Special thanks to my good friends at Champion City Records for today's shout out, putting more pressure on me to post regularly. Luckily, I've been itching to share this disco gem for a while now:



Number One Ensemble - Back To Heaven

The bassline on this track is incredible, as are the strings, and the chorus... This could be aural perfection circa-1979, yet somehow this LP remains very hard to find. If anyone can find a link to the full album, I'd greatly appreciate it. For the time being I'm happy to listen to this track over and over and over...

I'm of the belief that Untold can do no wrong (besides that Ed Hardy shirt in his Myspace picture). Proof:

Untold - Just For You

Untold - Anaconda

He's also got a new EP coming out this autumn, previews over at his Myspace.

Emeralds

There are two bands called "Emeralds" from the state of Ohio alone. The first, if you dare to listen, list AC/DC and Cheap Trick as top MySpace friends. The other Emeralds, more down my alley, are a synth and guitar trio who have released more than 40 LP's, cassettes, CD-R's, and CD's in only four years. This year's What Happened falls somewhere between the realms of Popol Vuh, Beaches & Canyons-era Black Dice, and Growing; that means it's melodic, drony, weird, and really beautiful.

Emeralds - Disappearing Ink (from What Happened, 2009)

Woods

Prolific Brooklyn duo Woods have just released another album of psych jams and lo-fi pop on their attention-grabbing Woodsist label (home to releases by Wavves, Blank Dogs, Kurt Vile, Vivian Girls...). The formula is much the same as their three previous full-lengths, although it sounds like they've started to clean up the production a little bit. Here's a little chronology:

Woods - Holes (from How To Survive In/In The Woods, 2006)

Woods - Don't Pass On Me (from At Rear House, 2007)

Woods - Twisted Tongue (from Woods Family Creeps, 2008)

Woods - The Number (from Songs of Shame, 2009)

New Grouper Track

Portland, Oregon native Grouper (Liz Harris) has been putting out excellent tracks for several years now, and her newest piece of recorded material maintains this level of high quality. "Rising Height" comes from a split 7" released to coincide with her recent tour of New Zealand alongside Pumice. It was released on Soft Abuse Records.

Grouper - Rising Height

A bunch of shit I like

Economic speed-ups (in this case my new job) mean blogging slow downs, unfortunately. Still, a couple awesome links of note:

If you've never been to the Donnaslut blog, prepare to be amazed how much time you can waste on it. My incredible discovery of the day was definitely Poopee & The NY Squirrels (a Google search inquired "Did you mean: pee pee & the ny squirrels ") wacky piece of mutant disco Bust That Nut.

Calgary's Azeda Booth have shared their new EP for free on their website. Guilt-free downloads may be made here: http://www.azedabooth.com/ep/

I feel as though I should at least add some other content to this post, so, rediscovered from my Youtube favorites list, a lovely Chromatics tune:

This Week's Much-Hyped Band From Brooklyn Is...

Without a doubt devoted followers of the blogosphere have heard at least one track from Telepathe's new album, Dance Mother, released in January in the UK. North Americans will have to wait until April to pick up a physical copy of the bands debut LP, but we've already been treated to various 7"s, EP's, remixes, and for the privateers, the leaked version of the UK release. Oh yeah, did I mention TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek produced the album? Sweet.

It's hard to choose a favorite track, but I've been enjoying "Lights Go Down" recently, mainly because of the drum machines and Arabian theme:

Telepathe - Lights Go Down

Also found some nice remixes of "Chromes On It" by Mad Decent, The Mae Shi, and Frankmusik:

Telepathe - Chromes On It (Mad Decent Remix)

Telepathe - Chromes On It (The Mae Shi Remix)

Telepathe - Chromes On It (Frankmusik Remix)