JENS LEKMAN - NIGHT FALLS OVER KORTEDALA
After a lot of singles, EPs, CDRs and two albums compiling some of this previous staff for Secretly Canadian, we can say that this is the first international record with new songs by Jens. And it has all the ingredients that we've seen before in his recordings: Seventies lounge, winds, kaleidoscopic cheesy lyrics, and some great pop tunes.
ANGELS OF LIGHT - WE ARE HIM
Ex Swans' Michael Gira comes back with a new record from his most recent project, helped by some members from Akron/family as some times before but with his best record under this name. As he explains in his website the album was supposed to be simple and basic but ended up calling a lot of friend to contribute in the final orchestration and choruses that accompany to the personally dark voice that Gira has.
THE GO TEAM - PROOF OF YOUTH
With the new record The go team get more noisy than before. This is the basic difference from the previous record. From the title to the Bull in the heather cover that they make on the b side of the first single, they look now so influenced by Sonic Youth, apart from all the 70s/80s funk, old school hip hop and soundtrack stuff that we are used to. They know that their formula was good for a record but they had to do something a bit different not to repeat themselves, and the difference is not so big, but effective.
SPOKANE - LITTLE HOURS
Spokane is one of this bands that you forget from record to record(they take their time to make them)but you love every record they make. Not many new things on this album, maybe the songs are a bit shorter now, but they keep playing with the vocal harmonies (with more feminine presence in Little hours) with ambient sounds and well-placed silences, leaving a pleasant atmosphere all around your bedroom, the place that this record is designed to be listened to.
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