polaroids

the tremulance ~ polaroids (lonely robot, 2009)

the tremulance is jamison who lives and studies in chilliwack, canada. 'polaroids' is his debut album and contains (awesome) electropop tunes that he's been working over the past years. in the beginning there was only sound but after some time he decide to add some voice.
throughout the album it's possible to hear electro, idm, indie rock, folk and shoegaze coming and going... beautiful and original tunes with (sometimes) beats and blips and (sometimes) instrumental interludes. as jamison says: "i like to make electronic songs; some are meant to make you dance, but some are meant to make you feel a little sleepy."
15 songs talking about "nights spent dancing with friends, heartbreaks, missing loved ones, missing the ocean and the now infamous dance trap which actually occurred".
a great balance between experimentalisms and emotional dance floor melodies.



01. we'll settle this on the dance floor
02. i will show you rain
03. smash your keyboards
04. you got the girl (feat. lights)
05. synthesizers make kids dance, right
06. the frustrations of dealing with the socially inept
07. i thought i'd forget you...
08. ...but i overthought it
09. dance trap
10. the sounds i missed out on
11. the smaller things
12. trackless (feat. the emerson letters)
13. where are we now?
14. song for tom fox
15. it still gets dark here far too early

here's the (awesome) video for dance trap



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resolen problemes

sedaiós ~ resolen problemes (gandula, 2009)

sedaiós is from barcelona and started as a duo that used to get together to do everyday things. as they say on their myspace: '... a group to spend time for those moments that seems you're doing something but in fact your just waiting (while you wait the washing machine clean your clothes, boil the water for pasta or download an episode of dexter).' in moments like this, cristian and gaia used to grab their ukeleles and play.
after some time they felt a need for more rhythm and asked jordi (that also plays with joe crepúsculo and la bien querida, among others) to join them... he arrived with a wide variety of maracas and small percussion instruments. the last members to join the band wwere elena, a common friend that played saxophone and wanted to practice and rafa, also in the horns section.
this is their first album and is filled with happy, optimistic and summerish tunes about usual everyday things. the melodies are extremely precious with delicate arrangements. you'll probably get yourself singing 'pa pa ra pa pa' or clapping in almost every song.
they sing in catalan and french (which makes everything even more interesting)... in fact it's possible to hear some melodic references to french chanson in tracks like 'ingrid & humphrey' or 'reveiller avant toi'.
an album filled with a happy naivety or a naive happiness, feel free to choose which one suits you best. urban and yet organic, full of blue skies and clouds resembling smiles.

(ps: it's ok if you feel addicted for 'bam bam', 'resoldre problemes' and 'perdo el cap').



01. els vells
02. bam bam
03. ingrid & humphrey
04. resoldre problemes
05. reveiller avant toi
06. històries, llibres i cançons
07. elena
08. perdo el cap
09. aquesta nit


here's a video taken from the release concert of the album...


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la estrella de david

la estrella de david ~ la estrella de david (el ejército rojo, 2007)

i've talked about david rodriguez before:
1. has a solo project called la estrella de david
2. the guy behind the production of 'romancero', debut album of spanish indie sensation la bien querida;
3. member of indie band los beef
4. has a duo project with (the also great) joe crepúsculo.
well, you can see by the number of music projects he's a very prolific guy.

back in 2006 - if i'm not mistaken - i found a demo from his solo project 'la estrella de david'... and fell in love completely.
i remember that on the winter of 2007 i went on an eurotrip with two friends and, while we were in barcelona, i couldn't stop listening to his songs. in the same year, he released his full lenght.
what i think is wonderful about him is the ability to make music from diferent styles but always with a catalan spirit. and he has been doing it in a brilliant way (musically and lyrically).
david it's in a place on the spanish music scene that can only be taken by him but yet there's a will of never stop, always go ahead and never settle.
almost twenty songs recorded at home, telling what's going on and what to dream about. sometimes looking inside (deep inside), sometimes outside.
a strong mixture of rock and indiepop, lo-fi, disonant sounds, surprising arrangements and (of course) catalunya.



01. tremendas amazonas
02. fin de año
03. no és fácil
04. la chica más guapa de españa
05. no hacia falta
06. pipak jaten
07. tu lo tienes que saber
08. bellísimos
09. música industrial
10. la catalana
11. david
12. popeya es presidente
13. vejaciones en la costa
14. lost of fun
15. mientes
16. felices fiestas
17. tremendas amazonas (versiómn sosegada)
18. la seleción natural

No hacía Falta


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lyssna

avner ~ lyssna (sincerely yours, 2009)

one of the most interesting artists nowadays in sweden. a mix of twin peaks, ambient, shoegaze, pop (of course) and balearic music.
his figure is quite enigmatic... he describes himself as the yellow artist, always showing off yellow stripes on his cheeks. the bare chest also is almost a trade mark.
hard to digest at first but lyssna contains 28 minutes of pop mastery and a song (bed för mig) that could be this summer anthem for its delicious beats.




01. en gul värld
02. känslor
03. du & jag
04. bed för mig
05. jenny
06. besatt
07. lämnar
08. ljuset



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walkin' under trees

acorn boys ~ walkin' under trees (holiday records, 2009)

(probably) the first release by holiday records, this new indiepop label that releases, every friday, a new single for our downloading pleasure. as they say on their website: "holiday records is a bunch of old friends keeping in touch by recording songs about the times we had together, and new friends writing songs about other things..."
well, just the engagement of making it happen makes me love them...
acorn boys is a previous band from jacob, now on horse shoes and the drums; and justin, on church library.
they've only recorded two songs and left one unfinished and decided to stop working together due to differing opinions on music.
"in the spring of 2006 justin was packing up his recording studio and moving from orlando back to ohio. it was a stupid idea, but acorn boys never would have happened without it. the night before he left he sat down with jacob and together they wrote a song that people claim is "the greatest song ever written." justin quickly pulled his recording gear out of it's packed boxes and in less than two hours they finished recording the song "walkin' under trees." (from their myspace)

'walkin' under trees' is a beautiful pop song with acoustic guitars, three keyboard notes and a slow paced percussion that gives an ethereal mood to the song.
'we'll always have each other' comes with guitars, beats and a wonderful melancholic melody that reminded me of princess niko.
a bit of 80's indie rock and sarah records, a bit of 90's indie pop and flirtations with balearic sounds (specially on percussion sounds) and heartfelt electropop. lovely...



01. walkin' under trees
02. we'll always have each other

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