The Ocean Floor offer first taste from upcoming album

23 September 2012

Portland based quintet The Ocean Floor are set to release their new full-length album Falling Star Castle later this year.

Speaking about the forthcoming album, which has been in the works for almost two years, The Ocean Floor said it “sounds like a ghost playing drums and spitting fireworks out of his mouth”.

Falling Star Castle,  due out on November 27th, will be available digitally and on tape via Single Girl, Married Girl.

The outfit led by multi-instrumentalist and singer Lane Barrington has just unveiled the first cut ‘Big Screen TV’, a gorgeous and heartfelt song filled with beautiful and unpredictable melodies and arrangements.

In the words of The Ocean Floor,  ‘Big Screen TV’  “is the beginning of a story about imagination’s undertow, romantic daydreams slipping on like a mask, fairy tale expectations, confrontations with perfection.”
Listen to it below, and to entice you even more, listen to their previous efforts on bandcamp.

Metronomy set to release Green Room EP in October

21 September 2012

Metronomy have announced the release of a new EP entitled Green Room.
The new effort, due out on October 1st, features an unreleased track, ‘Anna on Drums’, and four remixes of ‘Loving Arm’ by Metronomy’s own mastermind Joseph Mount, Prins Thomas, Get a room and Bullion.

Get a taste of ‘Anna on Drums’ below.

Royal Canoe self-release Purple and Gold EP

21 September 2012

Summer may have come to an end but the recently self-released Purple and Gold EP by Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe is making it easy to hold on to the sunny season.
The six-piece made up of Matt Peters, Bucky Driedger, Matt Schellenberg, Brendan Berg, Derek Allard and Michael Jordan released Purple and Gold last week via their bandcamp. The EP features two new tracks and a remix of each song. A physical edition is due out on October 8th.

Now listen to the catchy opener ‘Show Me Your Eyes’.

Dirty Projectors announce new EP and unveil video for title track

20 September 2012

It’s only been a couple of months since Brooklyn based sextet Dirty Projectors released their brilliant sixth studio album Swing Lo Magellan, and they have just announced its follow up with a new four-track EP entitled About To Die. The EP includes the title track, taken from Swing Lo Magellan, and another three unreleased tracks.

About To Die drops on November 5th in the UK and a day later in the US via Domino, and it will be available on vinyl and digitally.

To coincide with the news, Dirty Projectors have unveiled a video for ‘About To Die’, featuring footage from ‘Hi Custodian‘, their recent short film written and directed by frontman Dave Longstreth. Here it is.

Flying Lotus premieres animated video for new single

20 September 2012

As previously mentioned, Flying Lotus‘ fourth full-length album, Until the Quiet Comes, will hit stores on October 1st in the UK and a day later in the US via Warp.

We heard already the first cut ‘See Thru to U’ featuring vocal guest Erykah Badu.
Now Flying Lotus has released ‘Putty Boy Strut’ as a new single and it comes with an entertaining animated video directed by Cyriak. Check it out below.
And if you dig the robots in the video, head over here to play with them.