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"Tearz for Animals," CocoRosie

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Biophilia Remix Series: Part 2
Bjork, Death Grips (2012)

Download it here

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CocoRosie's new single "We Are On Fire" is streaming today, ahead of its physical release next month!

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Download a recording of Bjork's February 12 Biophilia concert at the New York Hall of Science for free over at NYC Taper

01 [intro]
02 Thunderbolt
03 Moon
04 Crystalline
05 Hollow
06 Dark Matter
07 Mouth’s Cradle
08 You’ve Been Flirting Again
09 Isobel
10 Virus
11 Generous Palmstroke
12 Sacrifice
13 Pagan Poetry
14 Mutual Core
15 Cosmogony
16 Solstice
17 [encore break]
18 Nattura
19 Declare Independence

77 - Street Halo EP / Kindred EP, Burial

Friends,

I would like to say something about this release, in particular the Kindred EP (as Street Halo was released last year)

I went to listen- outside, smoking in complete darkness- and I started dancing, honestly moved beyond words
I'm really speechless about it, I don't know how to really phrase what I want to say about this record. I do hope any who read this enjoy it as much as I have (and will, from now on)

Kindred is among the most staggering pieces of music to have ever been made; I am so grateful to have been around on Earth at the time to witness this achievement of Burial's
I am proud to preserve it digitally here on the internet, for the rest of our computer age

"My tunes are a bit rubbish and messy but it's all I know."1

Burial's discography is still small, having only released two albums. His second, Untrue (the masterpiece to which this quote refers), arrived five years ago
He's been working for a while

"One day I want to make a tune people can have a dance to" 2

And here we are in 2012, listening to what came next. Here is the evolution of a hallowed and now-historic trademark sound, his first rebirth- and fuck, put simply, these "tunes" are fucking unreal. Unreal. There are infinite numbers of twists, shocks, moments of unparalleled beauty and awe. They very well may move you to tears. It's got the best dance beats ever produced, and a bass presence like nothing before it (not even Untrue!)

Burial is the most singular electronic artist of all time. I'm 20 years old and I've watched the world's first great producer-artist come into being, and on February 10, 2012, I got to listen to one of my favorite albums ever made for the first time

Really really happy about it
Michael



Street Halo EP / Kindred EP
Burial (2012)

Street Halo EP

1. Street Halo
2. NYC
3. Stolen Dog

Kindred EP

1. Kindred
2. Loner
3. Ashtray Wasp

Download it here (!!!!)

LISTEN PROPERLY, BASS-HEAVY SURROUND HEADPHONES, LOUD SPEAKERS ONLY, THIS IS BURIAL, DO NOT DISGRACE HIM WITH YOUR SHIT EARBUDS AND LAPTOP SPEAKERS
& if you download, you better fucking buy it when it's released in your country!



1, 2 Burial, speaking with Mark Fisher, published in 2007 by The Wire, which is a must read if you haven't already

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2 0 1 0

01. Grey Oceans, CocoRosie
02. Have One On Me, Joanna Newsom
03. In Evening Air, Future Islands
04. New Slaves, Zs
05. Swanlights, Antony & the Johnsons
06. Heartland, Owen Pallett
07. Returnal, Oneohtrix Point Never
08. A Book of Songs for Anne Marie (2010), Baby Dee
09. Crystal Castles (2010), Crystal Castles
10. Body Talk, Robyn
11. Tomorrow, In a Year, The Knife
12. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
13. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, Big Boi
14. Teen Dream, Beach House
15. New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh, Erykah Badu
16. Dear God, I Hate Myself, Xiu Xiu
17. Love Remains, How to Dress Well
18. Learning, Perfume Genius
19. The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
20. The Age of Adz, Sufjan Stevens
21. Sister Kinderhook, Rasputina
22. Treats, Sleigh Bells
23. Forgiveness Rock Record, Broken Social Scene
24. Before Today, Ariel Pink's haunted Graffiti
25. Halcyon Digest, Deerhunter
26. Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern
27. Down There, Avey Tare
28. Genderful, Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch
29. Shadow Temple, Prince Rama
30. My World 2.0, Justin Bieber
31. last days of summer, White Denim
32. Everything In Between, No Age
33. Black Noise, Pantha du Prince
34. Homeland, Laurie Anderson
35. Swim, Caribou

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Hear a new song from Fever Ray called "No Face," from a benefit album called We Are the Works In Progress

Stream it now at Disco Naïveté

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My favorite albums of 2007, including the strongest Top 10 albums to ever appear together- it's always been a bit impossible to rank them

1. The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, CocoRosie
2. Untrue, Burial
3. Kala, M.I.A.
4. In Rainbows, Radiohead
5. Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective
6. Volta, Bjork
7. White Chalk, PJ Harvey
8. Person Pitch, Panda Bear
9. Graduation, Kanye West
10. Neon Bible, Arcade Fire

11. Robyn, Robyn
12. Spiderman of the Rings, Dan Deacon
13. Sound of Silver, LCD Soundsystem
14. Cryptograms, Deerhunter
15. American Gangster, Jay-Z
16. Silent Shout - An Audio-Visual Experience, The Knife
17. Icky Thump, The White Stripes
18. Back to Black, Amy Winehouse
19. All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer
20. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, of Montreal

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Hello friends, Sorry I have been MIA. I was hanging out with MIA, hard at work recording some new music. Only one of those clauses is true.

December is always a nice month for music. We can reflect on our past year of listening and look forward to the always-exciting triple punch of January, February, and March releases. While I take some time to compile a list of my favorite albums of 2011, I would like to share with you a few download links.

Also, please check back late tonight for a post on one of my favorite acts of 2011, Hubble. I'll be seeing a Hubble performance tonight, and have written a lengthy post about Ben Greenberg's work on the project and its recent developments. 



Your First Ever River
United Waters (2011)

My friend Richard turned me on to this record a couple days ago, and I'm really enjoying it. You can find a great review of the album over at the ever-thoughtful Tiny Mix Tapes

Download it here


50 Words for Snow
Kate Bush (2011)

 

I assume you might already know how I feel about this album. Sorry to have taken so long with the download link! Princess Jeremy, the ball is in your court now- smoke a j, pretend you're somewhere cold, & enjoy

Download it here

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Bjork performing "Crystalline" on Later... with Jools Holland

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Stream Kate Bush's unfathomably beautiful new album, 50 Words for Snow, right now via NPR
I will provide a download link as soon as I get a hard copy, next Tuesday

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"Cloudbusting (Organon Mix)"
Kate Bush

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The freshly-premiered single "Wild Man," from Kate Bush's forthcoming 10th album, 50 Words for Snow!

The full song is available to stream here
And the radio edit here:

 

The single is on sale at iTunes today in Europe and tomorrow in the US

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Bjork's "Moon" music video, from her new album Biophilia
Directed, produced, and art directed by Björk, Inez and Vinoodh, M/M Paris and James Merry



björk: moon from Björk on Vimeo.

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Biophlia, Bjork (2011)
256kbps leak

Please pre-order a copy of Biophilia here before you download
This is maybe the best album you've heard in the past 10 years

01 Moon
02 Thunderbolt
03 Crystalline
04 Cosmogony
05 Dark Matter
06 Hollow
07 Virus
08 Sacrifice
09 Mutual Core
10 Solstice

Download it here

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 Bjork has posted a note explaining Biophilia's two-week delay

dear folks

i would like to explain why my album is coming out later than was first intended

after humongous and fun adventurous work with the app builders we handed in the music for the app box last may i felt sonically it fitted that underworld of apps and virtual reality like a glove , kinda acoustic and clean with a slick dark sub but somehow the cd needed more blood and muscles , oxygen and stuff

i felt the album had different kinda growth potential than the app box and it is important to follow those hunches even though they are slippery and you don't know sometimes where they are taking you

i played biophilia for few weeks in manchester and some of the songs grew while playing them live and i decided to add some of this into the album , i ended up even using a live recording of one of the songs on the album . take my hunch the whole distance but in order to do that i had to put the album back a bit

my friend , the incredibly talented music maker leila arab came to iceland with no notice and added some sonic sculpting , especially to the bottom end and the great talented mastering engineer mandy parnell came over as well and helped me give the whole thing more warmth and flesh somehow

i am really happy i did this , seems like biophilia the album has a body

leila also introduced me to "current value" who now has put a new beat into one of the songs

hope you like it

warmth , björk

As if we needed more to be excited about...
OCTOBER 10

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The four most exciting dates of the year...

October 10 - On the Water, Future Islands
October 11 - Biophilia, Bjork


November 20 -The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
November 21 - 50 Words for Snow, Kate Bush

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Kate Bush has just announced a NEW ALBUM called 50 Words for Snow! The album is 65 minutes of brand-new material, on the heels of Director's Cut, an album of reworked songs from her albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, released earlier this year

The album will be released on Kate's label Fish People on November 21

50 Words for Snow

01 Snowflake
02 Lake Tahoe
03 Misty
04 Wildman
05 Snowed in at Wheeler Street
06 50 Words for Snow
07 Among Angels

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Biophilia packaging
28 days...

Please note that the cover depicted in these pictures is not the final cover, and the release date has been moved back to October 9/10. You can see the cover in an earlier post by clicking the 'Bjork' or 'Biophilia' tag attached to this post

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Bjork's "Moon" single, from the (recently delayed) Biophilia, is availble now available on iTunes The corresponding app, a music sequencer, is also available to download. You can preview it below...

With each new moon we complete a cycle and are offered renewal —to take risks, to connect with other people, to love, to give. the symbolism of the moon as the realm of imagination, melancholy, and regeneration is expressed in the moon song and app by musical patterns and visual images which wax and wane, and by lyrics about rebirth.
The moon app connects musical structure, human biorhythms, and cycles of the moon and tides : robs of pearls are strung out attached to a spinal chord whose fluid rises and falls with changing phases of the moon and the harp sequences.
The animation shows the changing shapes of and relationships between the harp melodies, allowing us to find connections between musical and natural cycles.