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  • First Look (and Free Download!) Yeasayer’s “I Remember” Video and EP

    The fourth single from ”Odd Blood”
    For Valentine’s Day this year, the indie-popsters Yeasayer delivered a heart-shaped (or rather head-of-an-aging-biker-shaped) box of nostalgic synth-pop candy in the form of the fourth single from their 2010 sophomore album Odd Blood. The song’s called “I Remember” and in addition to delivering a typically strange/gross/cheesy/beautiful video (not quite as distractingly icky as their last), the band has made a three-track EP of the song available for free download. Awwwwww. How sweet, right?

    The EP contains the original album version of the song along with two remixes. The first, by Painted Palms (who posted their own free EP a couple months ago), is a small-but-lovable psychedelic trifle. At just under three-and-a-half minutes, it doesn’t go much of anywhere, but it sounds cool enough. But the second remix, by the Belgian house dj duo Villa is an eight-minute widescreen epic of digital-age longing – a sonic Doctor Zhivago for the Facebook set – built around the song’s original structure and vibe (no thumping club beats here!) but heightening its atmosphere and drama with patterns of glitches and loops to make the whole thing feel like a night spent alone in a city apartment, watching the nightlife below as it happens without you, and wishing upon a falling drunk that the phone would ring.

  • Awesome Free Download! Buffalo Tom “Bones” EP

    Buffalo Tom’s ”Skins”
    Buffalo Tom, the venerable Boston indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Bill Janovitz, is getting set to release their 8th studio album, their first since 2007’s truly awesome “reunion” album Three Easy Pieces. The new album’s called Skins and it’s set to hit stores next month, but in anticipation of the record’s release, the band has posted an EP of live acoustic(-ish) performances, including “Arise, Watch” from the new album, “CC and Callas” from their last one, and their 1993 college radio hit “Treehouse”, along with a rambling but touchingly heartfelt take on the New Order classic “Age of Consent” that will have Counting Crows kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. You can see video of all four performances below. You can also click below for a link to download the Bones EP:

  • The Daily Awesome – January 31, 2011: “Blizzard of ’78” by Ida (2001)

    \’\’The Braille Night\’\’, 2001

    A couple weeks ago, friend of SonicClash and Popblerd blogger Mike Heyliger asked folks to name songs about snow that weren’t Christmas songs. Here’s one of my favorites – “Blizzard of ’78” by the indie rock quartet Ida. This 7 minute epic was the centerpiece of the group’s 2001 album The Braille Night. The song is as stormy as its title would suggest, driven forward by an endlessly repeated descending chord progression pounded out on a piano over groaning strings and a noisy snare-and-cymbals rhythmic attack. And as singers Elisabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton, and Karla “k.” Schickele sing the song’s chorus – “You’re a thousand miles from here, you just want to disappear” – in beautiful, shifting, increasingly urgent harmonies, you can almost feel yourself trudging down a snow-covered city sidewalk face-first into a punishing, icy wind. In other words, it sounds just like what a blizzard feels like, even if the lyrics seem less about snow and more about someone trying to overcome stage fright. But it’s the evocation that counts, right? And it’s probably one of my Top 10 favorite songs of the last decade. Click the link below to give it a listen for yourself:

    Blizzard of 78