Langhorne Slim - "I Love You, But Goodbye"

"The Same City Awaits Me"- Dark Room Notes

"She's My Melody" by Lord Newborn & the Magic Skulls from their s/t album.

Psych-funk beats are abundant on this collaboration between Money Mark, Shawn Lee and Tommy Guerrero. I hope they record an equally fun follow-up because this is a funk filled delight (and "Revenge Of The Fillet O Fish" has a wild surf-funk beat that I especially enjoy).

Girls In Trouble: "Secrets/You're Always Watching" off Girls In Trouble

O.K. Brooklyn's Alicia Jo Rabins was writing her thesis for a Master in Jewish Woman's Studies. And she wrote the thesis on female characters from the Bible not as an essay, but as songs. And now it's an album. Whoa, random. Her Myspace profile calls it: 'Americana/Melodramatic Popular Song/Lounge'; I've listened to two songs, and I'm liking it. Uh, A-, Ms Rabins.

"King of Your Heart" by the Half Rats.

Excellent garage/beat/power pop band from Lafayette, Indiana. They played here in town recently and are coming back soon. I've heard cuts from their private press cd and they're all great- like something on Goner Records. Hope they release an album soon. Til then, it's enjoying Half Rats myspace.

Entertainment for the Braindead - Hydrophobia

Really digging this album. It's from a German girl named Julia Kotowski who makes a kind of somber acoustic-pop with some really interesting rhythmic elements on the guitar. Really cute and pure voice. You can download Hydrophobia and an 8-song live EP for free at her website.

Cocteau Twins - "Amelia"

"The Night Was Open"- We Landed On the Moon!

Godflesh - pure

"Slap Head's Demise" by Big Boss Man from Full English Beat Breakfast.

Some UK funk, mostly instrumentals. This is a drum heavy funk album with some wild organ beat tossed in for good measure.

"Can't Stay Here" by Jeb Loy Nichols from Strange Faith and Practice.

Jeb can do no wrong. Been a fan since his days in the Fellow Travellers. Where there's often an earthy, organic country-soul feel to his albums (with a cool dash of dub), this one has a jazz feel up-front and throughout. The songwriting is more serious and reflective than the wink-and-a-dub style in earlier recordings. But the late-night organic approach is still here and it's always great to hear a new one from Nichols.

Kings of Convenience - "24-25"

Beautiful opener from the Norwegian duo's latest album. The lilting string guitar at the end gets me every time.

Chicago (Acoustic)- Sufjan Stevens

I finally got my hands on The Avalanche, that took way too long.

A cover of Moondog's "New Amsterdam" by Pink Martini from Splendor in the Grass.

Nice collection of lounge-pop with some tracks sung in French and Spanish.

The Radio Dept. - "Keen on Boys"

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Originally posted by Elitist_Pretentious:
Kings of Convenience - "24-25"

Beautiful opener from the Norwegian duo's latest album. The lilting string guitar at the end gets me every time.

This. It's been too long since I heard new material from these guys.

"In These Eyes"- Clea Roddick

The Faust Symphony - Franz Liszt

Prog classical of the 1850's.

"Opportunity"- You Say Party! We Say Die!

"New Age" by Sleepy Sun.

Some new psych-rock off an Uncut magazine cd.