new ep “short stories”:
if you want to, you can order the new vortex rikers tape “nullpunkt / the white queen” now on http://sweatlodgeguru.com/about/
01 nullpunkt
02 in circles
03 the white queen
04 demeter
05 geist I
06 a ghost from the past
07 collapsed
08 a loss for words
09 this won’t end well
10 geist II
serenade appears as a hidden track on the “dark side of pop” compilation released by cowshed records. download it for free here. video uses footage of un chien andalou by luis bunuel and salvador dali.
i like lists. so this is a list of my favorite songs of 2011, alphabetical order:
aimon - amen
apparat - goodbye
austra - the beat and the pulse
balam acab - oh, why
beirut - east harlem
bon iver - holocene
casper - der druck steigt
daterape - behold
does it offend you, yeah? - pull out my insides
elite gymnastics - here, in heaven 2
gazelle twin - i am skin i am bone
glasvegas - the world is yours
htrk - eat yr heart
lydia - skin and bones
mascara - shadow of tonight
modeselektor & thom yorke - this
paul thomas saunders - appointment in samarra (best song of the year)
pictureplane - black nails
purity ring - belispeak
puscifer - horizons
radiohead - little by little (caribou rmx)
rustie - after light
sbtrkt - wildfire
unison - brothers and sisters
vagina vangi - goatghosts (haunted by unison)
washed out - amor fati
zomby - black orchid
just, uh, so you know ;)
01 oceanic
02 a new dawn
03 open water
04 you are the morning (i am the night)
05 havarie
06 sirens
07 oceanic (reprise)
for free, here: http://vortexrikers.bandcamp.com/album/oceanic-ep
enjoy!
dear internet, check out the most amazing thing i’ve heard in a while: gazelle twin. stream her entire album at her website. http://www.gazelletwin.com/
video for “ghosts on ibiza”