Fans who were excited to hear the new songs during The Flaming Lips‘ spectacle of a live show this summer can now hear the official versions as their latest, Embryonic, hits stores in a deluxe edition this week, including a fur box set! (Why didn’t Blitzen Trapper think of that?):
Springing forth also this week are new progeny from KEXP favorites like Grant-Lee Phillips, Forro in the Dark, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, We All Have Hooks for Hands, The Heavy, and the long-awaited and excellent sophomore release from Engineers. Interesting debuts arise this week from The Temper Trap and Neon Indian as well as Bad Lieutenant, not the full frontal Harvey Keitel-fronted ultra-violent movie (though it’s the spark of inception for it), but the new project of New Order’s Bernard Sumner. Check out the full list from Largehearted Boy. Oh, and if it’s immaculate births you’re into, the Bob Dylan Christmas album is indeed a reality and can be yours now. Here are the rest of the highlights:
Ah Holly Fam’ly – All Unfolding (MP3)
from Reservoir on Lucky Madison
Bad Lieutenant – Sink Or Swim
from Never Cry Another Tear on Triple Echo Records
Barzin – Nobody Told Me (MP3)
from Notes To An Absent Lover on Monotreme Records
Bear in Heaven – Wholehearted Mess (MP3)
from Beast Rest Forth Mouth on Hometapes
Beaten Awake – Coming Home (MP3)
from Thunder$troke on Fat Possum
Engineers – Clean Coloured Wire
from Three Fact Fader on Kscope Music
The Flaming Lips – I Can Be A Frog
from Embryonic on Warner Bros.
Forro in the Dark – Perro Loco (MP3)
from Light A Candle on Nat Geo
Har Mar Superstar – Tall Boy (MP3)
from Dark Touches on Dilettante Records
The Heavy – Sixteen
from The House That Dirt Built on Counter Records
Jon & Roy – Another Noon (MP3)
from Another Noon (self-released)
I Was Totally Destroying It – Come Out, Come Out (MP3)
from Horror Vacui on Greyday Records
Lackthereof – Safely in Jail (MP3)
from A Lackthereof Retrospective 1998-2009 on Film Guerrero
Erin McKeown – The Foxes (MP3)
from Hundreds Of Lions on Righteous Babe Records
Mean Creek – Strange Man (MP3)
from The Sky (or the Underground) on Old Flame Records
MV & EE – Summer Magic (MP3)
from Barn Nova on Ecstatic Peace
Neon Indian – Terminally Chill (MP3)
from Psychic Chasms on Lefse Records
The Parlour Steps – Little Pieces (MP3)
from Hidden Names on Nine Mile Records
Grant-Lee Phillips – It Ain’t the same old Cold War Harry (MP3)
from Little Moon on Yep Roc
Finn Riggins – Wake (Keep This Town Alive) (MP3)
from Vs. Wilderness on Tender Loving Empire
Shelley Short – Time Machine Submarine (MP3)
from A Cave, A Canoo on Hush Records
Sole and the Skyrider Band – Battlefields (MP3)
from Plastique on Fake Four Inc
The Temper Trap – Science of Fear
from Conditions on Glass Note
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster (MP3)
from Know Better Learn Faster on Kill Rock Stars
Thomas Function – Belly of the Beast (MP3)
from In the Valley of the Sickness on Fat Possum
UltraChorus – Scarlett Eyes (MP3)
from Ultra-Def on So TM
Imaad Wasif – Priestess (MP3)
from The Voidist on Tee Pee Records
We All Have Hooks for Hands – Made Up of Tiny Lights (MP3)
from The Shape of Energy on Afternoon Records
2 Comments
Great selection; thanks.
I wonder why you leave the links for the media files with the generic “MP3″ where you might as well “hide” the link behind the artist & title name, thus enabling playlist oriented add-ons succh as Yahoo Media Player or Foxy Tunes to display more meaningful information while the file is being played
Thanks for the suggestion. Enjoy the free music!