Mew will be releasing a greatest hits comp on October 25 called "Eggs are funny" featuring a selection of 14 tracks from their career thus far plus one new unreleased cut called "Do you love it". Full tracklist:
1. Am I wry? No
2. Snow brigade
3. Introducing palace players
4. Beach
5. Silas the magic car
6. Wheels over me
7. Saliva (new mix)
8. She came home for Christmas
9. Sometimes life isn't easy
10. Do you love it
11. Eight flew over, one was destroyed
12. 156
13. Special
14. The zookeeper's boy
15. Comforting sounds
I suppose that a masturbatory girl+guitar fantasy is a pretty way to get people interested in your instrumental garagerock act. NSFW. Direct link: http://vimeo.com/15252531
Danish melancholic electro act Atoi is streaming a couple new tracks from their forthcoming album "Waves of past relations", due out October 25: http://www.myspace.com/atoidk
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Simian Ghost - Beat on the brat
02. TALK 1
03. End of All - Folkhemmet
04. In These Woods - Bear
05. The Bells - Outside
06. Britta Persson - Some girls some boys
07. TALK 2
08. Kråkesølv - Nordavind mot varme kinn
09. Tomas Halberstad - The pendulum swings again
10. WhoMadeWho - Left hand of the boxser
11. TALK 3
12. Säkert! - Köttet är svagt
13. Next Life - Battle tactics
14. Kaka - Candyman
15. The Fine Arts Showcase - Spanish kerosene
16. TALK 4
17. Kimono - Black
18. Axe - Up against common sense
19. NNDC - Mouthful of diamonds
20. Slöa Knivar - Anticimex
21. Enforcer - Take me to hell
22. TALK 5
23. Ikons - Imperiet
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Do you like Menfolk? Want a copy of their latest LP "Beast one/man nil"? I'm holding a single copy for resale and will part with it for $20 ppd (in the US, slightly more for foreigners). And as you can see from the pic, it includes a Dropcard for a full album download too. Email mailorder@itsatrap.com to hook it up.
Further enticement below, my current favorite track from the album.
This is a good choice of a track to showcase Obstacles' many strengths. Though undoubtedly a mathrock band, they know how to properly employ empty space and held notes and also, most importantly, they understand how to maintain a proper melodic theme. Yeah, they do get to hammering on, but it goes with the territory (and title). And really, as far as this sort of stuff goes, it's all done quite tastefully. Doubt it'll convert any non-believers, but anyone already down with the scene would do well to check these dudes out.
Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1GwmL-TrA
Obstacles - Twilight of the Idiots or, how to philosophize while hammering on
is posting a series of videos (and remixes) to promote the release of the upcoming album "B" from Danish electronic duo System, the first of which you see above. More here: http://www.rump-recordings.dk/
WhoMadeWho are giving away the new song "Left hand of the boxer" as a free download via Operation Dagsværk, a charity organization that works to provide education to Burma. More here: http://www.od.dk/
