By rellis, posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:57 am, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged youth lagoon. Leave a comment.

Things were different this year, there is no clear cut “best record” as there have been in the past. Instead, this year a handful of records blew me away. Ranging from a collection of beats that somehow sounded better free of the vocals to an Austin trio hell-bent on reverb-ing your brain out of its capsule. Without trying, I somehow ended up with exactly 20 albums, check it out below.

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By rellis, posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:16 pm, filed under lists, Uncategorized. Leave a comment.

This was the bonus track on the Hymn release Tonstartssbandht put out earlier in the year. I was way behind on this but thought this video a good reason to rehash on this unique duo. Check out the original version below.

By rellis, posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:40 pm, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged tonstartsbandht. Leave a comment.

Pleasantly minimal video from Cough Cool‘s next release Lately out on Bathetic. Ghoulish, haunting vocals and woolly distortion make me wish this record came out earlier in the year to contend for our upcoming favorites list.

By rellis, posted on at 10:03 pm, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged bathetic, cough cool. Leave a comment.

Great slacker anthem from FIDLAR turned into a nonsensical video where the Grim Reaper and soldiers surf the sands. Out in 7-inch form now.

By rellis, posted on at 8:28 pm, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged fidlar. Leave a comment.

X-mas jam from Dead Gaze for your drowsed holiday mood. I’ve added Dent May’s holiday track from last year if you want something more upbeat, it seemed appropriate as both of these guys hail from the Cats Purring clan.

Dead Gaze – Silver Bells

previously:

Dent May – Holiday Face

By rellis, posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:00 pm, filed under New Tunes and tagged dead gaze, dent may, x-mas. Leave a comment.

Andrew G. Thompson is the mind behind AyGeeTee, his new record Is IT SAFE? is teeming with ambient-funk noise and ranges from mellow, horn-driven jazz pieces like “CHOOSE LIFE, WIFE” to savory synth movements in “Ssantos Muertos”. Is IT SAFE is out on Amdiscs, listen to the full album below and check out the 90s dance montage for “LOVEBURN xtra”.

AyGeeTee – ‘Is IT SAFE?’ – 2011 (AMDD085) by AMDISCS

By rellis, posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:23 am, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged amdiscs, aygeetee. Leave a comment.

Still a strong bid for my favorite song this year.

By rellis, posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:46 pm, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged white fence. Leave a comment.

Here is a video of the intimate performance Youth Lagoon gave us at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton last week. The sound is perfect, it’s exactly as I heard at the show.  Chris Bryan of Peopleodian created the piece and inserts visions of our the local landscape intermittently through the video. The Denton Archive fb page contains a slew of other videos from recent shows.

By rellis, posted on November 15, 2011 at 2:04 pm, filed under New Tunes, video and tagged peopleodian, youth lagoon. Leave a comment.

We’re very happy to announce that the next release  on our Forest Family label will be the ambrosial Denver duo Tennis. With their Origins 7″ the band hits a musical stride with two new songs, one produced by Patrick Carney of Black Keys fame. The songs will appear on the the upcoming Carney-produced Young & Old LP out on Fat Possum in February. Check out “Origins” below and the places you can pre-order the single over here.

By rellis, posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:39 pm, filed under New Tunes and tagged fat possum, tennis. Leave a comment.