Audio Absinthe

A brand new track from The Knux‘ upcoming album was leaked a little over a week ago.  I don’t think the album has been announced yet but this new track makes me very anxious to hear some more.  Unfortunately, the debut album, Remind Me In 3 Days, didn’t really live up to all the hype for a lot of hip hop heads.  I don’t really care though, I love that album and I love this new track.  ”If you got a problem with The Knux, two words…”

MP3: The Knux – “Fuck You”

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Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper is the debut solo album from Paul Banks (AKA Julian Plenti), the lead singer of Interpol.  I’ve been playing this track and a couple of others a lot but I haven’t checked out the whole album yet.  Based on what I’ve heard so far, I’m really looking forward to it.

MP3: Julian Plenti – “Only If You Run”
Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper (August 2009)

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The Big Pink released the first single from their upcoming debut album A Brief History of Love.  ”Dominos” is catchier than the other songs I’ve heard but it still captures the psychedelic electro-rock sound that made tracks like “Velvet” and “Too Young To Love” popular with their early fans.  Check out the sampler below courtesy of MusicFromTheBigPink.com.

MP3: The Big Pink – “Dominos”
A Brief History of Love (September 2009)

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There’s something about the style of Fink’s music that I really like.  ”Pretty Little Thing” perfectly embodies whatever it is that I like so much about Fink.  There’s some kind of unsettling simplicity to his music that comes off as very cool to me.  It could be something left over from Fink’s days as an obscure electronic act but his music now is far from what it was back then.  ”Nothing Is Ever Finished” is one of my favorite songs from his new album Sort of Revolution.

MP3: Fink – “Nothing Is Ever Finished”
Sort of Revolution (May 2009)

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Washed Out is Ernest Greene and the guy makes some very interesting music.  It’s basically just Green singing over slowed down, 80’s style funky dance music.  I usually keep my distance from this kind of lo-fi underground dance music but I really like these tracks.

MP3: Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
MP3: Washed Out – “You’ll See It”
MP3: Washed Out – “New Theory”

It took me a while but I finally got around to posting them all.  In no particular order, here are my favorites from 2009, so far…

Phoenix
MP3: “1901”
MP3: “Lisztomania”

Dan Auerbach
MP3: “When The Night Comes”

Grizzly Bear
MP3: “Two Weeks”

Wilco
MP3: “Solitaire”
MP3: “One Wing”
MP3: “I’ll Fight”

Quantic and His Combo Barbaro
Amazon: “The Dreaming Mind”

Andrew Bird
MP3: “Oh No”

Franz Ferdinand
MP3: “No You Girls”

Doves
MP3: “Jetstream”
MP3: “Kingdom of Rust”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
MP3: “Hysteric”

Black Crowes
MP3: “I Ain’t Hiding”

White Rabbits
MP3: “Percussion Gun”

K’naan
MP3: “Take A Minute”

Manchester Orchestra
MP3: “I’ve Got Friends”

Mocky
MP3: “Birds Of A Feather”

Kutiman
http://thru-you.com/

Black Moth Super Rainbow
MP3: “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise”
MP3: “Twin Of Myself”
MP3: “Fields Are Breathing”

Animal Collective
MP3: “My Girls”

Matt and Kim
MP3: “Daylight”

Silversun Pickups
MP3: “Panic Switch”

Curumin
MP3: “Compacto”
MP3: “Salto No Vacuo Con Joelhada”

Emiliani Torrini
MP3: “Me and Armini”

Zion I
MP3: “Coastin”

Junior Boys
MP3: “Parallel Lines”

General Elektriks

MP3: “You Don’t Listen”

St Vincent
MP3: “Strangers”

Coconut Records
MP3: “Any Fun”

Matisyahu
“One Day”

Method Man and Redman
MP3: “A Yo”

Tosca
MP3 Link: “Joe Si Ha”
MP3: “Fondue”

The BPA
MP3: “Toe Jam”
MP3: “He’s Frank”

Bishop Allen
MP3: “The Ancient Commonsense of Things”

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Newer acts:

Band of Skulls
MP3 Link: “Death By Diamonds and Pearls”
MP3: “I Know What I Am”

Empire of the Sun
MP3: “Walking On A Dream”

One eskimO
Link to listen: “Given Up”
MP3: “Givin Up (Don Diablo remix)”

Nickel Eye
MP3: “Brandy of the Damned featuring Wale (Mark Ronson remix)”
MySpace link to listen: “Bonnie and Clyde”

Mayer Hawthorne
MP3: “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”

Zee Avi
MP3: “Bitter Heart”
MP3: “The Story”

Passion Pit
MP3: “Moth’s Wings”
MP3 link: “The Reeling”
MP3: “Little Secrets”

Fight From Above
MP3: “Between The Curves”

Vosotros Presents: The Years
MP3 link: “Lose My Number”
MP3 link: “Heartbreaker”

Daniel Merriweather
MP3: “Change” featuring Wale

The Big Pink
MP3: “Velvet”

The Temper Trap
MP3: Sweet Disposition

Thenewno2
MP3 link: “Yomp”
MP3 link: “Give You Love”
MP3: “Crazy Tuesday”

Asa
MP3: “Jailer”
MP3: “Subway”

The Very Best
MP3: “Warm Heart of Africa”

St Motel
MP3: “Dear Dictator”

Danny Chaimson
MySpace link to listen: “This Is Life”

Hey Champ
MP3: “Cold Dust Girl”

Jaydiohead by Minty Fresh Productions
MP3: “Wrong Prayer”

Asher Roth feat. Busta Rhymes and New Kingdom
MP3: “Lion’s Roar” produced by Oren Yoel

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Mixtapes:

Wale & 9th Wonder - Back To The Feature

TiRon – Ketchup
Miguel featuring TiRon – “Go”

Grizzly Bear’s song “Two Weeks” has been getting a lot of attention since the performed it on Letterman almost a year ago.  The track will be included on their upcoming album, Veckatimest, due on May 26th.  Parts of “Two Weeks” sound like they could have been created back in the 60’s.  With simple yet creative harmonies, you can’t help but think of the Beach Boys when you hear the song.  It’s an interesting and truly great track.
MP3: Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks

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The Big Pink is a relatively new act from the UK.  They have a great psychedelic, electronic rock sound and it seems like they already have a respectable sized following over seas and here in the US.  A coworker showed me the single “Velvet” which iTunes released in the US on April 20th and I think it’s an awesome track.  These guys have a very cool, intriguing sound.
MP3: The Big Pink – Velvet
MP3 Link: The Big Pink –  Too Young To Love

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Moby’s got a new album, Wait For Me, due on June 30th, that he produced pretty much entirely by himself in his own studio.  He always comes up with interesting, attractive music and he’s got a great ear which translates very well on his original material.  The single is called “Shot In The Back Of The Head” and David Lynch directed the video for it.  Between the single and another track I’ve heard, “Pale Horses” it sounds like Moby is going in another direction from his more popular material and I really like it.  Definitely excited to check out the rest of the album.
MP3: Moby – Shot In The Back Of The Head 

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A relatively unknown artist, Jason Aaron, has a great video for his song “Salivate On My Heart.”  The video features Jason singing the fun and extremely catchy, low-fi pop tune on a spacecraft in outerspace and it’s awesome.  Directed by Luis Bolivar, the video’s sleek shots of Jason Aaron singing with cool, space-scapes in the background matches perfectly with the track.  Check it out below.