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Quiet Lights : We Live In Balloons

Have a new pre-recording track for everyone, We Live In Balloons. Airplane windows…

Quiet Lights – We Live In Balloons

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Check out a new pre-release track, No More Canyons. Pack your things, hit reset.

Quiet Lights – No More Canyons

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Our first proper show will be Sunday, March 14th at Pianos, LES, NYC. Also on the bill is the group Butterfly Explosion from Ireland who have a nice MBV meets Arab Strap sound. We’re looking forward to the show and hope you can make it.

8p: QUIET LIGHTS
9p: Caves
10p: Himalaya
11p: Butterfly Explosion

Quiet Truth, Weapons Thrown

One of our first songs and still a favorite. This was the result of finding the synth loop quite by accident then building things around it. Of course now we’re forever searching to get the sound back so we can save it.

Quiet Lights – Quiet Truth, Weapons Thrown

More info forthcoming.

We recently contributed the music for a CBS Criminal Minds promo. Its showing now on CBS and you’ll be able to see it played during the Superbowl (something we’re pretty excited about). Its taken from our song ‘Throat Cut’ and has a really nice creepy vibe to it. Hats off to Ric Serena who helped put it together.

1. Wye Oak

2. Fever Ray

3. BEAK>

4. The XX

5. A Sunny Day In Glasgow-Ashes Grammar

6. Oasis-Dig Out Your Soul

7. The Flaming Lips-1/3 of Embryonic

8. The Legends-Over And Over

Honorable mention: Past Lives, Talbot Tagora, We Were Promised Jetpacks, D. Rider, Miracle Condition, Surf City, Sholi, Pterodactyl, PJ Harvey and John Parish, Passion Pit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Low Frequency In Stereo

Here’s my top 12 albums, top 3 shows and top 9 movies of 2009. I’m not dyslexic, that’s just all i could settle on.

Music:

  1. falty dl – love is a liability
  2. ahab – the divinity of oceans
  3. sunn 0))) – monoliths and dimensions
  4. fever ray – fever ray
  5. om – god is good
  6. storm of light/nadja – primitive north
  7. black heart procession – six
  8. katatonia – night is the new day
  9. nick cave and warren ellis – white lunar
  10. isis – wavering radiant
  11. majeure – timespan
  12. zombi – spirit animal

Shows:

  1. sunn 0))) earth eagle twin @ masonic temple
  2. mono @ society for ethical culture
  3. mastodon @ music hall of williamsburg

Movies:

  1. inglourious basterds
  2. moon
  3. the road
  4. in the loop
  5. bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans
  6. antichrist
  7. pandorum
  8. drag me to hell
  9. the hurt locker

UPDATE : Doh, the Mogwai album came out in 2008, but to hell with it, I’m leaving it up anyway

Here’s a list of my top 10 albums, top 5 songs, and top 5 live shows from this year.

top 10 albums:
Engineers - Three Fact Fader 1. Engineers – Three Fact Fader
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind 2. Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 3. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
The xx - The xx 4. The xx – The xx
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport 5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Fever Ray - Fever Ray 7. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers 8. Califone – All My Friends are Funeral Singers
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling 9. Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling
Wye Oak - The Knot 10. Wye Oak – The Knot

top 5 songs:
1. Califone – Krill
2. The xx – Night Time
3. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
4. (tie) Atlas Sound – Quick Canal / Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
5. Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes

top 5 live shows:
1. Mono @ Society for Ethical Culture
2. Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele) @ Joe’s Pub
3. Mogwai @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ WAMU Theater
5. Fever Ray @ Webster Hall