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mp3 of the Day – Of Montreal

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Of Montreal’s 8th full legnth album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? was released on Tuesday.

Here’s what Polyvinyl has to say about the album, “It’s an irresistible and remarkable album, sounding like a logical extension of the erratic indie-disco sounds of The Sunlandic Twins. However, Hissing Fauna is also the most personal of Montreal album to date, with Kevin Barnes, lead of Montreal songwriter, pouring tremendous amounts of emotion, heartbreak, frustration and elation into its twelve tracks.”

Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse mp3
Stream Album:  Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

 

New Young Pony Club EP [Modular Interscope]

| Mary Mulholland

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Rating: 7.0

In the same spirit as Brazil’s CCS, British indie-electronic quintet New Young Pony Club is silly, irresistible fun. The clipped guitar chords, synth melodies and irresistible beats of their single “Ice Cream” demand booty shaking as much as its goofy, sexual metaphors (“drink me like a licker, come and dip your dipper”) make for the perfect, sassy sing-along. It’s no wonder the single sold out in the UK in three days and is no doubt destined for the sweaty, after-midnight throb of many nights to come. Their self-titled EP even includes the video for “Ice Cream”, in which the band’s three female members bop coyly atop a giant globe of rainbow-colored licorice (“I can make you ice cream, we can be a sweet team”), cat-sized dollops of whipped cream form a carousel around the drummer, and mounds of pink cotton candy loom behind stoic, mustachioed boys on bass and guitar.

New Young Pony Club Video and EP Stream

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Menomena Friend and Foe [Barsuk]

| William Cremin

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Rating: 7.0

After listening to Friend and Foe several times, you may still find yourself pondering exactly what to think of it. Perhaps you’ll consider your admiration for the experimental streak that the gentlemen of Menomena exhibit. Perhaps you’ll express some reservations about their kitchen sink approach to instrumentation and arrangement. Perhaps, after some time, you’ll come to accept the disorienting songwriting technique and the quirky, scattershot charm that it aspires to. It wouldn’t be an unreasonable sequence of reactions.

Stream Friend and Foe on Barsuk
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UK-Only Annuals EP

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Photo by Meaghan Montagano

The Annuals’ new UK EP Big Zeus will be released January 29th in the UK only.  The imaginary US version will be called You Can Suck It Big Time since there really won’t be one.  The EP will include the previously unreleased “Misty Coy” and “Ease My Mind” which was released as the B-side to the Brother 7″ and can be streamed on MySpace.  Also, tour dates with The Dears on Ace Fu.

Stream New Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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That’s right.  You can now stream the ENTIRE new CYHSY album on MySpace.  All 10 songs, including Underwater Yo!  Or, pre-order Some Loud Thunder on insound and receive the digital version of the album now for free.  This is so nuts it’s like someone had a plate of crazy for breakfast.

New Kaiser Chiefs Stream

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After predicting an ‘accident,’ The Chiefs use an innocuous-looking tennis game as decoy for a few maimed dead bodies given the concrete bath treatment

The new Kaiser Chiefs album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob, will be released March 27th on Universal.  Here’s the lead single from the album called “Ruby“.

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