People Press Play – Hanging On

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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]

Les Savy Fav mp3s

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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.

What Would Wolves Do [mp3]
The Equestrian [mp3]

Rasputina Interview

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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?

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120 Days – Justine

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DU TRÆNG ITJ Å SKRIV PÅ ÆNGELSK SJØ, IDA. fedt bilde.

Norway’s 120 Days (sometimes we joke around at the usounds HQ and refer to them as ‘Approximately 3 Months’ or ‘17.14 Weeks’, It’s really hilarious) have a new tranced-out, fuzzy EP called Sedated Times out on Tuesday.

Justine [mp3]