Thursday - June 19, 2008
This week: FREE CD GIVEAWAY!! (scroll to bottom of page for details)
1) Land Of Talk – Speak To My Bones (3:32); UK Single (March 3, 2008)
2) Sons & Daughters – This Gift (4:01); This Gift (January 2008)
3) The Hush Sound – The Boys Are Too Refined (3:14); Goodbye Blues (Mar.18,2008)
4) Grantura – Waves (3:37); (2008)
5) Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Waiting For The Monster To Drown (2:46); Searching for the Hows and Whys (March 10, 2008)
6) Anna Ternheim – To Be Gone (2:49); Halfway to Fivepoints (2008)
7) El Perro del Mar – Here Comes That Feeling (2:49); El Perro Del Mar (2006)
8) Lykke Li - Tonight (4:11); First Demo
9) Lykke Li – Little Bit (4:33); Youth Novel (2008)
10) Sweater Weather – The Pains Of Relocation (6:12); (2007)
11) Regina Spektor – The Call (3:04); From The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Soundtrack (2008)
12) The Kooks – Shine On (3:04); Konk (April 14, 2008)
13) Rubies – Stand In A Line (4:52); (2008)
14) The Notwist – Where In This World (4:39); The Devil, You + Me (June 17, 2008)
15) The Notwist – Gloomy Planets (3:50); The Devil, You + Me (June 17, 2008)
16) Foals – Red Sock Pugie (5:11); Antidotes (March 24, 2008)
17) No Kids – Prisoner Of Desire (2:29); (2008)
18) Jim Noir – Look Around You (3:52); (April 7, 2008)
19) Of Montreal - Jimmy (3:46); (2008)
20) The Bird And The Bee – Last Day Of Our Love (3:14); (2008)
21) Kaki King – Second Brain (3:05); ...Until We Felt Red (2006)
22) Feist – I feel It All (3:38); The Reminder (April 2007)
23) Born Ruffians – Badonkadonkey (2:52); Red, Yellow, and Blue(2008)
24) Angus & Julia Stone – Here We Go Again (4:58); A Book Like This (March 31,2008)
25) Laura Marling – Cross Your Fingers (2:24); Alas, I Can Not Swim ( Feb2008)
26) Tilly & The Wall - Cacophony (2:24); O (June 17, 2008)
27) Coldplay – Viva La Vida (4:01); Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends (June 17, 2008)
28) The Submarines – You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie (3:20); Honey Suckle Weeks (2008)
Sweden has become a breeding ground for female Indie pop artists to grow out of. On this weeks show I featured three of these Swedish up-and-coming artists: Anna Ternheim,El Perro del Mar, and Lykke Li.
• Anna Ternheim is a new face in the U.S., but she has a very successful career in Sweden, already winning several Swedish Grammy awards. I played her song “To Be Gone” which is off her first official full-length release in the U.S. called Halfway To Fivepoints. If you would like a free download of this song, check it out here.
The German band The Notwist was this weeks “Eight O’clock Double Shot” featured band. Although their album, The Devil, You + Me, has been leaked on the Internet since April, the actual release date for this album wasn’t until this past Tuesday, June 17th, 2008. In fact, I actually gave everyone a little preview of this album on my May 29th show by playing the album’s opening track, “Good Lies.” The album has 11 tracks and is quite a bit different from the Notwist’s previous work. Originally, they were a “scraggly post-hardcore” band, slowly reaching into the streamlined melodic post-hardcore world, and then into abstract electronics, and then with their latest album, “the Notwist delivered a smart and song-oriented synthesis of the organic and synthetic on Neon Golden,” according to the AllMusic.com article written about this release. Finally, six years later, after members worked on their own outside projects, the band has released The Devil, You + Me. This album isn’t extremely different from their last, “Neon Golden,” yet it has a more mature sound. The members also decided to add some new elements such as the incorporation of the 21-member Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, as you could hear from “Where In This World,” the second Notwist song I played on this show. I also played the third track on the album, “Gloomy Planets,” which I personally was attracted to for it’s melancholy-ness (I don’t believe that’s even a word...) and that it’s overall very easy to listen to.
•Check out The Notwist’s Website: www.notwist.com
Two Additional June 17th Releases:
FREE CD GIVEAWAY!: This week I’m playing the song “Second Brain” by one of my favorite artists, Kaki King, and I’m actually giving away her 2006 album, ...Until We Felt Red. I’ve played some of her work before on Eventide, but this week I decided to play some older work from where she originated her sound. This album has been used here at The Globe, but it’s still in good condition, and heck... it’s free! Plus she’s a great artist. So when you hear your cue, call in! 574-535-7488
• El Perro Del Mar, whose actual name is Sara Assbring, is already pretty well known internationally. Her voice almost sounds like a 60s girl type of sound. She had a new release come out titled, How Did We Forget? But I actually played a song, “Here Comes That Feeling,” off of her 2006 self-titled album, El Perro del Mar.
• Lykke Li is the most pop-py artist of all three Swedish women. I chose to play her song “Tonight” because it was the first demo she ever put up of her work. This one was on her MySpace for a while, and now one can download it for free at her website online. I also played “Little Bit” off her 2008 album Youth Novel.
•Click here for The Notwist’s MySpace and a sample of their music!
•You can take a look at what Pitchfork Media thought of the album through this review.
The Notwist wasn’t the only band to come out with awesome albums this week. Both Tilly and the Wall and Coldplay came out with albums on June 17th of this week as well. I played two songs from both of these albums.
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