Nice to hear new music from Brit folkie Beth Orton; her last LP came out 3½ years ago. Also nice to hear piano ballad “Reach For The Sky” as Judee Sill never recorded it but left behind sheet music. Stream the cut from tribute comp Crayon Angel (out 9/22) here.
Nostalgic one-woman girl-group Dum Dum Girls is pairing previously enjoyed songs — “Jail La La” and “Baby Don’t Go — on the Sub Pop single in advance of her Jail La La LP. As far as new material, hear a demo of lovesick, sock-hopping “Over The Phone” at MySpace.
The last dispatch from Air’s Love 2, the effervescent “Sing Sang Sung,” would have made a lovely cruising-on-a-summer’s-day video. (Instead the French men paid homage to platform videogames.) If we were playing director’s chair quarterback again — and with music as visual as Air’s, it’s a fun game — “So Light Is Her Footfall”’s wah guitars and string synth patches would soundtrack a short built of film-noir intrigue, perhaps a private dick following a lovely mademoiselle as she lightly steps down shadowy corridors all alone alone alone alone alone alone alone. Dunckel and Godin don’t explain why they suddenly start talking about her footfall in the past tense later in the song, but that’s what we have videos for.
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The debut LP from Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), M. Ward (She & Him), and Mike Mogis (Saddle Creek VIP) is streaming. Album’s out 10/22 and they play Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit with No Doubt, Chris Martin, and Sheryl Crow 10/24.
The impeccably attired psych-pop crew plays Thrillist & Refinery29’s party at NYC’s Santos Party House tomorrow. There will be new songs, theatrics, and hopefully a Taylor Momsen sighting. Here’s your chance to attend. Winners will be notified tomorrow AM.
