Very nice new EP from a group called Generationals. According to My Old Kentucky Blog, Trust comes out in mid-Novemenber. The title track is really sharp:
Sometimes Soma.fm's Groove Salad station can get quite confusing! It plays some truly off the beaten track electronica, which I often play in the background as I program. Every now and then, a song really reaches out and grabs me and I have to find out more about it. This morning, it was a song listed by the artist (or artists?) "Faithless / Dusted", called Childhood, but no alumb name. Well, searching about for an artist with that name was fruitless but I did come across a group called Faithless. Further searching of the Faithless catalog and Wikipedia came to the rescue - there's a series of CDs called Back To Mine which has various artists compiling a list of songs they listen to. Faithless had Back To Mine #6, from 2007, and one of the cuts on it was a song by a group called Dusted, and they have a song called Childhood from their (one and only?) 2001 release called When We Were Young (which actually featured a UK top 25 hit). Phew, that took a lot of dectective work!
Grabbed yet another free Amazon MP3 sampler, this time from the proverbial "up and coming" indie label, Mexican Summer, which includes some really nice songs, including one from the latest "hot" indie band, Best Coast:
But I think my favorie song from the entire 15 song collection was by Andrew Graham & Swarming Buzz. A nearly 7 minute wandering epic, it truly grabbed my attention, right from the title of the song:
All of them were pretty solid (well, except the last 2, which were sort of thrash metal, not my cup o' tea), but nothing really stood out. I generally just play these while I'm working at the keyboard, so I don't really hear it all that closely. But every now and then a song makes me swap back and figure out who is doing it.
This time there was one - the last one on the Projekt: afar label sampler, by an artist called Erik Wøllo. He's a Norwegian composer of soundtracks and other electronica, whose discography goes back quite a ways. I really enjoyed this cut from his latest album, Gateway:
Another example to last month's Thievery Corporation post, where a group I should know about misses me completely, is Massive Attack. A pretty popular group in their heyday, they recently released a new CD Heligoland, but they were pretty quiet for years. I first came across them a few years ago and absolutely loved their sort-of Greatest Hits album, Collected. Some of my favorite cuts from that CD include:
Some good sounds from Stereolab's upcoming release, not music, which is the second CD from their 2007 recording session. The first CD came out in 2008, called chemical cords.
Here's the first cut from not music. It's called Sun Demon:
Agnes Obel is Yet Another Scandanavian singer with a gorgeous voice that has just a touch of an accent, writing great pop nuggets with deep lyrics. Her first full lenght release, Philharmonics, won't be for another couple of weeks. But here's Riverside, from an earlier EP:
Cassette Kids are popular Down Under and have moved to the States to try to get even bigger. Nice poppy, Til Tuesday kinda sound from them. Here's a couple of nice cuts :