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It’s been a while since Seattle’s Yuni in Taxco released their selftitled debut EP on Cakes and Tapes. Since that day in September 2010, they’ve self-released two LPs (Sanpaku and Slow Charade, both last year) and will be back next June 23rd with their third album in less than a year and a half, Prizes, on their own imprint Havaii Records. The streamable track above, “Echoes”, is a stupendous display of their signature sound, the whirling guitar line and the wailing vocals intertwining mid-air by some tropical coastline. Almost as good as watching your team win the national championship for the 999th time. Can’t wait to listen to the whole thing.

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Tropical Tobacco, “Aboriginal”

Tropical Tobacco is not a reference to Cuban cigars. After all, no one likes anything made by commies. Damn commies. But it could be a description of this one-man band’s sound: “tropical” as in surf-pop guitar and African-style keyboards and “tobacco” because it goes well with a mojito and a nice Cuban cigar. Oh, fuck, I’ve just contradicted myself… but nevermind: head on to TT’s Bandcamp below and listen to both “Pineapple Express” and “Ambiguous”, the only tracks the guy’s put out so far – but expect more in the future. Relaxation is guaranteed.

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<a href=“http://tropicaltobacco.bandcamp.com/album/aboriginal” data-mce-href=“http://tropicaltobacco.bandcamp.com/album/aboriginal”>aboriginal by Tropical Tobacco</a>

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Olive Trips SOS

Olive Troops SOS is a trio consisting of Bruno Silva (a.k.a. the guy who writes the best reviews at Bodyspace.net, ex-aequo with Rafael Santos), Carlos Nascimento and Vítor Lopes (who I haven’t the pleasure of knowing personally, but I’m sure they’re equally awesome people). Their new record, Atol, is the kind of droney electronica you’d expect from a kösmiche band in the 21st century (instead of a kösmiche band in the 20th century who dreams about the 21st) and you can buy it for whatever price you think is reasonable at their Bandcamp, below. They’re also selling K7s (and you should now how much we love those things), of which they have a WHOLE AMAZING AMOUNT OF… thirty copies. Damn, if you like K7s as much as we do, hurry up.

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<a href=“http://olivetroopsos.bandcamp.com/album/atol” data-mce-href=“http://olivetroopsos.bandcamp.com/album/atol”>Atol by Olive Troops SOS</a>

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Something for Someone by And the Giraffe

Meet And the Giraffe, an american dream-folk duo with ambient elements, composed by Gainesville, Florida born and raised friends Josh Morris and Nick Roberts. I’ve found out about this band thanks to a little spam by these guys on Twitter (I guess it was worth it, so feel free to bother us), and I did like what I heard. Really got into the simple but out of the blue electric guitar, and I think I also enjoyed the singer, although it kinda reminds me of John Mayer (well, a “now we’re serious” John Mayer at least). Go listen you “choninhas” fans.

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(Source: http://bandcamp.com/)
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The Missing Season, “The Last Summer” (My Little Cab Records, 2012)

Last summer I gave you my heart, but the very next season, you gave it away

Screw that tentative of a pun on the opening line, it’s not even remotely funny. Like this record. One of my favorite bands from the always thriving French depressive but not depressing music scene has put out their 3rd album earlier in the year, but the only thing that made me sad about it is that I only got around to listen to it properly by now. Probably because I’m not really a melancholic person, though: I just seem to enjoy gloomy stuff in order not to be so happy and be able to fit in my circle of urban depressive, The National-worshipper friends.

But this isn’t a post about me; I’m talking about The Missing Season, a duo comprised of songwriters Nicolas Gautier and Marin Pérot who, like me (and this was the last time I mentioned myself in this post), probably spent countless hours of their lives listening to Dakota Suite, Low, Codeine or Red House Painters and getting to know them so well that they managed to craft a sound so close, yet so distinctive from each of those bands, rejecting the whole (unfortunately well spread) idea of cloning. On “Could It Be”, one of the highlights here, Gautier and Pérot teach you how to use a synth with great success in a band whose fanbase probably doesn’t like synthesizers at all and that fact alone is enough for me to praise this album. But by the ending part of the album, “Mystic Candle”, which seems to be some sort of hopeless, farewell song, reveals itself as possibly the best this duo has ever done.

Even though the whole of The Last Summer is not consistently as great as those two standout songs, it’s still worth taking a listen and paying a couple of bucks for the digital download (although you can get it for free on their Bandcamp page embedded below). I can’t name five slowcore albums as good as this one being put out in the latest couple of years. But give me five more like this, and it’s 1995 again.

DSS

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