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Wow. This is embarrassing. You know how I’m a really important music blogger and I always find out about cool bands before anyone else does? You know? Well, turns out I’ve totally been sleeping on this Fleet Foxes cd that SubPop sent me. Check out all this good stuff people have been saying about it weeks before I even took it out of it’s effin’ digipack sleeve:

“A stunning debut then, and one that will make Fleet Foxes one of the most sought after bands of the year.” - musicOMH

“It all adds up to a landmark in American music, an instant classic.” - The Guardian

“At its best, Fleet Foxes is warm and cathartic, with all the hopefulness of a balmy summer night.” - SPIN Magazine

SON OF A BITCH! Spin stole my ‘balmy summer night’ line. I was saving that for the next Beirut full length. Oh well, I guess that’s what I get for falling asleep at the wheel on this one. But no seriously, this new Fleet Foxes record is a landmark in American music, an instant- wait. SON OF A BITCH! Those assholes at the Guardian used my other line too. DAMMIT. This is what happens when you celebrate getting 200 hits in one day by drinking a lot of Red Stripe (I saw a pic of the guy from Rilo Kiley drinking Red Stripe) and fall asleep on the rooftop garden you always wished you had because you’re biggest wish in life is to live in a New York apartment that has a rooftop garden where you invite all your friends to party and watch your singer songwriter friend play his original accoustic songs to a starry eyed, cocaine-fueled crowd.

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

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CATEGORY: MP3

I apologize for this, the second Wolf Parade post in a week. I know I should be out with my ear to the wind, trying to find the next big experimental solo artist, but I can’t help myself. I’ve spent more time with these Wolf Parade teaser mp3s and the more I listen to them, the more I realize I love them. I hate to diss such a recent incarnation of myself but what was I thinking 4 days ago?

Take a listen to ‘Language City’, the second legally released mp3 from At Mount Zoomer. It doesn’t sound too different from ‘Call It a Ritual’. It doesn’t really pop. Or grab you. What it does is sink into your head like a brain worm and carve a home for itself, deep in your sub-conscious. Eventually you will go brain dead and die, but until then you can enjoy the refined indie-pop coming out of your lobes. Speaking of which, I’ll be damned if ‘indie-pop’ isn’t the least descriptive label ever. I wish I knew fancier words, or even how to write. That’d be useful.

Wolf Parade - Language City

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Truthfully, the thing I enjoyed most about Wolf Parade’s critically acclaimed Apologies to the Queen Mary was Dan Boeckner and his unique singing voice. Perhaps that is why I consider myself a fan of Boeckner’s other band the Handsome Furs. The voice is there in all its glory, hovering above a desert of drum beats and accoustic guitar (which are provided by Boeckner’s real life spouse Alexei Perry). Unlike some of SubPop’s other recent releases (*cough* Jenifer Gentle *cough*), this is some good old fashioned indie rock I can get behind.

[mp3] The Handsome Furs - What We Had

And just because:

[mp3] Jenifer Gentle - Electric Princes

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You read the title. Invisible Limb is giving away a copy of the critically acclaimed Drums and Guns, the newest record by America’s favorite slow rockers Low. All you have to do to enter this once in a lifetime giveaway is send an e-mail to richard@invisiblelimb.net with your name and favorite pizza topping. Open to US residents only! Winners will be chosen on Friday, April 6th!

Here is an mp3 of ‘Breaker’ from Drums and Guns.

[mp3] Low - Breaker