Mouth’s Cradle is the eletronica project of Kevin Hegedus and Brandon Linn, they both go under pseudonyms with Kevin Hegedus as Mouf and Brandon Linn as BLinn. It began while Hegedus was studying music composition at Syracuse Univeristy. Alone he recorded two EPs until he approached Linn to add something else to the project. The short amount of material ranges in sound from the handclap-laden acapella track ‘Man O’ War’ and pretty much bare recording that feature only vocals loops to the simple lo-fi guitar rock of ‘Beach Tales’. Some of the material features rapping that makes me think of early Why? material with Yonni Wolf alone recording the tracks, some of the material also sounds like Neutral Milk Hotel like ‘Huffy Henry’ with guitar distortion and then brass coming in near the end. The duo are currently working on an album trying to combine Hegedus’ lo-fi laptop-diy recordings with some of Linn’s more electronic influences. You can learn more about Mouth’s Cradle on myspace. You can download more of their track on their Facebook page.

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Owen Pallett has finally gotten around to completing his third album. After releasing two EPs last year, he will be releasing his new album on Domino, which he recently signed to. It will be titled “Heartland”. It features the Czech Symphony, Matt Smith, Gentlemen Reg, Nico Muhly, and the Arcade Fire’s drummer Jeremy Gara. It will be released on January 12 and it is a concept album, Owen Pallett states in the press release: “The songs themselves form a narrative concerning a farmer named Lewis and the fictional world of Spectrum. The songs are one-sided dialogues with Lewis, a young, ultra-violent farmer, speaking to his creator.” The world of Spectrum was also featured on his 2008 EP, “Spectrum, 14th Century”. The record was mixed by Rusty Santos, who produced Animal Collective’s “Sun Tongs” and Panda Bear’s “Person Picth”. You can see the cover above and the tracklisting below.

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LCD Soundsystem has announced via their Facebook page that they will be releasing their new album in March with a tour coming afterwards. The band’s last album “Sound of Silver” was released in 2007. James Murphy and co. have been recording in Los Angeles this past summer. All that was written on the Facebook page was: (more…)

Austrialian electronic rock band Pivot have covered Warp labelmates Grizzly Bear. Of course being fascinated by all things Grizzly Bear I had to listen to this. Out of the many easier songs that they could have chosen to cover, ‘Knife’, ‘Two Weeks’, they chose one of the compelling tracks from their classic 2006 release “Yellow House”. The cover was recorded last year in November for Warp’s 20 Anniversary release “Warp20 (Recreated)”. It stays fairly true to the original version of the track not the nine minute live version. Full of reverb with the piano, the build-up and extended jam section are given synths with added vocals. You can download the cover below.

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Luke Temple’s band that originally began as a solo project has signed to the label Secretly Canadian. Here We Go Magic previously released their self-titled debut on Western Vinyl. The band is currently working on their second album which will be released sometime next year in the Spring. Here We Go Magic toured with Grizzly Bear earlier this year.

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Neko Case has announced some new tour dates for this Fall in the US. The tour dates will almost all be in the months of November with one of the dates in October. She recently finished a tour of the UK and Europe on September 19. This has been a big year with her album “Middle Cyclone” hitting #3 on the Billboard Charts. On October 10 she will be on Garrison Keillor’s A Prarie Home Companion and on October 17 she will be interview by Sasha Frere-Jones at the New Yorker Festival. You can see the tour dates below.

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The Raveonettes have released a video for their track ‘Last Dance’ from their latest “In and Out of Control“. The video was directed Matthew Lessner, who was also responsible for the Dirty Projectors’ video for ‘Stillness Is The Move’. ‘Last Dance’ has been chosen as the lead single from the album. The video is very lo-fi the couple featured are shown on all these dates, the best seen is the surfing scene where they see the dolphin and a giant wave is right behind them. You can watch the video below.

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