Today's
Quick Mention: Tonight I'll be seeing the highly
anticipated Terminator Salvation, and I have to admit
that I'm kind of nervous about it. I hope it's good.
Here's an EP to help get the week going.
Enjoy.
:Raised
By Robots - True Romance:
If you only listen to the swirling two minutes that make up
the beginning of this track it's easy to imagine it working
only as a instrumental effort, but I think the atmospheric
nature of the vocals add a lot and really make it worth
remembering. The band is based out of San
Francisco/Oakland, so be sure to watch out for them touring
the West Coast in support of their recently released
Disorganization Will Save Us All EP.
:Boxharp
- The Green:
I find it interesting when producers actually release
efforts of their own, so I was more than happy to check out
Scott Solter's (he has worked with John Vanderslice,
Okkervil River, the Mountain Goats and many more) work
as Boxharp. Scott doesn't actually do the vocals here
(it's Wendy Solter with some rather ethereal work), but he
is responsible for the unsurprisingly well crafted
arrangement. Way to be good for you, Scott! No
release date was mentioned in the email, but I do know that
this is the title track.
:The
Twilight Sad - Reflection Of The Television:
It's been a couple of years since the Twilight Sad's debut
Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters, but I still
remember (probably because I still listen to it) the
excellent single That Summer, At Home I Had Become The
Invisible Boy. This song isn't as noisy, but it
does continue to showcase their penchant for epic and
brooding pop tunes. Not exactly sure when they'll be
putting out Forget The Night Ahead, but my guess is
late summer.
:Sinkane
- Apache Beat:
This guy, who spends much of this time touring as the
drummer for Caribou, Of Montreal and Born Ruffians, has
somehow found the time to ready a follow-up to last year's
Color Voice. I've only heard this song, which
is six minutes of beat driven snazziness, so I don't know if
all of the new full length is instrumental or not. I'm
hoping it isn't, but that's mostly because I loved the song
Autobahn (from the last album) so much. The self
titled effort will be out later in the year.
:Cage
The Elephant - Tiny Little Robots:
"When you gonna fire it up!" The first four tracks in
today's EP aren't exactly what I would call body movers, so
I figured this Kentucky-based band and the rambunctious
nature of this song (it's off of their recently released
self titled full length) could do the trick. Just make
sure you're ready to experience an incessant need to ingest
candy and run in circles until you get dizzy.
- John Laird -
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