todays a double-whammy here at dailybeatz. besides bringing you the typical track of goodness for today, we also will be conducting a little giveaway, courtesy of the great folks of sts9! after my post on them a few weeks back, they contacted me and offered me some items to give away to one lucky reader of our just mediocre website. the winner will receive the last two albums by sts9 (one hard copy and one digital download), a tshirt, and a hat. the rules are pretty simple too. just email me at chris [at] dailybeatz [dot] com and answer the following question. you have until midnight tonight, eastern standard time, to email me your entry, and ill pick one winner out of all the correct answers. the trivia question is:

what is the full name of the most recent sts9 album?

should be pretty easy, so get your entries in before its too late. im only expecting one or two entries, so your chances are pretty good as long as youve got the correct answer.

i thought id provide a track im really digging lately as the jeopardy music while you try to answer the query listed above. its by annie clark, aka st vincent, and its called “laughing with a mouth of blood” from her latest album “actor”. this album is pretty unique sounding to me and as i think i mentioned before, i read an interview where she discussed the album, and she said something about how her goal was to use every instrument in a way it wasnt intended to be used. for example, the drums would be the melody, the guitar would keep the beat, etc. you can definitely hear in most of the songs how the instrumentation sounds a little backwards, and its pretty neat in a lot of cases. this song doesnt really exemplify that as well as some others, but its still got some really interesting chord changes, and we know that i love interesting chord changes. so enter the contest, and listen to the song.

st vincent – laughing with a mouth of blood

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