New York – This mix is full of musical love that goes beyond Valentine’s Day, encompassing all the different ways to feel passionate about something, whether it’s science, adventure, new and old relationships, and recognizing that sometimes you’re just too busy to think about any of that mess. In recent coverage, Liz reviewed So Long, See You Tomorrow, the fourth studio album from Bombay Bicycle Club, citing it as their most experimental release yet. I caught up with Total Slacker for a new interview, and in new single releases, below are a few choice cuts.
Eternal Summers are releasing a new album, The Drop Beneath, next month and playing Baby’s All Right March 4. They also made a dream-like video for their dreamy song “Gouge.”
New Obsession” is the new single from Toronto post-punk band Odonis Odonis, off forthcoming album Hard Boiled Soft Boiled, out April 15 via Buzz Records.
Skating Polly is a Oklahoma City, OK punk/rock/pop band formed by stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse from an impromtu jam at a Halloween party in 2009. Now, at the ripe old ages of 13 and 18, they craft their songs by “messing around with our instruments and figuring out how to make cool noises,” according to Bighorse.
Memphis punk band Ex-Cult honed their sound in dive bars across the US, touring nonstop since 2012. Their new release Midnight Passenger is out on Goner Records April 29, with the title track as the first listen.
NYC experimental indie rockers Yellow Ostrich shared new track “Any Wonder,” off their upcoming LP Cosmos, a reference to Carl Sagan’s PBS series.
Little Racer’s “Dancing” is like when The Drums came out with “Let’s Go Surfing” – simply fun and hard to resist.
NYC via Tel Aviv duo Hank & Cupcakes have a new single, “Cocaina” off upcoming Cash For Gold album, written for a documentary called ‘The Bolivian Case,’ about cocaine trafficking from Bolivia into Norway, hence the Spanish title. The video was shot almost entirely with iPhone camera footage of touring and around Brooklyn.
Montreal synth-pop band How Sad covered Blood Orange’s “It Is What It Is,” infusing more synth into the original groove, and keeping it blissed out.
Hollow & Akimbo recently released their self-titled debut full length, and shared second single “The One Who Has To Carry You Home,” a catchy dose of electronic pop.
Tracklist:
Eternal Summers – “Gauge”
Total Slacker – “Ships At Bay”
Odonis Odonis – “New Obsession”
Skating Polly – “Alabama Movies”
Ex-Cult – “Midnight Passenger”
Hank & Cupcakes – “Cocaina”
Yellow Ostrich – “Any Wonder”
Little Racer – “Dancing”
How Sad – “It Is What It Is” (Blood Orange cover)
Hollow & Akimbo – “The One Who Has To Carry You Home”
Bombay Bicycle Club – “Carry Me”
BONUS VIDEO: Tacocat’s hilarious Beach Party-themed cut for “Crimson Wave”
