Album streams on album streams. Dirty Projector’s “Swing Lo Magellan” is also out today! Check it out and read an interview via The New York Times.
“There’s a certain amount of pressure I think that you feel, as the band gets more popular, to be consistent or something like that and make the shows sound like the album. But sometimes the reinvention or the inconsistency is the beauty of it.” - David Longstreth
More from Dirty Projectors here.
Remember last week when we didn’t know anything about Frank Ocean’s sexuality and thought his album was dropping on July 17? Us neither. The erstwhile Odd Future member and current R&B crooner’s debut Channel Orange is out, now, in fact, and it’s sensational. Starting with lead-in “Start” and then transitioning to “Thinking About You” (my favorite song of his; that falsetto, my God, in concert every single one of us closed our eyes tight and squealed along, some kids even falling to the dirt on their knees to grind as low as the track demands) the album then unfolds into a series of anachronistic songs reminiscent of Stevie Wonder and at other times, D’Angelo, all the while punctuated by jazzy, vaguely neighborhood noise interludes. And then of course there’s times when Ocean is simply Ocean, as if his music has no influence, rapping slow, cursing, snapping fingers, drawling, harmonizing himself. What results is a beautiful, windblown journey into soul, funk, top 40 and even yacht rock waters, all the way to the “End” (the last track, natch). Hear it all for free, and then, you know, buy it.
More from Frank Ocean here
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LETS OPEN THIS FUCKING PIT UP.
LETS CLEAN THIS FUCKING PIT UP.
STAY SPOTLESS
STAY SHIRTLESS
SUBURBAN SOAPSCUM, CLEANCORE
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It’s that time of the year again. From our executive editor, Mr. Carter Maness, the best and brightest of this year :
To me, 2012 has been about a return to basics. There’s less laptops, less reverb, less half-formed BS. Both rappers and bands have re-found an organic yet technically-sharp rawness that seemed lacking in recent years. These are my favorite songs (on both RCRD LBL and beyond), as well as what I think are the best albums. Explore with two playlists – one for Spotify, one all RCRD LBL free MP3s.
Albums
Beach House - Bloom
Lee Hazlewood - LIH Years (Reissue)
The Walkmen - Heaven
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Fiona Apple - The Idler The Wheel…
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram (Reissue)
Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Blue Chips
Rick Ross - Rich Forever
Burial - Kindred EP
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Peaking Lights - Lucifer
Lower Dens - Nootropics
Black Dice - Mr. Impossible
Liars - WIXIW
Songs
Kendrick Lamar - The Recipe (feat. Dr. Dre)
Ex Cops - You Are A Lion, I Am A Lamb
Beach House - Lazuli
Daughn Gibson - Tiffany Lou
Chromatics - Lady
The Walkmen - The Love You Love
Nas - The Don
Kanye West - Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz)
Lower Dens - Brains
Lotus Plaza - Monoliths
Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know?
Meek Mill - Amen (feat. Drake)
For those of you sans Spotify - a YouTube list with fun videos!
RCRD LBL Songs
DIIV - Geist
Frankie Rose - Know Me
Ty Segall & White Fence - I Am Not A Game
Quantic & Alice Russell - Here Again
Future Of What - I Wait For You
Willits & Sakamoto- Completion
Eric Copeland - Tarzan etc.
Grimes - Oblivion
^ don’t forget these songs are all free to download! just click that “download track” button under the artist name.
(Source: divideandfall, via pitchfork)
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