Abducted (Official)

The other day I had posted the unofficial video but now the real one is up. Check the official vid for Abducted by Cults below. Their debut LP should be coming out this month. Consequence of Sound has details on the album and their current tour.

Abducted

NYC-based pop duo Cults have a new single out. Check the unofficial vid for Abducted below. Their debut LP should be coming out this month. Consequence of Sound has details on the album and their current tour.


Cults - Abducted from George Tanasie on Vimeo.

Bear Costume

Spirit Night is a West Virginia based bedroom pop project headed by songwriter Dylan Balliet.You can download their first full length album What We Will Be over on Bandcamp, where you can also find an EP for free as well. Make sure to check out my favorite track on the album, Bear Costume, below.

Locomotive

Detroit-based singer Alex Winston, recently released her album, Sisters Wife EP to much acclaim. Peep the video for Locomotive, below.

Vivian Grrrls

All-girl pop band Vivian Girls have a new album, Share The Joy, due out April 12th on Polyvinyl. Watch the video for the first single, I Heard You Say, below. Also, the girls are touring with garage rockers, Black Lips, and will be coming to Kansas City at the Beaumont Club on April 26th!!! Check out the rest of the tour dates here.

Tracklist for Share the Joy:

01 The Other Girls
02 I Heard You Say
03 Dance (If You Wanna)
04 Lake House
05 Trying to Pretend
06 Sixteen Ways
07 Take It as It Comes
08 Vanishing of Time
09 Death
10 Light in Your Eyes

Clouded

Cleveland's Dylan Baldi, the 18 year old behind the pop outfit Cloud Nothings is set to release his self titled debut LP on Carpark Records on January 25th. Check out Consequence of Sound for tour dates and info on an upcoming split with lablemates Toro y Moi. 

Make sure to see them at Riot Room in KC on April 1st, with Toro y Moi. Watch the new video for Should Have below.

Destroyed

Dan Bejar aka Destroyer's latest electro/jazz album is a smooth one. Kaputt is easily the sexiest album of the still young 2011. As you can see from the provocative yet tripped-out Dawn Garcia-directed video for the title track, Bejar is well aware of the sexiness.



Kaputt is out 1/25 via Merge. Don’t forget the “Archer On The Beach” 12″, which includes two songs not found on the record.

Sources: Stereogum and Pitchfork.

Good Girls

Vivian Girl Katy Goodman's La Sera project is set to release their self-titled debut LP February 15 via Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art. Before that, La Sera will release a new 7" single on the label, "Devlis Hearts Grow Gold", January 18. 

Below, you can check out the single's title track (which also appears on the La Sera full-length). Like her previous release Never Come Around, covered here, this song sounds like sunshine with a beautiful catchy melody. It'll be paired with the non-LP cut "Dedicated to the One I Love" as the B-side. That's the ultra-strange single art above; check out the tracklist for both the single and LP below.

Devils Hearts Grow Gold

"Devils Hearts Grow Gold" 7":

01 Devils Hearts Grow Gold
02 Dedicated to the One I Love

La Sera:

01 Beating Heart
02 Never Come Around
03 You're Going to Cry
04 Sleeptalking
05 I Promise You
06 Left This World
07 Hold
08 Under The Trees
09 Devils Hearts Grow Gold
10 Dove Into Love
11 Been Here Before
12 Lift Off

Source: Pitchfork

Twee Pony

Indie-Pop trio, Seapony, just released a new 7" on Double Denim. Dreaming is an upbeat, guitar-driven pop song following in the footsteps of its C86 predecessors. Peep the video by Anabel Navarro below.

In addition to the single, the Seattle twee poppers put out an eponymous EP in August. Seapony EP is available for free on their Bandcamp page. With You and I Really Do are both mellow, breezy tunes that I really enjoy.

Like Lykke

Swedish pop singer/bombshell Lykke Li just dropped a video for her first single off the upcoming Wounded Rhymes, to be released Febuary 28th on her label LL Recordings. The single, Get Some, finds Lykke Li taking a more direct, over-the-top approach, diverting from the more artsy, subdued singing on her first LP, Youth Novels, released in 2008. The video is awash in occult imagery and overt sexual themes. Throughout the song she repeats the sexy chant, "I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some", over the pounding drums remindful of the Big Band era. Peep the vid below.

Bermuda Triangle

Philly native Rebecca Huston is the woman behind Bermuda Bonnie, an unsigned psych-pop band that now operates out of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Bermuda Bonnie released her self titled debut last year which you can download on Last.fm for free or you can shell out the 8 bucks over on her Bandcamp page. While you're there grab the free remix of Invisible, and make sure to watch the vid produced by Rebecca's sister Kim Huston below. But def check my favorite track on the album, Houseboat, a slow, soft, daydream about getting away from it all.

Vivian Girls Gone Wild

Kate Goodman of all-girl punk trio, Vivian Girls, recently started a solo project called La Sera. Under this new moniker Kate produces 50's inspired, celestial pop. Hardly Art, a Seattle-based subsidiary of Sub Pop, just released her 7", "Never Come Around" b/w "Behind Your Eyes", ahead of her eponymous full length due in early 2011. Check out the spooky vid for Never Come Around, directed by Brady Hall. I love the juxtaposition of the violent, gruesome visuals and Kate's cheery vocals and mannerisms.

Boyfriend

Video for Boyfriend by Best Coast. This vid finds Bethany playing at a Quinceañera for a young Latina girl.

Tennis Live

Check out my current obsession, the husband and wife duo Tennis, as they play Live on Pitchfork TV's Tunnelvision presented by Brooklyn videographer, Chocolate Bobka.


TENNIS - MARATHON from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.


TENNIS - WHEN I WALK INTO THE ROOM from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.

Paper Tiger

Finnish Indie Pop group, Paperfangs, have two tracks and a video making the rounds on the blog circuit. "Oh I Wandered" is a soft and soothing, yet slightly upbeat track that reminds me a bit of Swedish-American Electro Pop act, Thieves Like Us. The other track, "Books", has a video, produced by fellow Finns at Riite Design. These guys were featured on BIRP! in the September 2010 Playlist, yet information on them and subsequently, appreciation of them is extremely scarce so far.

Not Shitgaze

Connecticut's Procedure Club is a "bedroom-pop" project started by Andrea and Adam Malec in 2008. They dropped their first full length, Doomed For Ever, in June 2010 after a series of successfull tapes and CDRs. Vermont is a fuzzy twee tune in the mold of c86 bands like Tululah Gosh and The Sea Urchins.

Herr Oberhofer

Melding together chillwave riffs with chant-like vocals reminiscent of Animal Collective, Brooklyn-based Oberhofer has managed to create a delicate yet energetic sound. Tacoma native Brad Oberhofer has an EP slated to release later this year through Insound but as he is currently unsigned he is giving away said EP, o0Oo0Oo, here. My two fave tracks so far are "I Could Go" and "Away FRM U". Watch for him to blow up the scene later this year as he starts touring outside of NY.

Tennis Anyone?

Ok, more from Denver's favorite married couple, Tennis. While on an eight month sailing expedition in the North Atlantic, Alaina and Patrick began writing music together. They had planned for everything to remain low key and private but a few tracks circumnavigated the web and landed them a lot of recognition. So much in fact that they released two 7" records this summer, the most recent of which I mentioned below in my Surf's Up post.

This cut, "Marathon", is a soothing low-key beach tune, filled with the soft cooing voice of Alaina singing about Coconut Grove. It's off their first 7" and is accompanied by two other tracks, "Baltimore" and "Cape Dory".