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June 2011

15 posts

Vixens Arcade Made

For the love of God, will you all just get into Arcade Made already? Their release rate is slow as molasses but the results always impress. They’ve finished school now so hopefully a legit release is on the horizon. Here’s a download link for Vixens.

Jun 26, 20113 notes
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HYPE TWENTY-EIGHT

Keeping you up to date with the most hypeworthy releases. Issue Twenty-Eight.

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Jun 26, 20113 notes
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Modern, Normal Memoryhouse

New track from Memoryhouse. This comes from the re-release of The Years by Sub Pop Records. Seems like a pretty pointless thing to do. The original was fine. Here’s the download.

Jun 21, 20114 notes
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WHY I HATE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ('s FANS)

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I was recently contacted by a well-mannered fan of the band regarding an offhand comment highlighting the fact that these dudes aren’t my most favourite collective in the world. You can see it in the previous post to this one. So I thought I’d clear a few things up.

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Jun 17, 20119 notes
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Strange that one should pass on their opinion (interestingly without any apparent justification) on Animal Collective and their, shall we say, ability or perhaps integrity when this is a blog that lauds itself over the po-faced coverage it devotes to yawn-mongering brit pop image-obsessed Wu Lyf (whose 'edgy' facade is nothing more than scrapping together a mixture of U2 and These New Puritans). That's not to say I like U2 because, in your words, they're rubbish. Are you trying to present yourself as an ironyless deadpool of a Hipster Runoff chic magazine (being polite with that term) for the lo-fi or is that just an accident resulting from the amount of self-congratulatory blowjobs you’ve been giving yourselves? Ah man I'm so underground innit.

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Like They Always Do Total Babes

Here’s a track from Cloud Nothings side-project; Total Babes. I actually didn’t know it was the work of Dylan Baldi when it started playing but it became obvious all too quickly. This should be rad. Download. I clearly have no clue what’s going on.

Jun 14, 20118 notes
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GO TELL FIRE TO THE MOUNTAIN

WU LYF become one of the first signpost bands of the Twenty-First Century. (Review) //

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Through The Years Crush

Beach Fossils’ drummer, Tom Gardner, done gone did himself a solo project. It’s called Crush, and it sounds pretty much exactly like Beach Fossils. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth I guess? Buy the EP now. Vinyl release inbound.

Jun 10, 20115 notes
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“When falling for another, one should be naught but the truest of themselves. Be insecure and vulnerable, be cautious and nervous. Be a dick or a c*nt if you actually are one. Own up the real person you are and have faith in that by being yourself you’ll find the right one. But most of all, jump. Jump & fall, fall spectacularly and give everything over. If you fail, you fail, but you’ll do it with fucking 10′s on your scorecard.” —Yimmy Yayo
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Far Nearer Jamie xx

Jamie xx - Far Nearer

First track I’ve heard from Jamie xx that’s actually justified his time spent fucking around by himself instead of working on making more material for The xx.

Jun 6, 201113 notes
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Your Body Speaks Exact Index

Wow. Exact Index has shifted up his sound completely. His new EP, Desire, is so 80’s revival it’s strange to think he ever made “Gli-Fi/Zonewave” to begin with. He’s honestly so much better at this vibe. Check it out. Download the whole EP. Tell everyone you know.

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