The space suits are put away, the starship’s in the shop and Christabelle has brought pop to the control station. Lindstrøm has joined forces with the artist formerly known as Solale, Christabelle again for his newest project. Form to Follow reviews (for the first time)
Swedish folk singing sisters in First Aid Kit has announced the release of their first album named The Big Black & The Blue. The album is due January 25th.
Christmas is just around the corner, and I guess Hans Petter Lindstrøm is getting in the christmas spirit. Pitchfork announced a couple of days ago that Lindstrøm is to release an 40 minute long epic space disco rework of ” little drummer boy”.
Texan Alan Palomo and his Lo-Fi Synth pop project Neon Indian released “Psychic Chasms” mid october to great reviews. The heavily 80’s influenced album can be mentioned alongside the likes of Cut Copy,Chromeo and MGMT.
British songwriter Ellie Goulding has been circulating the blogosphere for quite a while now. Following the footsteps of fellow brit girls in Little boots, La Roux and Bat for Lashes her infectious electro pop is set to be the next indie favourite.
Finally we can hear something new from James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem.Their new track “Bye Bye Bayou” is a cover of Alan Vega/Suicide and its not going to be on their new album set to release early 2010. However it might be a taste of what to come.
There were many music hearts blown away by the English two-piece, Benjamin John Power & Andrew Hung’s debut album last year. Experimental electronic noise has never felt so catchy. Fuck Buttons are now ready to let their second noisy baby into our ears. One half of the band, Andrew, answered some of the things we were wondering.
Legendary designer Peter Saville talked about Banksy, St Martins and designing for kate moss at the D&AD presidents lecture this march.
The third part of this more or less regular column. The videos that caught our attention since the last collection includes a bit more varied stuff. The new Kings of Convenience video, a bit of animated identity work by Buro Knapzak and lots of other inspiering and cool clips.
NYC based designer Brian Thomas has just launched The Mixtape Club whose goal is simply to share and discover good music.
The vampire movie series Twilight has released the tracklisting for their ‘New Moon’ Soundtrack and its filled with indie goodness. Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Thom Yorke and a collaboration between Bön Iver and St. Vincent is just some of the artist featured.
Vampire Weekend have finally given us a release date for their second album. After a busy year and a half headlining festivals around the world with their selftitled debut album, its time to hear something new from these guys. The new album titled, ‘Contra’ will be released on January 12, 2010.
Fever Rays next single from the album “Seven” is due for release October 5th. It will include remixes by Crookers, Martyn, CSS, Marcel Dettmann, Seth Troxler and Nick Chacona. A limited edition 7″ is also out. It contains two covers. “Stranger than Kindness” by Nick Cave and Anita Lane and “Here Before” by Vashti Bunyan.
Former Metronomy member Gabriel Stebbings left the band earlier this year to focus on his own band, Your Twenties. And it seems that he’s off to another direction. Your Twenties has a different sound than his previous electro-pop band. This is more straight up british pop rock.
It’s been pretty quiet around Metronomy for a while now, but it probably hasn’t been so quiet for the band. They have been touring the world with their “Nights Out”. and are soon to release new stuff, including a brand new new EP. Get a preview here!
