Brooklyn’s Mike Wexlercertainly is no newcomer anymore, after already having released stuff under his real name since 2005. He’s just released his second album Dispossession via Mexican Summer and I want to seize the chance to familiarize you guys with his music.
Out of nothing, he surprises the listener with a collection of 7 haunting songs, all of them beautiful in their own way. Listening to Mike Wexler’s new stuff is like weightlessly floating through space in a dream you never want to end. Dispossession is maybe the best album of 2012 so far.
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Watch Mike Wexler perform one of the highlights of his new record live:
Kishi Bashi, that’s the moniker of K Ishibashi, collaborator and tour-member of acts like of Montreal, Regina Spektor, and Sondre Lerche. His own songs feel like an delightful excursion into epic orchestral spheres. I have to admit that I haven’t heard such refreshing pop tunes in a long, long time. Marvelous!
After a first EP last year, K is releasing his debut solo album, 151a, on April 10th via Joyful Noise.
kool thing are a Berlin-based band of Julie Chance and Jon Dark. Their sound is comparable to the mostly female-fronted dark-wave acts that came up over the last 2 years. But kool thing aren’t just another free riding band – their successful split between grungy guitars and wave-synths is making them an extraordinary act! You might wanna put their debut album (that is still in the making) on your list of anticipated records. Really.
Show them some love on Facebook or download their new EP, released today for free over at bandcamp!
While rummaging through the upcoming Rough Trade releases online, I suddenly stumbled over this up-and-coming three-piece of multi-instrumentalists from London:
Dems, consisting of David Gardener, Duncan Mann and Dan Moss, are producing infectious lo-fi electronic jams. After their label Bad Life it’s “stirring electronica embellished with interweaving melodies, elements of warp-esque IDM and the kind of bone-rattling bass now synonymous with their city.” Especially their upcoming single “House” has definitely pricked up my ears, but also the 2010 tunes “Lioness” and “Jarndyce vs Jarndyce” are dreamy masterpieces.
Their debut EP House will be available digitally and on limited 7” vinyl, from November 14th through Bad Life. Show them some love on Facebook!
Let me have a look into the future: This young girl might easily be the next big thing of indie pop. Pauline a.k.a. Mina Tindle, young Paris native, has just released her first EP and will also support Alela Dianeon her upcoming Europe tour.
Describing Mina’s music it’s easy to compare her to Feist. Puerile seeming pop-tunes with the perfect addition of Mina’s French accent. Make sure to keep an eye on this gorgeous girl, she might be big soon!
There has been a big buzz about this band in the web this year so far, so it’s high time to introduce them to you:
Body Language are a young four-piece hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Their brandmark is their infectious electro-pop in the vein of Passion Pit and the like. Maybe it’s not literally fitting your autumn mood – it’s more like Body Language make you looking forward to the next summer. But nevermind, just check them out!
Their 9 song EP Social Studies will be out 10/18 via OM Records.
Never judge a artist or a band just by their name, never. Because otherwise you might miss a great opportunity to find something specia.
Same happened to me when I assumed that Hanni El Khatibhas to be a World Music singer, which is entirely wrong. Hanni is a first generation American son of Palestinian and Filipino immigrants and grew up in San Francisco raised on a cocktail of skateboarding, punk rock, and 1950s and 60s classic Americana.
This influences you can clearly hear in his songs that are a mix of Blues, Garage Rock and Doo-Wop somewhere between The Black Keys and Jack White. Or to say it with Hanni’s own words:
“These songs were written for anyone who’s ever been shot or hit by a train. Knife fight music.”
Make sure to check out his great songs below and expect an ace debut album called Will the Guns Come Out, coming out 3rd October 2011 via Innovative Leisure.
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