Listen to and download the MP3 of Keep Shelly In Athens‘ new song “DIY” below.

Keep Shelly In Athens, the duo from Greece who are making all the right moves lately, are readying their new 12″ EP “Our Own Dream” on Forest Family and just in the last few weeks we’ve heard two tracks from it, each of which have been given away as a free download.

Title track “Our Own Dream” is dark and overbearing. “Lazy Noon” is almost exactly as the title suggested: hazy and dripping with relaxation. I guess it’s only right that “DIY”, the next track, is a mix of both, if you can imagine such a thing.

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Keep Shelly In Athens – “DIY”

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Listen to and download the MP3 of “Lazy Noon” below, the new song by Keep Shelly In Athens.

Greek duo Keep Shelly In Athens are getting ready to release their latest 12″ single via Forest Family again, and after we heard the midnight-basement-tinged title track “Our Own Dream” we now have the b-side to the single, “Lazy Noon”, ripe for sitting by the Mediterranean sea and getting your wax/chill/surf/sleep on.

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Keep Shelly In Athens – “Lazy Noon”

It seems like a few hot minutes since Keep Shelly In Athens dropped off some fresh new beats, other than remixes and reworks that is.

By my count we haven’t heard any new stuff from the band since March when they released “Yellow Man”, a track found on a Japanese tape  release.  As I said through various remixes and reworkings of their own tracks and other people’s they’ve managed to not only keep busy but to stay in our collective thoughts.

Being released as part of Forest Family‘s latest 12″ coming out in the Autumn, the track is a futuristic midnight  slow-jam.  Also announced is their first North American tour, hitting up places east, west, north, and south, so your excuses for missing it are baseless.

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Keep Shelly In Athens – “Our Own Dream”

This pleases me greatly. Greatly,  I tell thee!

Last year the two dudes from Lafayette, Colorado that compromise Gauntlet Hair burst onto the “scene” with the pitch-perfect noise-concoction of debut single “I Was Thinking” and a couple of other jams equally as raucous.  The pair then released the single on vinyl via the newly-minted Forest Family Records label, then another single on Mexican Summer called “Out, Don’t…” along with a new song in the form of b-side “Heave”, and even though I never made a formal list that debut single was in my top 10 of last year.

Last November they signed to Dead Oceans (home of The Tallest Man On Earth) and now after months and months of waiting we finally have news of their debut self-titled full length album coming out on October 18th and below, thanks to Gorilla Vs Bear we have a brand new song “Top Bunk”.  The track soars and swirls atop the cave-dwelling vocals and as Dead Oceans mentioned it’s a “cooled-out, coastal slow-grind”, which if the whole album plays like that I’d be more than happy.

You can grab the track below and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for new stuff from these guys, the album is going to be immense.

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Gauntlet Hair – “Top Bunk”

For those of you (mainly bloggers and writers) who’ve had this album for the last few weeks you’ll know just how good this is. For those of you who haven’t then you’re about to be bedazzled.

It’s been over a year since Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin sauntered onto the scene as Cults with their hot-damn-how-good-is-this-sugary-sweet-dream-pop three-song Bandcamp posting.  Nobody knew anything about them, they didn’t post their songs to blogs or sites and just uploaded them to their Bandcamp page, but within a week they were blowing up from here to the indie blogs in Timbuktu.

Between then and now they’ve released 7″ singles on Forest Family Records, they’ve toured the U.S and Europe, they’ve released other singles on Record Store Day, they’ve posted remixes, videos,  b-sides, collaborations with family members, and everything else you can think of in between. Oh, they even signed a major fucking record deal with Columbia/Sony, but now we have the entire album to make our ears salivate and our mouth blister.  It’s been delayed for a little but finally comes out next week and thanks to NPR the entire jovial thing is streaming below.

Album of the year contender?  Damn right.

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I think it’s only fair that since they pushed back the release date of their eagerly-awaited debut album, that they put a new non-album track out there for us to hear, right?

The song “Make Time” is listed on the Irish iTunes store as a single with a release date of May 6th meaning it’s been around for about 10 days without anyone knowing.  You’d think that when you release music for people to buy that they’d make an announcement that it’d been released so that, you know, people can buy it and stuff, but I guess not with Cults.

Maybe they’re already millionaires? Maybe they’ve already moved into their Scrooge McDuck Money Bin and don’t need the cash? Oh, and I resent the generalisation that Scottish people are tight with their money, we’re actually a very charitable people and spend more money at Christmas than any other country in the U.K.  Granted that most of it’s on alcohol, but still.

Anyway, the song in question is beateriffic with handclaps flowering over the edge of Madeline’s feathery echo-tinged voice as it flits across their now-de facto-upbeat-twinkly sound.  You can grab it from iTunes for a buck or so (it’s not available in the U.S. but you can get it from the Irish iTunes store apparently) or you can just listen to it on repeat below.

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With every new song that I hear from Cults, my anticipation-chubby gets that little bit more anticipatory.

Does that even make sense? I don’t fucking know, but with the rash of new bands that came out last year and released/are releasing an album this year, Cults and Yuck might be the only two who are consistently good.  Tennis kinda fell by the wayside after releasing their debut album in January and new artist Panda Bear’s album “Tomboy” literally sucked.

Well now the kindly dudes at NPR are streaming another new track from Cults’ debut album and presumably a week before the release of the album they’ll have the whole thing to listen to, two, too. to. tu.

Updated with a Soundcloud stream.  Check it out below at around the 26 minute mark.

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Unless you’ve seen Cults live in the last 12 months then this new song is the first in close to a year (except that “Oh My God” one they did with accompanying weird video). This time in 2010 they had only just come bounding onto the scene, layered-guitar-driven-dream-pop in tow.  They had upload three songs to their Bandcamp page and as soon as one blog got a hold of them they ended up everywhere, and rightly so, those three songs were gems.

They’ve done a few guest appearances on other artist’s work, most notably DOM’s “Bowl Cut” and featuring alongside Caroline Polachek and singer Madeline’s brother Richie on Guards’ debut EP, but that’s likely the extent of recorded new music from them.  Today, however, they uploaded a brand new song to their Soundcloud page and if “Go Outside” was the best of those three (it was), this new one is the second best; it starts off like a 60′s Motown crooner and drifts off into a bit of a wall-a-sound jam-sammich.

Presumably it’ll be on their major label debut LP coming out in a few, but give it a listen over at their soundcloud page or below thanks to Will.

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