To celebrate our fiftieth mixtape, we've turned to a band whose shows are like crazy birthday parties: The Octopus Project. The quartet, based in Austin, Texas, won us over a long time ago with their uniquely fun live shows and their exquisite, diverse and intricate compositions. We're very chuffed to present the splendid selection of tunes they've mixed for us. So loosen your tie, let down your hair and let's celebrate!
As the year draws to a close, we picked our favourite Albums of 2013.
Perfectly suited for this time of the year, Juana Molina has unveiled a bizarre new video for ‘Eras’, the incredible first single lifted from the freshly released Wed 21. Mario Caporali directs, watch it now.
Wed 21 is out now via Crammed Discs.
We got very excited last August when we learnt about Juana Molina‘s upcoming sixth full-length album Wed 21, and even more so after listening to the incredible first taste off it, ‘Eras‘. The creative Argentinian artist is keeping us excited and anxious about this release, with the second staggering single ‘Sin Guia No’ now streaming on soundcloud. Listen to it below and watch out for the release of Wed 21 on October 28th via Crammed Discs.
Argentinian multi-talented and inventive artist Juana Molina has not released an album in five long years. This Autumn will see the end of this hiatus as she returns with a new full-length album called Wed 21, the follow up to 2008′s Un Día.
Slated for a October 28th release via Crammed Discs, Wed 21 was composed, performed, recorded and produced by Molina in her studio in Buenos Aires.
Molina, who has on previous albums chosen to be more minimal, using mainly guitars and layers of vocals, this time ventured to enrich Wed 21‘s musical spectrum with the addition of electric guitars, bass, drums and electronics, as the press release notes. “In some of the tracks, Juana comes as close to a pop song format and to a full band sound as she ever did… while some other pieces are sinuous excursions through gamuts of feelings & textures”.
‘Eras’ is the first delightfully jubilant taste to emerge and it’s clear evidence that Wed 21 will be an album to look out for. Listen to ‘Eras’ below.