The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Singles Collection 1992-2011 (2011)

Long-running psychedelic musical commune the Brian Jonestown Massacre have been delivering tripped-out, rock’n’roll goods for the better part of two decades and are set to celebrate that fact with the upcoming two-disc set, The Singles Collection (1992-2011).
While records like last year’s mind-melting Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? are long-form psych trips, leader Anton Newcombe has also excelled in the realm of short vinyl. The remastered, 22-song singles set covers the group’s 45-approved output. 14 of the cuts featured on the beefed-up package, including “Convertible,” “Their Majesties 2nd Request (Enrique’s Dream)” and the tracks off their most recent single (“Illuminomi” and “There’s A War Going On”), were previously only available on vinyl.

Peter Wolf Crier – Garden of Arms (2011)

From Jagjaguwar website:
It is not so much a sound as a spirit. You don’t need to name it to know it or to trust it. Peter Wolf Crier’s second album “Garden of Arms” is a document that paints a vivid portrait of all the pain and beauty of growth. Written with the at-home repose demanded by performing a hundred shows in six months, these eleven tracks were nurtured from their hushed origins with a new-found footing of confidence and experimentation. Adapting the tenets of the grinding live show, the duo of Peter Pisano and Brian Moen transformed the fuzzy distortion, rolling and crashing drums, and laser-focused purposefulness into an intensely dynamic yet supremely polished album.

The John Knox Sex Club – Raise Ravens (20110

It’s been a very good and very hectic summer thus far. Much fun has been had, and much hard work has been done. Our band has recently completed the mammoth task of recording our 2nd album, entitled “Raise Ravens” and hand making cd cases over the kitchen table (and many a cup of coffee). Here’s a wee peek at the artwork, done by yours truly, and the posters I made for some of our upcoming shows, including the album launch in Stereo, Glasgow, next Sunday. 

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dEUS – Keep You Close (2011)

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The Weather Station – All Of It Was Mine (2011)

After recording her first album, Lindeman felt very stuck with what to do next. Eventually she teamed up with Daniel Romano. He not only did the production work on the album, but he also played a whole bunch of instruments for her as well.
The result is, despite its sparseness, a very warm album. Lindeman has an energy in her voice that brings so much personality to her songs which are supported by nary more than a banjo and a guitar most of the time.
The first song on the album, “Everything I Saw” is easily her strongest. The slight flourish of drum complements the string of acoustic guitar and banjos while Lindeman sings about, among other things: “Muddy white petunias, lobelia trails blue-eyed.”
The rest of the songs aren’t quite as quick as the album’s opening track, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Slower tracks like “Trying” help Lindeman’s vocals reach the forefront and also help showcase her evocative imagery. Like in the song “Yarrow and Mint”: “In the heat the air lay heavy on the street/Sweating with smoke, lilac and gasoline.” Or even just patriotic lyrics like in “Chip on My Shoulder” where Lindeman says “You could have anything you could ever be wanting, the country will give you your fill.”

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Seven Days to Noon (1950), John Boulting, Roy Boulting

Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of his work, Jones constructs his own bomb and threatens to blow up London within one week. His terms: Stop the atomic research or suffer the consequences. As London is evacuated, the authorities close in on Jones, using a rather sophisticated form of psychological warfare to trap the unhinged scientist. Seven Days to Noon manages to sustain its suspense and realism the most part, but is slightly undermined by grainy stock footage of London's children being evacuated during World War II.

Amen Dunes – Through Donkey Jaw (2011)

The tale of Damon McMahon’s cultural journey from the Catskills to China and back again is one of self-discovery; the sort of dreamy tale woven from the fabric of Americana. Though it sounds corny, it’s the same identity crisis that has lent itself to McMahon’s Amen Dunes persona. It continues to boil over throughout the upcoming Through Donkey Jaw. The album hums with dark confessionals and mumbled pop overtures; the amount of genre bleeding amounts to the blood, sweat, and tears McMahon has long placed in his musical vision. “Christopher” represents McMahon coming out the other side, a changed man but one in tune with his kaleidoscopic view of the world. Balancing psychedelia, garage rock, and the isolated, echoing production of confession, “Christopher” stands triumphantly as McMahon’s warm embrace of his multi-faceted personality. 

Aidan Moffat – Stolen Songs (2011)

Arab Strap singer puts his spin on songs from
INXS to Marvin Gaye on this mini-LP

An album of of cover versions. Stolen from: Cyndi Lauper / The Brains, E E Cummings, Katie Melua, INXS, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Doris Duke, Marvin Gaye and The Kids From Fame. Also includes a bit of Willie and Julio somewhere in the middle.

Leonid Afremov: Soul Painting

Georgy Kurasov: Living on the Edge

Beautiful Nightmares of Nicoletta Ceccoli

 

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Blonde Redhead à la Route du Rock,13.08.2011.

Danny & the Champions of the World – Hearts and Arrows (2011)

Fans of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and The Gaslight Anthem will lap up the ersatz blue-collar Americana of Danny Wilson, a south Londoner who appears to have been born to the sound of the screen door slamming and the sight of Mary’s dress waving. Wilson was already paying homage to The Boss when with previous outfit Grand Drive. Three albums in with his Champions – now a different line-up to that which recorded 2008’s debut and 2010’s Streets of Our Time – he’s not about to reveal a long-suppressed love of edgy electronica. 

Pensionat Oskar (Like It Never Was Before) (1995), Susanne Bier

In this Swedish black comedy based on a script by popular gay writer and standup-comic Jonas Gardell, the father of a family is inspired to pursue his true destiny after he takes his family to the Pensioniat Oskar and meets Petrus, a handsome handyman.

Gold Leaves – The Ornament (2011)

Gold Leaves is a new project of Grant Olsen, half of Seattle folk duo Arthur & Yu, but GL’s debut release The Ornament was four years in the making. After scratching sessions for a straightforward country or R&B-flavored album, the singer/songwriter hooked up with Papercuts’ Jason Quever to produce a campfire-ready collection of honey-voiced, subtly orchestrated Americana. Take a listen to the Fleet Foxy roots rock of “Cruel/Kind,” along with the album’s more ’60s-nodding title track.
Grant Olsen, the Arthur portion of Seattle’s Arthur & Yu, is gearing up to release his debut solo album. Using the moniker Gold Leaves, Olsen will release his album, The Ornament, on the Hardly Art label on August 16th. From the sound of the first single, also called “The Ornament”, Gold Leaves’ music lands solidly in the psychedelic indie-pop singer/songwriter vein, and the results are pretty impressive.

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Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – Reverse Shark Attack LP (Kill Shaman, 2009)

Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know (2011)

British singer-songwriter Laura Marling announced her long-anticipated third lp, A Creature I Don’t Know, a couple of weeks ago and earlier this week she shared the album details for the record. A Creature I Don’t Know will be released on September 13 via Virgin Records and it’ll be produced by Ethan Johns, and you can view the tracklist below and album cover above.
Marling’s image seems to change slightly with every record, from callow youth to brunette ingenue and now world-wearied and wised up. Her voice has aged and grown richer with her, the more lived-in vocal of I Speak Because I Can now developing into something earthier and far, far beyond her years (not too far past 21). With maturity comes great responsibility towards your songwriting, and on first listen that’s something she’s capable too of facing up to. As with the last album it was recorded in a room by Ethan Johns, meaning it develops as it goes not in the heavy-handed Mumfords crescendo sense but steadily growing strings, multi-tracked backing vocals and Marling coming to terms with her emotions. Three minutes it breaks into a trot of west coast folk-rock of a thankfully restrained hue and then we’re talking, not to mention looking forward to September’s A Creature I Don’t Know.

VA – Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn (2011)

With the release of Heaven and Earth (Hole in the Rain, 2011), it seems that the world has heard the last of John Martyn, who passed away in 2009 a few months shy of his 61st birthday. This most personal of singer/songwriters has left a remarkable legacy, and while Johnny Boy Would Love This…A Tribute to John Martyn covers 30 of his best songs, it still doesn’t hit all of them, speaking to a rare prolificacy in Martyn’s first two decades as a recording artist. And while there are some hidden gems amidst this double-disc, 125-minute set, it’s the enduring familiarity of these songs that’s most remarkable.

Bedways (2010), Rolf Peter Kahl

A film director and her two friends forge an intensely erotic connection while making a movie about love and sex in this provocative drama from Germany. Nina Bader (Miriam Mayet) is a filmmaker on a mission to capture a depiction of pure, uninhibited sex. Young, beautiful, and completely open with their sexuality, Marie (Lana Cooper) and Hans (Matthias Faust) are the perfect candidates for the project. As the production gets underway and the atmosphere on the set grows thick with lust, the barrier between reality and cinema begins to vanish, sweeping all three up in a libertine whirlwind of flesh and desire.

Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin (2011)

In the past four years, Mikal Cronin’s reputation has been as one component of a greater rock’n'roll outfit. As a member of the Moonhearts (formerly Charlie & the Moonhearts), he churned out some excellent garage bashers. With his friend, consummate garage dude Ty Segall, he recorded Reverse Shark Attack, an entire LP of short rock tunes and one weird, long B-side. Now, with his self-titled debut on the way, Cronin stretches his legs to record a clean, ridiculously catchy song with tons of layers. There’s an opening with just an acoustic guitar, a low rumbling piano that drops in and opens a wave of distorted guitars and drums, and an Eastern psych outro with some unidentifiable horns.

Leonard Cohen- Songs From The Road

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Ganglians – Still Living (2011)

Two years after the release of their last record, Sacramento’s Ganglians return with a double LP out through Lefse Records. Still Living is the latest from the four piece, an hour long work that dabbles in just about every genre and sheds most of the lo-fi psych-folk tag they’ve toted following their debut release. The weird brand rock Ganglians had mastered takes a back seat as they stretch their abilities, and prove they’re more than capable of making great music without smoke and mirrors.

Pony – (I Forgot) To Turn You On (2011)

(From Norman Records)
‘(I Forgot) To Turn You On’ is the work of the Toronto born, Netherlands based singer-songwriter known (for now) as Audrey. Can’t help you with a second name, maybe Audrey doesn’t have one…who knows? Anyway, her album is a beautifully crafted peiee that has an air of melancholy without straying into full-on miserable territory. This is achieved with a careful balance of minimalism and playfulness that gives Pony’s music a lively yet lonely appeal. Constructed primarily from synths and Audrey’s breathy vocal accompaniment, ‘(I Forgot) To Turn You On’ is a scrapbook exploration of analogue synths and other cheap organs/keyboards that is as emotionally poignant as it is joyously fun. An almost magical collection and a rare outing from Mole In The Ground. Get it while you can.

Signs of Life (1968), Werner Herzog

A soldier is assigned to guard a fortress on a remote Greek island and finds himself unable to cope with the crushing boredom of the task in this interesting drama, an early film by renowned-director Werner Herzog. The story is set during WWII and concerns a soldier who was wounded and stationed on the Nazi-controlled island. He is accompanied by his wife and two other guards. It is a very quiet island and soon the men begin looking for constructive things to do. First they paint houses. Then they try raising goats. One of them finds a small stockpile of explosives, so the men begin making bombs. Another of the men can read Greek and so begins translating some of the ancient inscriptions on the castle walls. He discovers that pirates once controlled the island. Meanwhile, the other guard invents a little machine that systematically captures and kills roaches. Eventually the lead soldier finds himself beginning to crack up, suffering a minor breakdown when he hears someone playing Chopin on the piano. When, to escape their tedium, the guards are assigned a detail on a ridgetop, the lead soldier begins shooting at windmills. Further agitated by his perceived betrayal by his comrades, he then attacks the local village and threatens to use his bombs to destroy it. In the end, the insane renegade is stopped. Herzog is said to have based the story on an article describing similar events that occurred during the Seven Years' War.

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (2011)

While many ’90s bands have reunited in recent years, it’s important to note that Pavement’sStephen Malkmus never truly went away. Easy as it’s been to pine for Pavement, it’s also easy to have forgotten that Malkmus continues to evolve and experiment, toying with synthesizers and electronics and with shape-shifting prog-rock, both solo and with his band The Jicks. So, while Pavement fans may have to wait a little longer (if not forever) for new songs following last year’s reunion, Malkmus’ latest Jicks record, Mirror Traffic, is among his best post-Pavement offerings to date. 

Richmond Fontaine – The High Country (2011)

An operatically tragic tale is told in Richmond Fontaine’s tenth studio album, The High Country. More than a concept piece, the Portland, Oregon four-piece have crafted a song-novel, in which a gripping tale is spun with fully fleshed-out characters, changing scenes, snippets of radio and spoken word passages. It’s a spectacularly unique album.
Richmond Fontaine’s frontman, Willy Vlautin, is a published novelist whose 2006 debut, The Motel Life, has just been turned into a major motion directed by the Polsky Brothers and starring Dakota Fanning, Stephen Dorff and Kris Kristofferson. With Richmond Fontaine’s latest album, he’s combined that story-telling prowess with his songwriting gift to stunning effect.
Set in a rural logging community in Oregon, The High Country is a gothic love story between a mechanic and an auto parts store counter girl, whose secret love inspires an effort to escape the darkness of the world that surrounds them. It’s a world of drugs, violence, madness, loneliness and desperation set against a backdrop of endless roads and the remains of a forest brutalised by logging. In this story of light versus dark, Vlautin has woven a tale where screw-ups and freaks terrorise the lives of innocents.

Youth Rescue Mission – Youth Rescue Mission (2011)

Cheery indie pop with male/female vocals (somewhere between New Pornographers and Lake in style/sound)
Youth Rescue Mission is the music of three brothers and their big sister who all have migrated from Montana to Seattle. Bound by blood and music, their songs forge their way to the top of musical mountain tops where their voices ring out, often telling stories of the past that weave unapologetically through old wounds, past betrayal and a family caught trying to find its way. Instead of sounding like a musical therapy session, these differences between them and their family seem to only strengthen in musical form, leaving an undercurrent of relief and healing that results in beautifully touching musical moments. Hannah Williams (formerly of Friday Mile) leads brothers Daniel, Luke, and Jesse in precise harmonies (it’s obvious they all grew up singing in the church and by the firesides of Montana) and the result is a sound as unique and charming as you’d imagine.

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Werner Herzog

While growing up in desolated post-WW II Germany, all Dieter Dengler, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, dreamed about was becoming a pilot. At age 18, he left his country with only a few cents to his name and emigrated to the U.S. Landing in San Francisco, he worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Vietcong tortured and starved him until Dengler engineered a hair-raising escape and eventually returned to the U.S. where his heroic life story has been forgotten until now. Sometimes blurring the lines between fact and fiction with his trademark recurrent themes, this documentary from Werner Herzog remembers the times of the heroic Dengler. The film is divided into four chapters, each representing a period from Dengler's life; the story is recounted via interviews with the Navy pilot, archival footage and new footage seamlessly spliced together.

Clem Snide – Clem Snide’s Journey (2011)

Last year, Clem Snide was invited to The A.V. Club’s Undercover series, and chose to cover Journey’s 1983 classic of road-weary love and devotion, “Faithfully.” Interpreted for just ukulele and voice—and a bit of whistling—the song proved gorgeously heartfelt in Clem Snide’s hands.
It was so gorgeous, in fact, that it would be a shame for the Clem Snide/Journey flirtation to end there. At the behest of The A.V. Club’s Josh Modell (who also runs micro-indie label Foreign Leisure), Clem Snide—led as always by singer-songwriter Eef Barzelay—agreed to tackle an EP’s worth of Journey songs. But we need your help to make it happen.

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You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown – Chromatic (2011)

Portugese band You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown releases their full-length debut album Chromatic on June 20th. If you’re looking for bands to compare them with, this electro/folk outfit has touches of Fleet Foxes and Iron & Wine only bouncier and with an electro-bridge.
Their first single, “Over the Sun, Under the Water” introduces non-Portugese audiences to the style called “fado,” which are songs that express longing and nostalgia (the Portuguese call it “saudade”). The band blends great harmonies, with electro-jangle and a reborn folk/rock aesthetic for an upbeat, catchy tune that begs for the return of summer. “I’ve Been Lost” is a mixed tempo song that starts off as a slower electronic piece, moves into a faster version of itself, transitions to a guitar only with a heavy Portugese influence and then ends as an uptempo speedster. The multiple pacing was odd in some ways, but it works on this one.

Little Scout – Take Your Light (2011)

Take Your Light is an album of mystery and beauty. An exotic cocktail of emotions. It follows two acclaimed EPs and three years of solid touring including shows with Belle and Sebastian, The New Pornographers, Camera Obscura, Clare Bowditch, Holly Throsby and Josh Pyke. Beautiful and beguiling. A collection of dreamscapes. This is an album to immerse yourself in.

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Gorilla Rose (2011)

Over the course of his illustrious 30-plus-year career, Brian Tristan–who does business as Kid CongoPowers–has played with punk legends the Cramps, punk-blues luminaries the Gun Club, and, most famously, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on two of their classic albums, Tender Prey and the Good Son. For the better part of the past decade, though, he’s been making sweet, sweet noise with the Pink Monkey Birds. Not unlike a punk-infused version of the Spiders from Mars, from whom they derive their name, the Pink Monkey Birds are in the business of sleazy rock music. And while Gorilla Rose isn’t exactly Ziggy Stardust (nor does it aim for that level of pomp and circumstance), it’s a brilliant rawk album, the likes of which hardly ever comes around these days.

The White Diamond (2004),Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog once again turns his eye on the beautiful and dangerous wilds of the Amazon in this documentary. Dr. Graham Dorrington is a scientist who specializes in designing experimental aircraft, and in 1992 he invented a unique man-powered airship intended to travel into the Amazon canopy of Guyana, with the goal studying the medicinal herbs said to grow there. However, Dorrington's aircraft proved to be flawed, and an accident on its first voyage into the Amazon claimed the life of Dieter Plage, a filmmaker and close friend of Dorrington who had tagged along to document the journey. Ten years later, Herzog joined Dorrington as he returned to the Amazon canopy and explored the beautiful but forbidding rivers and forests, visited the people who live there, and recalled the accident that claimed his friend's life. The White Diamond was the opening night attraction at the 2004 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival.

Tim Kasher – Bigamy: More Songs From The Monogamy Session (2011)

Tim Kasher has announced a new headlining tour in September and August. The three and a half week trek will launch on August 18^th at Schubas in Chicago, IL, and wrap up September 10^th at The Waiting Room in Omaha, NE, taking him throughout the midwest, northeast, and southeast. A full itinerary is below.

Kasher, will have an EP, Bigamy: More Songs From The Monogamy Sessions, available exclusively at his upcoming shows and online only via the Saddle Creek webstore. The tour EP features seven new songs loosely linked to and written during the same period as his debut solo album The Game Of Monogamy, released last October. 

Case Studies – The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night (2011)

Indie Folk, Very Nice!! RIYL: The Dutchess & The Duke

(Review from Citizen Dick)
First, I’ll go on record as someone who has eagerly devoured all past material of The Dutchess & The Duke. Since 2009′s Pitchfork Festival, I’ve been closely following all material, and this all sort of swan dived after a fairly drunken (while still endearing) show the duo put on in Cleveland. It didn’t surprise me to see Lortz eventually moving off into his own thing. All of that said, let’s face it, D&D harnessed at least a sliver of its intrigue with the off-kilter use of contradictory gimmick, particularly the upbeat southern-fried anthems that came off playfully morose. There was a juxtaposition in every D&D track, and while I still dig it, any listener had to go into it understanding that the dichotomy of fun, bluesy folk and dark lyricism was part of the reason it worked.

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Nick Diamonds (Nick Thorburn) – I Am An Attic (2011)

Nick Thorburn, has released a solo album called I Am An Attic under the name Nick Diamonds. Nick Thorburn is currently the frontman in Islands, and is a member in the indie super-group, Mister Heavenly. He was also in the famed indie band The Unicorns.

Richard Youngs – Amplifying Host (2011)

(Review from Tiny Mixed Tapes)
On his countless CD-Rs, 12-inches, and cassettes, as well as collaborations with the likes of Matthew Bower of Skullflower, Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra, and the telepathic Simon Wickham-Smith, Richard Youngs has helped to provide what The Wiredescribed as “the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during much of the 80′s and 90′s.” He can do achingly beautiful mantras of loss, as on Sapphie; chromium space odes to Jack Kirby, as on hismid-2000s Jagjaguwar releases; windy electroacoustic improvisations; obscurefaux-airs; and, most recently, Residents-style weirdo-pop on his last Jagjaguwar album, Beyond the Valley of the Ultrahits. He played bass with Jandek at the legendary recluse’s first-ever live performances, on the confident and sensitive Glasgows Sunday and Monday, and on Newcastle Sunday. On his latest for Jagjaguwar, Amplifying Host, Youngs takes yet another stylistic turn, this time into hermetic outsider folk-rock.

Lars Eriksson – Rust & Golden Dust (2011)

Singer-songwriter, Swedish, Indie-pop, Indie Rock/Folk/Acoustic
This is the debut album by the swedish singer/songwriter Lars Eriksson

The Anniversary (1968), Roy Ward Baker

Bette Davis plays a wealthy one-eyed widow (complete with designer eye patch) who gathers her sons together once a year to celebrate the death of the husband she detested. Mama Davis couldn't be more castrating if her last name was Bobbitt: Her grown sons (it's been 10 years since daddy died) are essentially weaklings who seem to secretly covet the emotional stranglehold she has over them. When she can't exert her authority of her sons by normal means, Davis blackmails them with her knowledge of the skeletons in their closets -- and in the case of her eldest son, the women's undies in his dresser drawers.

Wooden Shjips - Black Smoke Rise

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies,Moscow,30.07.2011.

Rebel Star

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Daniel Knox – Evryman for Himself (2011)

Evryman for Himself suggests his intent is to be both at once and the results are utterly contagious in their own weird little way. Unlike his more intimate Disaster, an album that plays to Knox’s quieter side, Evryman for Himself is more forward and assertive. While Knox is capable of tapping out a lovely waltz and crooning along with a smoldering falsetto, as on the (creepy) standout opener “GhostSong”, many of these new tracks play to New Orleans street sounds or, perhaps, vaudeville, with fat horns, marching drums and an all-round playful feel. Knox’s bandmates make a capable foil to his dynamic presence, fleshing out his keyed melodies with sounds that vary by invoking all sorts of traditional disciplines; American busker sounds, lounge music and kazoo solos all show up around Knox’s piano.

Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman,2010)

Jack is a shy and awkward man who drives a limo and lives an unassuming life. His friend and co-worker, Clyde, and his wife Lucy, feel sorry for Jack and set him up on a blind date with Connie. Connie shares Jack's shyness and awkwardness, but through each other they seem to be able to find solace within themselves. Trouble might be brewing in paradise though, as Clyde and Lucy's marriage stumbles just as Jack and Connie's relationship grows.

Pouta-Walking Too Fast (Radim Spacek, 2009)

Against the backdrop of a Cold War Czechoslovakia where the Velvet Revolution is still unimaginable, this taut political thriller traces the psychological unraveling of a secret agent, torn apart by the monotony and corruption of the sinister bureaucracy that employs him. Antonín becomes obsessed with the girlfriend of a writer he is tracking as a suspected subversive, using the considerable means at his disposal to break them apart and win the woman for himself, never mind the implausibility of his plan.

Submarine

Based on Joe Dunthorne’s acclaimed novel, Submarine is a captivating coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge. Oliver is a consummate anti-hero, as sardonic and self-obsessed as any postmodern Holden Caulfield, and Roberts plays the role with the necessary cocktail of stubborn egotism and gangly unease. Ayoade is clearly a devotee of Godard, employing snippets of music and riffing on his use of colour-coding. But even with the shades of Godard and Wes Anderson, this vibrant film comes off as a real original and marks the beginning of a career to watch closely.

Beach House live

Beach House playing Norway at the Fly me to the Moon Festival in Barcelona (Poble Espanyol) 28/07/2011

Meredith Bragg – Nest (2011)

Unlike the mother birds that push their young from nests, Virginia native Meredith Bragg is trying to draw you into his. Bragg’s fourth album, Nest, is due out July 19th.
Entertainment Weekly, Magnet and SPIN give the man rave reviews, but you can be the judge of that. Download his first single, “Birds of North America”.

“instantly accessible” – SPIN
“It’s pure orchestral indie rock with heart”- Entertainment Weekly
“delicate, haunted music…Bragg is someone worth getting close to”- Magnet
“Bragg’s songwriting has grown more acute since his debut, but more impressive is the development of
his sound.” – Pitchfork

Cut Off Your Hands – Hollow (2011)

Tomorrows Tulips – Eternally Teenage (2011)

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