Sacred Animals
Recalling the timbres of Bon Iver and Thom Yorke, Sacred Animals is a solo project from a mysterious Wexford man whose debut EP Welcome Home deals in fanciful and feral piano-led ballads.
http://sacredanimals.net
Wild Nothing – Golden Haze
A genuine three and a half minutes of ’80s dream pop made in 2010 by Virginian Jack Tatum, Golden Haze is the perfect soundtrack to dancing around your room doing that dance from The Breakfast Club.
Listen at Pitchfork
Kanye and Jay-Z’s surprise EP
Watch The Throne is an impromptu five-track EP from two of rap’s big players with appearances from Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross. Check Kanye’s Twitter for MP3s.
http://twitter.com/kanyewest
Snow Patrol mashup
Galway bootleg artist Phil Retrospector mixed Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?’ with Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars. P Diddy saw it and put it on his blog. Now, you can hear it too.
Amanda Palmer covers Radiohead
The Dresden Dolls singer has a ukelele-based EP of Radiohead covers available with tracks Idioteque, Creep, High & Dry and No Surprises.
http://music.amandapalmer.net
Keepaway
This buzzing Brooklyn band with a keen sense for melody and atmospherics have been leaving a trail of MP3s on blogs recently, most commonly the early standout track Yellow Wings.
http://www.myspace.com/keepaway
Wild Nothing
’80s lo-fi guitar pop from Virginian Jack Tatum who released what is a perfect soundtrack to sunshine earlier this year with his album Gemini. Start with the glorious fuzzy pop of Chinatown.
http://www.myspace.com/wildnothing
Mark Ronson & the Business Intl.
The super-producer trades his trademark soul sound in for keyboards on the first proper single Bang Bang Bang from his upcoming album which features vocals from Q-Tip and MNDR.
http://bit.ly/ronson2
