I decided to post some of the best songs of the albums I’ve been listening to recently. Still not prepared to write a full post and it’s still cold out there, snowing like the next ice age is gonna come.
New Hot Chip is amazing. Their melancholic, slower tracks are more and more elegant. I Feel Better is beautiful and love the nu-disco romance that explodes from it after the intro.
Hot Chip - I Feel Better [mediafire] // [ysi]
Xiu Xiu’s Dear God, I Hate Myself is brilliant. The whole record takes you down a road to damnation. Opening track Gray Death grabs you like a whirlwind with the soft, tortured vocals and experimental theatricality.
Xiu Xiu - Gray Death [mediafire] // [ysi]
Russian Circles play the kind of instrumental metal that is one of the few metal genres I can tolerate. Geneva is an awesome example of heaviness and density. The horsemen of apocalypse are getting closer.
Russian Circles - Geneva [mediafire] // [ysi]
Los Campesinos! are a British indie pop band, and though I couldn’t mention any super-original features, their album is the only output of the typical NME-British indie rock scene that could grab my attention. I don’t know, it’s honest and powerful.
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring [mediafire] // [ysi]
The Flaming Lips and I go way back. Ok, not so waaaaay back since I was 4 when they had their debut out but still. And that’s my point: after more than 20 years, to make an album like Embryonic, you have to be a genius of some sort.
The Flaming Lips - The Ego’s Last Stand [mediafire] // [ysi]
I don’t know too much about Freelance Whales. I just love the acoustic sensitivity combined with the Peter Pan-never-wanna-grow-up attitude and the sweet nostalgia for an innocence that never was.
Freelance Whales - Broken Horse [mediafire] // [ysi]
