albums of the last weeks

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
The first album from this New York band is a compendium of songs that can remind when JAMC matter, mixing the best of the Psychocandy era with the industrial sounds of Automatic and accelarating and doubling the volume. Maybe they don't have great songs but they have a great sound.
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - TO FIX THE GASH IN YOUR HEAD





APPARAT - WALLS
The last Apparat album is his most accurate collection of songs, talking about the classic concept of pop song, covered in an electronic environment. What a shame that he chose one of the weekest instrumental songs for the video
APPARAT - YOU DON'T KNOW ME





BEIRUT - THE FLYING CLUB CUP
The only problem of Beirut's second album is his first album, but not even that. When you have a so particular sound and voice you maybe can fall into repetition and what was a great idea for a first album can be the death of the second coming, but it looks like it didn't happened to Beirut. The second record is even better than the first one, and we can see that the sound is not exhausted and they are already trying to find new ways of expression without doing something completely different. And the songs are great, inspired and thay filter deaply inside your veins from the first listening. Watch this magnificent performance in one of the Take away shows for the French Website.
BEIRUT - NANTES





BLACK LIPS - GOOD BAD NOT EVIL
Garage is back. Remember The Cynics or even more far away on time, The 13th Floor Elevators? So here we have Black Lips resurrecting the label with succesful fortune and a fame for beeing banned from some venues because of their wild shows.

BLACK LIPS - KATRINA



DEVENDRA BANHART - SMOKEY ROLLS DOWN THUNDER CANYON
The new Devendra record is a consequence of his previous album, the Cripple Crow. Far from the acoustic bittersweet songs of his first three records he continues exploring electric passages and different styles. He discovered his own "The Band" and it didn't fit him so well. The album is too abstract, with the feeling you are listening to a compilation of jams and with hard to diggest moments too inspired but The Doors and other boring bands. But it also has some great songs like Bad Girl that makes you keep the faith not everything has been lost
DEVENDRA BANHART - SEAHORSE



LITTLE DRAGON
At the beggining of this year a great single appeared in a really small London label. This was Little Dragon's Test, and it has been spinning in my turntable since then. Now is time for the record and the waiting has been rewarded with a beautiful collection of soul pop electronic songs filtered with dub and jazz and one of the most personal voices since Tricky's muse Martina.
LITTLE DRAGON - TEST



OKKERVIL RIVER - THE STAGE NAMES
A lot of good things have already been said about this record, most of them in Pitchfork. This record is the logical progression in the ascending career of this band that everytime is less complexes about playing louder. Here you have the unstoppable hit that everybody is going to know by the end of the year.
OKKERVIL RIVER - OUR LIVE IS NOT A MOVIE OR MAYBE