Chappo – Come Home

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maybe a little bias but I love these guys so much making this song  just straight up incredible and when the new album Public Strain drops on September 28th on Jagjaguwar I will defiantly be waiting at the doors to buy it.

Women – Eyesore

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this is unreal, for real. Big Boi drops some super catchy rhymes over one of the better beats I’ve heard in years. A video including Tron ladies, triangles, plastic beer cup walls and puppets. What’s not to love about this!? I think everyone needs to get Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, it’s really worth it. Good luck with getting this one out of your head…

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Andrew Bird does a Django impression, looks in the mirror and see’s a ghost. An incredible album of gypsy jazz inspired masterpieces. Not a single bad song on the album Oh! The Grandeur on which Bird proves himself to be a time shifting virtuoso.  I thought this music had died out with cigarette holders and and black berets. Highly highly recommend hunting down this incredible piece of reworked classic pre-war jazz, swing and European flavour.

Andrew Bird – Wishing For Contentment

Andrew Bird – Tea And Thorazine

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Weekends has a three with Lightning Bolt and Japandroids and things get saucy. Huge tracks with in your g-r-i-l-l face melters and echoed out vocals. Would have liked to hear some more bombastic drumming but hey, I’ll defiantly take what I’m given. Each of these songs are from a different Weekends release but make sure to check out their up and coming album this summer.

Weekends – Psychedelic Mice

Weekends – Raingirls (short)

Weekends – UMBC

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I wish I got half of what she got…

Happy Friday!

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So so so awesome! If yr in Vancouver tonight, come to the ol’ Colbat to see this sweeties in action. Seriously!

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This stuff hit me real hard. Candy Claws draws on some spooky 60′s pop aesthetics and mixes with a ton of modern looping and grit. Read somewhere about how each of the songs on the new Candy Claws album has a sample of another song off the album within it, sort of like some freaky musical ying yang. Either way this album which is to be released on August 3rd and I can not wait to pick it up. Two words, ROAD TRIP!

Candy Claws – Silent Time of Earth

Candy Claws – Sunbeam Show

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It seems that Lo-Fi has been all the rage lately. One could only guess as to how long this trend will last (my money would be on not much longer). But for the time being it is here, and there is some great music being made which utilizes certain Lo-Fi criteria, mainly, a lot of fuzz or reverb and an apparently lower recording quality. This renewal of the Lo-Fi sound has typically tended to lean in a tropical, ‘Endless Summer’ direction (think Wavves or Surfer Blood).

Well, this is different. There is a definite Country Western vibe going on here, mixed in with a bit of 50′s era rock. This is relaxed and  pleasant to listen to, and still fuzzy enough to cash in on the Lo-Fi resurgence. Get it while the gettings hot. Spectrals have released a split 7″ with Fair – Ohs, It’s out now from Toughlove records, check it out.

Birthday Kiss – Spectrals

Keep Your Magic Out Of My House – Spectrals

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Carefully crafted pop-influenced ambient jams straight from New Zealand. Sounds like watching the sun rise at five in the morning and you realize you have been out all night. You can feel the exhaustion fogging up your mind and weighing down your lids, but you want to stay, you rarely see the city this quiet.

Glass Vaults – Set Sail
Glass Vaults – New Space
Glass Vaults – Forget Me Not

You can download their whole EP for free right here.