Fresh off of murdering Coachella over the weekend, Death Grips have posted up their massive, dizzying new album in its entirety over on their soundcloud page. Listen below, via @deathgripz. The Money Store is out April 24 on Epic.
Theophilus London + A$AP Rocky unleash the studio version of the big Shirley Bassey-sampling joint that we saw the duo debut live at SXSW 2012:
[via A$APmob]
“I started out with a ton of echo and reverb on the vocals, but it sounded supremely boring to me, so I was curious how they’d sound dry in the arrangements and got rid of most of the wetness…It was tempting to use autotune but I decided against it because there’s this brutal, sensual ugliness in the vocals uncorrected, and painfully human vocals made sense for this record” — Laurel Halo, on her new record Quarantine
Here’s a stunning new transmission from Laurel Halo, in which we begin to understand, and subsequently come to love, her concept of “sensual ugliness” in the span of just under 5 minutes. “Light + Space” is the closing track from her entrancing forthcoming full-length, which is quite unlike anything we’ve heard from Ms. Halo before. Quarantine is out May 28 in the UK + June 5 in the States via Hyperdub:
Laurel Halo plays live at the Bunker Unsound Festival New York edition next Friday, as part of a great bill that includes Demdike Stare, Ital, and others.
More from the latest round of quality releases to emerge from L.A.’s Not Not Fun camp: here’s the title track from the debut cassette from Vancouver’s Crystal Dorval, aka White Poppy, out now on the label. Dorval’s sweet + blurry submerged melodies occasionally recall a slightly poppier Grouper, as heard on this appropriately gauzy clip for the tape’s closing lullaby, “I Had a Dream.”
Very into the new Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland LP Black Is Beautiful that drops one week from today on Hyperdub, which you can listen to now exclusively over at Resident Advisor. Bizarre + disorienting dubby vibes abound as expected with these two, but perhaps the weirdest thing here is that track 2 is a lovely cover of one of our all-time favorite slow jams — Donnie & Joe Emerson’s “Baby“ — played relatively straight, and it’s kind of haunting. Listen to the whole thing here.
Beautifully faded cinematic dreamscapes from Sweden’s Sand Circles, taken from his new Motor City tape, out now on Not Not Fun. If Themes for an Imaginary Film + Kill For Love will be soundtracking any and all of your midnight cruises around L.A. for the forseeable future (as they should), consider Motor City for your next 4 AM bus ride through any dystopian urban underworlds.
Sand Circles’ Motor City cassette is limited to 150 copies, out now on Not Not Fun.
Here’s a slinky little “haunted house surf music” gem from the band formerly known as Yellow Fever, Austin’s Deep Time. The super-catchy “Clouds” is taken from the group’s new self-titled LP, out this summer on Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art. The band just wrapped up a brief West Coast tour with Grass Widow, but you can still catch them on their remaining California dates with our favorite S.F. ladies The Sandwitches.
mp3:
Deep Time :: Clouds
Deep Time is out July 10 on Hardly Art.
We are psyched to present the bi-coastal pairing of Brooklyn’s Chairlift + L.A.’s Nite Jewel — a couple of bands who happen to be responsible for two of the best pop records of 2012 so far — on Monday, April 16, live at Club Dada in Deep Ellum here in Dallas. Spune has hooked us up with 2 pairs of tickets to give away for this one: just leave your name in the comments below or over on Facebook, and I’ll pick the winners this Friday.
