Painting the Silence

Featured on Pitchfork today is the new video by Phoenix. The album is titled, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and will be released on May 25, 2009.

Eulogies – SXSW 09 Interview
Video Codes at www.roxwel.com

Death Cab for Cutie’s new EP, The Open Door, contains songs that were left off of their last full-length, Narrow Stairs. It also includes a demo version of “Talking Bird,” a track that did make it onto Narrow Stairs.

Click here and launch the audio to listen to the entire EP.

I have been listening to Beach House and School of Seven Bells all week. School of Seven Bells inflicts an engulfing and trance-ish type of dream-like state, while Beach House enforces a more relaxing dream-like state. Needless to say, these two bands have put me in a foggy kind of mood all week. I was driving to work this morning, in a surprising amount of traffic considering it is Good Friday, and usually traffice makes me all uptight. Today I was driving along listening to Beach House in a content daze. “D.A.R.L.I.N.G” off of Beach House’s album titled Devotion can be found on itunes.

I think it is funny when I continuously see the same descriptive words being used by music comentators. While a lot of writers impress me with their terminology and phrasing, others regurgitate what they read. Hey, I’m not passing judgement. After all, I do the same damn thing! You start to run out of adjectives after a while.

Anyway, with that being said the following vocabulary was used in NPR’s All Songs Considered today by writer Michael Katzif: hazzy; oscillating; ghostly; and my favorite, otherworldly. Alex Scully from Beach House gave a hand in the proliferation of this track which makes sense, as these words describe the-beach-house-sound as well.

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“You Can Have What You Want” by Papercuts

Neil McCormick, colomnist for the British broadsheet, The Telegraph, has this to say regarding the idea that we are reaching a saturation point due to the accessibility of music. He builds on theorist Dr. Steven Pinker’s description of music as “auditory cheesecake.”

“Throughout human history, the sugar and fat (both energy-rich foods) which are the main ingredients of cheesecake were scarce, so a strong desire to eat them evolved. As refined sugar became abundant in the modern age, so obesity and other health-related issues arose. If music also evolved in a period of relative scarcity, what happens when it is so abundant it sates appetites beyond our needs?”

On April 28th Bob Dylan will release his 33rd studio disc, Together Through Life. If you missed the free download have a listen below to “Beyond Here Lies Nothing.”

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“Beyong Here Lies Nothin’” by Bob Dylan

Bat for Lashes’ new album, Two Suns, was released today in the UK and Europe. “Daniel” is featured on Pitchfork’s Best New Tracks along with “Glass” from this album.

Here’s another psychedelic video for ya. This Australian trio has a self-titled EP and this song is one of three singles. With “Half Full Glass of Wine” these optomists achieved some airplay and national recognition.

Tame Impala – Half Full Glass of Wine from Modular People on Vimeo.

I just found another media sharing application. That means I have to post twice in one day. Yes, I am bored at work today if that’s what you were thinking. So, here’s a little opus from Fleet Foxes for you.

Fleet Foxes – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.