Showing posts with label pitchfork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitchfork. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

Modest Mouse's documentary of the classic 1997 album The Lonesome Crowded West.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Evian Christ - Kings and Them

Kings and Them

Evian Christ



01. Drip
02. MYD
03. Go Girl
04.Fuck It None Of Ya'll Don't Rap
05. Horses in Motor 
06. Snapback Back
07. Thrown Like Jacks
08. Fridge, Crank, Gun


 (PF)- These days, there's no shortage of R&B/rap-influenced producers releasing pitch-dark music behind a cryptic veil. And it's easy to peg that increasingly tired narrative on Evian Christ, who enigmatically put songs up on YouTube in December, released a mixtape, Kings and Them, on Tri Angle in February, and generated plenty of web chatter in the process. But Joshua Leary, 22, says he never really cared about anonymity, and that he wasn't being strategic by originally holding back his real name. He only put his songs online for his friends to hear, but then Dummy caught on, and he started getting tons of messages from "quite big record labels, managers, booking agents, visual artists, and French fashion magazines."

Friday, April 6, 2012

Bear in Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool

I Love You, It's Cool LP 

Bear in Heaven (April 5th, 2012)




Track list - 
01. Idle Heart (3:48)
02. The Reflection Of You (4:19)
03. Noon Moon (3:46)
04. Sinful Nature (5:13)
05. Cool Light (4:11)
06. Kiss Me Crazy (3:23)
07. World Of Freakout (4:25)
08. Warm Water (4:23)
09. Space Remains (4:16)
10. Sweetness & Sickness (6:14)

 For a band that spends more than two years between studio albums, Bear in Heaven don't seem to have hang-ups about fucking around with the final result. This has worked out well for them: 2009's breakthrough Beast Rest Forth Mouth was the result of streamlining the proggy excesses of Red Bloom of the Boom into something familiar, wholly of the moment, and yet impossible to pin down-- you knew some combination of "indie," "rock," "synth," "dance," and "electro" should work, and yet not a single hyphenate stuck satisfactorily. A year later, the band commissioned artists ranging from High Places to Justin Broadrick for Beast Rest Forth Mouth Remixed, which defied all expectations associated with indie rock remix records by actually being pretty good.