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Teletextile have created an exciting, fresh, and inventive musical patchwork quilt with a decidedly tactile quality of sound.

“Hold Back” by The Revival Hour may be the best mix of modern electronic with classic Soul I’ve ever heard.

TweetShare Brooklyn’s Young Yeller is the solo project of trained classical percussionist Jesse Brickel. His debut EP “Make Me” (released September 7th) displays a sophisticated soundscape conjuring soaring heart-on-your-sleeve prog pop one minute, the next getting back to basics with ambient get-up-and-dance joy. Young Yeller excels at crafting epic bedroom dream pop. “Make Me” rests [...]

TweetShare It’s a rainy Saturday where I am, so what could be better than some ethereal psych-folk to pass the time? Luckily, Silver Wren is on hand to provide just that. The solo project of Gainsville, Florida-based Ross Campbell, Silver Wren started in March this year, and has already yielded two mini EPs. Ross has now [...]

TweetShare You may not be familiar with TW Walsh but it’s a guarantee you are familiar with his work. He has produced, mixed, and/or mastered many of the best albums over the past fifteen years which have included artists such as Damien Jurado, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Ra Ra Riot, Sufjan Stevens, and [...]

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TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

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TweetShare Ahh yes, the good ol’ tactic of sampling a popular and catchy indie track and coupling it with some hip hop; I call this wonderful phenomena “white frat boy rap”. All joking aside, there’s something to it; though there’s a fine line, but Chiddy Bang struts that shit. Chiddy Bang consists of Chidera “Chiddy” [...]

TweetShare With the amount of music that Sam Beam has recorded and released as Iron & Wine you’d think they were on album number eight by now, but no, it’s only number four.  ONLY NUMBER FOUR! Last night I posted about how I wasn’t too keen on the debut album by Yuck but after listening [...]

TweetShare Ok it’s not new, been out for a month or so, but I’m only just seeing it. If you partake in a little bit of the Mary Jane, you might want to get sparking or hit that bong before you watch this video for The Suzan‘s “Home”, because when my sober self watched it [...]

TweetShare Sufjan Stevens is a staple when it comes to releasing Christmas tunes, going so far as to even record entire Christmas albums year after year. One of his best Christmassy choons is the one below that came out in 2003 from his “DING DONG Songs For Christmas” volume III.  Now it’s pretty much only [...]

TweetShare Admittedly, when I heard Iron & Wine‘s latest three-song single “Walking Far From Home” at the end of November, I liked the first song, was ambivalent towards the second, and did not like the last one at all. Now less than three weeks later we’ve got another new song from their upcoming album “Kiss Each Other [...]

TweetShare I’m not sure where it started but I’ve noticed a strange trend with Scottish acts making music with spoken “vocals” over the music.  I’ve spoken about it on here a few times, likening them to Arab Strap since that’s where I first heard it. An entire album of it would probably become quite trite [...]

TweetShare In anticipation of their next LP “Kiss Each Other Clean”, Iron & Wine dropped this new three-song single over the weekend as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday special. Each of the three songs differ from one song to the next, going from their traditional-sounding Folky roots, to a more experimental electronic groove, [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]