Pye Corner Audio

Hey gang!  The electronic and synthesizer purveyors of Pye Corner Audio have a new album of subtly sinister electro-jams out on More Than Human Records called "Prowler."  Listen to "She Hunts at Night" below and grab the album, if you're living stateside, from Mondo Tees.

EMA - Amnesia Haze

Been digging on EMA's dark pop and rock jams for a couple of years now, and her latest is a floaty, haunting dream.  "Amnesia Haze" comes from the soundtrack and score she composed for the upcoming film, "#Horror," a movie i know nothing about, but the song is at once so sweet and foreboding, that i'll probably have to find out more.  Listen below.

David Bowie - Blackstar video

In January, David Bowie will be releasing a weird new album called "Blackstar" via Columbia Records.  Any Bowie news is always welcomed warmly around these parts, and i've got to say, i am a fan of the first taste of this new record.  The video, which you can and definitely should watch below is...well...wow.  It's weird and creepy and hypnotizing.  I am stoked for the new record.

John Cale - Big White Cloud

I got nothing today.  Sometimes, everything just kind of sounds the same to me, and nothing pops, and nothing gets me excited.  I'm sure there is amazing new music to be found and heard right this very second, but i don't have the energy wherewithal to seek it out.  So let's just listen to John Cale's "Big White Cloud" instead, from 1970's "Vintage Violence."  I will relax and redouble my efforts in the morrow.

Reckno

An afternoon at home with my son.  Here's a preposterously titled, blissful drone jam from UK act Reckno.  Listen to "Under the Sun They Presented Smiles to the World; Under the Moon, They Were Lost in Thought: So They had Quietly Passed the Years" from the "Eating Flowers - God Was a White-Tailed Deer" cassette.  Get it here.

Iron and Wine covers GWAR

I'm not the biggest fan of Iron and Wine.  That's not to say that Sam Beam isn't a talented dude, or that he doesn't have a song or two that i can dig on, but a lot of indie folk just kind of puts me to sleep most days.  But here he is covering GWAR's "Sick of You."  And that's just neat.  Watch the video below.

Oneohtrix Point Never

Daniel Lopatin and Oneohtrix Point Never really need no introduction from the likes of me, so let's just get to the music.  New album "Garden of Delete" is out now on Warp, and it finds Lopatin channeling his inner Aphex Twin.  Listen to the twisted, sprawling, and chaotic "Mutant Standard" below.

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Good news everyone!  Pittsburgh lo-fi-synth-electro-psych-folk weirdos Black Moth Super Rainbow have a new album on the horizon.  "SeeFu Lilac" is due in February, which you can pre-order from the band here.  Listen to the hazy, hypnotic album closer "Warm Water Leviathan" below.

Vive la France!

Fuck terrorism!  Fuck religious extremists!  Fuck anybody who feels that they have to kill and hurt and maim to feel big about themselves!  Keep Paris in your hearts.  Keep Syrian refugees in your hearts too.  Keep anyone affected by violence or terror in your hearts.  And keep any other person that has to flee their homeland because some impotent fucks can't stomach the possibility of someone disagreeing with them in your hearts too.  Vive la France!  Peace!  Love!  Let's listen to some fucking Eagles of Death Metal!

Get "Zipper Down" from T-Boy Records.

Palm

Recalling some of the more psych-tinged sounds of earlier Animal Collective, but adding some really angular guitar licks into the mix, Philly band Palm seem to be carving out their own little niche of off-kilter pop.  New album "Trading Basics" feels naturalistic, but also kind of all over the place, like dirt getting swept up in a dust devil, moving indiscriminately through the desert.  Those angular rhythms never get too mathy, but they keep things from ever descending into downright hippie-dippiness.  Take a listen to "Ankles" below and grab the record here from Inflated Records.