La Semana en Discos: Hot Chip; Pantha Du Prince; Basia Bulat; Charlotte Gainsbourg…

Llegó la última semana de Enero repleta de más discos excelentes, consolidando al primer mes del año como el momento preferido por sellos pequeños para presentar el trabajo de sus artistas más importantes. A los discos de primera categoría que ya nos han ofrecido Vampire Weekend; Spoon; Owen Pallett o Beach House, se unen ahora … Read more

The Week In Records: Hot Chip, Pantha Du Prince; Basia Bulat; Charlotte Gainsbourg…

The last week of January came packed with more fine records, establishing the first month of the year as the time of choice by small labels to launch their most important artists’ output. To top-notch albums by the likes of Vampire Weekend; Spoon; Owen Pallett; Beach House… we can add a whole bunch of interesting … Read more

The Week That Was: (24-01-2010) Pt. II: Beach House, Grouper, Joon-Ho, Caprica…

Following the news of Vampire Weekend’s sophomore record “Contra” hitting the Billboard Number 1 in the States -the first album released by a British independent label to hit the top spot in two decades; plenty of exciting music was launched or previewed this week. Among the flow of new releases, the album that has earned the best reviews is Baltimore duo’s Beach House third opus “Teen Dream”. It was streamed in its entirety by NPR radio and every track has a promo video. All of them collected on a bonus DVD as part of the original release. The album is being hailed as a dream-pop masterpiece and will establish the duo as one of today’s most interesting artists.

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