New Yeasayer single for download

If you've been paying attention, you'll know that Dummy's All Seeing Eye digs Yeasayer. So, with no small excitement, we have spent the last few hours tripping out to their new single, _Ambling Alp_. On first (thirty) listens, it's less fizzy than most on 'All Hour Cymbals', but is a little more anthemic. The 12" is out in January, mixes come from Memory Tapes and DJ/rupture, which is the icing on the cake, really. Their second LP, Odd Blood is released the month after. You can download the single HERE.

Odd Blood track listing
1. The Children
2. Ambling Alp
3. Madder Red
4. I Remember
5. O.N.E.
6. Love Me Girl
7. Rome
8. Strange Reunions
9. Mondegreen
10. Grizelda

Cold Cave stream awesome album Love Comes Close

Click the link to be taken a SoundCloud stream of the album that everyone (with a music magazine) is talking about. I really like it because it reminds me of Soviet. Cold Cave are an "experimental" rock band formed by this guy called Wesley Eisold who was in some other bands (like Give Up The Ghost) before this one. They're on tour now, see below the video for dates.



October
Thursday 29th : Louisiana, Bristol
Friday 30th : Club Evol @ Korova, Liverpool

November
Saturday 1st : Playdate @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
Sunday 2nd : Liars Club, Nottingham
Monday 3rd : White Heat @ Madame Jo Jo's, London
Tuesday 4th : The Barfly, London
Wednesday 5th : Now Wave @ Roadhouse, Manchester
Thursday 6th : Moles, Bath
Friday 7th : Be @ Proud, London

Django Django, ColouringIN + more this Friday

Our friends at Shattered Satellite are throwing a party this Friday. It will be a lot of fun. We're going but don't let that put you off.

Come and watch Django Django, ColouringIN, Al Cool & The Stranger Wines play live. Plus there's a secret Arthur Russell cover band. Ooooo.

And then let's have a dance to records played by FUCKING DANCE and Slutty Fringe.

Friday 30th October
The Victoria, 110 Grove Road, London E3
7.45pm-midnight
£3 or 2 quid if you say you're attending on the facebook event

NBOTD: André Reflex

Alexander from Egyptian Hip Hop pointed us in the direction of André Reflex. He is providing today's recommend daily allowance of new wave meets nu rave pop goodness. Have a listen here.

Marina's new video + free MP3

Back in April, I fell hard and fast for Marina & The Diamonds' debut single 'Obsessions'. Read the Next piece here. Since then she's signed to 679, gigged all over and done a whole lot of blogging.

What I love about Marina, other than the fact she makes lush n quirky pop, is that she's unafraid to explore and question the unwritten rules of being a female popstar. Her recent blogs on Shakira's video for 'She Wolf' and Lady Gaga make for interesting and uncomfortable reading. Uncomfortable because we're all a whole heap of contradictions and she's brave enough to talk about them.

Anyway, it was a breath of fresh air to watch Marina's new video for forthcoming single 'Mowgli's Road'. It's awesome: creative, exciting, entertaining. She's got balls, that girl. Watch it below.

Plus, here's a free download of the Mille remix of Mowgli's Road. It's her favourite remix of any of her tracks ever, so we heard. We like it too.

Vinyl Factory come up trumps with Air package

Air's new return-to-form album Love 2 is being released as a high end package but Vinyl Factory, in a luxurious silver mirrored box, a gatefold, 200-gram, super-heavyweight 15-track double album with the songs from their new album especially mastered for vinyl. The records were pressed on the EMI 1400, and include three exclusive new Air songs, along with an exclusive art print and an exclusive eight-page booklet of large-scale photographs by Luciana Val and Franco Musso, which have been commissioned especially for this album. Which sounds awesome. Oh, it's £75. Which does beg the question "How much does anyone like Air?", but whatevs, it sounds nice.

Get it here thevinylfactory.com.

Yeasayer do new album, will dominate 2010.

Yeasayer are following up 2008's effervescent 'All Hour Cymbals' with their second album in February 2010. It's out on Secretly Canadian over there, and on Mute over here. Early viewings of new songs on youtube sound like all live rips, but given their sterling work on Bat For Lashes' 'Two Suns' and early reports, it should sound really, really good.

Tracklist:

01 The Children
02 Ambling Alp
03 Madder Red
04 I Remember
05 ONE
06 Love Me Girl
07 Rome
08 Strange Reunions

Free Energy London shows update...

Absolutely irrepressible DFA band Free Energy are playing a few shows this week. First heard these guys (produced by James Murphy) a while ago and only quite liked them, then tried to hate them, but the truth is that no band this year have made me wish I was shouting into the cold Oregon air out of the back window of fast-moving car. People have been beefing them, but they better forget that because these guys will not be stopped.

"Free Energy" from Free Energy on Vimeo.

24 – Cargo, London (DFA charity night – with Juan Maclean, Justin Miller and Foolish Felix)
26 - The Barfly, London
27 - Rough Trade East, London (In-store)
27 - Water Rats, London
28 - The Windmill, London

Slow motion leaf puppets in Julian Lynch video

Quick video to while away a few autumn minutes – Julian Lynch's deliriously slow, winding song, Seed, directed by Amy Ruhl.

JULIAN LYNCH "SEED" VIDEO from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.

Clock Opera – Alouette

Me and Ruth checked out Clock Opera last week, and again we were blown away because they were both very good, and especially loved this song Alouette, until I just found out it there's another song called Alouette, which is about pulling the feathers out of a skylark, which seems really cruel. Their new single White Noise will be out on Puregroove in a few weeks, but for now click the title to download the b-side, the perhaps bird-hating Alouette, or see them live with our hearty recommendation.