PPP joke around about tossing a few dead bodies into the Baltic Sea after plundering a small village in full Viking gear.
Despite the flimsy band name, People Press Play (from Copenhagen, Denmark) has been described as stripped-down intimate shoegazer music. Their self-titled album was released on Tuesday and you can stream more tracks on the band’s MySpace.
Hanging On [mp3]
Semi-amorous Les Savy Fav pic jacked from MySpace
Let’s Stay Friends is Les Savy Fav’s first album in 6 years and features: Enon, Eleanor Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces), Nick Thorburn (Islands), Emily Haines, Joe Plummer (Black Heart Procession), Fred Armison, and voicemails from fans. New album out September 18th.
New York’s gothic chamber pop band, Rasputina, is led by classically-trained cellist Melora Creager. Creager spent the last two years scouring over daily world events and adapting them into new songs that may be found on Rasputina’s sixth full-length album Oh Perilous World! recently released on June 26th. Melora was kind enough to answer a few questions for usounds about the new album and tour.
usounds: Can you describe what the two years of your life was like? Will your next album feature current events, or was that too depressing?
Melora: I lived in NYC. I read a lot about climate change, then Hurricane Katrina happened, and I did not want to live in a city anymore. So I moved to the country, got used to that extreme switch and worked on the album all the while. I didn’t find it depressing. Opening my eyes to the world today called me to action in lots of ways. I won’t limit or predict what I’ll write about.
usounds: You wrote a song based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 in New York. Since you are originally from Kansas, a state that has some fairly notable past events, do you ever see yourself writing a “shout out to your homies” song about William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas or something like that? Or do you not get back to Kansas all that often?
On September 25th, 2007 Arts and Crafts will release In Our Bedroom After The War, the new album by Stars. You know what else starts here? Beautiful Skin.
The Night Starts Here [mp3]
Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew’s solo album Broken Social Scene Presents: Spirit If… comes out September 18th. The following song- TBTF sounds very BSSesque.
TBTF [mp3]
