"Blood Oranges" is from Foreign Born's just-released (and favorably Pitchfork-reviewed) Person to Person. This track really sounds similar to Calla (one of my favorite bands from the early 2000s) but the rest of the album breaks from the "slow-core" trend:
Posted this track last week in "Daily!" because I was so pumped about it, but evidently the link is broken, so we're gonna have another go at it. Plus, this basically has to be a "Track of the Week". In fact, I'd be pretty shocked if it doesn't end up as the track of the summer. Yeah, it's that good:
A lot can be written about these guys, and it already has, as their sound seems to lend itself to comparisons with every other "synth-rock" act that's out there. Pitchfork basically likens Manners to the album that would have existed if MGMT's Oracular Spectacular hadn't filled in the gaps between hit tracks with worthless material. I don't know if I agree with any of that statement (including the jab at Oracular); they remind me more of Black Kids, other than the fact that they managed to make a spectacular LP after a super-buzzed-about EP. Bottom line: pretty much every song on this album is single-worthy, and if you like "Sleepy Head", you're probably going to dig all 45 minutes of Manners:
"Happy Up Here" isn't exactly hot off the presses (Junior was released a couple months ago), but if you haven't heard it yet, you should: 
"Stillness is the Move" from Dirty Projectors' upcoming album Bitte Orca, due out June 9th.:
Definitely a frontrunner for track of the year. No official video yet; Just sort it out:
One of my favorite tracks from one of the best albums of 2008. The new video was made using a technique called "data moshing." Pretty cool stuff:
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