Just a heads up to let you know that the 2009 self-titled debut EP from Virginia's Eternal Summers -- one of last year's best -- is now available on 10" vinyl from Chimney Sweep Records. I was lucky enough to snag a copy of the 10" at SXSW, and can confirm that the duo's hazy, heartfelt "dream punk" sounds even better on glorious heavy duty vinyl...
Download the new Lackadaisical EP, a split featuring two of our favorite haunted lounge-house merchants -- Denton's Fur + Detroit's Coyote Clean Up -- for free courtesy of our friends at Waaga Records:
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Fur // Coyote Clean Up :: Lackadaisical EP ...
Not all of the best music we heard this year was restricted to the long-player format. These are our favorite EPs + singles of '09, released in various vinyl/tape/digital formats.
EPs:
01 Memory Cassette | Call & Response 7" (Acephale) mp3: 02 Animal Collective | Fall Be Kind (Domino)03 Washed Out | Life of Leisure 12" (Mexican Summer) mp3: 04 Dum Dum Girls | Dum Dum Girls
Here's a new tropical summer tune from London's Jesse Kanda, aka Friend, whom you might recall from his stellar re-imaginings of songs from Air France and Peter Bjorn and John. "Doki" is taken from Friend's upcoming EP, Shima; also make sure to hit up his myspace page to check a couple more tracks from the EP and his sunny remix of Memory Cassette's haunting "Last One Awake...
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