Good Christian Men Rejoice, the new five-track holiday EP by the Parenthetical Girls is reason to rejoice. The Portland based outfit is giving it away for free or on a pay-what-you-want basis via their bandcamp.
We’re making it our Christmas soundtrack. Here’s the excellent second track off it, ‘Rejoice! Rejoice!’
London based singer-songwriter Rozi Plain has unveiled a delightful video to accompany the song ‘See My Boat’, lifted from her second album Joined Sometimes Unjoined, released recently via Fence Records and Need No Water Records. Chris Turner directed the video, watch it now.
Earlier this month and as we previously mentioned, Superhuman Happiness released the original soundtrack to the critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film How To Survive A Plague, written and co-produced by the septet’s own Stuart Bogie and Luke O’Malley and featuring special guests Kronos Quartet as well as compositions by Arthur Russell.
Superhuman Happiness have unveiled a new clip from the documentary and the accompanying music is described by Stuart Bogie as an “urgent piece that was written to reflect the dire circumstances, the fragility of life, and the tenderness of the home treatment.” Proceeds from the soundtrack will go to the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
In other related news, Superhuman Happiness’s debut full-length album, Hands, will see the light of day on March 5th via The Royal Potato Family. We already heard the incredible and catchy lead single, ‘See Me On My Way’, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more.
Now here’s the clip from How To Survive A Plague.
To celebrate the festive season, Portland’s quintet The Ocean Floor are offering a cover of ‘Toyland’, the theme from Victor Herbert’s operetta “Babes in Toyland”. The song comes with an accompanying video, directed by Kurtis Hough, who had previously directed the incredible video for ‘My Shelf‘, off Falling Star Castle.
The Ocean Floor describe the new effort as a “festive technicolor dreamland”. Watch it below.
The Ocean Floor’s recently released album Falling Star Castle quickly conquered our hearts and is one of our Album Picks of the Year. You can get it now digitally and on tape via Single Girl, Married Girl.
Last month, we heard the majestic ‘Tall Tales’ from Human Pyramids‘ debut release Demo. The outfit led by multi-instrumentalist Paul Russell has unveiled a video to accompany the track, made by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Watch it below.
Here’s a little treat from AK/DK, the duo of Graham Sowerby (drums and synths) and Ed Chivers (drums and synths) based out of Brighton, UK. The pair are currently recording and mixing their debut album, slated for an April 2013 release. Ahead of it, they’ve decided to drop a taster in the form of a free EP entitled RnRnR, featuring a couple of new tracks, an older one and two remixes they’ve done.
Listen below to ‘Great Scott!’ and ‘Toucan Tango’, two high-powered and infectious tracks from the EP. And head over to AK/DK’s bandcamp to grab your download of RnRnR.
