New Releases: May 2010

We didn't post our usual selection of the month's new releases on time as we were busy with Primavera and Synch, but we didn't forget. Here's the round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in May 2010 plus links to videos and free & legit mp3s:

Albums

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Forgiveness Rock Record
THE NATIONAL - High Violet
THE DEAD WEATHER - Sea of Cowards
FOALS - Total Life Forever
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
FLYING LOTUS - Cosmogramma
SLEIGH BELLS - Treats (mp3)
CRYSTAL CASTLES - Crystal Castles (II)
HOLY FUCK - Latin
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Together (video)
GUN OUTFIT - Possession Sound
MALE BONDING - Nothing Hurts (mp3)
COCOROSIE - Grey Oceans
INDIAN JEWELRY - Totaled (video)
EFFI BRIEST - Rhizomes (mp3)
UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers (video)
THE HOLD STEADY - Heaven Is Whenever
BAND OF HORSES - Infinite Arms
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Shadows
THEE OH SEES - Warm Slime
WOVEN BONES - In And Out And Back Again (mp3)
EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER - Blood And Fire
BORN RUFFIANS - Say It
PHOSPHORESCENT - Here's To Taking It Easy
KAREN ELSON - The Ghost Who Walks
MINUS THE BEAR - Omni
STEVE MASON - Boys Outside
THE CHAP - Well Done Europe
JAPANDROIDS - No Singles (mp3)
FACTORY FLOOR - Untitled
BEACH FOSSILS - Beach Fossils (mp3)
BLITZEN TRAPPER - Destroyer Of The Void
NADA SURF - If I Had A Hi-Fi
RUSSELL CRAWFORD - Floating Aimlessly (video)

Singles

THE NATIONAL - Bloodbuzz Ohio (video)
ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs / Month Of May (mp3s)
LIARS - The Overachievers (video)
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Ego Death EP (video)
HOLY FUCK - Latin America (video)
FOALS - This Orient (video)
BLOOD RED SHOES - Don't Ask (video)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Giving Up The Gun (video)
THE DRUMS - Forever & Ever Amen (video)
BEST COAST - Far Away (mp3)
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Baby Lee (mp3)
PONYS - Deathbed Plus 4 EP (mp3)
KURT VILE - Square Shells EP (mp3)
EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER - Love Turns To Hate (video)
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - This Desert EP (video)
THE VIOLET MAY - Bright Or Better / This Crowd Is Overcrowded (video)
HURTS - Better Than Love (video)
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT - Activate (mp3)
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Swoon (video)
SILVERSUN PICKUPS - The Royal We (video)

Recommended mp3 downloads:

Dum Dum Girls - Bhang, Bhang, I’m a Burnout / Pay for Me
Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure / What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)
School Of Seven Bells - Babelonia
Stars - Wasted Daylight
Versus - Invincible Hero
!!! - AM/FM

As I was saying in my recent review of their thrilling performance in Primavera Sound 10, Dum Dum Girls' debut LP "I Will Be" is filled with future classics. The link above gives you the opportunity to download one of these, the excellent "Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout", along with the also fine non-album track "Pay For Me" (from a limited split-single with Male Bonding). And if this isn't enough Dum Dum-related fun, here's the brand new video for "Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout", directed by Christin Turner who's going to make videos for every track on the album. Something tells me that we'll be seeing these Girls again in here very soon:

Dum Dum Girls- Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout