The Oedipus Project
Last year Jens Lekman emerged from a 3-year broken heart with “The End of the World is Bigger Than Love”.
He is our Swedish Morrissey: introspective, vulnerable, yearning.
An Argument With Myself is his new 5-song EP with the lead track of the same name.
“An Argument With Myself”
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A few years ago Lizzy Grant’s EP failed to garner much attention, so she reinvented herself as Lana Del Rey.
Her debut single “Video Games” is a languid melancholy beauty.
As Lana Del Rey she will not live in obscurity.
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Last year Atlas Sound (the Bradford Cox solo project) freely gave us the wildly diverse Bedroom Databank, 4 volumes of experiments, demos and works in progress.
Now he has just released Parallax, his 3rd studio album. It was recorded this past summer, before the nervous breakdown he suffered while on tour with his band Deerhunter.
Both “Te Amo” and “Terra Incognita” are such a lovely songs from the album and are available as free downloads.
“Te Amo”
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“Terra Incognita”
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Expect the new The Black Keys album El Camino in early December.
Their 2010 album Brothers, featuring the song “Tighten Up”, was one of the best of the year.
The boys from Akron return with “Lonely Boy”, the tremendous first single.
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Frightened Rabbit, the indie band from Scotland charmed us last year with The Winter of Mixed Drinks.
Lead singer Scott Hutchison has a most distinctive Scottish brogue.
The band is giving away a free 3-song EP on their website.
The EP begins with “Scottish Winds”.
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Spin’s November offering of free downloads includes the band Veronica Falls.
This quartet from London recently released their eponymously titled debut.
Hear charming indie pop in the song “Bad Feeling” via Spin and “Right Side of My Brain”, free from the band’s website.
“Bad Feeling”
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“Right Side of My Brain”
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Moby is set to release a deluxe version of Destroyed, his latest album.
It will be a 3-disc set consisting of the original album from earlier in the year, a bonus CD and a full-length DVD.
“The Poison Tree” is the lead track from the bonus disc. He also donated this song to the David Lynch Foundation album Music That Changes the World.
It is now a free download on Moby’s website.
“The Poison Tree” is Moby at his finest, an electronic slide-guitar blues rocker.
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Class Actress is a Brooklyn-based trio fronted by Elizabeth Harper.
Born in Los Angeles, she moved to New York and began as a solo acoustic performer.
Teaming with Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal, the synths now ring true on their Rapprocher album.
“Weekend” is a free download from the Class Actress website.
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Radiohead has remixed their superb The King of Limbs album.
It’s entitled TKOL RMX1234567 and features remixes by various producers of the 8 songs from The King of Limbs. 19 remixes in all. Obviously some songs are remixed multiple times.
Here are two remixes of “Lotus Flower”. Almost like new songs. (The original here.)
Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene RMX)
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Lotus Flower (SBTRKT RMX)
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Yesterday we linked to two free CMJ samplers.
Another appears today from Spin via Facebook.
Download and explore more music of the future.
One of these bands is Slowdance, a Brooklyn-based 5-piece, led by the French-born Quay Quinn-Settel.
“Sweetness” is from their Light & Color EP.
“Sweetness” by Slowdance
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The annual CMJ Music Marathon is currently taking place in New York.
Going strong since 1980, hundreds of indie bands of differing genres showcase their talents throughout the city.
Both CMJ and RCRDLBL have excellent free download samplers of some of the bands performing, including more than a few who have been featured here in the past.
You will also find a San Francisco band, Weekend, that I am particularly fond of.
“Hazel” is from their recently released Red EP.
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Occupy Wall Street calls for a new American Revolution.
This video is good summarization for the uninitiated.
Join the Revolution!
She calls herself Oh Land, a play on her middle name Øland. She’s a Danish singer/songwriter living in Brooklyn.
A former ballet dancer, she creates dreamscapes onstage to her electronic pop sounds.
Here she covers one of my favorite songs, “Bloodbuzz Ohio” by the National. We’re used to the deep baritone of Matt Berninger. Her upper register lends both a new interpretation and new appreciation for the song.
And it’s a free download.
“Bloodbuzz Ohio”
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Bombay Bicycle Club is the latest band from England that will soon make a splash in this country.
This quartet from North London take their name from a chain of Indian restaurants.
Their third album, A Different Kind of Fix, was released at the end of August and is beginning to garner the attention it deserves.
“Shuffle” is the first single.
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Earlier this year Kate Bush released Director’s Cut, a remix/reinterpretation of songs from her previous albums, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.
Director’s Cut was her first album on her own label, Fish People.
She follows now with 50 Words of Snow, an album of entirely new material.
“Wild Man” is the first single.
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