Young Man – Just A Growin’
admin on Jan 21st 2010
Young Man – Just A Growin’
Young Man – Heart of Chambes (Beach House cover)
Young Man is 20-year-old Colin Caulfield, he of YouTube cover versions fame, previously praised by Bradford Cox for his take on Rainwater Cassette Exchange and featured here for his version of Grizzly Bear’s ‘While You Wait For The Others’. Well, since then Caulfield has been working on an EP entitled Boy in his Chicago bedroom and even has a gig lined up at one of my favourite venues, La Fleche D’Or in Paris, in two weeks. Hopefully more good stuff is still to come… Continue Reading »
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Beach House – Teen Dream
admin on Oct 30th 2009
Beach House – Norway (Live)
A third album from Beach House is on the way and after a couple of listens, I can already tell that there are some future classics on there: namely ‘Zebra’, ‘Norway’ and ‘Walk in the Park’ (songs you’ll have heard if you’ve seen Beach House in the last six months). In fact all the strongest tracks come in the first half, which will make for a great Side A, before the momentum slows and tapers off somewhat into the band’s template of old. In that sense Teen Dream is more of a renewal than a departure, but this one might be their best yet. Continue Reading »
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Lands & Peoples – Bad Habits
admin on Jul 30th 2009
Lands & Peoples – Bad Habits
Baltimore’s Lands & Peoples have just released a self-titled EP of gorgeous dream pop, all of which you can stream online here or buy yourself a copy for a paltry $5. You can download their previous instrumental EP, &, for free here or if you’re anywhere near their hometown, make sure to catch them when they play with Kurt Vile and Espers at The Talking Head club on 11 August – looks like it will be a great show. Continue Reading »
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Video: While You Wait for the Others (Cover)
admin on Jun 7th 2009
This is a Grizzly Bear cover version from the same “mysterious YouTuber” that Bradford Cox singled out for praise recently on his blog after discovering a cover of Rainwater Cassette Exchange. Like the other mysterious YouTube renditions of Two Weeks I posted in February, this guy has also covered Animal Collective and Panda Bear – as well as Beach House, Bon Iver and some original recordings. Check them all out, they’re well worth a listen on the headphones. If you keep an eye on the sidebar of related videos, you can go on a never ending trail of bedroom cover versions of similar tracks – like Deep Blue Sea and Turtle Island.
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Video: Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (Live w/ Victoria Legrand)
admin on Mar 25th 2009
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