Thursday, December 08, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
| Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| 1:00 | Nicolas Jaar | I Got a Woman | Space Is Only Noise | Circus Company |
| 1:04 | Matthew Dear | Headcage | Headcage EP | Ghostly International |
| DJ Comments: New Matthew Dear EP, Headcage, drops Jan. 17th! Free download and more info here - http://ghostly.com/releases/headcage | ||||
| 1:08 | Martyn | Distortions | Ghost People | Brainfeeder |
| DJ Comments: Check out Martyn's XFM mix for Mary Anne Hobbs - http://3024world.com/2011/09/martyn-mix-for-xfm-mary-anne-hobbs/ | ||||
| 1:13 | The Roots | Make My feat. Big K.R.I.T.& Dice Raw | undun | Def Jam |
| DJ Comments: No word yet if Michele Bachmann is rocking this on the campaign bus... | ||||
| 1:17 | The Weeknd | What You Need | House of Balloons | |
| DJ Comments: Still available for free download. Perfect background music for book club (if you're in a really sleazy book club) - http://the-weeknd.com/ | ||||
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| 1:22 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling | El Camino | Nonesuch |
| DJ Comments: Vote for YOUR favourite albums of 2011 and the results will be announced starting Dec. 30th! - http://kexp.org/events/polls/EndOfYearCountdown-2011.aspx | ||||
| 1:26 | Women | Shaking Hand | Women | Jagjaguwar |
| DJ Comments: Women imploded in spectacular fashion during a gig last October in Victoria when brothers Pat and Matt Flegel got into a fistfight on-stage. The last song they recorded, the appropriately titled "Bullfight," came out as a split 7" two months later - http://youtu.be/zavndb-By8s | ||||
| 1:31 | Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter | How Will We Know? | Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul | Barsuk Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! How was their set tonight, showgoers? | ||||
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| 1:37 | Zomby | Trapdoor | Nothing | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: The Nothing EP (out now) was originally included in the Japanese edition of Zomby's Dedication LP, also from this year. Why is it that Japanese album releases always seem to have this great bonus material? | ||||
| 1:40 | Sigmafly | Radio Sleep | Tetrachrome EP | Cut |
| DJ Comments: S-Fly a.k.a. Tim Holmes, from Manchester - http://soundcloud.com/sigmafly | ||||
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| 1:47 | Diamond Rings | Mellow Doubt | You & Me/Mellow Doubt 7" | Astralwerks |
| DJ Comments: Teenage Fanclub cover! He's on tour right now in Europe in support of his full-length Special Affections, which is just out there now. This is a tour-only 7" so get your hands on it if you can. | ||||
| 1:51 | Trentemoller | Kasper Bjorke: Does Not Matter feat. The Pierces (Trentemoller Remix) | Reworked/Remixed | In My Room |
| DJ Comments: From a compilation of Trentem�ller's remixes (ones he's done for other artists and vice versa). There's even a reworking of Depeche Mode's "Wrong" on there... | ||||
| 1:56 | The Field | It's Up There | Looping State of Mind | Kompakt |
| DJ Comments: Playing ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas on Dec. 10th alongside Flying Lotus, Gary Numan (!), Walls and more. The night's lineup was curated by Battles, also playing that show. | ||||
| 2:02 | The Field | It's Up There | Looping State of Mind | Kompakt |
| 2:06 | Grouper | Alien Observer | A I A: Alien Observer | Yellowelectric |
| DJ Comments: The very affecting video for "Alien Observer." You shan't rake leaves the same way after watching it - http://vimeo.com/22540856 | ||||
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| 2:10 | Quilt | Cowboys In The Void | Quilt | Mexican Summer |
| DJ Comments: Quilt met as students at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts. You can stream their S/T debut album at Mexican Summer's homepage - http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/quilt-quilt/ | ||||
| 2:15 | Broken Social Scene | Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day) | Broken Social Scene | Arts & Crafts |
| DJ Comments: Kevin Drew talk about the band taking a hiatus from touring - http://youtu.be/rVyBvgxXE48 | ||||
| 2:19 | Bonobo | Animals | Black Sands | Ninja Tune |
| DJ Comments: Doing a DJ set in Dallas on New Year's Eve for Lights All Night - http://lightsallnight.com/ | ||||
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| 2:26 | Shlohmo | Places | Bad Vibes | Friends of Friends |
| DJ Comments: This definitely sounds like a breakup album... | ||||
| 2:31 | Small Black | Photojournalist (Star Slinger Remix SB Edit) | Moon Killer | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Heems of Das Racist features prominently on this new (free) Small Black mixtape. Cop it here - http://www.mediafire.com/?2we91ujgxp63or6 | ||||
| 2:34 | James Ferraro | Sim | Far Side Virtual | Hippos in Tanks |
| DJ Comments: James Ferraro discuss weighty topics like technology, literacy and MIDI in this interview with Altered Zones - http://alteredzones.com/posts/2167/artist-profile-james-ferraro/ | ||||
| 2:37 | Gold Panda | An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds | DJ-Kicks | !K7 |
| DJ Comments: Check out the eclectic mix Gold Panda put together for his DJ-Kicks entry, which includes Drexciya (ace!), Bok Bok, Muslimgauze and 2562 - http://www.dj-kicks.com/goldpanda-dj-kicks/ | ||||
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| 2:44 | Black Star | You Already Knew | Black Star Aretha | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Wrapping up their tour in LA on Dec. 16th. This song was produced by Madlib's brother Oh No. | ||||
| 2:48 | Charlie xcx | Nuclear Seasons [SINGLE] | This Is Music Ltd. | |
| DJ Comments: XCX is also the airport code for Ch�tellerault - Targe Airport in France. So, you know, there's that. | ||||
| 2:51 | Kuedo | Reality Drift | Severant | Planet Mu |
| DJ Comments: Full-length debut from Jamie Teasdale, also of Vex'd (whose other member Roly Porter similarly released a stellar album this year, entitled Aftertime) | ||||
| 2:53 | SBTRKT | Wildfire | SBTRKT | Young Turks |
| DJ Comments: Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon lent her vocals to this track. SBTRKT played a KEXP in studio this October but you'll have to do with just the audio as the band didn't want to performs sans masks - http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=33758 | ||||
| 2:57 | Tobacco | Hairy Candy | Fucked Up Friends | |
| DJ Comments: Tobacco seen here doing his best Pan's Labyrinth impression - http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?artist=Tobacco+%283%29 | ||||
| 3:00 | World Party | Ship of Fools | Private Revolution | Ensign Records |
| DJ Comments: Karl Wallinger plied his trade with The Wateroboys before starting the one-man-band World Party | ||||
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| 3:05 | Amen Dunes | Lower Mind | Through Donkey Jaw | Sacred Bones |
| DJ Comments: Ranked #1 on somebody's Top 10 list this year (*hint hint*) - http://www.kexp.org/programming/lists/djtopof2011.aspx | ||||
| 3:09 | Sharon Van Etten | Serpents | Tramp | Jagjaguwar |
| DJ Comments: Yesterday's Song of the Day! - http://kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp | ||||
| 3:12 | Atlas Sound | Te Amo | Parallax | |
| DJ Comments: Bradford's been playing a variation of this song since early 2009. Here's a lovely video of him performing it at CMJ two years ago. The loops, oh those loops! - http://youtu.be/JH5dgD1TdM8 | ||||
| 3:16 | Owen Pallett | Tryst With Mephistopheles | Heartland | Domino |
| DJ Comments: Collaborated with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle on new songs set to debut in March for New York's Ecstatic Music Festival. Regarding the new material, they say "The songs visit a small community on Puget Sound in Washington, north of Seattle at the foot of Glacier Peak, and are inhabited by the mournful voices of the isolated and the lost in motels and apartment complexes around Snohomish County." | ||||
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| 3:23 | Blouse | Blouse | Inro Black | Captured Tracks |
| DJ Comments: These Portland synth-poppers will be coming through town Thursday, Jan. 12th at the Sunset Tavern with Seapony. That should be plenty of time to practise your muted, 80s-inspired dance moves | ||||
| 3:27 | The Cure | All Cats Are Grey | Faith | Fiction Records |
| DJ Comments: An old winter standby for Seattle listeners, I imagine | ||||
| 3:32 | Blondes | Synthesist | Re-Synthesist | Rvng Intl. |
| DJ Comments: Re-Synthesist is a remix album of Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist from 1980, reissued this year by RVNG Intl. Grosskopf played with a number of German bands at the time, notably Ash Ra Tempel, before striking out on his own - http://igetrvng.com/discography/80 | ||||
| 3:37 | Darkside | A2 | EP | Clown & Sunset |
| DJ Comments: Project of Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington - http://soundcloud.com/clownandsunset/sets/darkside-darkside-ep | ||||
| 3:42 | Floating Points | Myrtle Avenue | Shadows | Eglo Records |
| DJ Comments: New EP out now! Don't sleep on it, killer stuff. | ||||
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| 3:52 | Gonjasufi | Nikels & Dimes | MU.ZZ.LE | Warp |
| DJ Comments: Out Jan. 24th on Warp. It's rumoured to sound quite different than his last effort, A Sufi and a Killer | ||||
| 3:55 | Champagne Champage | Age of Aquarius | Champagne Champagne | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Sat Dec 31 @ the Croc! | ||||
| 3:58 | Modest Mouse | She Ionizes & Atomizes | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About | Up Records |
| DJ Comments: Engineered at Moon Studios in Olympia, Wash., October & November 1996 | ||||
| 4:00 | Modest Mouse | She Ionizes & Atomizes | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About | Up Records |
| DJ Comments: Engineered at Moon Studios in Olympia, Wash., October & November 1996 | ||||
| 4:02 | Television | Elevation | Marquee Moon | Elektra |
| DJ Comments: The band recorded their demo tape in 1975 with Brian Eno, who may or may not be some type of time-travelling musical genius. | ||||
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| 4:08 | Dodos | So Cold | ||
| DJ Comments: Free download - http://www.dodosmusic.net/ | ||||
| 4:12 | Real Estate | Three Blocks | Days | Domino |
| DJ Comments: Matt's guitar solo in the middle is so dreamy! | ||||
| 4:15 | Julian Lynch | Fort Collins | Terra | Underwater Peoples |
| DJ Comments: Julian Lynch kind of went under the radar this year, but well worth seeking out! He also puts out some killer mixes on his Tumblr (along with pictures of Swamp Thing) - http://spacemountain.tumblr.com/ | ||||
| 4:19 | Explosions in the Sky | Yasmin the Light | Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever | Temporary Residence Limited |
| DJ Comments: Touring now! Probably a lot of gear to pack and unpack after every gig...http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/shows.php | ||||
| 4:26 | Idlewild | Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror) | 100 Broken Windows | Food |
| DJ Comments: NME once described this Scottish band as "the sound of a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs" | ||||
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| 4:30 | Spiritualized | Stay With Me | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | Dedicated |
| DJ Comments: Spiritualized's new album Sweet Heart Sweet Light is slated for a March 19th release in the UK with a North American release sometime later that month. There's bootleg recordings of the album's opener "Hey Jane" floating around the vast expanses of the internet, so go quest. | ||||
| 4:35 | Deerhunter | Octet | Cryptograms | Kranky |
| DJ Comments: Bradford, commenting on Deerhunter's inter-band dynamic said "I quit drinking around Cryptograms because you don't need to drink if you have emotional problems, you know? Especially when you're young. But that's always weird when you have all these dudes in a band because, when they get done with a show, they want to go have a beer. And the sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem." | ||||
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| 4:43 | Captain Planet | Speakin' Nuyorican | Cookin' Gumbo | Bastard Jazz |
| DJ Comments: Full-length debut from NYC DJ/producer Charlie B. Wilder | ||||
| 4:47 | Mux Mool | Planet High School | Ghostly | |
| DJ Comments: Out Feb. 7th. You can catch him at LA's Low End Theory Dec. 28th as well. | ||||
| 4:50 | Holy Other | With U | With U | Tri Angle |
| DJ Comments: Recently did some remix work for This Will Destroy You - http://soundcloud.com/holyother | ||||
| 4:56 | This Mortal Coil | Song to the Siren | It'll End in Tears | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: 4AD recently reissued It'll End In Tears, Filigree & Shadow, Blood and Dust & Guitars in a big box set just in time for the gloomier side of the holidays | ||||
| 4:59 | The Feelies | Moscow Nights | Crazy Rhythms | Stiff Records |
| 5:00 | The Feelies | Moscow Nights | Crazy Rhythms | Stiff Records |
| DJ Comments: In 1991 Bill Million unexpectedly (and without telling the band) moved to Florida after their final show | ||||
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| 5:04 | Damien Jurado | Nothing Is The News | Maragopa | Secretly Canadian |
| DJ Comments: Maraqopa is out Feb. 12th. Free download here - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/11/16/sonic-roundup-1115/ | ||||
| 5:10 | Tom Waits | Talking at the Same Time | Bad as Me | ANTI- |
| DJ Comments: Waits' first album of new material in seven years, it's number 17 in his discography. He also played himself, essentially, in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It was a weird film. | ||||
| 5:14 | The Magnetic Fields | I Think I Need A New Heart | 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1 | Merge |
| DJ Comments: Since this is the time of year to catch up on everything from the past 12 months, Stephen Merritt's Obscurities came out in August, a collection of rare and unreleased tracks dating from 1994-1999. | ||||
| 5:17 | Kelley Stoltz | I Remember, You Were Wild | To Dreamers | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: OR you can check out Kelley Stoltz if you're still catching up on 2010's musical offerings. | ||||
| 5:20 | Spectrals | You Don't Have to Tell Me | Bad Penny | Wichita Recordings |
| DJ Comments: Put out a Christmas song not long ago called "It's Christmas and I've Got Everything I Want." It should provide a welcome respite from whatever bad Christmas music your family typically listens to - http://soundcloud.com/slumberland-records/spectrals-its-christmas-and | ||||
| 5:23 | The Smiths | Stretch Out and Wait | Louder Than Bombs | Sire/Rough Trade |
| DJ Comments: Rhino recently put out The Smiths Complete, a huge reissue project overseen by Johnny Marr. The deluxe package costs $5,000 so, uh, start making a lunch and bringing it to work? | ||||
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| 5:27 | Dyme Def | Dreamin | Yuk the World | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Street Sounds DJ / Mash Hall member / Stranger writer / man about town Larry Mizell Jr. just wrote a nice little piece on Dyme Def. Read it here - http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/12/06/dyme-def-yuk-the-world | ||||
| 5:31 | CFCF | Invitation to Love | Continent | Paper Bag Records |
| DJ Comments: Check out this CFCF mix he put up this week. There's even some Vangelis Blade Runner (!) in there - http://cracksinthe45.tumblr.com/post/13634553815/dj-mix-cfcf-night-bus-ii | ||||
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| 5:37 | Phantogram | Don't Move | Nightlife | Barsuk |
| DJ Comments: New EP out now! Download "Don't Move" here - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12544-dont-move/ | ||||
| 5:41 | Lone | Risottowe_4 | Emerald Fantasy Tracks | Magic Wire Recordings |
| DJ Comments: His 2008 album Lemurian definitely has one of the cheesiest album covers of the '00s, but thankfully it's sublimely smooth - http://www.discogs.com/Lone-Lemurian/release/1424978 | ||||
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| 5:47 | Of Montreal | Wintered Debts | Wintered Debts | |
| DJ Comments: From their forthcoming LP Paralytic Stalks, due sometime next year. No word yet if Kevin Barnes will be naked during their shows. | ||||
| 5:54 | The Chords | Maybe Tomorrow | So Far Away | Polydor |
| DJ Comments: Did two Peel sessions before disbanding in 1981 | ||||
| 5:57 | Pylon | The Human Body | Hits | DB Recs |
