Saturday, September 03, 2011

New Releases: July - August 2011

Now that we're all back to business, it's time to catch up with all the latest interesting album and single releases of the last couple of months, just to make sure that nothing important slipped under the radar while we were all too busy with our summer plans:

Albums

STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS - Mirror Traffic
THE HORRORS - Skying
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER - Last Summer
BEIRUT - The Rip Tide
MOONFACE - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
WOODEN SHJIPS - West
MALE BONDING - Endless Now
SHE KEEPS BEES - Dig On
THE COOL KIDS - When Fish Ride Bicycles
WASHED OUT - Within And Without
CSS - La Liberacion
CRYSTAL ANTLERS - Two Way Mirror
SCREAMING TREES - Last Words: The Final Recordings
CEREBRAL BALLZY - Cerebral Ballzy
WIDOWSPEAK - Widowspeak
BALAM ACAB - Wander / Wonder
SOFT METALS - Soft Metals
MARIA MINERVA - Cabaret Cixous
THE WAR ON DRUGS - Slave Ambient
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
I BREAK HORSES - Hearts
LITTLE DRAGON - Ritual Union
KANYE WEST & JAY-Z - Watch the Throne
LIL WAYNE - Tha Carter IV
WU-TANG - Legendary Weapons
ZOMBY - Dedication
DIMBLEBY & CAPPER - Choose Your Head
MIRACLE FORTRESS - Was I The Wave?
RICHARD BUCKNER - Our Blood
WOLF GANG - Suego Faults
GOLD-BEARS - Are You Falling in Love?
BRILLIANT COLORS - Again and Again
ARMY NAVY - The Last Place
BROWN RECLUSE - Evening Tapestry
THE MEN - Leave Home
ARAABMUZIK - Electronic Dream
RAZIKA - Project 91
PURE X - Pleasure
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS - Hollow
MEDDICINE / ASSS - Split
PICTUREPLANE - Thee Physical
SLEEPER AGENT - Celabrasion
HARD-FI - Killer Sounds
AZARI AND III - Azari and III

Singles & EPs

CULTS - Go Outside
HTRK - Eat Yr Heart / Sweetheart
GRINDERMAN - Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man
ARCTIC MONKEYS - The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
VERONICA FALLS - Bad Feeling
HOLD KISS KILL - Neon Girls / Death Pleasures
TOM VEK - Aroused 
WILCO - I Might / I Love My Label
BRIGHT EYES - Jejune Stars
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH! - Same Mistake
BATTLES feat. GARY NUMAN - My Machines
BEASTIE BOYS - Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win
BJORK - Cosmogony
CAT'S EYES - Over you
CSS feat. BOBBY GILLESPIE - Hits Me Like A Rock
THE VACCINES - Norgaard
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - Heavy Abacus
YUCK - Shook Down
WASHED OUT - Eyes Be Closed
VONDELPARK - NYC Stuff And NYC Bags
SPANK ROCK - Energy
BLACK MILK - Brain / Royal Mega
XENO & OAKLANDER - Staircase
DANGER MOUSE & DANIELLE LUPPI - Season's Trees / Rose With A Broken Neck
STILL CORNERS - Cuckoo
BLEEDING KNEES CLUB - Have Fun / Bad Guys
GRASS WIDOW - Milo Minute EP
PYLON / DEERHUNTER / CALVINIST - Cover + Remix
BRAID - Closer to Closed EP
LOVE OF EVERYTHING - Sooner I Wish
DOM - Family of Love EP
S.C.U.M. - Amber Hands
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Gizzard
AUTRE NE VEUT - Body EP
RAZIKA - Why Have We To Wait
HOLLIE COOK - Remember (Walkin' in the sand)
JENNY & JONNY - Animal
RICHMOND FONTAINE - Lost In The Trees
SOCIAL DISTORTION - Gimme The Sweet And Lowdown
THE FLAMING LIPS feat. LIGHTNING BOLT - I Wanna Get High But I Don't Want Brain Damage

And as a fall preview, here's the track that made my week: listen and download below "Bedroom Eyes", the first proper single off "Only In Dreams", Dum Dum Girls' sophomore album. The track, according to Dee Dee, is "a special sort of confusion and frustration brought on by lack of sleep". Enjoy:

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