^{“no one reads reviews anymore”} Glimmer, by Jacaszek

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? --"Spring and Fall," (1880), by Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins was a 19th century Jesuit priest, an...

^shortlisted: Glimmer, by Jacaszek

Available December 8, via Ghostly International. It defies language how close this album sits with me right now: musically, sonically, and psychologically. Maybe you'll hear the same? Embedded below is the second track "Dare-gale."...

^stream: Solaris rescore, by Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason

Stream Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason's rescore of the Solaris (1972) soundtrack at gokoyoko. Electroacoustic to the utmost, Frost and Bjarnason composed the score by conventional means, introduced it to a transcription software, then...

^video: “Edward the Confessor,” by Breton

(email|facebook|twitter) An urgent, infectious, two-chord fire alarm from their forthcoming single, available through Fat Cat Records on November 21. (Their debut album Other People’s Problems will follow in early 2012.) It is an...

“i like you better as a cat”

(email|facebook|twitter) We originally published this article on June 27. Kreng's recent release Grimoire is a thing of moods: fright and melancholy, insanity and old-school weirdness. There are sad marches through gray matter, delicious art-house cello refrains,...

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^MP3s: We Are Augustines – “Book of James” & “Chapel Song”

April 29, 2011 | by Melissa

We Are Augustines is what is left of the shattered Brooklyn band Pela. The enduring Pela remnants comprise of Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson. Following the release of Pela’s debut Anytown Graffitti, the band dismantled after singer-songwriter McCarthy’s brother committed suicide. ”Book of James” is about McCarthy’s brother’s struggles with addiction and subsequent suicide. Here are “Book of James” and “Chapel Song” that will be on their debut album Rise Ye Sunken Ships (June 2011). In addition, the tonsil hockey video for “Chapel Song” and a short documentary on the making of the album. Another song you can download from their debut produced by Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) is an acoustic version of “East Los Angeles” on their Facebook page. WAA are currently touring with The Boxer Rebellion.

We Are Augustines – Book Of James

We Are Augustines – Chapel Song