And here we are. New Wintersleep as promised.
Wintersleep – “In Came The Flood”
(durrrrr…. please take down the stream says band manager)
Exciting! Here is the news from the record label press release… as the band ain’t too keen on updating their own website… but hey, Dave Sawchuk needs to earn his keep at EMI right?
Late in the summer of 2011, the group fleshed out these new ideas with Scottish producer/friend Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai) and Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT) at the legendary Tarbox Road Studios in upstate New York. Secluded in the same woods that had already seen the creation of so much amazing work, the group committed themselves to long, focused recording sessions…and the occasional badminton match. Doogan can crush a bird. Who knew?
“Hello hum. I am the dying lung of the town you left. I was beginning to fear, beginning to fear that you would never come back.”
These words open the album’s first track, “Hum.” The song sits like a layer of mist that the speeding car of “In Came the Flood” comes bursting through. It’s a two-part introduction to the diverse layers of Hello Hum. As the record progresses, glowing melodies are backed by rhythms that can stand as the skeletons of songs or be studied for their subtle complexities. Guitars and keyboards weave together in fits of sonic weirdness that somehow shine with pop charm.
Hello Hum is the new record out on June 12th.
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We know and love Aussie indie-rockers the Temper Trap from their songs “Sweet Disposition” and “Fader.”
Time for some new music. Here we go.
The Temper Trap – “Need Your Love”
Pretty easy, repetitive pop song. Not really changing my world like maybe “Sweet Disposition” or… you know I really liked “Fader” too. That whole first record was pretty strong actually.
New album is self-titled and will be out on May 18th.
Their record label hypes it thusly:
“The Temper Trap return with “Need Your Love” from their self-titled follow up to their commercially and critically successful debut album “Conditions” which spawned the hit singles “Sweet Disposition” & “Fader.” With “Need Your Love,” they’ve ditched the slow burn anthems for something more immediate, and it suits them wonderfully. Over big squelchy synths and pounding drums, “Need Your Love” is a festival-ready anthem that seems joyful on the surface but is about the painful disintegration of singer Dougy Mandagi’s relationship, it’s sky high chorus sure to be fairly ubiquitous come the summer.”
Even they admit in their corp-speak… uh, pretty basic punchy pop song. Not really too similar to their earlier hits.
If you got some thoughts, leave a comment and if you don’t… then, don’t?
Go with yourself.
