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.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Track Review: Beach House, 'Myth'

BEACH HOUSE "Myth" (4:18) Producers: Beach House, Chris Coady Writer: Beach House Publisher: Chrysalis Label: Sub Pop Records


It's been two long years since Beach House**, Baltimore's premier space-pop duo, blew our minds with its masterful third album, "Teen Dream." "Myth," the first single from the pair's upcoming "Bloom," is the sonic equivalent of comfort food -- a savory buffet spread of the musical trademarks the group has already perfected elsewhere. Victoria Legrand's scratchy, haunting voice saunters in expanses of reverb over pillowy programmed percussion and pawn-shop organ plinks. Guitarist Alex Scally chirps out pristine, slow-motion arpeggios, building to a climactic flourish of rapid-fire, high-octave notes, like storm clouds weeping profusely. "It's never as it seems," Legrand sings, her luxurious melodies climbing and falling in predictable rapture. In this case, "Myth" is exactly as it seems. Beach House's mind-blowing template isn't broke, and the band isn't in any rush to fix it.
-billboard.com

Great song should definitely check it out if you have not yet..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuvWc3ToDHg&sns=em