Upon first listen, this song gave me a great White Town “Your Woman” vibe, but with a stutter which, as this remix from White Arrows proves, is definitely not a bad thing. Even when you consider that a few times, you think the track’s gone dead. So imagine my surprise when I looked up who Johnny Belinda was and learned that it was a movie from 1948 in which a male doctor tried to mentor a young woman who was deaf and a mute who was the victim of a sexual attack and was impregnated, causing quite the scandal. This read more and hear the song

Jack Peñate‘s album Everything Is New was on some heavy rotation back in 2009 when it was released. I had just discovered him that year and by total chance I even got to see him live opening for Miike Snow at the Empty Bottle in Chicago after a galaxy’s worth of stars aligned, and his set was most enjoyable. But then I didn’t really hear anything from/about him since then, until his name appeared in my Twitter feed the other day in reference to this one-take track, recorded live in his home just a few weeks ago. It’s a read more and hear the song

Saw this via a gorilla vs bear tweet and it totally surprised me. It started out with this long, slow and quiet guitar intro that had subtle Zeppelin references here and there and the suddenly it turned into this part-Steely Dan-esque poppy number with Sophia Knapp‘s smooth and soothing female vocals. If there is an entire album full of so many good sounds like this, it could be quite interesting. And after listening to a few samples on the Drag City website, I can say I’m uber excited for this album. Into The Waves will be released on Feb read more and hear the song

It’s always nice when I can post an awesome tune and represent the great state of Michigan at the same time. Such is the case with “Futures”, a tune from the latest Cascine signee RxGibbs from the upcoming EP of the same name. This song makes me feel like I’m in the lushest whirlpool of sound and sunshine. I’m listening to the rest of the EP right now and it’s totally effing gorgeous. The EP, out on Feb 21, might be just the thing to get me from this not-really-that-bad-so-far winter.

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Hey, good news, I can still see! So you’re not free from me just yet. In other news, Sweden wins again. Miike Snow is releasing the long awaited follow up to their 2009 debut album aka my favorite album of 2009 with Happy To You, out on March 20th. Of the couple of songs we’ve heard from the album, this somewhat brooding tune is my favorite so far, and it’s not just because of some guest vocals by one of the most babetastic babes out there, Ms. Lykke Li. It’s almost as if this song was written to be read more and hear the song

I wasn’t planning on a post tonight, but tomorrow I will be getting my eyes fixed, so I figured I’d leave you one more tune to remember me by, just in case things go awry and I can never use the internet again (I can’t imagine a much more tragic outcome). Remember a few months ago-ish we posted a few rockin tunes from CSLSX? Well here’s what I consider to be one of the purtier tracks from the person/group that I think is from Philly. Even though I always think of the Marnie the necromancer from True Blood whenever read more and hear the song

It’s Monday, I am the proud owner of a brand new temporary crown that doesn’t fit quite right on one of my molars, and I didn’t get another house that I tried to get. And with all that, these songs/videos from NZCA/LINES still makes me happy. Perhaps it’s because I love projected visuals and crisp, synthesized percussion. Look for the debut LP in February and check out “Okinawa Channels” and “Compass Point” below, because I love fractals.

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I never heard the 2010 Lower Dens album Twin-Hand Movement but it sounds like several of my music-related friends thought it was a pretty good thing. Enter “Brains”, this new track that the group released a few weeks back, and I think I might have to go back and see what I missed. This growing, driving but still somewhat subtle track has most certainly piqued my interest. The new album Nootropics will be out May 1 of this year and I can’t wait. Because I will get to hear the album, and because it will be May 1, aka not read more and hear the song

First of all, I realize every 3rd post includes Grimes or SBTRKT or both. But Grimes and Pictureplane together just seems like such a natural fit and it makes one wonder why this did not transpire at an earlier time. Or did it?

Pictureplane – Real Is A Feeling (Grimes Remix)read more and hear the song

SBTRKT just posted this new old unreleased jam from 2009. This is why I love SBTRKT. Beats and outer space. I think I’m officially clinically obsessed at this point.

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Remember a few weeks ago when we posted that awesome Beat Culture track “Midori“? Well, just last night, Beat Culture’s full length album Tokyo Dreamer was finally released, and all for free. I got a chance to give the album a full listen last night and it was just as great as I expected. It’s got all the glitch and glamour of some of our favorite electronic artists of the last few years, but this has a je ne sais quoi that really seems to make it special/fresh. I dig the running water and clear piano that tie read more and hear the song

Going through some emails in my quest to carry on the freestyle blogger lifestyle (even though it’s getting more and more difficult, mainly because I just started watching “Breaking Bad” and don’t want to stop) and ran across this nice tune from Tokyo’s Elen Never Sleeps, a one-man bedroom pop project (which I always seem to dig). It’s shoegazey in a Wild Nothing kind of way (as opposed to the heavier sort of shoegaze sound), and in fact makes me feel kind of the same way that Wild Nothing does. Hit up his bandcamp for some more free tunes.read more and hear the song

When two acts that appeared/I discovered in 2011 and enjoy muchly join forces, how can anything bad happen? And such is the case with this new tune from our Irish friends Solar Bears who have released the first track from their upcoming album Migration with guest vocals from none other than Sarah of Keep Shelly In Athens. I like this track so much. Old school flavor, interesting asymmetrical rhythms, key changes galore, and a song that picks up a bit of steam all the way through…what’s not to love? read more and hear the song

A few months back I decided to hop on a plane at the last second to see what CMJ was all about. On the night I arrived, one of the very first people I met was Andrew Balasia aka Gracie. Besides being a pretty cool guy, I got to catch one of his sets and liked what I heard. His upcoming Treehouse EP is being released on Small Plates Records (you can preorder it here) and you may have already heard “Sisters”, but Gracie has offered up another track for your listening pleasure. If you thought “Sisters” was read more and hear the song

What do you get when you combine some quasi-minimal beats with Prince-esque RnB vocals? You get Inc. (the brothers formally known as Teen, Inc). How come this song wasn’t all over the blogosphere when their 3 EP was released way back in the summer? Listen to “Heart Crimes” below and then we’ll see what else these brothers have up their collective sleeve.

Inc. – Heart Crimes

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Just stumbled upon this track (via it getting sent to me in an electronic mail message) and I thought it was just great. “A Walk Home” is a track from Wasted Youth Blues, the debut EP from fivesome The Morning Clouds, led by Josh Wambeke. It’s a slower tune with a Beach House-y vibe that swells into a luscious blanket of musical warmth so I’m clearly on board with it right away. And if that wasn’t up your alley, check out the pretty unrecognizable 8+ minute remix from Sad City (which is for some reason called the LA read more and hear the song

My anticipation for the upcoming Grimes album Visions continues to grow with each passing day. And when I get to hear new songs from the album like “Genesis”, I feel as though my unreasonable excitement is somewhat justified. We’ve already heard “Oblivion” and if you aren’t a fan of Claire Boucher’s sometimes mousy voice in that track perhaps you will like this one a little more. “Genesis” is a lot more fluid than “Oblivion” with a solid beat and less of a traditional song structure and I think it does a good job of showcasing the fact that Boucher can read more and hear the song

Upon publishing our last post, I noticed our post count was at 999. I couldn’t just sit here and not complete my 1000th post (well, I had a few guest writers, but I “wrote” most of these “really good posts” mostly all myself) before we began a brand new year, could I? So, on the actual last day of the year, what better way to celebrate 1000 horrible pieces of written prose and musical delight than with my last minute, totally unplanned list of Top Albums I Listened To The Most In 2011? These are not the “best albums of read more and hear the song

Today, as I was driving to cash in on my final free oil change of the year before my promotion expired on January 1 (I read more and hear the song

Such a great tune for this cold/rainy/snowy/lazy afternoon. We’ve heard plenty of sample-based, glitchy electronic tracks this year, and we’ve loved the vast majority of them. But this one from Beat Culture, aka seventeen year old Korean Sunik Kim (who now resides in Hong Kong) seems a little different…a little more soulful, or something. Maybe it’s those jazzy piano notes or the powerful vocals in the presumed sample, or the deliberate, slow tempo. Or maybe it is my fascination with the monome. Either way, I dig. Beat Culture’s Tokyo Dreamer will be released in just a few weeks on read more and hear the song

Sometimes (read: often) when I’m too lazy/incompetent to “find new music on my own”, I hop over to the blogs of friends to see what they are posting to see what I can steal from them. That’s how you’re supposed to “do a music blog”, right? On this night, I turned to my friend Andriana as I often do, and I found this little ditty. I don’t really “love mashups that much anymore”, mostly because the ones I get sent are usually consisting of “shitty songs that I wouldn’t want to listen to on their own, much less at the read more and hear the song

Other than a remix here or there, I hadn’t really listened to Shlohmo much despite everyone else talking about him. I just stumbled upon this track after turning to shuffler.fm for some musical inspiration and was rather surprised with the subdued sounds that I heard. Maybe this is mostly because when I saw him opening up for Star Slinger a few months back, his set sounded nothing like this smooth, delicate, and thoughtful (and probably super old) track and more like a weird 90s frat party most of the time. But sometimes it’s nice to be surprised for the better. read more and hear the song

This is the sexiest. Reminds me of dailybeatz about a year ago, when this kind of stuff (well, a tiny bit more disco-ish) was our mainstay. This one is slightly more 90s RnB than our former bread and butter, but either way, you can’t really say you still want to save a space for the Holy Spirit with this one. This Jensen Sportag rework of Madi Diaz‘s “Trust Fall” kinda makes me want it to be summer the most ever. Sadly, the official start of winter is still 2 days away, but we can still close our eyes and read more and hear the song

A new track from Four Tet for the upcoming compilation We Are The Works In Progess which benefits the ongoing Japan tsunami recovery efforts. This song contains a little of everything I love about Four Tet, mostly the way he works together so many melodies and rhythms that all work together even though they are seemingly all on their own different time signatures. Luv u, Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet.

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Whenever I hear a song I like and think might be a nice addition to the dailybeatz.com music website, I make a note of it in my “Notes” application on my cellular telephone so that I don’t forget about it. But then I usually forget to ever look at my “Notes” application until I hear another song I like, and so on and so forth. I somehow just remembered to look at my “Notes” application and the first song I saw was this wonderful tune from Ireland’s very own Jape. I believe I first added this song to my read more and hear the song