The majority of these are indie rock-ish, pretty upbeat, definitely not depressers, I made sure of that. There's a bit of math rock in there as well, standard.
1. Phoenix. I'm not going to add descriptions for all of these, maybe tracks of note... but if you haven't heard Phoenix yet, you need to, simply brilliant. Just trust me on this one! I can't imagine anyone not liking them.
2. Matt & Kim. I was on the fence regarding them for quite some time... I think I still might be? A bit more alternative and edgy, but definitely worth a listen, Grand is quality.
3. An Horse. Easy. Rearrange Beds=class record. Probably old news at this point, but just in case.
4. Maps and Atlases. Listening to these bad boys back in the days when myspace was my prime music source. Odd, wonderful. Check out You Me and The Mountain, it's boppy. Oh fuck, I am annotating. Oh well, you'll appreciate it, I'm sure.
5. The New Pornographers. (From Blown Speakers, get on it. This ones a head-from-side-to-side jobby). Probably should have looked these lads and laddettes up about a year ago when I was first told about them. STILL.
6. (THIS IS THE ONE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR) the mighty Piglet. Cute name? Oui, well that's most certainly not all. Check Caramel, it's smooth as (see what I did? see what I fucking did?) and got a nice bite at around 0.45. It curves into straight up math rock with guitar lines melodified to perfection near midway through (always nice) and it really crescends for a rhythmic change towards the end. Honestly Lava Land as a whole is sweet as, so intricate and complex it'll just make you want to go "aaaahhhhhh" at the end. Yeah, it's all instrumental as well. Most vocal-less bands can't hold my attention for one song let alone an E.P, so it says a lot that I've fallen so hard for this one- please give it a go!
7. Tera Melos. Mk, they're a liiiittle bit mental. Just go see for yourself on last.fm or summat?! Again, instrumental, at least on the E.P I've downloaded, the general bizarre-ness, twists and turns and technicality of it all should be enough to hold your attention too!
8. This Town Needs Guns. Math rock, I'd say with an even softer edge than most. You know when you listen to math rock, and you're not a complete guitar/general music geek, do you ever get that feeling where you can't quite keep up? Followed by the audio equivalent of being a bit out of breath, after running up the stairs as a result of a brownie-related sugar rush? It was sweet at the time, proper filled you with energy but you sort of wish your heartbeat would slow down? ...No? Well if so, you shouldn't really get that much with this band. Super delightful.
9. Ugly Casanova. I'm getting pretty tired after going into that much detail. This is the side-project of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock. It's a little weirder, a few less elements to it... I think if you like modest mouse (Isaac's voice specifically seems to generate a love/hate response), you'll probably be pretty into this, too.
10. Voxtrot. Can't big this one up enough. I'm currently chilling to Ghost, which has the most delightfully haunting intro (FUCK, I didn't even do that on purpose, chilling, ghost, haunting? They just don't stop coming, tonight). Stephens a nice upbeat piano jam, also. Well, it sounds upbeat, the subject matters up for debate, according to songmeanings.net (one of my favourites).
I think I'll cool it, about here. I have a bunch of envelopes to stick leaflets in, and a lot of music to listen to whilst I do so. I hope that if you look up any of these you love em as much as I do. May the force be with you.
p.s. sorry about the blog overload. at least you might get summat out of this one! maybe...
