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sharks moved on quickly from 2012′s no gods, getting right back in the studio and putting out another quality album in a year’s time. selfhood comes to you by way of rocksound, who are hosting the full stream a week before its release. head there to read a track by track commentary, and of course, jam the record.
selfhood is out april 29/30.
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sharks – selfhood [full album stream]
-grizzly
welllll, fucking finalllly! thanks to those nifty pitchfork advance streams, you can hear chvrches’ recover ep down below. it’s about damn time too – i was almost over this band. no, those are lies. they were fantastic at sxsw and i’ll probably travel 2.5 hours to see them again on their upcoming tour.
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have you got 36 minutes for 12 tracks of unadulterated power pop? you’re fucking right you do. let michael benjamin lerner lead the way with a full stream of his april 2nd-due album as telekinesis, dormarion.
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- sunbear
on april 2nd, new york’s caveman will be releasing their sophomore album caveman, the follow up to 2011′s ice-t cautionary tale coco beware. i’m pleased as punch to tell you that the band are streaming the wistful synths of new album in full over on npr. check it out below.
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- sunbear
with the massive influx of those hyper-sexual, avant-r&b singers (the weeknd, miguel, inc.) it’s a little too easy to get lost in the shuffle of 808 orgies. lucky for arthur ashin, a.k.a. autre ne veut, his disarming falsetto stands out above the rest. stream his new album anxiety, due out next week, in full over on pitchfork advance.
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- sunbear
atoms for peace, a.k.a. thom yorke’s band (how the hell do you get that label when radiohead continues to exist?) have their february 25th-due debut album AMOK streaming in full in the media player below. add to that this very cool atoms for peace website that integrates a screenshot of every website that links to it and you’ve bot yourself a stew, baby!
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- sunbear
“this record is a little more rooted in the new wave shows i used to sneak in to see when i left school – not directly, but in terms of the energy, the shadow of the memory of that” said former smiths guitarist johnny marr on his debut lp the messenger due out on february 26th.
hit the link below to stream the album, which included the wicked-awesome and previously heard songs “upstarts” and “the right right thing“, below.
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- sunbear
today’s throwback foray into the 1980′s comes courtesy of a full album stream of swedish ensemble shout out louds’ optica, due out on february 26th. hear the album below via the npr linkery.
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- sunbear
thurston moore is not one to sit still, even eafter the indefinite hiatus of the 30 year career sonic youth. enter his latest venture into jagged guitar squall chelsea light moving. stream the self-titled debut album, out on march 5th, at the npr link below and hit the jump for a list of the band's national tour dates which include a run at sxsw.
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chelsea light moving – chelsea light moving
- sunbear
at only the cost of another profile on another social media site, this one being the new myspace, you can stream jamie lidell’s latest avant electro-funk album jamie lidell. but don’t worry about losing your “i haven’t logged into myspace since…” cool – the new myspace is its own thing with its own login. i wonder if tom will still friend me…
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- sunbear
pitchfork advance has the goods on screaming females’ home recordings compilation chalk tape, due out next tuesday. the new brunswick band took a no frills, balls-out approach to the writing process this time around saying “we attacked each of these ideas and quickly recorded them with absolutely no rewrites.” give a listen to the seven-track album below.
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screaming females – chalk tape
- sunbear
a full two weeks ahead of its feb 13th release, pitchfork is streaming veronica falls’ second album of hazy 90′s guitar jangle, waiting for something to happen. stream the album below.
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veronica falls – waiting for something to happen
- sunbear
the guardian has got an exclusive stream of scottish power-folk band frightened rabbits’ grandoise new album pedestrian verse, out officially on feb 5th. get a taste of scott hutchinson and co.’s fourth album at the link below.
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frightened rabbit – pedestrian verse
- sunbear
rolling stone has dibs on the full album stream of tegan and sara’s dancefloor-ready new album heartthrob, which you can stream at the link below. the album is out next tuesday on warner bros.
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- sunbear
