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Constantina have a lot in common with Explosions In The Sky sonically, but they’re closer to the likes of Beirut, exploring the rhythms of the world.

Fanfarlo still occasionally sound a heck of a lot like Arcade Fire and/or Beirut, but with a dash of synths on top on “Rooms Filled With Light” they’re approaching a sound that’s a little more their own, even if it’s not new.

Beirut’s new video has sailors and bears and girls and a tiger and dudes from the army and a lion and a live band oh my.

If Sharon Van Etten’s new album “Tramp” doesn’t make our top five albums of 2012 list, then we’ll have had one of the greatest years of music since 1969.

London-based alt-folk five-piece The Lost Cavalry specialize in harrowing subject matter delivered via crooning vocals with a vastly bucolic and spatial orchestral backdrop is a treat on the ears and the imagination.

Listen to and download Sharon Van Etten’s new song “Serpents”, taken from her album “Tramp”.

Listening to a Beirut album is like looking at a sepia-toned photograph. Both seem so far removed from everyday life that they appear otherworldly. Even when they bring out synthesizers on their latest album, “The Rip Tide”, Beirut still portray themselves as if they would be better suited living in 1920’s Paris (front man Zach [...]

At the time of Beirut’s debut album release it didn’t take long for me to find out, and subsequently feel extremely unaccomplished in life about, the fact that Beirut‘s songsmith and main man Zach Condon was only 19 years old. Add into the mix the fact that he did everything himself just made me want to quit [...]

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Holy mother of god damn shit balls! I’m sure there’s someone who read that and was (slightly) offended but trust me people, it’s completely justified.  You’ll understand once you’ve made your way through the track, but between the two recent songs released by Beirut over the week’s end it’s the b-side “Goshen” that has me [...]

Saturday is now (at the time of writing) six minutes old, but on Friday afternoon we got wind of a new single release by Beirut, the New Mexican (a dude from New Mexico, not a newly-anointed Mexican) otherwise known as Zach Condon. In 2009 Zach graced us/disgraced us with his double EP “March Of The Zapotec”/”Holland”, and [...]

Whilst I can’t guarantee exactly where it’ll place, I can guarantee you that Tu Fawning’s excellent debut album “Hearts On Hold” will be on my top albums of 2010. It’s such a rich and underrated album that not enough people are talking about, but when I discovered them earlier this year it didn’t take long [...]

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 while [...]

Tu Fawning have been around for a couple of years now, releasing a debut miniature-sized album back in 2008 called “Secession” on Polyvinyl and Discourage Records. Yesterday CitySlang announced that they’ll be releasing their debut full-length LP on October 5th in the U.S., and November 1st in Europe.  You might’ve heard of some of the members [...]