Toronto band Bravestation released a new track yesterday ‘Tides of the Summit’, it’s taken from their forthcoming debut LP Giants & Dreamers. The band announced the details of the album yesterday, which is to be released on July 10 – 2 years after their 2010 EP and perfect timing for some summer listening.
‘Tides of the Summit’ follows on in the similar chilled vibe of ‘Signs of the Civilized’, with the ever present Tribal feel, evident in everything down to the lyrics. If you’re a fan of Wild Beasts you may dig these guys.
Giants & Dreamers is available to pre-order here (‘Tides of the Summit’ is available for free).
Passion Pit are back! Today they debut a new song – “Take a Walk”. The track is taken from Gossamer, the band’s follow up album to Manners & Chunk of Change EP. Gossamer will be released on July 24.
Today see’s the unveiling of some new music from Canadian favorites Metric. They announced their new album Synthetica a while back, it’s got a June 12th release date.
‘Youth Without Youth’ is the first track to be released from the album, Emily Haines & Co. haven’t strayed too far off the beaten track, but it’s a punchy number that will have you hitting repeat. More than enough to keep fans occupied until the album release.
Florence + the Machine unveiled a new track yesterday, titled ‘Breath of Life’ -it’s to be featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming Kristen Stewart film, Snow White & The Huntsmen. It’s got a seriously cinematic vibe to it – which makes sense, seeing as it’s soundtracking a pretty epic looking film.
The track is available to download today in Ireland here.
This friday’s weekend tunage is a remix by the ever wonderful RAC. Theme Park are a band we first featured back in 2011, and a plenty of times since then. Their latest single ‘Two Hours’ is the first track to be released off their forthcoming debut album, but the song we’re featuring below is the remixed version of the track by RAC. It’s got a laid back party vibe perfect for a Friday. ‘Two Hours’ is pretty darn cathy in it’s own right, check out the original version of the single after the jump.
I’ve had the pleasure of catching Dublin’s Ships twice recently. Once as they played support at Jape’s leaving gig and then again last week at an intimate little set in Pygmalion. I was mightily impressed on both occasions. They’re a three piece with a great late night sound. There’s an almost Kraftwerkian edge to their hypnotic sound, which is augmented by the subtle dual vocals of Simon and Sorca. They’ve got The Naked and Famous’ boy girl dynamic but the sound that surrounds it is of a more meaty variety than our Kiwi friends.
At both gigs the crowd were doing dancing! Not like the gig shuffle but proper dancing! Ships seem to have something that works well as a live (crowd all facing the band) gig, or as floor filling dance. If it’s something they’ve done on purpose it’s clever!
Below is their solo Souncloud effort to date Two Hearts, but there’s more to come from Ships very soon, they’ve got a double a-side coming, click here for details.
Today sees the unveiling of ‘Heaven’, a brand new track from The Walkmen and the timing is pretty fitting. It just so happens that I spent the last week delving back into the band’s back catalogue and wondering when we were going to get a new album from them again. A few days falling back in love with tracks such as ‘We’ve Been Had’, ‘The Rat’ and ‘In The New Year’ was time well spent. It’s kind of crazy to think that they’ve been around for 10 years.
‘Heaven’ is also the title of the new album. In a recent write up on the Fat Possum artist page, the band reveal that with this new record they’re aiming to make a bigger, more generous statement. The album is set to be release June 5th on Fat Possum.
Pre-order: iTunes | Vinyl & CD
Serious contender for pop album of the year? I think so. (via hypem)
