You made such beautiful, inspiring music…
Have a new pre-recording track for everyone, We Live In Balloons. Airplane windows…
Check out a new pre-release track, No More Canyons. Pack your things, hit reset.
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
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.
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:
- falty dl – love is a liability
- ahab – the divinity of oceans
- sunn 0))) – monoliths and dimensions
- fever ray – fever ray
- om – god is good
- storm of light/nadja – primitive north
- black heart procession – six
- katatonia – night is the new day
- nick cave and warren ellis – white lunar
- isis – wavering radiant
- majeure – timespan
- zombi – spirit animal
Shows:
- sunn 0))) earth eagle twin @ masonic temple
- mono @ society for ethical culture
- mastodon @ music hall of williamsburg
Movies:
- inglourious basterds
- moon
- the road
- in the loop
- bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans
- antichrist
- pandorum
- drag me to hell
- 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:
1. Engineers – Three Fact Fader
2. Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
3. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
4. The xx – The xx
5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
7. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
8. Califone – All My Friends are Funeral Singers
9. Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling
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