best for guests. jeremy underwood (gold-bears)

Gold-Bears' album Are You Falling In Love? (released via Slumberland), was one of the highlights of 2011.
The band was formed in 2010 by Jeremy in Atlanta, and before their debut album, released two highly praised 7''s singles (on Magic Marker Records and Cloudberry Records).
Their 'crash pop' resonates early Slumberland, The Wedding Present and kids hanging at a parking lot.

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Here's Jeremy's 2012 favourites.














The Garlands S/T LP Shelflife
Terry Malts  Killing Time LP Slumberland
Allo Darlin' Europe LP Slumberland
Edine Avec Lisle Mitnik et son Orchestre 7" Elefant
Liechtenstein  Fast Forward LP Fraction Discs
Lightships  Electric Cables LP Geographic
Merchandise Children of Desire LP Katorga Works
Veronica Falls S/T LP Slumberland
The XX Coexist LP Young Turks
Joanna Gruesome Do You Really Wanna Know Why Yr Still in Love with Me? 7" HHBTM
Deep Time S/T LP Hardly Art
Music Tapes  Mary's Voice LP Merge
September Girls Wanting More 7" Matinée
The School Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything LP Elefant
Mount Eerie Clear Moon LP P.W. Elverun & Sun, Ltd.

best for guests. ed wood lovers

Ed Wood Lovers is a band from Cuenca (Spain) making music that spans from electronics to folk and guitar driven indie pop.
Since 2007, they have released 4 demos, a single for Elefant Records (containing songs from their 2010 album Lesiones Cerebrales).

A new album - to be considered their proper debut - is set to be released in early 2013.


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Here's Ed Wood Lover's contribution... a review of the best spanish album of 2012, in their opinion.


HIDROGENESSE UN DIGITO BINARIO DUDOSO: RECITAL PARA ALAN TURIN

Spanish electropop masterpiece.

Hidrogenesse, the Barcelona-based synth duo, released earlier this year their most pretentious album to date, a conceptual eight song mini LP about one visionary man whose revolutionary ideas changed our relationship with machines fifty years ago. Big effort for an impressive result: a tiny but polished gem.

Following the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, Hidrogenesse give away in “Recital para Alan Turing” a perfect balanced tribute to the English computer genious. The music, full of electronic highly enjoyable sounds and non-straight-forward but nevertheless catchy tunes, and the lyrics, a wide palette of references to Turing’s life and works and computer generated thoughts (incredibly beautiful “Historia del Mundo contada por las máquinas” ends the album as a perfect cherry on top), transport the audience to a world in which Kraftwerk are Gods and computers are as alive as human beings or at least as we let them be. After all this, you will never look at your laptop in the same way.

Far away from Spanish’s mainstream but at the same time keeping indie spotlights aside from them, Hidrogennesse have found the way of keeping their status throughout the years  by doing exactly what they want and when they want to. Don’t you ever change.

best for guests. lachlan (the ocean party)

The Ocean Party is a band now based in Melbourne, Australia. Their music is a mixture of laid back indie pop filled with australian breezy nostalgia and cool guitar hooks. Sometimes the indie pop meets elements of post rock.

Social Clubs is their latest album and it was released last October.


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Here's The Ocean Party's frontman, Lachlan:

...I figured I would make a list of BEST AUSTRALIAN RELEASES for the past year.

Scott & Charlenes Wedding / Peak Twins Split LP

Twerps Work It Out 7''
New Estate Recovery
Grand Prismatic Birds & Beasts LP
Boomgates Double Natural LP
Bitch Perfect Big Time LP
Pageants Dark Before Blonde Dawn LP
Milk Teddy Zingers
Hot Palms EP
Dick Diver Alice EP

best for guests 2012

Remember last year when we had dozens of guests making lists, picks and reviews about the year in music?
The experience was really fun and had to comeback this year... it is a way to celebrate the year in music bringing together different artists and labels from different places to share their thoughts about the year in music (or their year with music).

Starting this weekend: BEST FOR GUESTS 2012

(In case you don't know what I'm talking about, see the 2011 edition here)

ununiversalizable us

THE VERY MOST UNUNIVERSALIZABLE US (little treasure, 2012)

I love the consistency of great tunes that The Very Most delivers... I mean, they're a band that I don't follow super super closely, but every time something new is released, I'm reminded of how good their playful, easygoing indiepop finesse can be.


Ununiversalizable Us is their latest and it was released last month via Spain's Little Treasure.



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