Keep your eye out for Plus Minus, whose album Xs on Your Eyes caught our ears this past week with their single "Snowblind", which is also our Song of the Week.
As far as EPs go, this week has plenty: Beach House has their Used To Be EP, Bloc Party has their Talons EP releasing in the UK, Death in the Park with their self-titled EP, Deep Vibration with Vera Cruz EP and the reggae/hiphop blend of Matisyahu featuring his Shattered EP.
All EPs aside, keep your eyes out for Final Fantasy's latest, as well as some of our more prominent bands, Hospital Ships (see our feature), of Montreal, The Dears (see our feature) and the intrumental rock of ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of the Dead. Looking forward to another solid week!
MP3: Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood (buy)
MP3: Beach House - Master of None (buy)
MP3: Death in the Park - Laws of Nature (buy)
MP3: of Montreal - Nonpareil of Favor (buy)
+ / - (Plus/Minus) - Xs on Your Eyes (Official) (MySpace)
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - Festival Thyme (Official) (MySpace)
An Albatross - The An Albatross Family Album (Official) (MySpace)
Anni Rossi - Afton (MySpace)
Beach House - Used To Be 7" (Official) (MySpace)
Blithe Sons - The Great Orthochromatic Wheel (Official)
Bloc Party - Talons EP (Official) (MySpace)
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores (Official) (MySpace)
Brett Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless (Official) (MySpace)
Brother JT3 - Jelly Roll Gospel (Official)
Danielson - Our Givest (Remix) 7" (Official) (MySpace)
Danny Rocco - Unplugged In Mitchell Park (MySpace)
Death in the Park - Death in the Park EP (Official) (MySpace)
Deep Vibration - Vera Cruz EP (Official) (MySpace)
El Guincho - Alegranza! (U.S. version) (Official) (MySpace)
Electric Six - Flashy (Official) (MySpace)
Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump 12" (Official) (MySpace)
Escape the Fate - This War Is Ours (Official) (MySpace)
Final Fantasy - Play (Official) (MySpace)
Fireworks - We Are Everywhere (MySpace)
Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR! (Official) (MySpace)
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Official) (MySpace)
Heavy Hands - Smoke Signals (MySpace)
Hospital Ships - Oh, Ramona (MySpace)
Hush Arbors - Hush Arbors (Official) (MySpace)
Kemialliset Ystavat/ Sunroof - Split EP (Official)
Lake - Oh, the Places We'll Go (Official) (MySpace)
Larkin Grimm - Parplar (Official) (MySpace)
Lemonade - Lemonade (MySpace)
Loren Connors - The Moon Last Night (Official) (MySpace)
Lou Reed - Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse (Official)
Matisyahu - Shattered EP (Official) (MySpace)
Matt Sims - Happily Ever After (Official) (MySpace)
Mythical Beast - Scales (MySpace)
Night Horse - The Dark Won't Hide You (Official) (MySpace)
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Official) (MySpace)
Parts & Labor - Receivers (Official) (MySpace)
pH10 - Well Connected (Official) (MySpace)
Pit Er Pat - High Time (Official) (MySpace)
Pompeii - Nothing Happens for a Reason (Official) (MySpace)
Rank Deluxe - You Decide (Official) (MySpace)
Rosemary's Garden - La musique du Jardin (MySpace)
Sea and Cake - Car Alarm (Official) (MySpace)
Sebastian Grainger - Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains (Official) (MySpace)
Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins - Clutch of the Tiger (Official) (MySpace)
Simon Bookish - Everything Everything (Official) (MySpace)
So So Glos - Tourism/ Terrorism (Official) (MySpace)
Social Code - He Said, She Said EP (Official) (MySpace)
Storsveit Nix Noltes/ Roayl Family - Divorce (MySpace)
The Dears - Missles (Official) (MySpace)
The Mystic Underground - It Really Shouldn't Be This Hard (Official) (MySpace)
The Stiletto Formal - ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta! (MySpace)
White Hinterland - Luniculaire EP (Official) (MySpace)
Record labels that include Jordan Geiger could be compared with the smiling parents behind scholar students. With Minus Story, Jagjaguwar were those fortunate elders, but now with the newest instantly-likable sound from Geiger, Hospital Ships, Graveface Records can now relish in what should be again considered a first prize effort.
The stimulating candor of Hospital Ships transitions flawlessly from Minus Story's 'top-of-the-morning' optimism like a lullaby into a dream. Although still entwined with the sticky slow roll of Minus Story, the direction of this new project pulls some added flavor from the origin of its name, "The Abandoned Hospital Ship" by the Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips produce a sound wily in spirit yet traced with very precise chords and electric blips. Hospital Ships does take a page out of their book, but classical influences from ELO, John Lennon and The Zombies push a modern sound a bit closer to a rustic conglomeration.
Hospital Ships are slated to release Oh, Ramona on October 21st. This album was mixed mostly by John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, Modest Mouse) and deals with relationships with friends, lovers and pets (?!?). Tracklistings, album art, a video and a few mp3s are below.
2. Baby For J.
3. I Do Not Understand
4. The Shots I Drank
5. Sink Your Teeth Into Me
6. I Want It To Get Out
7. Girls
8. Mockingbird
9. Oh, No
10. Oh, Ramona
11. Tired of Growing Old
12. More Than You Know
13. Your Heart
14. Yellow Rubber Nails
MP3: Minus Story - Time Wastes Itself (buy)
MP3: Minus Story - Little Wet Head (buy)
