Beach House’s album Teen Dream is out now. They’ve managed to get a well produced clean cut album without sacrificing any of the character that made their old stuff so good. Norway is the first single, and it’s as good as you’d expect and more.
Out on Mistletone in Oz, Sub Pop elsewhere.
This is the best dance track (in any of the zillions of sub-genre’s of modern dance music) i’ve heard in quite some time.
Ruf Dug is also known as Some Freak and this amazing cut is out on The Popular People’s Front.
I hope you got to see King Khan touring Australia recently, because I didnt 
I Wanna Be A Girl is from the excellent The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shrines album. Buy it here.
I recently dug out The Easybeats Absolute Anthology on vinyl from my dads collection, and discovered some gems like the album opener For My Woman. Showing a slower, more down-beat psychedelic side of The Easybeats, that you’d never hear if you only went as far as their classic pop singles like Friday On My Mind.
Love Connection’s debut self-titled album is out tomorrow (Jan 30) on Sensory Projects. I’m listening to it right now, and damn its just brilliant. Loose, trancy indie pop with a lot of heart. Don’t be fooled by the lead single I Know You’re Real, things get a lot weirder…. you’ll find yourself off with the fairies in no time. My favourite so far, Trilogy, clocks in at 6:23 and is posted here for your listening pleasure. There’s a distinct innocence to this album that is really uplifting.
Feel good pop here from the best named band of 2010 (the whole year – early prediction), Happy Birthday. They’re already signed to Sub Pop and touring with Vivian Girls and they’ve only got 830 total plays on their myspace. This song just feels great, simple as that. Can’t wait to hear the album.
Sydney’s Songs are just getting better and better. My Number is the closing track from their self-titled debut album that came out late last year on Popfrenzy. Over 6 minutes and it doesn’t let up…. feels like more like a jam than a recording. Great stuff.
More warped lo-fi drum machine pop, this time from Brooklyn’s Small Black.
1995
Auckland, New Zealand’s 1995 continue their excellent dark-wave post punk stuff here with their latest single Polar Rapid, which is split 7″ with Brisbane’s DZ. A slight change in vocal style here from their previous stuff, and it really works for them.
Polar Rapid, and their previously released Guilt EP, are still available directly from the bands myspace.
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