Music related news falls into seasonal trends almost as consistently as sports. During the summertime, news of festival performers, reunion tours, and pop-hook driven, hand-clap laden albums floods the Internet headquarters (otherwise known as your computer). As leaves begin to shade themselves like a paint-by-numbers, evergreen trees remain the same colour, and college-bound douche-bags whip out their acoustic guitars, we tend to get wordof folk-inspired Americana, of Dylan Thomas sweaters and ruffled hair, coupled with some minor chords and an amateur harmonica player. Besides those that continually break this seasonal mould, who may be just as monotonous as those who don't, we generally know what to expect of the blogosphere each season, and therefore, we have started to draw unnecessary comparisons between what an album/song sounds like, and the time of it's release. There is, thankfully, a time between. As I suffer from an obsession with all things delicately placed between A & B (I'd like to think of them as infinity!), it seems that many of my favourite artists do as well. So, while the music world takes it's much needed, but never heeded. break from the cavalcade of early September releases, andthe hectic releases that occur between Octoberand early December, those of us who aren't held by the great metaphysical cinder block that is high school (or who just don't do their homework) rejoice! Like hibernating bears, or just really strategic fat kids, we have hoarded our music like food. Alas! The time has come for us to lift up our fictitious paws/the loose floorboard near the closet and reveal the berries/Snicker's bars that we've been caressing all summer long. Enjoy yourselves!
Apparently, Geography class has lied to us all regarding the reason why there are mountains! It's a good thing none of us paid attention to that lesson.
In the depths of a foreign exotic land (known to the locals as Staten Island, New York), a group of brave and thoughtful young men decided to do what brave and thoughtful young men (usually with the accompaniment of a cute Asian keyboardist) do best: start a band. And start they did! The brain child of guitarist/voxman Joseph "Ferocious" D'Agostino and drummer Matthew Miller is called Cymbals Eat Guitars. I'm almost positive that I've ranted and raved about these men on the internet, but after finally hearing their self released debut, Why There Are Mountains, they have cemented themselves with superglue into my best new artists of the year list. Honed chops definitely peak through on this near-perfect album, mixing beautifully distorted guitar riffs with the most... fun? screaming verse that I have ever heard. Listen below!
My Girls! My Boys? My gender-confused song titles?!
Imagine yourself as a burgeoning hipster in the year 2006, and your current musical obsession is a little Swedish group known as Peter, Bjorn and John. Now, imagine your shock, and utter dismay, at the fact that their hit single "Young Folks" because just that... a hit single. After completely detaching yourself from this newly dubbed "mainstream" piece of pop perfection, as well as rushing to purchase the new Jens Lekman album, you never did bother to learn whose charming, slightly lisp-afflicted, female voice that was singing on that song, did you? The name of this delightful young songstress is Victoria Bergsman (under the guise Taken By Trees), former lead singer of The Concretes. But, dear reader, how can you keep listening to her amazing music while still keeping up your pretentious front? Wait, what's that? She's covered Animal Collective on her new album? No fucking way!
Relevant news of the universe... the Campbell's Condensed version!
- Pavement Reunite! Kid's with thick rimmed glasses shit their tight jeans!
- Weezer is releasing a new album that will most likely sound like Make Believe!
- Kanye West remains hilarious!
- Andrew Bird and St. Vincent embark on a megatron tour!
- So many fucking albums are released that I feel I must bring everyone up to speed with tomorrow's post!
- One of these albums is the highly anticipated Vampire Weekend album, which will probably still sound like the first Vampire Weekend album.
Until tomorrow?!
