Diamond Rugs is John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pe (Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite). You didn’t even need to listen to a single song to like them already, right? Diamond Rugs is out now on the amazing Partisan Records and they’ve just recently played this song on Letterman. Watch the performance below.
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This is one of the most beautiful albums I ever released since I started Cakes and Tapes two years ago. After months of waiting, it’s finally out and I want everyone to listen to this so bad that I’m going to lose my mind and do a GIVEAWAY!!1
To enter to win a free Meridians cassette, you need to be a Tumblr user. Just reblog this post and you’re entitled to win a free tape; I’ll assign your usernames to numbers and then have random.org pick a number.
To enter to win a free Meridians digital album, just comment on this post, the same procedure will ensue. We’ll announce the winners next Sunday! Scroll down to listen to the full album. Good luck!
aêLegends earned a free cassette and Michael P. got a free download. Contact admin@bolachas.org to get your prizes.
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Meridians is Julie Napolin (Citay) and Trevor Healy (Cakes of Light). Their open-form ballads are alternately driving and hypnotic, exploring the overtones, dissonances, and consonances created by voice, electronics, and guitars. Julie currently plays solo under the Meridians moniker, performing live with tape drones and guitarists such as David First (Notekillers) and Tom Carter (Charalambides).
The unreleased tracks in the Meridians self-titled LP set were co-written and recorded in 2008-2009 by Julie and Trevor. It was recorded with Tim Green (The Fucking Champs/Nation of Ulysses) in San Francisco. There are echoes of British folk, minimalism and the more cinematic strains of krautrock as the two combine intricate electric and 12-string guitar melodies over pulsing loops of flute, violin, found objects and oscillators.
<a href=“http://cakesandtapes.bandcamp.com/album/meridians” data-mce-href=“http://cakesandtapes.bandcamp.com/album/meridians”>Meridians by Meridians</a>
Four new spacey, dreamy jams by the Bay Area trio Metacomet, mastered by master James Plotkin (OLD/Khanate). Free download available, but the crushing closing track "Innerfaces" alone justifies the couple of dollars you could donate.
<a href=“http://metacomet.bandcamp.com/album/you-run-too-2” data-mce-href=“http://metacomet.bandcamp.com/album/you-run-too-2”>You Run Too by METACOMET</a>
If you’re in the Bay Area next Saturday, Metacomet are playing on the Meridians album release (tomorrow on Cakes and Tapes!) show. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/251741008275407/
Spiritualized are on a spree of great music videos. This is the one for “Little Girl”, off their latest album Sweet Heart, Sweet Light, shot near the Germany-Poland border, just premiered a couple of hours ago via Noisey.
Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman answers Foreigner with his new LP, I Know What Love Isn’t, out on Secretly Canadian next September 4th. Watch the video for “Erica America” above. Warning: contains a sexy sax bit (without a sexy sax man appearance though) midway through the song. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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Tracklist:
1. Every Little Hair Knows Your Name
2. Erica America
3. Become Someone Else’s
4. Some Dandruff on Your Shoulder
5. She Just Don’t Want to Be With You Anymore
6. I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots
7. The World Moves On
8. The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love
9. I Know What Love Isn’t
10. Every Little Hair Knows Your Name