The Oedipus Project
Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile’s side project is Ducktails.
The latest and 5th is entitled St. Catherine.
Here are two. The melancholy beauty of “Headbanging in the Mirror” and “Church” featuring Julia Holter.
“Headbanging in the Mirror”
“Church” (featuring Julia Holter)
Just a couple of months ago Beach House gave us the album Depression Cherry.
Now they have released Thank Your Lucky Stars, a new album from the same recording sessions.
The darker songs were more appropriate for their own album, thus the 2nd record.
“Sparks” from Depression Cherry
“Elegy to the Void” from Thank Your Lucky Stars
Hippo Campus is a young band out of Minneapolis.
They have 2 solid Eps to their name.
“Suicide Saturday” is from Bashful Creatures, and “South” from the South EP.
“Suicide Saturday”
“South”
Johnny Rotten, provocateur, malcontent, ex-Sex Pistol and old mate, is Public Image Ltd. with an ever evolving band.
“What the World Needs Now…”, PIL’s latest (since 2012) continues with the spit and anger missing in most modern music.
“Double Trouble”
“Know Now”
New Order, the band that rose from the ashes of Joy Division in 1980, have given us a most compelling album in 2015.
Their first without seminal member Peter Hook, Music Complete is indeed a complete album.
Listen here to “Restless” and “Plastic”, the latter featuring Elly Jackson from the band La Roux.
“Restless”
“Plastic”
Currently I am wandering Europe, so I have been a bit out of touch with this blog.
Superhumanoids have given us a marvelous 2nd album, Do You Feel OK?
As I have just experienced the Biennale in Venice, the song “Anxious in Venice” is appropriate.
Its’ been 5 years since we have had new music from the wonderful Joanna Newsom; the early days of this website.
In the interim she has been acting in a variety of films and the Oedipus Project has flourished.
Her new disc, Divers, is due in October.
“Sapokanikan” is the early release.
Holly Herndon pushes the limits of sound.
If she were a painter she would be considered abstract. She does the same with her music.
“Chorus” and the spoken word “Lonely at the Top” are from her latest album Platform.
“Chorus”
“Lonely at the Top”
Expect chanteuse Lana Del Rey’s new album Honeymoon in September.
“High by the Beach” is the first single.
Matt Berninger, the voice of The National has teamed up with Brent Knopf (Ramona Falls/Menomena) calling themselves EL VY.
Return to the Moon is the album due at the very end of October.
Here is the title track, subtitled (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with Crescendo).
weareTheBigBang has captivated me.
This indie soul sextet out of L.A. debuts with the EP Smoke.
I can’t get enough of the song “No”.
