Pasta Primavera

Out of the depths of New Haven, Connecticut comes the acid washed duo of Andrea and Adam Malec aka Procedure Club.  Someone has dubbed these folks as bedroom pop…nah.  When I think of bedroom pop I think of light airy organs and soft female vocals.  Procedure Club is thicker and rougher – bedroom pop if you’re bedroom was a boxcar crashing into a semi.  Their LP Doomed Forever is a mountain of oceans of reverb pouring all over Andrea’s soft vocals which coat a massive ball of fuzzed guitar.  All this frenzy is then sewn together through some harsh cutting electronic beats.  The strange thing is – despite all the grime and grit speckled across Procedure Club’s sound, they do still retain a certain bedroom pop vibe.  Take a listen:

mp3: Procedure Club – Vermont

mp3: Procedure Club – Feel Sorry For Me

mp3: Procedure Club – Rather

Doomed Forever is available now via Slumberland.

I didn’t realize how much I missed The War On Drugs‘ blissed out Springstein-mashed psych rock until I heard their newest song “Comin’ Through” off of the upcoming Future Weather EP.  Kurt Vile, and all his awesomeness, has tided me over, I guess, but man is it good to hear this Philly powerhouse of a band again.  The Future Weather EP comes out October 26th via Secretly Canadian an quickly reminds me of how in love I was with their debut LP Wagonwheel Blues.  Though this release is a bit more conceptual with a couple of more experimental sketch-like songs mingling through some real stunners such as “Baby Missiles” and “Brothers”.  There’s an LP in the works so get ready for another gushing post about these folks in the future.  Until then:

mp3: The War On Drugs – Comin’ Through

mp3: The War On Drugs – Taking The Farm off of Wagonwheel Blues

Once there was a band from Portland named Starfucker.  I liked them.  The name was bold, but who friggin cares – the pop music they generated was FUN.  Pick up their S/T debut sometime – you’ll love it.  Then for some strange reason, they changed their name to Pyramiddd – noooooooo not another band with multiple letters!!!  Just for spite I almost changed this blog to Paaastaaa Pprimmavverraaaa, but I calmed myself down and continued on.  Sometime between then and now they figured out that changing their name was a dumb idea and correctly decided to go back to the quaint and homey vibe of Starfucker!  FTW!  They also signed to Polyvinyl and have released a new track “Julius” that is just as good as I remembered Starfucker (not Pyramiddd) being.  Enjoy:

mp3: Starfucker – Julius

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mp3: Starfucker – Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper Cover)

The Julius 7″ comes out October 12th.  Pre-order it here.

Navajo Bixby, a duo from New Jersey, are a band that is warping my brain right now. Throw in a layer of sandy lo-fi beach pop, another layer of tripping psycho-samples, and four more layers of spontaneity and out comes the shock waves Navajo Bixby produce. They just send over their newest track “Down Under”, which is rad, but here’s a few more because y’all rock:

mp3: Navajo Bixby – Down Under

mp3: Navajo Bixby – Moonlighting

mp3: Navajo Bixby – Many Ways (Demo)

These dudes are coming through Philadelphia soon…hopefully they’ll find a way to travel an extra hour and a half down to Bmore

Montreal’s Pop Winds is a trio of ocean pop space odysseys fueled by harmony and saxophones.  Their album The Turquoise is FREE (digitally) and would be well worth your time to download it over at their myspace.  If you don’t believe me, check a few cuts right now:

mp3: Pop Winds – Met Some New Colors

mp3: Pop Winds – Owl Eyes

Thanks to IGIF for the heads up on these folks.

I’ve been digging El Guincho, aka Pablo Díaz-Reixa, ever since he released Alegranza back in 2008.  His Spanish sung pop music filtered through waves of tropicalia, latin, modern club/electronic sounds, and a bazillion other sounds was hard to ignore, and even more hard to dislike.  His new album Pop Negro continues the trend, but builds it a few stories higher.  Díaz-Reixa has a deep love and interest for pop music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s and has done some in depth research on why certain singles from those eras hit the hearts of so many people around the globe.  As it turns out the production was the key to many of those hits.  So Díaz-Reixa has set out to implement some of those methods in his own work, the most recent being Pop Negro – a booming sonic masterpiece that truly makes your over-priced stereo system worth every penny.  Check a few tracks:

mp3: El Guincho – FM Tan Sexy

mp3: El Guincho – Bombay

Pop Negro comes out on September 14th via Young Turks.

Parenthetical Girls have just released a new track from their upcoming EP, Privilege pt. II – The Past, Imperfect, entitled “Young Throats”.  Like the title of this post suggests – just listen to it:

mp3: Parenthetical Girls – Young Throats

The EP, which comes as a limited edition vinyl hand numbered in the blood of Rachael Jensen, comes out on September 21st but you can pre-order it now here and get a free digital download too.