The band to watch in 2013 + one of my favorite songwriters of the last five years, winner of the Bolachas Top Album of 2012 Award, together in one song. It delivers.
Pickwick’s long awaited debut LP, Can’t Talk Medicine is out next March 12th. May the Gods of the Internet make it so we can hear some more of it sooner than that.
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I’ve despised most of Matthew Houck, AKA Phosphorescent’s output before his great 2010 album, Taking It Easy Too Long. If it wasn’t for that record – which I didn’t listen immediately after the release date because I thought I’d hate it as much as I hated Bon Iver’s debut (hey look, another city dweller, bearded guy locked up in a cabin somewhere pretending he’s countrier than thou), but a friend shoved me one of his songs down my throat until I loved it – I wouldn’t be so keen on listening to “Song for Zula”, the first song off his next album, Muchacho, coming up in March. I’m glad I did. Again, I could live without him saying he recorded the album in a “little hut” on some beach down in the Mexican southern peninsula of Yucatán, but at least he acknowledges that story is cheesy as fuck. I think I like you even more after you said that, Matt. I’m sure you’re nice folk and you wrote my first favorite song of 2013. I haven’t listened to anything else to be released in the next year, but hey, I gotta start somewhere.
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Plane Ticket has put a new song online for y’all to enjoy to commemorate their 1000th Facebook follower. I don’t think there’s a reason why you wouldn’t listen to this nice piece of classic indie rock right away.
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<a href=“http://planeticket.bandcamp.com/track/blank-map” data-mce-href=“http://planeticket.bandcamp.com/track/blank-map”>Blank Map by Plane Ticket</a>
I feel somewhat attracted by bands with the word ‘ghost’ in their names. Ghost Lights, the musical project of the Canadian songwriter Noah Cebuliak is no exception. The music on his debut EP, Saltwater, reminds me of another Montréal-based notorious songwriter, Patrick Watson. I’ll let you decide if that’s something worth acheving, but let’s say it is. Saltwater, through its luxurious instrumentation and arrangementscomplemented by Cebuliak’s clear, nice-sounding voice channels images of late winter nights spent in expensive cafés downtown we all wish we could afford. Well, you can now.
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New vid for my favorite song from Mac DeMarco’s sophomore LP, 2. Buy the limited edition LP at Captured Tracks.