Playlist: Season 3, Episode 5

This episode includes playlists 3.14, 3.15, and 3.16; a preview of upcoming albums by Interpol, Baths, and best coast; a spotlight on the 2010 180 South soundtrack; and a vinyl listening of The xx's 2009 LP xx.

3.14

1. Mr. Peterson - Perfume Genius - Learning
2. Summer - Magic Kids
3. 100 - Keepaway - 100 [7'']
4. Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans - Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
5. Here - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
6. Little Brown Haired Girl - Frankie Rose and the Outs

7. Say No to Love - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Say No to Love [7'']
8. Girls with English Accents - Fergus & Geronimo
9. Saturday Morning - Slow Animal

10. I Died So I Could Haunt You - Stars - The Five Ghosts
11. All We Are - Bjork & Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenberg Orca
12. South Carolina - Tennis

R. My Girls - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
R. Little Yellow Spider - Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo

UP NEXT
13. Lights - Interpol - Interpol (To Be Released Sept. 14, Matador)
14. Hall - Baths - Cerulean (TBR July 6, Anticon)
15. Boyfriend - Best coast - Crazy for You (TBR July 27, Mexican Summer)

OFF THE RECORD I: The xx - xx [LP], Side A, Tracks 1-6
Intro
VCR
Crystallised
Islands
Heart Skips a Beat
Hot Like Fire

3.15

16. I'm Not the One - The Black Keys - Brothers
17. Art House Director - Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
18. Anyone's Ghost - The National - High Violet

19. Blacking out the Friction - Death Cab for Cutie - The Studio X Sessions
20. Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk - The New Pornographers - Together
21. What I Wouldn't Do - A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage

22. Where Do My Bluebirds Fly - The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
23. Spitting Venom - Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
24. The Outpouring - Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South

25. Flume - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
26. Fire Escape (Sitek Remix) - Fanfarlo
27. Psychic City (Voodoo City) - YACHT - See Mystery Lights

THE SPOTLIGHT SPOT: (various artists) - 180 South [Soundtrack]
28. Coconut Flakes - Love as Laughter
29. Journey Through the Past - James Mercer
30. Wave Goodbye - Ugly Casanova

OFF THE RECORD II: The xx - xx [LP], SideProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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, Tracks 7-9
Fantasy
Shelter
Basic Space

3.16

31. What You Want - coasting - Jap Tape
32. Sun - Caribou - Swim
33. Real Love - Beach House - Teen Dream

34. Pow Pow - LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
R. Tell 'Em - Sleigh Bells - Treats
35. Windowsill - The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
36. Pittsfield - Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche

OFF THE RECORD III: The xx - xx [LP], Side B, Tracks 10-12
Infinity
Night Time
Stars

Season 3, Episode 5

This episode includes playlists 3.14, 3.15, and 3.16; a preview of upcoming albums by Interpol, Baths, and best coast; a spotlight on the 2010 180 South soundtrack; and a vinyl listening of The xx's 2009 LP xx.

Album Review: Dom: Sun Bronzed Greek Gods [EP]

First chorus: “It’s so sexy/Living in America.” Second chorus: “Burn bridges/Make yourself an island.” Third chorus: “Gimme gimme/Something to believe in.” Throw in the inscrutably shiny haze of synthesizers, and you’ve got the brand of indecipherable ingenuousness that’s always in style, but, lucky for us, Dom has so much cool grace that doesn’t really matter doesn’t really matter.

7/10
Released May 1, 2010 on Burning Mill Records

Follows...a couple other summer shoegaze indie acts.
Precedes...the future irreconcilable divorce of indie music and summer fun.
Spoils...the emotional revelations of all your favorite movies.

Highlights:

Burn Bridges


Jesus


Hunny

Album Review: Sleigh Bells: Treats

Remember that time you were an elementary school badass? Yeah, well, apparently Sleigh Bells does. Mixing air raid guitars with bubble gum vocals might’ve been a gimmick. Instead, it’s a genre-conscious leviathan that rarely forgets its confidence. About 30 seconds of my day is spent wondering why it isn't Slay Bells.

8/10
Released May 11, 2010 on Mom & Pop Records, N.E.E.T. Records

Follows...the culture that came before it.
Turn the volume...down. It's gonna be loud anyway.
Start your own...mainstream.

Highlights:

Rill Rill: Short list for best song of the year.


Crown on the Ground: Find out who your friends really are in the initial wail before the beat.


A/B Machines: Raw and untouchable.

Album Review: Stars: The Five Ghosts

The Five Ghosts compromises Stars’ trademark lyrical theatrics with omnipresent synths, creating what is, at best, a nonchalant melodrama, and, at worst, a trite mess. Everyone takes themselves too seriously sometimes, and, when that self-indulgence does strike, it's not even a matter of staying restrained or self-aware—Stars thrive when they're neither. It's a matter of sounding honest and memorable. Also, what’s the point of having Amy Milan in your band if you turn her into a chipmunk?

4/10
Released June 21, 2010 on Vagrant

Follows...the unseamlessly political 2007 "In Our Bedroom After the War"
Listen instead to...their 2004 masterpiece "Set Yourself on Fire"
When there's nothing left to burn...you have to set yourself on fire.

Highlights:

I Died So I Could Haunt You: Oh yeah, and most of the album is about death.


Wasted Daylight: A nicely complex spin on their usual healthy/unhealthy relationship theme.


Changes: My favorite track here, and the most straightforward.

Playlist: Season 3, Episode 4

This playlist includes the mixed CDs 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12, as well as TV on the Radio's 2008 LP Dear Science. Songs requested live during the show are marked with an "R." Line breaks are talk breaks. Dinosaurs really did exist. Isn't that wild?

3.10

1. Come Home - Chappo - Plastique Universe [EP]
2. Some Dresses - Dananananakroyd - Hey Everyone
3. Treeton - Fang Island - Fang Island (Dig)
4. Davy Crockett - Fang Island - Fang Island (Dig)
5. Riot Rhythm - Sleigh Bells - Treats
6. Walking Through That Door - Future Islands

7. You Are One of the Few Outsiders That Understands Us - Fanfarlo

OFF THE RECORD I: TV on the Radio - Dear Science [LP], Side A, Tracks 1-3
Halfway Home
Crying
Dancing Choose

8. Criminals - Atlas Sound - Logos
9. Time - Beach Fossils - Woodsist [7'' Single]
10. Learning - Perfume Genius
11. Cold War (Nice Clean Fight) - The Morning Benders - Big Echo
12. Didn't You - Cloud Nothings - Didn't You [7'' Single]

UP NEXT
13. Oh the Wolves! - Forest City Lovers - Carriage (To Be Released June 29, 2010)
14. Post Acid - wavves - King of the Beach (TBR August 3, 2010)
15. We Used to Wait - The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (TBR August 3, 2010)

OFF THE RECORD II: TV on the Radio - Dear Science [LP], Side A, Tracks 4-6
Stork & Owl
Golden Age
Family Tree

3.11

R. Sea Lion Woman - Feist - The Reminder
16. Evening Kitchen - Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
17. Conversation 16 - The National - High Violet
18. Sentimental X's - Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

19. Here's to Now - Ugly Casanova - 180 Degrees South [Soundtrack]
20. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzales
21. Despicable Dogs - Small Black

R. Walkabout (featuring Panda Bear) - Atlas Sound - Logos
22. Silver Soul - Beach House - Teen Dream
23. Sleep All Day - The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
24. The Sound - Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle

25. 2080 - Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
26. Black Sheep - Suckers - Wild Smile
27. Forever and Ever Amen - The Drums - The Drums

THE SPOTLIGHT SPOT: Wolf Parade - Expo '86
28. Oh You, Old Thing
29. Yulia
30. Pobody's Nerfect

R. Cannibal Resource - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
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V on the Radio - Dear Science [LP], Side B, Tracks 7-9
Red Dress
Love Dog
Shout Me Out

3.12

31. Saturday - Built to Spill - You In Reverse
32. Lust for Life - Girls - Album
33. Thoreau in the Woods - Ha Ha Tonka - New Sounds of the Nouveau South
R. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer - Odd Blood
OFF THE RECORD IV: TV on the Radio - Dear Science [LP], Side B, Tracks 10-11
DLZ
Lover's Day

Second recorded show. The plot thickens....

Season 3, Episode 4

Tonight's episode features previews of new music from Forest City Lovers, Wavves, and The Arcade Fire; a spotlight on Wolf Parade's new album "Expo '86"; and a vinyl listening of TV On The Radio's 2008 "Dear Science" LP.