Denton’s Paul Henry North of Sunnybrook fame has occasionally dropping some real lush instrumental gems on his soundcloud.  A few days ago he let loose “Matching Transparent”, a slow building stream for stream diving.  Check it:

Japan’s AMORPHOUS make some pretty rad and fun chill electronic pop music.  Check their soundcloud for a bunch of great songs, meanwhile…

Baltimore’s Wing Dam (Austin Tally) has crafted some beauty on “Flesh”, a rich track from the Waves To Shore EP (listen and download it on bandcamp).  His soft vocal presence and his soft guitar float through the tides of eerie samples and a rich synthed out chorus while the lyrics weave in and out a sensual movement with the sea.

“curve of your jawline

bending and sending

your tide to me”

mp3: Wing Dam – Flesh

Also stay tuned for a new EP, Dogwood, in the near future.

Lets just say this.  Sweet Lights (Shai Halperin) and his S/T High-Line released album is nostalgia all over.  Seriously.  Playing this thing…I’m hearing McCartney, Floyd, etc, etc.  It’s silly really…I almost took this as a bad thing.  Then I was like…who am I kidding…these songs are great….beautiful…I’m singing along…waving along…submerged in the breakdown.

mp3: Sweet Lights – Message On The Wire

mp3: Sweet Lights – Ballad Of Kurt Vile #2

Newark’s Players To Be Named Later emerge from a cloud of distortion and noise armed with acoustic guitars drum machines and some pretty swell tunes.  They’ve got a 6 track stunner on bandcamp that is steaming with lo-fi basement rock glory.

mp3: Players To Be Named Later – Basher’s Last Stand

Atlanta’s deadCAT released a 4 song trip last month on Young Latitudes entitled weareinaCULT.  That title seems to hold true seing as much of the rhythms on this noise pop wonder are hypnotic and sometimes even a bit sinister.  That being said the highlight from it is the dubbed out beauty of “Canadian Myst”.  deadCAT’s tunes usually blend well with the dark solitude of winter city life, but this track pairs nicely with the wave of humidity about to drop hard around Bmore.

mp3: deadCAT – Canadian Myst

The more I’ve listened to Nomadic Firs‘ debut S/T LP (out now on Crash Symbols) the more I’m swept in…the more I’m in love with it.  Ryan Boos has taken some folk like po like songs and blanketed them in beautiful electronic grime.  He’s rehashed rock and roll and freewheeled it into cut up/sampled/delayed synth wonders.  There’s even a beach time sunset sonnet dream (“Cover Bombs”) buried in sand and burned by the sun.  What really takes me by storm is the true unexpected nature of the LP.  There are moments where there’s a fairly concise pop song structure, but other times he just completely lets loose and rides a groove hard the whole song.  And because of this…I get lost in this album.

mp3: Nomadic Firs – In The Morning

mp3: Nomadic Firs – Cover Bombs

Poor Spirits is up to something again…this time in the form of Mellow, an upcoming release.  The title track has him going back to the instrumentals, but roughing up the sound a bit.  The drums are notably raw and I like it.

mp3: Poor Spirits – Mellow

The other day I posted on Brooklyn’s summer soul wonder TalkFine and their upcoming Lesser Known Hits release (out May 8th – pre-order).  They were kind enough to send over this slow burner that reminds me even more of the rich life Stevie Wonder exudes with his music.  Take a listen:

So remember what you were doing 7 years ago?  Kind of fuzzy.  Well do you remember the song “Hey Now Now” by The Cloud Room.  Hells yes I do….actually their whole debut S/T LP was friggin fantastic.  Well 7 years is a long time in between albums, but that’s the case with The Cloud Room who have just self-released Zither the long long long awaited sophomore album.  The result is a more refined, well produced (not over-produced though), and beautiful album.  Their style of rock is still there.  The catchiness is definitely still there…it’s just a bit different.  Matured perhaps?  This time around they were able to really work through songs and experiment with various production changes that were not available time-wise on the first album.  Mainly though – just listen:

Buy it via Bandcamp (stream it too), Amazon, or Insound.

Melbourne’s Richie and Rusty aka Wizard Oz are back with a new LP, Flashing Lights.  It’s an album of sweet psych tempered electronic pop songs.  It’s an album of drum machine loops, understated vocals, and synth purity.  Grab it for free on their bandcamp or pick up the cassette on Peking Tapes (out May 5th).

mp3: Wizard Oz – What Are They

mp3: Wizard Oz - Remain In Night

Vancouver’s walter tv have created some seriously mind altering rock in their new LP Appetite.  Don’t take it from me – just check their facebook bio:

“Walter Tv is a chopped and screwed remix of an epic dubstep riff. undeniably bassy, these 3 lewd dudes from Vancouver Canada ruin the stage. onlookers rant as they fall to their knees in splendor and awe. the force of sound emanating from inside these incestuous creodonts is in close resemblance to a putrid defilers rugose moan. hoping to play in a city near you, and to kiss you on the lips.”

So there.  Basically if you like straight up frenetic guitars and drums with spiraling and swirling tripped out vocals raining down on your glazed over eyes…then, hey, come have a taste:

mp3: walter tv – Necessity 

mp3: walter tv - Siddhartha

Get Appetite via bandcamp.