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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.
Reviews
What do David Byrne, Chuck D, Method Man, Tom Waits, Kool Keith, Kanye West, Santigold, Karen O, Lykke Li, George Clinton, the Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, and Scarface all have in common? This album.
[Tom Breihan]On his second solo album, the former Drive-By Truckers member sticks with what he does best, offering detailed and evocative songwriting in a bar-band setting.
[Joshua Love]A collection of early techno tracks by German scenemaker and Kompakt co-owner Wolfgang Voigt (aka Gas) marks an embrace of formalism as a way toward something new.
[Andy Battaglia]Drag City continues to unearth obscure excellence, here bringing us Death, a Detroit punk/hard-rock trio that started out playing R&B but switched to rock after hearing the raucous proto-punk of their neighbors the MC5 and Stooges-- then closed their career by relocating to Vermont and becoming a gospel rock group.
[Adam Moerder]Hella guitarist and the Advantge drummer Spencer Seim here takes multi-instrumentalism to its logical conclusion, playing every instrument on this Suicide Squeeze release.
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Forkcast
- Pitchfork.tv: Max Tundra: "Will Get Fooled Again" (Live on "A>D>D")
- Video: Kanye West: "Welcome to Heartbreak"
- New Old Music: Nat King Cole: "Nature Boy (TV on the Radio Remix)" [Stream]
- New Music: Deradoorian (of Dirty Projectors): "High Road" [MP3/Stream]
- Pitchfork.tv: J. Tillman [ft. members of Fleet Foxes]: "Firstborn" [Video Premiere]
- New Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Zero" [Stream]
- New Music: El Perro del Mar: "Change of Heart" [Stream]
Features
Interview: Air France
Air France members Joel Karlsson and Henrik Markstedt talk to us via email about high school, the economy, and the life-changing power of Saint Etienne.
[Marc Hogan]Guest List: Diplo
Diplo reveals which two classic producers he admires most, tips us off to a new venue in Philly, and divulges a family relation to a prominent indie-rock frontman. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]
[Diplo]Interview: Fennesz
Austrian producer Christian Fennesz put out his long-awaited latest solo album Black Sea late in 2008. Just prior to the album's release, we spoke with him about his working methods, the pressure of a new solo album, and the enduring appeal of A-Ha.
[Mark Richardson]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]