Sonic Sunshine

Lazy Hurricane – No Fair Isle

Hypnotic, psychedelic beats. Blues head nodding mixed with 70′s fuzz and a polite tip of the hat to early funk.  The kind of music you would hear if you were a square, young protagonist in a coming-of-age film, you just ate a blotter of acid in your parents living room and now you’re sailing the corduroy arm chair on an ocean of shag carpet.

Silver Bullets – Monday Morning in Ragusa
Silver Bullets – Free Radical
Silver Bullets – Flight from Babylon

A new one by Totally Nebular. I LOVE their style, there are natural imperfections in their songs that keep reminding you that there are actual humans behind the instruments. It’s the imperfections that add to the charm.

Totally Nebular – Snowmass

Montreal’s Parlovr have a new 7″ coming out on October 19th called Hell/Heaven/Big/Love.  Below is the first track off of it, and it sounds great! The production is awesome, it sounds huge. Be excited!

Parlovr – Hell/Heaven

Bonus take-away show!

Parlovr – Hell Heaven – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque.

The Last Day of Summer is the new album by garage-rockers White Denim, which is available by donation on their website. I have always been a big fan, but this new stuff blew me away. The album as a whole is much softer and soulful compared to their earlier work and is probably my favourite material to date. This self-released album is meant as a pacifier as we wait for their third album. With this album so good, I am very very excited to see what they come out with next.

White Denim – i’d have it just the way we were
White Denim – home together
White Denim – tony fatti

Gorgeous video, cool dudes, and rad tunes. nuff’ said.
You can see it bigger right here: Vimeo

Cosmic Sound is Stephen Farris, a young man living in Houston, Texas. He weaves electronic beats, found sounds and dirty cassettes into soundscapes that could be soundtracks to forgotten nature documentaries, not unlike some of my favourite Boards of Canada tracks. Some of the songs have lyrics, some do not. Great for evenings when you don’t know what to listen to. The whole EP can be downloaded from his Myspace

Cosmic Sound – Bear Auras
Cosmic Sound – Backyard Woods
Cosmic Sound – Weird Trees

Out of curiosity I have been listening to quite a bit of Dubstep these days, I’m not a huge fan of most of it, but this song definitely caught my ear. The horns are so rad.

A field recording made of Ghana post workers canceling mail.  The rhythmic sounds are a combination of the following:

• Light Thud - Slapping of the letter to bring in position on the table to be canceled.
• Lowest Thud - The stamp being inked one or more times.
• High Thud – The letter being stamped and canceled.
• A High Pitch Snap -  Scissors being snapped together for rhythmic effect
• Hand Clap – Done by the whistler

There are four men in this recording, two doing the stamping, one man handling the scissors and one man who carries the tune and hand claps.

Absolutely breathtaking.