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photo yvynyl: Mystic Isthmus - a yvynyl mixtape I put up a new mixtape every month or two, and have all the playlists on my iPod. Truth be told, I really do this for kinda selfish reasons. The music continues to be a personal record of periods of time or memory in my own life. I love listening back to older mixes and thinking about what was happening then, and how those songs conjure up a season, people, parties. A big part of me hopes that you do the same, that I might be adding a bit of soundtrack to your life. I approach each of these mixes in that spirit. Thanks for sharing back your positive feedback and energy - both to me and the musicians. I hope this mix brings some light and love to your summer. It would mean a lot to me if you click through to learn more about the bands you dig here. Many of them are offering more free tracks for you to download and enjoy. Please support them and their music with your time, attention and money. They deserve it. Original artwork by Chilean Jorge Roa, also an experimental musician performing as la costa continua. Used with permission. Dedicated to Norm, Heather and Lil’ Spaceman. May great changes be great, and mystics stay mystical. [Want me to dedicate the next yvynyl mixtape to a friend of yours? Leave me a short note here. I’ll pick a nice one for next time.] Tracklist: Grubby Little Hands - Feel in my Back Baths - Hall Birthdays - Van Hands Mutual Benefit - No Mundo da Lua Craft Spells - You Should Close the Door Julian Lynch - Just Enough Houses - Endless Spring Future Islands - Tin Man BRONZE - Deep Freeze Cloud Nothings - Even If It Worked Out Party Photographers - Piano Vache Ty Segall - Girlfriend Street Chant - Yr Philosophy Son of Rams - No Concept, No Logic Male Bonding - Before It’s Done (Daytrotter Session) The CQ - Wait and See Teenage Reverb - Under the Weather Phèdre - Ode to the Swinger Cosmic Sound - Night Owl Sunvisor - Sky Dive Magic Man - Darling The Young Sinclairs - Future Man Pete Greenwood - Bats over Barstow MMOSS - Hedge Creeper Download directly here: http://bit.ly/bUpgFu Please create a new playlist in iTunes and then click and drag the folder to import, thereby maintaining track order. Check out more yvynyl mixtapes here.

yvynyl:

Mystic Isthmus - a yvynyl mixtape

I put up a new mixtape every month or two, and have all the playlists on my iPod. Truth be told, I really do this for kinda selfish reasons. The music continues to be a personal record of periods of time or memory in my own life. I love listening back to older mixes and thinking about what was happening then, and how those songs conjure up a season, people, parties. A big part of me hopes that you do the same, that I might be adding a bit of soundtrack to your life. I approach each of these mixes in that spirit. Thanks for sharing back your positive feedback and energy - both to me and the musicians. I hope this mix brings some light and love to your summer.

It would mean a lot to me if you click through to learn more about the bands you dig here. Many of them are offering more free tracks for you to download and enjoy. Please support them and their music with your time, attention and money. They deserve it.

Original artwork by Chilean Jorge Roa, also an experimental musician performing as la costa continua. Used with permission.

Dedicated to Norm, Heather and Lil’ Spaceman. May great changes be great, and mystics stay mystical.

[Want me to dedicate the next yvynyl mixtape to a friend of yours? Leave me a short note here. I’ll pick a nice one for next time.]

Tracklist:

  1. Grubby Little Hands - Feel in my Back
  2. Baths - Hall
  3. Birthdays - Van Hands
  4. Mutual Benefit - No Mundo da Lua
  5. Craft Spells - You Should Close the Door
  6. Julian Lynch - Just Enough
  7. Houses - Endless Spring
  8. Future Islands - Tin Man
  9. BRONZE - Deep Freeze
  10. Cloud Nothings - Even If It Worked Out
  11. Party Photographers - Piano Vache
  12. Ty Segall - Girlfriend
  13. Street Chant - Yr Philosophy
  14. Son of Rams - No Concept, No Logic
  15. Male Bonding - Before It’s Done (Daytrotter Session)
  16. The CQ - Wait and See
  17. Teenage Reverb - Under the Weather
  18. Phèdre - Ode to the Swinger
  19. Cosmic Sound - Night Owl
  20. Sunvisor - Sky Dive
  21. Magic Man - Darling
  22. The Young Sinclairs - Future Man
  23. Pete Greenwood - Bats over Barstow
  24. MMOSS - Hedge Creeper

Download directly here: http://bit.ly/bUpgFu

Please create a new playlist in iTunes and then click and drag the folder to import, thereby maintaining track order.

Check out more yvynyl mixtapes here.


1 year ago

August 2, 2010
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Superhumanoids - Dangerous Strangers

This Los Angeles outfit’s music is solid from top to bottom. They so clearly understand the well-crafted 3:00-minute pop song. Get in, hook ‘em, get out. Bob your head along the way, and tap your feet. Not too sweet, not too sour.

Pick up their EP Urgency free on Soundcloud digitally or buy it on limited-editon red vinyl from Hit City USA. 

1 year ago

August 2, 2010
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[8/10] Band of Horses - Infinite Arms (a mini-review/analysis)

So, the folky “Band of Horses” fellows are back for their third full length outing with “Infinite Arms”, an album I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s different from their first two (which to be fair, were pretty similar, good but similar) not too different however to stop us enjoying the horses that we all know and love. I hope nobody hates me for saying this, but they truly found fame with the song “Our Swords”, and guess what… THEY HAVE SONGS ON THIS ALBUM WHICH SURPASS IT! I shall talk about four of these songs, but not in too much detail, I’m pretty beat (reasons are explained later, ha.)

“Compliments” is amazingly catchy, pretty jerky and the vocals are as strong as an ox. Probably their best effort on the whole album. Different from the normal folky, quaint, romanticism displayed in previous outings.
“Laredo”, whilst still retaining noticeable differences from earlier songs in their history, is probably the closest to what we’ve known before. The guitarring is simply awesome and the vocals are reminiscent of “The Funeral”.
Now for the song that shares it’s name with the album… “Infinite Arms”. It’s melodic, it’s haunting, it’s melancholic and it’s oh so beautiful. The chorus is just wonderful, well it’s not so much a chorus rather than a single line, but that single line is pretty fucking sweet.
It’s time for this marvellous band of horses to pay homage to “proper” Rock’n’Roll with “Northwest Apartment”, the opening guitarring just oozes a sense of “yeah, this is going to be awesome, it’s going to be rocky and it’s going to be timeless”

A piss-poor, succint write-up of four of their songs, but if I’m to make an excuse then that excuse shall be my tiredness. I had a terrible nights sleep in a tent full of guys, I worked all day and now it’s just past midnight.
Oh, and I like the album by the way, top-notch stuff dudes. Keep on folk-rocking.

2 years ago

May 23, 2010
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Numero Uno… I present “The Cast of Cheers”

Here’s a funky little band for you; they’re Irish, they’re Foals-esque, and most importantly they’re pretty unknown, so they’re essentially nothing more than ammunition for all of you little Indie warriors involved in the struggle against the mainstream. You can download their album for free at http://thecastofcheers.bandcamp.com/ and they have some sweet remixes and covers on their myspace too; http://www.myspace.com/thecastofcheers

Now some words about their actual music; as aforementioned they’re rather Foals-y but they’re somewhat more “produced”, they’re “cleaner”, more Bloc Party-y. Perhaps they’re the outcome of Kele giving Yannis a jolly good scrubbing down, or perhaps it’s the calming effect of the Emerald Isle on their music, who knows (other than the band itself, and probably their friends and relations). Their math-rock beats are just pure and utter funk, the vocals make you want to jig merrily and the lyricism is enough to make the most obscure Indie kid quiver in his espadrilles.

2 years ago

May 22, 2010