Swedish music is so in.

Sup bro's, happened to stumble across a Swedish indie/pop band named Vampyramiden the other day. Although I havn't a clue what their name is about, their tunes are mad sick. Personally I find it a nice change to hear music sang in another language, which may well be the reason I have warmed to Vampyramiden. I mean sure they sound cheesy in places, but take that with a pinch of salt and hey presto, a band that are fun and a little bit different.
Make sure to listen to fangelset on their myspace.

Nice music for nice weather.

It's not often we see weather the doesn't involve some sort of precipitation here in Britain (particularly "oop North"), so when the sun does decide to make a guest appearance, it's best to make the most of it and what better way to compliment our exploding gas ball friend than with some summery tunes!
So to help you guys out with that arduous task of rifleing through your ipod for something remotely upbeat i thought i'd reccomend 3 albums for sunny days.

The first album i'm offering up to you rascals is Cajun Dance Party's debut album from 2008. It's a lovely little chunk of twee sounding indie pop with love them or hate them vocals. So if you somehow managed to miss them back then, then here's your second chance.
I havn't got a clue what they're doing now but i still enjoy colourful life every so often. And so should you!

Second up is the 2010 album Weathervanes from New York folktronica 5 piece Freelance Whales. An album that's bound to warm up your summer, Weathervanes is essentially an indie folk album with a ton of other twee-as-fuck instruments thrown in, just to make it more smiley. Often compared with The Postal Service by music critics, and Owl City by retards Freelance Whales really have released a fantastic album with single, "starring" being one of my personal favorite songs of the year!

Finally, comes an album from appalingly named band "The Seedy Seeds", but providing you can see past the name, comes an album so catchy that you will be humming the melodies so much that not only will your friends want to kick your face off, but you will want to do so as well. But this is a good thing, because we all love a super catchy melody don't we? Anyway, their 2008 album count the days fuses jangle pop with dance beats. Think The Feeling only a lot less shit and with a bit more UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE.

I'm gonna be a bit sneaky here now, after telling you i'd only share 3 summery albums, another one has just been cast into my mind. Well it's more like one of those EP's that's like two thirds of an album. White Magic by CEO is hot shit. So download it now! Oh, and I think they sampled a KLF song on the track White Magic, but i'm not quite sure.

An EP I just had to share.

Active child, or Pat Grossi to his mum is a relatively new artist from Los Angeles, something that transpires through his music as he creates warm soundscapes with a, dare I say it? Chillwave sound to it. You know the feel, those sort of sun drenched synths and dreamy vocals. But I digress, his 2010 EP curtis lane is really something rather special. So instead of ruining it with my words, how about you give it a listen, it's only 4 tracks long.
Download this bitch.

Visions of trees

London duo Visions of trees seem to be gathering quite a bit of attention on the NME Breakthrough website at the moment, and it's really no surprise considering how bloody brilliant they are. Although they have only a seemingly limited array of songs up on the internets, if they're anything to go by we can expect lots more of their unique brand of fantastically weird tribal synth music.
Vocalist Sara has a fantastic voice which adds to the awesometricity? of the music.
They have put together a free (mega)mixtape of their songs which you can download here! (and not even feel guilty about)

Or if you like to sample what you're getting before you hassle yourself with the immense task that is clicking a link and pressing download then here's a youtube video of the song "Cult of Cobras".
I can't wait to hear more from these guys!

For those a little late to the movement

For those of you who don't know, 2010/late 2009 bestowed upon us a new genre, one that in the wake of chillwave took off on account of the internet hype surrounding it. I'm talking about Witch House, or drag. Whatever you wish to call it, it's a strange one consisting of screwed up dark sounding hip hop beats, uneasy lo-fi synths and quite often vocal samples more haunting than your dead grandma. In essence, it's just a scary genre. Oh, and the bands all seem to have ridiculous names and track names involving triangles and crosses.
But a good one non the less. With a handful of artists on the Houston label "Disaro", a couple on internet label "Witch Trial" and a good few more on New York label, "Tri angle", people were ready to accept witch house as a "scene", until it died a couple of months back. Or at least that's what people on the internet seemed to think. Has music really come to this? Where a scene can take off and then kill itself all within the space of 6 months? Seemingly not, despite said cries of "Witch House being dead", the labels seem to think on the contrary, with the Balam Acab EP just on the release (scoring 8/10 on pitchfork) and with NME finally starting to catch on, witch house could only just be starting. ///▲▲▲\\\ for Glasto headliners next year anyone?

Well I suppose it's not much use just describing the sound to you so here be some links!

oOoOO - No Summr4U (2010) Their sound is more accessible than many other witch house artists, so it's not a bad idea to start here.

✝No Virgin✝- Downer EP (2010) some weird sounding stuff right here.

GuMMy†Be▲R! - Für diejenigen die mit Messern EP (2010) The track sexualCRIME is quite possibly the creepiest thing I have ever heard.

H∆UNT3D HOUS3 - S3XY TIM3 3P More wonderfull witch house

///▲▲▲\\\ - CDR (2010) This is one of the more famous witch house releases.

That should do you all for now, and I'll remember to keep you posted on any new releases.
Also, if you like any of these enough, do try and buy a record or something, the labels need your support!

PVT!

After a big lump of hassle over their name arty electro/post-rock outfit PVT (formerly known as pivot) are releasing more awesome stuff. Their track "Window" off their forthcoming album, "church with no magic", provides a melee of skittery electronic madness along with the crashing almost tribal drums makes for a song that sounds just stunning!
This bunch of awesome Austrailians are certainly doing something right and with the new addition of vocals on the majority of the tracks on Church With no Magic they really have reached a new level of awesome.

Music for Creatures are go!

Amongst today's gargantuan swirl of buzz blogs it's always going to be hard to make a name for yourself in the world of music bloggature, I that isn't by any means what I plan to do here. This blog isn't aiming particularly high, in fact i would go as far as to say it was simply a means of me sharing the little gems that I find in my regular music searches with like minded people. This blog will serve a similar purpose to that kitchen cleaner, the one that "does the hard work so you don't have to".
Well sort of anyway.

So in short this is nothing but an introductory post that explain myself and y'know, the sort of stuff i will be doing if all goes to plan, such as band of the week, track of the week and just odd wee snippets of things old and new.
So indeed, if you do happen to stumble upon this, have a look around, you might find something you like.