Orange You Glad?

A couple months ago Julian Lynch provided me with one of my favorite records I've heard this year, Orange You Glad. The record is supposed to be released on LP eventually and he's got some more stuff on the way including a tape on Multiverse, a tape on Burn Tapes and a couple splits, one with M. Pyres and one with Gary Caruth. I think his split with Ducktails on Underwater Peoples is available now. Here's two of my favorite songs from Orange You Glad.

Julian Lynch - Venom
Julian Lynch - Andaza

Seals Your Fate

I've been rumbling about Nick Donlin a.k.a. Paralyze Humanity Sequence for a minute now, especially his free free free Feelings Party EP. My Swiss boys over at Delicious Scopitone started beamin' at his sounds as well. He's from Chicago, his full-length is called A Glow in the Spring and seems like it will be released sometime soon. Nick's just finishing up the vocals and figuring out the label and when it sees the light of day we'll all know about it. For now enjoy streams of my favorite tracks from Feelings Party, download if you like (donate if you really like) and stream a couple non-EP tracks at his Myspace (I recommend "Being Groovy").

Paralyze Humanity Sequence - Hammock
Paralyze Humanity Sequence - Eating Cake

ABSORPTION

Lazy Friday mornings mean meandering, pandering and slandering.


Girls over at BXF dropped a string of records bands/artists sent to them, the cream of the crop. Dem Hunger a.k.a. Louis Johnstone was one of those posted with some warped tape jam/space beat/banger-status cuts on his Heavy Spinach mix. BXF appropriately calls the tracks "banging radio mash glitch static and rasta transmissions" and also implores you to "imagine if Lucky Dragons listened to a little more crunnk rap and was a lil more street." I played his track "Charles Shit" on the radio Wednesday and can't stop listening.

Dem Hunger - Charles Shit

Download Heavy Spinach here along with a bunch of other boss business - Toro Y Moi, Word Salad, M. Pyres.

DH also posted a little mix today just short of ten minutes long called "Ejaculation Control," which you can download from his Myspace.

Regarding new material Louis had these promising words to say:

"hoping to get peaceful on my next ep

magnetic brothership im gonna call it

just gonna soak that fucker in dirty dust and naked ladies"

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I'm diggin "David," a new track from The Radio Dept. that I heard over at MBV. The band's got their David EP out June 24 on Labrador. Only heard of these guys in passing, but I can't believe I've slept on em so long. They're from Sweden, they've been releasing music since 2002 and have apparently been making music for almost 15 years. "David" recalls some Saint Etienne vibes - upbeat, gauzy, ephemeral, carefree. One might throw the phrase "dream pop" around. Their fourth record Clinging to a Scheme is supposed to be released this September.

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Cold Cave really reminds me of Silk Flowers, but more upbeat and immediate. RSTB posted "In a Cave" and "Gates," two couple tracks from their Cremations compilation (Hospital) which are fantastic. The comp collects the Painted Nails EP, the Coma Potion LP, the Electronic Dreams cassette and unreleased stuff. Cold is right - metallic synths, very inorganic and spacey. "Gates" has been on repeat. The songs on the Myspace are less noisy than those on RSTB and I don't fancy them quite as much but it's good to know there's those scattered, chaotic tendencies.

Order Cremations here.

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NPIP posted two aptly-titled and rad songs from Beach Fossils for you to stream/download/enjoy - "Vacation" and "Daydream." This is pretty mundane stuff, along the same lines as a bunch of bands hitting it big this year - NPIP notes a "sharper" version of Wavves' "lax zones," a.k.a. no fuzzy noise bullshit, just straight to the pop elements of the songs (save the choppy vocal effect). I'm also reminded of Nodzzz and Real Estate. Dude's from Brooklyn and is playing a handful of shows in that area including a Fourth of July show with Vivian Girls, Woods, the Beets, Dum Dum Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Real Estate, etc, etc.

Download those two tracks here and stream an extra ("Lazy Day") here.

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Boogie Boarder's Pizza Hero record comes out June 23 on Famous Class. Download two tracks from the album ("Bummers Begin" and "Bio Hassle") here, via Impose Magazine, who relate the band to Ponytail, which totally makes sense. In addition to those tracks featured on Impose, stream some more songs "Sparkles" and "Little Giants" here.

THESE ARE POWERS

Pretty excited about a show coming up my friend Gabriel is booking presumably through WMUA: These Are Powers, Golden Cities, Fossil Mountain (Amherst dudes) and Hadoken (Amherst dudes) at Earthfoods Cafe in the UMass Student Union June 15. I unexpectedly caught TAP at Vassar College some months ago playing with Teengirl Fantasy and Telepathe. I meant to ask them about playing the Parts & Labor/Talk Normal show back in April but it didn't happen. Luckily they contacted Gabriel and worked something out. He's also squeezing an interview out of it for his show MYNDBLYNDRZ, which airs Fridays from 8-10PM EST.

Grab an MP3 of "Double Double Yolk," one of the better cuts from their newer record All Aboard Future, here (via Fluxblog).

AUDITORYMAGIK

That's right. Tune in right now, 8PM EST til 10PM EST for Auditory Magik, with DJ Sallinger and myself, DJ VJ Singh. That's 91.1FM local, wmua.org otherwise. New music from Blind Man's Colour, Bullion, Family Portrait, Explode Into Colors and Here We Go Magic.