eardrums: If you haven't already, get Harrys Gym "What Was Ours Can't Be Yours" for only 33 Norwegian kroner at Platekompaniet (mp3). It's good! 19 hours ago
poplarpenguin: @eardrums just found out Outer Circle will be available digitally from 12 September...So enjoy the concerts this week and then download! 1 day ago
Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey, a.k.a. Summer Camp, play a wonderful version of their song “Was It Worth It” for the Black Cab Sessions. The song is from their upcoming 6 track “Young EP”, that will be released on Moshi Moshi on September 6th. A single, “Round the moon”/”It’s Summer”, will be released on September 13.
Cloud Control from Australia has made a video for the third single from their debut-album ‘Bliss Release’. The video is directed by art duo Greedy Hen.
Best Coast‘s awaited debut album “Crazy for you” is here, and it’s one great song after another, and there are 13 of them, including the bonus-track. Some of these songs are not easy to get out of your head after the first listen, and some are good enough to constantly run on repeat. As songs, they are fantastic, but put together as an album, I’m not that sure. She has her own way of writing songs, and sometimes she seems to use her own pattern again and again. But the songs, – oh, some of them are THAT good!
Her lyrics wander from fun to frustration. It’s often the duality between the super catchy, sunshiny melodies and lyrics full of loss, frustration, disappointment and complicated love, that really lifts a Best Coast-song for me.
I am also happy to hear that the fuzzed vocals we heard on her first singles are almost completely gone, and Bethany Cosentino good vocals really comes forward.
Songs like “Boyfriend”, “Crazy for you”, “Our Deal”, “Bratty B” or “When the sun don’t shine” should be on every single mixtape made this summer!
In exchange of an email address, Secretly Canadian shares a new Jens Lekman song with you! It’s a good one, so it’s worth your email and more, – go and get it from here:
These live-videos took my breath away today, so I just have to show them to you. It’s the Japanese artist Wool Strings, who have participated on our EardrumsPop compilations a couple of times, both as Wool Strings and as the collaboration Seasel. His beautiful music seems to be even stronger live. “Shirley Poppy” was on “A Good Crop” (free download here), and the live-version is quite different and very upbeat. Here are two more videos from the same concert. Wool Strings’ music is available to buy from his myspace page, and you will also find him on Spotify.
