Baths

Baths is just one guy, on the Anticon record label (WHY?, Alias, Dosh etc.).

He crafts some awesomely off-kilter, beat-heavy, sometimes-instrumental pop tunes.

Will Wiesenfeld's music has been described as the bridge in the gap between chillwave (a genre headed by Neon Indian, and coined by Carles of hipsterrunoff.com) and J Dilla (the late, underground Messiah of beatmaking).

I'm not sure if that's an accurate description, but i can't really come up with a better one. I just know i love it. And he's got a really pretty falsetto to boot.

New album, Cerulean, due June 22nd, on Anticon (anticon.com).



Hear 3 new songs at
myspace.com/bathsmusic

WHY WONT BLOGSPOT LET ME HYPERLINK???

Lotus Plaza

is the solo project of Lockett Pundt, who is also the guitarist of popular indie band, Deerhunter.

His music is very hazey/dreamy and similar to the work of Bradford Cox, whose projects include the aforementioned Deerhunter as well as Atlas Sound. In fact, it seems that they might be musical kindred spirits.

I just learned that Lockett wrote and sang my favorite song, Agoraphobia on Deerhunter's last LP, Microcastles.

Here's a working link for Lotus Plaza's full-length album, The Floodlight Collective, released earlier this year on Kranky records.

This album is absolutely beautiful.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QJHA5KV1

Support the artist for just $8.99 on amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/LotusPlazaLP

Gold Panda

So yes, another artist with Panda in the title...though Panda Bear is actually the only other one I can think of. This...sounds absolutely nothing like Panda Bear though. In fact, this artist sounds nothing at all like Panda Bear. I know that was redundant, but i really wanna drive that point home.

Check him out here: http://iamgoldpanda.com or here: http://www.myspace.com/goldpanda

It's kinda housey, but it's so much more than that. Dubsteppy in parts, i suppose, though i really don't think i'll ever really know what constitutes dubstep. He's from the UK, and currently unsigned I believe. I wonder if he's friends with the guys from Mount Kimbie. Track 2 of the Miyamae EP reminds me of some of the sounds they use.

GOLD PANDA - Back Home from NO-FACE Films on Vimeo.

Buy it from here: http://bleep.com

Bibio

One of the newest acts signed to Warp records, Bibio used to be mostly ambient sun-soaked (sorry if that description doesn't make sense) guitar recordings...with his new album, Ambivalence Avenue, he shifts drastically between that style and the more cut & pastey stylings of such artists as Hudson Mohawke, and even incorporates some pretty vocals on quite a few tracks. Hard to pin this one down as anything in particular...

Check out the track Fire Ant:
http://www.myspace.com/mrbibio

Here's some video of him messing about with his MPC:
The MPC & I

2 Hype Bands not getting enough Buzz

Or 2 Buzz bands not getting enough Hype. I can't decide.

The Antlers....from Brooklyn, they're like a more introverted Grizzly Bear. And that's the least lazy description i could muster after a 1 month absence of blogging. What can i say, I'm pretty fucking lazy. I'd make an excuse, but i don't feel like it.



Listen to them here: http://www.myspace.com/theantlers

Who else...oh Woods.

They've got a little bit of a lo-fi Built to Spill sort of feel. Kind of remind me of Bon Iver a little bit too. Maybe a little bit of that home-made feel of Okay. You don't know who Okay is. That's....Okay. :)

New album is called Songs of Shame. Album cover looks like this:

http://www.myspace.com/woodsfamilyband

Japandroids

2 piece band out of...Vancouver.

Guitar and drums, but those guitars are fuzzy as fuck!!!

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