimed space between ’60s garage touchs like the Music Machine & the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru & Les Rallizes Denudes & the mechanized motor-soul of “Osmium”-era Parliament. Between the screamers come the scenery - the Pharoah Sanders-style sax snippets that confetti the end of “Glacier,” the gentle oceanic drone-poem “Vapor Trail,” the album intro that sounds like Blue Cheer chasing Terry Riley’s “Rainbow In Curved Air”.

Due out in early April, this is an album you shouldn't sleep on.

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Black Dice - Repo (2009)

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Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within (1994)

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Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)

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Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser (1996)

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Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (1993)

One of those albums that simply takes me back to a certain time and place....we were so young, this music was so much more advanced than we were, yet it fit. All of the DCD albums posted are timeless, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have over the years.


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Dead Can Dance - Aion (1990)

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Mirah - (a)spera (2009)

A pleasant cross between Enya and Goldfrapp .... really a beautiful album. Complete with strings, choir, etc....

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Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (2009)

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Sisko Electrofanatik - Psychofanatik EP (2009)

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RIP - Harry Kalas

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (2009)

Bat for Lashes second album sees Brighton's Natasha Khan introducing some special guests, notably Scott Walker and Yeasayer, and, more bizarrely, her alter-ego, Pearl, described by the press release as "a destructive, self-absorbed, blonde, femme fatale of a persona who acts as a direct foil to Khan's more mystical, desert-born spiritual self."

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The Coathangers - Scramble (2009)

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Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (2009)

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10:32 - Vanitas EP (2009)

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UNKLE - Remix Stories Volume 2 (2009)

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Peaches - I Feel Cream (2009)

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The Disco Biscuits - 4/9/1999

Happy birthday to one of the most insane live music performances of all time.

The Disco Biscuits
4/9/1999
Trocadero Theater
Philadelphia, PA

Disc 1
/Set 1/
01. Run Like Hell ->
02. Little Shimmy in a Conga Line*
03. Bazaar Escape
04. Voices Insane
05. Basis for a Day ->
06. The Theiving Magpie**

Disc 2
/Set II/
01. Tuning
02. The Very Moon ->
03. Hot Air Balloon
04. Banter
05. Above the Waves ->
06. Basis for a Day

Disc 3
01. Banter
02. M.E.M.P.H.I.S ->
03. Above the Waves
04. Crowd
/Encore/
05. I-Man

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Handsome Furs - Face Control (2009)

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Alex Kenji - Adelante (Ahmet Sendil Remix) 2009

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Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (2009)

Lockett Pundt from Deerhunter's new solo project. The better of the two Deerhunter solo projects, IMO. I never got into Atlas Sound all that much.

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Condo Fucks - Fuckbook (2009)

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