Music Box

Remember Incubus? And the pretty boy singing? It looks like Brandon Boyd has a new EP coming out on June 25, and here’s the first track off it.

I Is Another is what happens when Jonah Matranga (Far, onelinedrawing, New End Original, Gratitude) meets Ian Love (Rival Schools, Cardia).

Their debut album is streaming now, only 7 tracks + 3 acoustic versions, but it’s very intense and rocking.

Ok, single-track albums are rather annoying. But 1) this is free 2) it comes from Italians Do It Better and 3) It’s got new Chromatics music. So get it.

(tracklist courtesy of Consequence of Sound)

After Dark II Tracklist:

01. Glass Candy – “Warm in the Winter”
02. Desire - “Tears From Heaven”
03. Mirage - “Let’s Kiss”
04. Appaloosa - “Fill the Blanks”
05. Chromatics - “Looking for Love”
06. Symmetry - “Heart of Darkness”
07. Chromatics - “Camera”
08. Twisted Wires - “Half Lives”
09. Glass Candy - “The Possessed”
10. Chromatics - “Cherry”
11. Glass Candy - “Beautiful Object”
12. Farah - “Into Eternity”
13. Appaloosa - “Intimate”
14. Mike Simonetti - “The Magician”
15. Glass Candy - “Redheads Feel More Pain”

Obviously. New NIN.

First single from the upcoming album “Hesitation Marks,” out 9.03.13. 

Each month, I write a summary of my favourite (and not so favourite) albums of the month for my French website Music Box. And each time, I make a Spotify playlist, and here it is. 

Obviously one of the biggest rock albums of the year, it will also be one of the best. Puzzling, different, amazing.

Not out this week, but only available on Spotify now, Vampire Weekend’s very refined third album. I’ll never be a fan, but there are many things to like there, mostly Ezra Koenig’s fantastic wordplay and Rostam Batmanglij’s mastery of insane sounds.

Also out this week, the fifth Alice in Chains album, and the second with William DuVall (who replaced Jerry Cantrell when Jerry Cantrell replaced Layne Staley, I insist). It’s also probably their worst album, and certainly their blandest, all tracks seem to mash into each other in a very long sludge dirge. And I really liked Black Gives Way to Blue

I’ve been slacking quite a lot these days, sorry. Here’s a stream of the new Eisley album, released this week. It’s pretty disorienting, ambitious without being self-centered and actually very fucking good. There’s a track with Max Bemis, and another one with, I think, SEVEN DuPree family members. 

Can’t ever get tired of lo fi guitar indie pop rock things. Bass Drum of Death - Crawling after You.

Remember a couple of years back, Kyuss reunited without Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri left a bit later. They changed their name to Vista Chino and now released their first new song, Dargona Dragona. It’s good.

Thousand million blogs are gonna post this, but hey, new Boards of Canada.

http://boardsofcanada.com

‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’
Monday 10th June 2013 (Tuesday 11th in N. America)

Brand new Stone Temple Pilots with new singer Chester Bennington, of Linkin Park fame. It exactly sounds like classic STP with a more reliable singer.

non-album single!

grungebook:

Mudhoney’s new single: “New World Charm” b/w “Swimming in Beer” and “The Swimming in Beer Blues.” More info here.

Happy birthday Modern Life is Rubbish, the first great Blur album. Probably in my top 3.

The Vår album is released next week, and here’s another track off it. It’s still very compelling, martial drumming and frantic acoustic guitar. Also, Elias sounds even more like Robert Smith now.

Great Thunder is Katie Crutchfield, who’s made one of the best albums of 2013 as Waxahatchee and her drummer/boyfriend Keith Spencer. This is 90s-oriented lo-fi indie rock, what’s not to like? AND there’s a cover of Fade Into You.

(also the fact they’re listed as brother/sister on Facebook makes me chucke)

Listen/purchase: Strange Kicks ep by Great Thunder