Category: Music News

Animal Collective’s Avey Tare will be releasing the crocodile inspired album Down There on October 25th through Paw Tracks. But for a little taster of what to expect from an album that was recorded in an abandoned church in a swamp you can download the lead single ‘Lucky 1‘ for free below.

It’s squishy, squashy, sloshy, swishy, swampy and pretty much exactly like what you’d expect great music to sound like if it was recorded in an abandoned church in a swamp by someone fascinated by crocodiles.

Avey Tare – Lucky 1 by Crossfire Music

What a way to fully kick the week off! Rival Schools have completed the follow up to 2001’s United By Fate. ‘Pedals‘ is due to be released early next year.

‘Shot After Shot‘ is the first single to come from the album due November 14th. You can watch the accompanying video clip for the song via Kerrang! by clicking the screenshot below…

The band will be playing Hoxton Bar and Grill on November 16th. Tickets go on sale Friday through Aloud.

The hugely anticipated third release from super-producer duo ZZT, ‘ZZafrika‘ sees Zombie Nation and Tiga take their now unmistakable and unrivalled analogue techno sound to the native funk landscape of the motherland.

ZZafrika will be available to purchase digitally through the unstoppable Turbo Recordings label tomorrow (October 5th). The limited edition etched vinyl will be available on October 18th. The label have posted the song on their Soundcloud which can be streamed below.

ZZT is Zombie Nation and Tiga.

ZZafrika is nature’s coolest joke.

ZZT – ZZafrika by turborecordings

Former Ghosts have been steadily generating more hype for their forthcoming release, ‘New Love‘ due out on November 8th. The latest piece of free wonder comes in the form of a mixtape, ‘Old Love‘ posted by Freddy Rupert on his blog last week.

The mixtape features demos, rarities, remixes and covers including one notable rendition of Blink 182’s ‘Waggy‘. It serves as solid introduction for the new album and a must-have for fans of the band. ‘Old Love‘ can be picked up here.

You can also download an album track ‘Winter’s Year‘ for free below.

Former Ghosts – Winters Year by Crossfire Music

Ahead of the release for his new album ‘It’s What I’m, Thinking Part One – Photographing Snowflakes’ due out next Monday, Badly Drawn Boy has offered up a full EP to download free of charge.

The EP features tracks from the bonus CD on the special edition of ‘It’s What I’m Thinking…‘ and is mostly a collaborative effort with some fantastic artists, including Tim and Sam’s band with the long name who have been steadily making a name for themselves throughout the year.

Simply sign up to the mailing list to get your hands on the following tracks…

1. In Safe Hands (demo)
2. It’s What He’s Thinking (Oxidising Hexagons Silver Iodide – Album Re-Dux / Sound Collage by Andy Votel) (short excerpt)
3. The Order Of Things (with Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam)
4. A Pure Accident (with Sirconical)

Whether you’re fans of the Suffolk-based extreme metallers Cradle Of Filth or not, it’s strangely compelling to watch their videos.

Here’s a new one for ‘Forgive Me Father (For I Have Sinned)‘, the first single taken from the forthcoming Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, due November 1st.

The single will be released October 18th. Protip: the video is all the more fascinating once you take into account the names of the band members. So click play and watch Paul, Ashley, Dani, James, Dave and Martin do their thing below.

Deerhunter are back with a 3rd album which simply melts in your ears. As Sleekly Lion points out in this week’s Buzz Chart review, Helicopter is built around the simplest of chord progressions, but such care has been put into its construction that it needs little else. As Cox’s voice melts into the song’s chorus he strikes upon a melody that no level of pedalboard wankery could match, singing, “Oh these drugs played on me in terrible ways, they don’t play like they used to play”.

One to end the week on, read the full review here.

Australian stoners Tame Impala have launched a new video to the web today for their song Lucidity.

Weather balloons were launched from the country town of Mildura outside of Melbourne that were destined for space whilst the band jammed on the desert floor below amongst tumbleweeds. This will definitely be easier to follow if you are blitzed.

Holy production combo Batman! In an unusual change of events for the french house duo, Daft Punk have been making headline after headline in recent months as we get closer to the release of the Tron Soundtrack. Further unconfirmed leaks aside, it has been confirmed that Daft Punk have produced the new N.E.R.D. track ‘Hypnotize You‘.

The track appears of ‘Nothing‘, the latest album from Pharrell Williams’ (seen doing a street plant back in the day on the right) band and can be seen being performed live on the Late Show with David Letterman below.

It’s a slow funk jam that’s a departure from the dystopian disco sound of Tron and Human After All and a return to the slower, groovier, in-front-of-the-fireplace style sleaze-cheese of Something About Us. Listen to it below.