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Brooklyn’s The Drums gave us an impressive debut last year.
Their self-titled album featured the delightful summer song “Let’s Go Surfing”.
Portamento, with album cover of the year contender, is the follow-up with the splendid new song “Money”.
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The world of music is cyclical and goes into hiatus a few weeks before Christmas and into the new year. Slowly new music is released in January and gains momentum later in the winter flowing into the spring.
Bands that enthralled me last year included Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Avi Buffalo, Badly Drawn Boy, Beach House, Belle & Sebastian, Best Coast, Blonde Redhead, Delorean, The Drums, Dum Dum Girls, Eminem, Girl Talk, Glasser, Gorillaz, Janelle Monáe, Joanna Newsom, Karen Elson, Laura Marling, Lykke Li, Matt & Kim, Mumford & Sons, The National, No Age, Perfume Genius, Phoenix, School of Seven Bells, She & Him, Shearwater, Sleigh Bells, Stars, Titus Andronicus and Warpaint.
And The xx continued to give me great pleasure.
Here you will hear the best new music as it becomes available.
Next week we will have an exclusive Cure video.
Happy New Year indeed.
From Seattle to Athens, Orange County to Montreal, certain areas of North America morph into hotbeds of new exciting music. Currently it now appears to emanate from Brooklyn, NY. MGMT, The National, The Drums, Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors, only to name a few, all base themselves in this NYC borough. Matt & Kim, the duo of Matt Johnson (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Schifino (drums, vocals) are yet another Brooklyn-based band, perhaps best known for their award-winning video “Lessons Learned”. Their third album, Sidewalks, is coming out in November. “Cameras” is the first release from that album and is the Song of the Day.
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“Cameras” by Matt & Kim
Earlier this summer we featured “Let’s Go Surfing” from the debut album by the Brooklyn-based band The Drums. The album was originally released in the UK and online. Today the physical release of the disc is available in the U.S. The bonus track on the album “When I Come Home” is now a free download and is the Song of the Day.
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“When I Come Home” by The Drums
Spin Magazine is offering a free download of 16 songs by various artists including bands that we have featured here in the past, including The Drums, of Montreal, and Local Natives and new music from Candy Claws, Chief, Cotton Jones, The Goodnight Loving, High Places, Isobel Campbell, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Land of Talk, Phantogram, The Hundred in the Hands, Toadies, Wild Nothing and Zola Jesus. 16 tracks in all, free from iTunes until September 30. Get the code here and download away.
A charming summer song incongruously from this Brooklyn band. It’s doubtful that The Drums do much surfing, but this song is perfect for this time of year (and with a whistle no less!). From their self-titled debut album, “Let’s Go Surfing” is the Song of the Day.
(And if you want to see the band running down the beach to their song, click on the YouTube button in the upper right.)
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“Let’s Go Surfing” by The Drums
