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Metronomy and Breakbot remix a couple of Charlotte Gainsbourg tracks in a new free 12-song sampler.

“Sonic Armada (A Trip to The Moon)” is another new song from Air’s upcoming album “Le Voyage Dans La Lune”.

Check out this new song by Air featuring Beach House!

Electronic French duo Air are to release their new album “Le Voyage Dans La Lune” which includes collaborations with Beach House and Au Revoir Simone.

TweetShare From the city of Toulouse in France comes the duo Le Common Diamond. Thomas Juvé and Floran Remy make, well, without sounding so obvious, they make French pop music – and it’s everything you could possibly want from such an association (the moodiness of Air, the sexuality of Sébastien Tellier). Yet some of the [...]

TweetShare We at LBYB haven’t been in the business of reviewing albums for all that long so, naturally, a few great releases from the earlier part of this year didn’t get the attention that they might have deserved from us.  One such gem is Dumbo Gets Mad‘s “Elephants At The Door”, a record that remains [...]

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TweetShareClick on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

TweetShareClick on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

TweetShareClick on the image to listen to the entire album for free.

TweetShare All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the [...]

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TweetShare A band that’s been around since 1997 but is featuring on an Introduction piece? Have I gone mad? Possibly, but bear with me. I’m going to hazard a guess that you very probably haven’t heard of Guitaro, not unless you come from Canada and are really into your shoegaze that is. Which is a [...]

TweetShare If you’re a fan of American TV shows or have been to gigs in the US over the last 2 years you may have come across Scanners.  Their music has featured in the likes of ‘One Tree Hill’, ‘Entourage’ and the new series of ‘Beverley Hills 90210’ as well as movies ‘Endgame’ and ‘Mama’s [...]

TweetShare Photography by me. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” – John Lubbock I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a mixtape for a [...]

TweetShare Shoegaze with a hint of Motown. That’s how Calm Palm Vapor labeled themselves in their email to me last week, and if for no other reason than because I’d never seen those two words together in a sentence before, I gave them a listen, and you know?  They’re kind of onto something there. Personally [...]