01) Animal Collective - "Gotham"
02) Bear In Heaven - "Idle Heart"
03) Bear In Heaven - "The Reflection of You"
04) Bear In Heaven - "Sinful Nature"
05) Bear In Heaven - "Kiss Me Crazy"
06) Bear In Heaven - "World of Freakout"
07) Chromatics - "Into the Black"
08) Chromatics - "Kill for Love"
09) Chromatics - "Back from the Grave"
10) Chromatics - "The Page"
11) Chromatics - "Lady"
12) Chromatics - "Birds of Paradise"
13) Cloud Nothings - "Wasted Days"
14) Cloud Nothings - "Fall In"
15) Cloud Nothings - "Stay Useless"
16) Grimes - "Genesis"
17) Grimes - "Oblivion"
18) Grimes - "Circumambient"
19) Grimes - "Vowels = Space and Time"
20) Grimes - "Be A Body"
21) Grimes - "Nightmusic" (feat. Majical Clouds)
22) Grimes - "Skin"
23) Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines"
24) Jack White - "Love Interruption"
25) Jack White - "Take Me With You When You Go"
26) Lotus Plaza - "Strangers"
27) Lotus Plaza - "Out of Touch"
28) Lotus Plaza - "Monoliths"
29) Lotus Plaza - "Jet Out of the Tundra"
30) Lotus Plaza - "Remember Our Days"
31) Lower Dens - "Alphabet Song"
32) Lower Dens - "Brains"
33) Lower Dens - "Propagation"
34) Lower Dens - "Lamb"
35) Miike Snow - "The Wave"
36) Miike Snow - "Devil's Work"
37) Miike Snow - "God Help This Divorce"
38) Miike Snow - "Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)"
39) Mike Snow - "Archipelago"
40) Miike Snow - "Paddling Out"
41) of Montreal - "We Will Commit Wolf Murder"
42) Porcelain Raft - "Drifting In and Out"
43) Porcelain Raft - "Shapeless & Gone"
44) Porcelain Raft - "Is It Too Deep for You?"
45) Porcelain Raft - "Put Me to Sleep"
46) Porcelain Raft - "Unless You Speak from Your Heart"
47) Sharon Van Etten - "Leonard"
48) The Shins - "The Rifle's Spiral"
49) The Shins - "Simple Song"
50) The Shins - "Port of Morrow"
The Shins are back! After frontman James Mercer's time with Danger Mouse as the group Broken Bells, The Shins are set to drop their 4th LP Port of Morrow in March.
Intrigued to hear what The Shins circa 2012 sound like - it's been a while.
Tracklisting:
01) The Rifle's Spiral
02) Simple Song
03) It's Only Life
04) No Way Down
05) September
06) Bait and Switch
07) Fall of '82
08) For a Fool
09) 40 Mark Strasse
10) Port of Morrow
One has to wonder if The Shins are ever coming back, at this point. Their third and most recent LP Wincing the Night Away dropped a little over 4 years ago. There was news of changes in the band's lineup. And now Shins frontman James Mercer has formed a new project with producer Danger Mouse in Broken Bells.
Broken Bells released their self-titled debut last year, and now they have a new EP. It's called Meyrin Fields EP, and contains 4 tracks.
Here's the tracklisting:
1) Meyrin Fields
2) Windows
3) An Easy Life
4) Heartless Empire
Meyrin Fields EP drops March 29.
Broken Bells
06. Animal Collective - 812 plays
Only my top 5 have cracked 1k plays, that's a solid divider.
Yes, I totally got on board the Animal Collective train when Merriweather Post Pavilion came out. I mean, "My Girls" blew me away. And it was only in this time that I started listening to the sort of music that AnCo produce.
I'll still hold MPP as my favorite album of theirs, and without a doubt one of the best albums to come out in 2009 (though Logos might be better). But I really love Sung Tongs. Strawberry Jam is really good too - I'm surprised a lot of fans don't like it. I dig Feels, but it's probably my least favorite of these 4.
Similar to of Montreal, Animal Collective have several albums prior to Sung Tongs, but I haven't really gotten into any of that material. Still, that's 4 pretty amazing albums, plus an EP - last fall's Fall Be Kind, especially the Grateful Dead sampling "What Would I Want? Sky".
07. Grizzly Bear - 681 plays
Grizzly Bear! I would place them akin to Deerhunter in that they're also very atmospheric to me. Veckatimest took me away to a different place. I saw them in Central Park opening for The Decemberists, before I actually knew them. Must see them again now.
08. The Shins - 640 plays
Really good poppy indie stuff. I don't listen to The Shins so much anymore, though I'm definitely digging the Broken Bells album.
09. Atlas Sound - 630 plays
Bradford Cox has 2 groups in my Top 10! Started off as Bradford doing bedroom electronic type stuff apart from Deerhunter, but it goes beyond that with Logos. I fucking love Logos.
10. Destroyer - 611 plays
Dan Bejar, one of the singers for The New Pornographers, also has his own project - with a bunch of albums. You would really have to say The New Pornos is his side project. Some good stuff here - "New Ways of Living" is one helluva tune. His eccentricities pretty much run rampant here, while they are kept in check and combined with different elements (A.C. Newman's brand of power pop) in The New Pornos.
James Mercer from The Shins + Danger Mouse = Broken Bells
They've got a full album coming out in March, but they're offering the first single The High Road for free on their website now. Check it out here.
