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Favourites: 7/12

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Space Ghost - 3 Weeks

 
We're putting this here so someone raps over it. Do a good job please. Space Ghost's debut LP You're There is available through Astro Nautico Records.

 Dirty Projectors - Just From Chevron Fuck it, we love the whole thing.

With the release of Swing Lo Magellan, Dirty Projectors continue to shuck expectations, emerging three years after oh-nine’s opus Bitte Orca with something completely different and entirely captivating. Magellan, Dirty Projectors’ fourth effort as a full band, is their most instantly accessible record, combining the rich complexity of previous releases with a more personal, slightly less grand approach to songwriting. Even better, we hear the outfit’s leader David Longstreth having fun, something that the previous records didn’t capture. Most (successful) bands attempt to progress as artists from album to album, aiming for positive, forward movement in their approach. At least since Rise Above, the band’s 2007 interpretation of Black Flag’s Damaged, Longstreth and co. have been working on an unmatched creative plane, moving laterally in their sound and producing killer albums wherever they go with it. 

JEFF the Brotherhood - Six Pack

I've said it before and I'll say it again: There should be more songs called Six Pack. If we discount the Dirty Projectors' rendition of Greg Ginn's ode to beer, there's 31 years in-between JEFF The Brotherhood's version and the one off Damaged. That's not a world I want to live in. Hypnotic Knights, JEFF's follow-up to 2011's We Are the Champions, came out 7/11.

Lost Sounds - I Get Nervous

Since his death in 2010, Jay Reatard's legacy has experienced the garage version of Michael Jackson syndrome. Last Spring, Memphis-based Goner Records re-released his first album with the Reatards, Teenage Hate, while this March saw a limited theatrical release of the feature-length documentary Better than Something. On July 17, Goner releases Lost Lost Demos, Sounds, Alternate Takes & Unused Songs, a self-descriptive compilation of one of Jay's first bands Lost Sounds, proving that Jay Reatard was the undisputed King of the Garage from 1998-2010. Pour some beer out for him.

Hot Chip - Don't Deny Your Heart

One Life Stand (2010) is a great dance record from a year with a lot of great dance records. And Hot Chip followed up nicely with this year's In Our Heads, out on Domino Records. Don't Deny Your Heart cops from Thriller for an amazing bridge - and in the album's strongest single moment- shifts simply from the minor bridge to a gorgeous major chorus.