Enjoy the calm. The storm’s heading your way over the next two weeks with releases from Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand, A.C. Newman, Antony & the Johnsons, Bon Iver, and more. For now, you can fill in the gaps of your vinyl collection with re-issues of M83, Dead Can Dance, Lemonheads, The Jam, and many others. This week also sees good ol’ Arthur Lee getting some...er, love... with a couple of remastered reissues from Friday Music. Other highlights on Largehearted Boy’s list include the new solo album by The Hold Steady keyboardist and moustacheer Franz Nicolay, Malian singer Rokia Traore, young Brit synth rockers Late of the Pier, and a few others you can sample below.
Angil + Hiddntracks - Narrow Minds (MP3)
from Ouliposaliva on Chmikal Undrground
East Hundred - Slow Burning Crimes (MP3)
from the self-released Passenger
Friendly Foes - Get Yr Sh*t Together (MP3)
from Born Radical on Gangplank Records
Hooray For Earth - Take Care (MP3)
from the self-released Hooray For Earth
Late of the Pier - Heartbeat
from Fantasy Black Channel on Astralwerks
Lymbyc Systym - Lotan Baba (MP3)
from Carved By Glaciers EP (reissue) on Magic Bullet
Franz Nicolay - Quiet Where I Lie (MP3)
from Major General on Fistolo Records
The Silt - No Twig (MP3)
from Cat’s Peak on Fire Records
Rokia Traore - Dounia
from Tchamantche on Nonesuch
