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• chris 10:28 pm on 08/04/2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: empire of the sun (2), foster the people, indie music (2), mgmt, passion pit (6), pumped up kicks, reebok, the highweights, vampire weekend   

  Foster The People likes your old school Reebok’s 

  

  Lets kick off Spring with a blissfully warm Summer tune, “Pumped Up Kicks” because Summer will never come soon enough…

  Foster The People is a new band from LA, get to know them now because they’re going to be all over the airwaves in the coming months. They are the newest band in the mix of with the likes of: Phoenix, Empire of the Sun, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit etc. They produce the music that makes normal people smile and indie kids jump with their arms pointed to the sky. I’m really loving this track so have a listen and then after you fall in love click on the remix by The Highweights below and fall in love all over again.

  Enjoy! (downloads past the break)
  Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People
  Pumped Up Kicks (The Highweights) Remix by Foster The People

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• chris 12:38 pm on 25/02/2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: contra, ezra koenig, giving up the gun, horchata, i think ur a contra, Indie, indie pop (2), second LP, vampire weekend   

  New Album from Vampire Weekend is not a “Contra” 

  

  I’m probably the last person in the musical blogosphere to mention Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra. Partially due to technical reasons with the site and partially because I wanted to listen each song carefully before putting my thoughts down.

  This album reminds me a lot of Kanye’s 2nd album Graduation, in a relative, not musical sense. From song to song you can tell that Ezra Koenig has grown up since the bands first self titled album, Vampire Weekend. In contrast to their first LP (brilliantly indulgent Afro-pop) Contra has musical ambitions set in a multiple of genre’s, showing the musical precision and boldness that VW can bring to the ever changing indie sound. From it’s natural sounds to synth-pops; decorum to peccadillo; party prose to hopeless balladry; Contra blends polarizing sounds in a brave new way and the result will likely be up for album of the year. Have a listen (below) and you won’t be disappointed. My favorites thus far are White Sky, Run and Giving Up the Gun.

  Enjoy!

  :1: Horchata

  :2: White Sky

  :3: Holiday

  :4: California English

  :5: Taxi Cab

  :6: Run

  :7: Cousins

  :8: Giving Up The Gun

  :9: Diplomat’s Son

  :10: I Think Ur a Contra

   

• chris 12:43 pm on 31/07/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: animal (2), animal collective (3), blue october, miike snow (4), passion pit (6), vampire weekend   

  Animal by Miike Snow 

  In the wake of Animal Collective and Passion Pit comes the Swedish band Miike Snow, pronounced Me-K Snow. While Miike Snow certainly borrows heavily from other indie electro-pop bands they definitely have come across a unique sound by the way of singing in chorus. Unfortunately, one of their voices either sounds dreadfully similar to the lead signer of Blue October, Justin Furstenfeld, or they are adding the same effect – either way it is hard for me to stomach given the stark contrast in the way each band approaches lyrical rhythm.

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  • Sabrina 10:52 pm on 03/08/2009 Permalink | Reply

    i think you are onto something, keet it up!! i love this song.

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      Hi Sabrina! Will you buy me lunch too?

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• chris 3:39 pm on 30/07/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: au revoir simone (2), best albums of 2008, best albums of 2009, crystal castles, discovery lp, empire of the sun (2), faded paper figures, fleet foxes, glasvegas, indie music (2), of montreal (3), passion pit (6), phoenix (3), the presets, the whitest boy alive, thievery corporation, vampire weekend   

  BUY THIS debut – Catching up on 2009 

  In no particular order, here are the must have albums of 2009 – some may have been released in ’08 as with the Vampire Weekend LP – it is never too late to own a great album!

  Forget the description, I instead added a track from every album so you can have a listen for yourself

  1) Thievery Corporation – Radio Retaliation

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• chris 10:18 pm on 21/07/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: discovery, new album (12), new track, ra ra riot (3), vampire weekend   

  So Insane by Discovery 

  

  Discovery, one of those new age hybrid groups, features Vampire Weekend’s keyboardist-singer-producer Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles. This album does T-Pain, Lil Wayne and Kanye West justice by plaguing yet another music genre with autotune. But are they really? Or are we just blessed that this hybrid album is actually worth listening to and possibly even buying? This is one of those confusing times in music. Do we play it at all our indie kid parties because we love the 80′s electronic synths or do we shame it for its lack of originality and purpose? I’ll be the first to admit that I listened to and bought T-Pain’s “Rapper Turnt Sanga” and I’ll also be the first to tell all you music snobs to keep your opinions to yourself because I have day dreams to get back to and they’d be spoiled if I weren’t listening to this new track,  So Insane.