Broken Social Scene
Forgiveness Rock Record
(Arts & Crafts)
SOUNDS LIKE: They've done it again with 59 minutes of heartfelt indie rock with a dozen+ musicians, effects, instruments, vocalists and biting lyricism
FREE ASSOCIAITON: Does justice to You Forgot It In People and the self-titled, which is huge!
FOR FANS OF: Metric, Stars, Feist, Beck, Pavement, makeups and breakups
Band of Horses
Infinite Arms
(Fat Possum/Columbia)
SOUNDS LIKE: The Carolinas via Seattle echoey southern rock idols grow and deliver on their third with a tender, thought out record of mid-tempo gems
FREE ASSOCIAITON: Don't let the first single, "Compliments," fool you, this one's got teeth
FOR FANS OF: Sparklehorse, Grand Archives, My Morning Jacket, beards
Gogol Bordello
Trans-Continental Hustle
(American Recordings)
SOUNDS LIKE: The gypsy punk's follow-up to the fame-inducing Super Taranta! is a lot of the same; storms of accordion, fiddles and gravelly accented english
FREE ASSOCIAITON: Didn't Rick Rubin used to produce hip hop records? We're confused
FOR FANS OF: The Pogues, Devotchka, Slavic Soul Party!
Damien Jurado
Saint Bartlett
(Secretly Canadian)
SOUNDS LIKE: Unbelievable batch of stripped-down mystic folk from the Seattle former punk whose gentle voice and earnest songs are gorgeous
FREE ASSOCIAITON: For longtime fans it's business as usual, for newbies it's a welcome gut-puncher
FOR FANS OF: David Bazan, Donavan, Van Morrison, Nick Drake
Pearly Gate Music
Pearly Gate Music
(Barsuk)
SOUNDS LIKE: Debut of NW's Zach Tillman is a sparse, smart and brilliantly executed singer songwriter statement of tempos, moods, and imagery
FREE ASSOCIAITON: If this is what you hear when you get to heaven, it's time for some church
FOR FANS OF: Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, Menomena/Ramona Falls
Sage Francis
Li(f)e
(Anti)
SOUNDS LIKE: Rhode Island white rapper/poet gets some big help on his Anti debut, Death Cab's Jason Walla and Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to name a couple
FREE ASSOCIAITON: Tough to take this guy seriously sometimes; 'OK, you deep, we get it'
FOR FANS OF: Busdriver, Atmosphere, Buck 65, ICP's "Miracles"
Jeremy Jay
Splash
(K Records)
SOUNDS LIKE: LA indie pop newcomer's take on dreamy rock is a meandering, spacey and moody record channeling Buddy Holly and Stephen Malkmus
FREE ASSOCIAITON: This could be the soundtrack of movies; edgy indie ones, though
FOR FANS OF: Modest Mouse, Win Butler/Arcade Fire, The Smell
Widespread Panic
Dirty Side Down
(Widespread Records/ATO)
SOUNDS LIKE: The GA-born stoner jam icons picked up where the Dead left off in terms of making noodly, bluegrass-flavored free form hippie dance fests
FREE ASSOCIAITON: They've been playing together for over 25 years and it sounds it; they old
FOR FANS OF: String Cheese, moe., Blind Melon, O.A.R.
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