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Best New Music
This new Slumberland band will be bracketed with other lo-fi/noise-pop peers, but they have songs that will appeal beyond the confines of subcultures: Anyone with a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music will find a lot to like about this record.
On The Crying Light, Antony Hegarty remains fascinated with the transitions and overlaps between birth and life, life and death, this world and the next, but he expresses them in more universal, more direct, but no less rapturous terms than he did on his New York-tinted breakthrough I Am a Bird Now.
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The follow-up to 2007's manga soundtrack Afro Samurai, Resurrection finds RZA working with many of his Wu-Tang cohorts to craft music for a new PS3/Xbox game.
[Ian Cohen]DJ/Rupture's first release on his new label, Unsuitable, is a collabaration with the Ex guitarist Andy Moor. Consisting of live, improvised tracks the duo recorded while touring together, the often-delirious concoction is almost the opposite of Rupture's 2008 mix Uproot-- guitar-centric, spontaneous, and brittle.
[Brian Howe]This monolithic sophomore album from Portland, Maine's long-and-heavy metal quartet Ocean-- two tracks, almost 60 minutes-- is like an act of defiance to this speeding, shrinking world.
[Grayson Currin]Witchy Chicago/Michigan/New York trio distinguish themselves from other young bands immersed in 4AD haze with an emphasis on bass. Their debut EP was the inaugural release on Patrik North's new Acéphale imprint, and its follow up comes via London's Merok.
[Marc Hogan]Ca$h Money release a rock album; not surprisingly it sounds like N.E.R.D. or a body spray commercial. Nas, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne guest.
[Ian Cohen]Fri: 02-06-09
Thu: 02-05-09
Wed: 02-04-09
Tue: 02-03-09
Forkcast
- New Music: tUnE-yArDs: "Sunlight" [MP3/Stream]
- Premiere: The Tough Alliance: "A New Chance (Tanlines Remix)" [MP3]
- New Music: The Boy Least Likely To: "Every Goliath Has Its David" [Stream]
- New Music: The Lonely Island: "I'm On a Boat" [ft. T-Pain; Video] / "Boombox" [ft. Julian Casablancas; Stream]
- New Music: Camera Obscura: "My Maudlin Career" [MP3/Stream]
- Video: Beirut: "A Sunday Smile" (Live on "Late Show With David Letterman")
- Pitchfork.tv: Marissa Nadler: "River of Dirt" [Video Premiere]
Features
Interview: Stephen Malkmus
Twenty years (!) after the release of Pavement's debut, we talk to Stephen Malkmus about the deluxe reissue of Pavement's fourth album Brighten the Corners, his reasoning for relegating so many of his songs over the years to B-sides and rarities, and his future with the Jicks.
[Matthew Perpetua]Interview: Saint Etienne
We caught up with Saint Etienne co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Bob Stanley to talk about the band's rich history, his side work as a writer and curator, the changing face of music fandom, and why exactly his band has so many compilations.
[Scott Plagenhoef]Interview: Franz Ferdinand
After bringing intelligent, glamorous pop music to the masses, Franz Ferdinand have returned as a commerical force-- debuting songs in video games, collaborating with rap superstars-- but still are looking to expand their sonic palatte on their more exploratory new album, Tonight.
[Stuart Berman]While We Were Out...
Catching up with last week's reviews, including our takes on the new records from Bruce Springsteen and Franz Ferdinand, EP collaborations between Hot Chip and Robert Wyatt and Jon Brion and Of Montreal, and yet another pair of wonderful Optimo-related mixes.
[Pitchfork Staff]Interview: Buzzcocks
As they tour Europe performing their classic albums, the two original members of the influential punk band talk about reissues, riots, and throwing bricks through windows.
[Patrick Sisson]Interview: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett
We spoke to the duo behind Gorillaz about their new project, Monkey, as well as such controversial subjects as the disintegration of the West, why Africa is the future of the world, cultural tourism, and Vampire Weekend.
[Scott Plagenhoef]