Someone came up to me last week and said it is “impressive” that I make a point to listen to piles of (possibly) crappy new music every week just so I can find several to share with everyone.
I don’t know whether “impressive” is the right word, but every once in a while a good set emerges, and I just get happy.
So, I’ll just keep doing it.

This week we thread mostly pre(co)cious and pseudo-ironic grounds. You know, what indie rock in its many forms is all about:

1. anything and everything by El Perro del Mar
The album is out on the 27th and everything from the fragile originals to the remixes available below promises pure Swedish delight.

first single:

MP3 here via Gorrilla vs. Bear

2.These Are Powers: “Chipping Ice”
The Liars are in town this week, and ex-member’s Pat Noecker’s “These are Powers” band is gaining some serious “ghost punk steam”. However, I’d like to point out that while they are on Pitchfork this week, we had a little listening party with them oh, what?
5 months a go?
So far a head of the curve, we can see our own back.

MP3 here via you know where

3. Dan Deacon “The Crystal Cat”
How sweet of a gig is this? Dan Deacon played the Whitney Museum a few days back and while you probably heard this song, take it and check out the photos in the link below.
That kinda shit does not take place at Hirshhorn after hours.
And its a damn shame.

MP3 here via Brooklyn Vegan

4. Islands “The Arm”
Montreal’s premiere “dreaming while dancing” electronica mongers are coming down south for a mini US tour. DC is not on it.
But Bloomington, Indiana and Norman, Oklahoma are.
Why?

MP3 here via You Ain’t No Picasso

5. Lullatone “The Bathtime Beat”
Japanese darlings of avant guard sound exactly like someone named Lullatone (how cute of a name is this???) playing a song named “The Bathtime Beat” should sound like. Darlingly avant-guard, that is.

listen:

MP3 here via Pitchfork

6. Man Man, “Top Drawer”
Sometimes you need a niche. And MAN MAN has theirs. I like to call it: ghost-pirate face-paint circus-in-a-trailer subgenre. With mustaches.

MP3 here via Deaf Indie Elephants

7. Of Montreal, “Tropical Iceland” (Fiery Furnaces cover)
There is nothing Of Montreal cannot do.
From making some of the happiest music of 2007 (”A sentence of sorts…” still makes me bust out my inner Donna Summer) to rocking the karaoke circuit to covering MIA to now tackling Eleanor and Matthew. With Flair.

LISTEN here via Broadcaster House

oh yeah, and before I forget
the thumbnail for this column is not for you. it is for Erik. and his thesis dedication.

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