It’s not too late for some extra gifts for the holiday season is it? That’s good because the good folks over at Young Love Records have offered up two free EPs for your listening pleasure. The first is a remix EP, Children Of The Remix, from NY’s Setting Sun. We reviewed these guys a ways back and were delighted to hear many of the originals off of Children Of The Wild re-realized and electronicized. The other EP is from Erica Quitzow or just “Quitzow” and is a follow up to her Art College LP. It’s called Animal Nature and has Quitzow delving deep into those club pop electro buzz styles that got me going before. Two great EPs from two great bands…and they’re FREE…awesome.
Get the EPs here. Meanwhile listen up:
mp3: Setting Sun – How Long REMIX
mp3: Quitzow – Float
photo by Amber S. Clark – ambersclark.com
Setting Sun began in 2001 in a San Francisco apartment by the one and only Gary Levitt. On June 10th Levitt released the third album from Setting Sun called Children Of The Wind out on Young Love Records. Collaborating on this album is label mate Erica Quitzow(who is the band Quitzow…more on her later) who plays all of the strings on the album. Quitzow, Levitt, and friends recorded Children Of The Wind entirely in their 19th century Victorian house. Out of their unique home recording environment comes a sometimes grand, sometimes hushed, sometimes eerie expanse of folk based songs. Though the production swirls from one emotion to the next, the one constant is Gary Levitt’s coarse yet fragile vocals (the closest I can relate to them is Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow). They sound good. As for the album as a whole, Children Of The Wind first came across as disjointed, but as I spun it ’round a few more times, I found the underlying current of Levitt’s spirited delivery powerful enough to hold together this diary of mystery and sentiment. Photo by Amber S. Clark
mp3: Setting Sun – How Long
mp3: Setting Sun – Morning Song
Here in Baltimore tonight there’s a great show at the Lo-Fi Social Club with Setting Sun, Quitzow, Greg Baldwin & The Aesthetics, and Safeword Club. Also in Baltimore are Royal Bangs who are playing Metro Gallery with Chubby Behemoth, Ed Schrader, and Baby Aspirin. Finally in Philly tonight there’s Ladytron and Datarock which is sure to be a good one. Photo by Mike Sharpe
mp3: Ladytron – Black Cat
mp3: Datarock – Computer Camp Love
mp3: Quitzow – Better Than Ever
mp3: Setting Sun – How Long
mp3: Royal Bangs – Let’s Get Even
Tonight in DC, the Black Cat has The Cassettes, Aerialist, and The Mantras performing. Head up north to Philly for Setting Sun, Quitzow, and ZibraZibra at The Khyber. Or check out Hezekiah Jones, Chris Bathgate, John Francis, and Andrew Rose Gregory at the World Cafe Live. Photo by India Nady
mp3: The Cassettes – Small And Tired
mp3: Setting Sun – No Devil Me No More
mp3: Quitzow – On TV
mp3: Hezekiah Jones – Postpone
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