Here's a beautiful new ambient-inspired track from Denver based artist Allison Lorenzen. "Healing Vibrations II" serves as an excellent accompaniment to the artist's "Deploy the Stars Upon thy Chest" from earlier this summer. Gorgeous, soothing, and melancholic, it's music that speaks to the soul. Check it out below and download it here.
We always have room for some new Honey Radar around these parts, and so we have "Let's Talk About Swimming," the band's new 10" EP. GBV vibes abound, which is always a good thing. Check out the short and sweet "Fencing" below and grab the record here from the band.
Here's a new track from Marissa Nadler, a collaboration with Milky Burgess, of an old time pop song by The Little Dippers and Billy Walker, later popularized by Pete Drake. Listen to "Forever" below and download it here.
The excellent Cincinnati band The Drin dropped a great new single back in May with the release of "The Pigs of Silver Linings," and they follow that up with the announcement of their upcoming and epic new album "I Lost My Way for Centuries." First taste "Haven't Live It Yet" takes the band's lo-fi post punk sound and infuses it with a kind of dubby and chugging, krautrock-tinged psychedelic flair. Really, really cool stuff. This one just jumped to the top of my anticipated fall releases. Dig on the track below and pre-order the LP here from Feel It Records.
I am having a much needed lazy weekend full of laying around, movies, and reading. And some jams from King Khan & The Shrines. Here they are with "Darkness," our Daily Jam.
I've had a ridiculously long couple of weeks filled with 4am wakeup times and 13-hour work days. Needless to say, i'm pooped. So let's sit back and relax with some gentle, dreamy, ambient-tinged sounds from Almost an Island. Snag the "Few Words Are Enough" EP cassette here from Past Inside the Present and listen to the gorgeous and transcendent title track below.
I have been exploring a ton of Japanese music over the last couple of months: film scores, jazz, psych, city pop, and on and on. And i've gotta say i'm loving it, kind of similar to when i discovered all those Italian film score composers and library session musicians a decade or so back. Anyhoo, here's a jazzy piece of music from composer Yuji Ohno taken from the film "Proof of the Wild," or "Never Give Up" as it's known in other regions. Listen to the smooth and sultry "君の愛に背を向けて," translated as "Turning My Back on Your Love," below, our Daily Jam.
Spunky, lo-fi Chicago band TV Buddha have a new album of quirky indie rock heading our way in October with the forthcoming "Hallelujah Anyway" LP. Listen to "Oh Master, Let Me Walk with Thee" below and pre-order the record here from Ever/Never.
