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MP3: Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago

Noxagt isn't quite like the other bands on the Load Records roster. Even though the label is well-known for putting out all sorts of challenging art-rock, I usually associate their aesthetic with louder/faster duos such as Friends Forever and Lightning Bolt. Those bands are fine I suppose, but I find that they tend to get fairly tedious upon repeat listens. Noxagt however traffics in a different kind of brutality - a bass-heavy pummeling that's not so preoccupied with filling space as it is with laying down beats that make your head nod. The baritone/bass/drums instrumentation naturally accentuates the low-end and the (mostly) mid-tempo pacing of the songs gives the material room to breathe. This song I've posted today is particularly slow and dirge-like. At first it doesn't really seem like it's going anywhere, but once it opens up, it sure gets painful. It a good way, of course.

Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago

MP3: Starlet - Sunshine

Happy Friday! Got another summery mp3 post for you today courtesy of contributor Nancy Baym:

To follow up on my last music-for-dumping-your-partner-with-a-smile-on-your-face contribution from the Caesars', here's another song likening breaking up to sun bursting through the clouds. "Let the sunshine in/Let the sunshine through/A brighter tomorrow/Cuz I'm through with you," sing malmö's late-great Starlet in their inimitable pretty ever so askew lazy yet lovely way. This song is from their 2002 album "When sun falls on my feet". Starlet are somewhere between jangle and twee, melancholy and soothing. Enjoy.

Starlet - Sunshine

Congrats to Elin Alm for winning a pair of free tickets to this year's Peace & Love Festival! Thanks to everyone else who entered and better luck next time!

A couple songs from the upcoming Gene Clark tribute on Groover Recordings are now streaming on myspace: myspace.com/geneandcover" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/geneandcover
The compilation, entitled "Cover & Gene AKA the world turns all around him - a tribute to Gene Clark", will be out in September and features contributions from artists such as Hello Saferide, Thomas Denver Jonsson, EP's Trailer Park, Shade Tree, Hopewell and more.

Danish act No Privacy has posted a new live video/short film for viewing: mpg" target=_blank>https://www.noprivacy.net/download/?do=Core1_video_web.mpg

my Darling You! reports that recording of their new EP "my heart beats too fast for our friendship to last" is finished, but the release date is still tba.

Download the Covox remix of the song "Quickslap" by SLS (Swedish Love Story): mp3" target=_blank>https://www.covox.net/audio/other/sls_-_quickslap_(covox_correction).mp3

Black Lodge has announced the signing of Death Breath, the new death-metal band of Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, ex-Entombed). Their as-yet untitled debut album is finished and is currently being prepped for a late August/early September release. The band will also release a three-song 7" single very soon featuring the a-side "Death breath" b/w two exclusive tracks: "Corpses of death" (featuring markus Karlsson of I Quit on vocals) and "matricide". Listen to a short sample track at myspace: myspace.com/deathbreathdeathmetal" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/deathbreathdeathmetal

Serena maneesh recently recorded a session with the BBC that's due for broadcast next week on Tom Robinson's 6 music show. It will be available online for a week after it first airs right here: music/shows/tom_robinson/" target=_blank>https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinson/

Popmatters reviews TV-Resistori: matters.com/pm/music/reviews/tv-resistori-serkut-rakastaa-paremmin/" target=_blank>https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/tv-resistori-serkut-rakastaa-paremmin/

Indieworkshop on the munck//Johnson's latest: m/music.php?id=2518" target=_blank>https://www.indieworkshop.com/music.php?id=2518

Jenny Wilson will have her album "Love and youth" released in the UK on July 17 via V2. The first single will be "Let my shoes lead me forward".

Swedish emopop act Ligea is now on myspace with a couple new songs: myspace.com/ligeamusic" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/ligeamusic
I'm not crazy about this kind of music for the most part, but they definitely sound pretty good and have come quite a ways from the 2005 demo I heard. I could probably listen to that drummer nomatter what kind of music he was playing.