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Twin Shadow turns Hooray For Earth’s “No Love” into an ominous jitterbug synth track.

Twin Shadow has just dropped the first track from his upcoming album, “Confess”!

Twin Shadow strips down his sound to deliver a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Here Comes The Flood” poolside at the Chateau Marmont.

The second part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes News Of The Fire, Nick Waterhouse, Passion Pit, Phoenix, POLIÇA, Sharon Van Etten, The Shins, Sleigh Bells, South Of France, Twin Shadow, Vampire Weekend, Woodkid and The xx!

Today Twin Shadow had a new track of theirs/his called “Changes” played on KCRW and shortly thereafter was released out into the wild wild web. It’s his take on a track by 80s band Bagarre called “Circus Is Gone” and is actually one of the best tracks of his that I’ve heard since his excellent [...]

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 Gmail [...]

Chris Taylor, best known as producer and vocalist of acclaimed band Grizzly Bear, has brought to light his own solo project under the name CANT. This breathy, multi-instrumental layer cake of a track is a sample of what his upcoming album, “Dreams Come True”. Another major point in excitement: Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr., has [...]

Remember how last week I’d mentioned that Com Truise was one talented motherfucker when it comes to creating a complete package in 80′s throwback tone and style?  Well he’s followed it up this week with another example “Cathode Girls”, the first single from his upcoming debut album on Ghostly “Galactic Melt”. Those distinctive-yet-seemingly-making-an-appearance-on-every-other-80′s-nostalgia-tinged-musical-wannabe synths are [...]

Let’s not talk about music for a minute, but instead aesthetics. It’s one thing to make music that’s appealing and earnestly nostalgic, but when you can accompany that with artwork and an entire design focus around the throwback era you’re stylising in your music, that’s some impressive shit, especially when it’s all be done in-house too. That’s [...]

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When I first started writing for Listen Before You Buy, I had no idea the range of music that would be found in the submissions. For instance, I never for a second thought that I’d be listening to the 2010 Slovakian Album of the Year, which sounds weirdly like Tears for Fears, and…loving it. These [...]

Set to be released via Slumberland Records on March 29th, “Belong” is the second album from New York’s The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and you can now hear the entire thing below before it’s released in a couple of weeks. Again, this earthquake in Japan is getting me the fuck down so I’m [...]

Com Truise, aka Seth Haley, first released this EP back in June of 2010, but has recently repackaged and rereleased it with four extra tracks for the princely sum of nothing. You can head over to his (beautifully designed)  website and pick it up for absolutely zilch. If you are unfamiliar with Com Truise, we [...]

Photo: Pavla Kopecna The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart flew onto everyone’s radar back in 2009 when they released their self-titled debut album, an album that made it onto many best of the year lists (including my own). With that first album, the band made it clear where their influences came from. They seemed [...]

I’m not the biggest Cass McCombs fan….I have his first album and enjoyed it for the most part but have only revisited it maybe a couple of times since I got it, so when I saw this new song of his doing the rounds I wasn’t holding out a whole lotta hope for it. About [...]

Artist:  Twin Shadow Hometown: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Members:  George Lewis Jr. Formed: 2009 Released: 2010 Genre: Indie, Electronic Label:  Terrible Records, 4AD Singles:  “Slow” Connect: Facebook | Twitter | MySpace | Website | Last.fm Buy The Album: Amazon - Vinyl | CD | MP3 Insound – Vinyl | CD eMusic – Sign up for free [...]