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Spirit Spine – Flashes

Panda Bear may not be the only one to make a splash with one-man harmonies in 2010. Spirit Spine (Indiana’s Joseph Denny) has been steadily gleaming praise from music blogs for the past year, but later this month his new album Jungle Bridges drops, taking that infectious force even further. For the time being you can still download his Surfhunter EP for free (along with the a cappella and instrumental tracks to remix for yourself), while his self-titled debut can be found on iTunes. Continue Reading »

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Sore Eros – Whisper Me

Sore Eros is a gorgeously lo-fi bedroom project that began when Robert Robinson, who has previously collaborated with Panda Bear and Ariel Pink, discovered a tape of his old high-school friend Adam Langellotti. They brought in drummer Andy Tomasello as well as guests Kurt Vile and Gary War, and came up with Second Chants - a collection of fractured pop sounds that ebb and flow toward hypnosis. Continue Reading »

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Boneless – Treetops ft. Zach Tipton

An early preview of summer, maybe; but certainly the perfect sound to start your week off too – especially if it’s your first day back at work in 2010. Next to nothing is known about Boneless (Isaac Knight) as yet, but he’s from Nevada, has a Twitter feed and a release is due on the awesome Leftist Nautical Antiques sometime soon. This track is a collaboration with the equally good Zach Tipton (of I Am The Dot). Continue Reading »

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Idiot Glee – All Packed Up

I wished all my weekends could sound like this. But so began Saturday, with a link to the soothing, Panda Bear-like sounds of Idiot Glee (James Friley of Lexington, Kentucky). At the moment he’s got a gorgeous four-track demo, a Daytrotter session booked for late January and some appearances lined up at SXSW 2010. Get on it. Continue Reading »

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Paralyze Humanity Sequence – Hammock

Hipster Runoff wrote a tongue-in-cheek post yesterday about the abundance of lo-fi “chillwave” sounds emerging this summer and then took the opportunity to proclaim it as a new genre. For anyone who might think I’m just posting new songs I like, the number of acts popping up with washed-out ’summery’ sounds is an accurate reflection of what’s out there at the moment. But if you’ve been enjoying it so far, you’ll like this one. Part ‘Blue Moon’, part Everly Brothers, part Panda Bear = a summertime lullaby. Continue Reading »

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