Arrange just released his Five Years With The Sun on JUKBOXR Records. It’s a beautiful and lush record paying homage to Malcom Lacey’s former home of South Florida. As successful as the record has been, Malcom is already spearheading an effort to self-release an EP to vinyl. To do this, he needs all of our help. You can help realize his effort right here by donating. What’s awesome about this is that there are different levels of donation; the more you donate, the more of a reward/gift he’ll give you.
Along with the project, Arrange has released the video for one of the songs off the new record, New Memory EP. It chronicles Malcom and his partner’s trip from South Florida to their new home in Portland. The heartfelt video matches the beautiful and warm texture of the song. And plus, their dog is adorable.
“Live fast die young, bad girls do it well”. Everyone’s favorite bad girl M.I.A. is finally back, ready to attempt to take over the music world once again. Her brand new single has just released, which comes as a full version of a song that originally appeared on her previous Vicki Leekz mixtape. And that’s not all. A video for the track, which is headed by “Born Free” director Romain Gavras, will come this Friday, and a full-length album set due this summer. Check out “Bad Girls” below.
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It’s really hard to come by a genuine love album with an organic feel these days. Most are filled with overstated cliches and contrived sentiments that provide no deeper meaning than what you find on the surface. But every now and then, one album comes along that describes the feeling in poet-like wonder to make you reexamine your perspective.
Back in April, Australia’s Oscar + Martin released their heartfelt and warm record For You. This is not any ordinary love album folks. It’s filled with complex metaphors that scream unbridled passion in its purest of forms. Furthermore, the duo experiments with toy instruments, which does wonders for their tunes as it mirrors the childlike whimsy and fickle nature of love. It’s a refreshing take on our most interesting and sometimes untenable emotion.
Hit the jump for LFTF’s exclusive interview with Oscar + Martin:
It’s been about a million years since Santigold first charmed us with her self-titled debut LP. Okay, so maybe it’s only been four years, but that’s like half a century in blog time. So please excuse our excitement when we say OMG GUYZ SANTIGOLD IS MAKING MUSIC AGAIN!!!! The Philly partyrocker has returned, ready to make a statement in 2012 with her sophomore LP Master of My Make Believe, which is due to drop this spring. Our first taste of the new album comes wrapped inside a semi-animated, sensory overloaded music video for “Big Mouth”, the record’s first single. The track, which you can download for free over at Santigold’s website, was produced by Major Lazer’s Switch and Buraka Som Sistema, so you know it’s rachet. Watch now below and get excited for what’s to come.
I love Sebastien Tellier. Even though I didn’t understand half of his 2008 album Sexuality, which featured artwork of Sebastien riding horseback atop a naked woman’s body, because most of it’s lyrics were in French, it was still one of my favorite albums of that year. This was thanks in part to the productions of Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, but mostly due to Tellier’s panache. It was a fun album that still resonates with me to this day.
Four year’s later and Tellier is finally back with a follow-up LP. My God Is Blue is due out April 16th on Parisian label Record Makers. Ahead of it’s release, Tellier has released a video for the album’s lead track “Pepito Bleu.” Watch the strange, cultish video below. It even includes subtitles for those of us that don’t speak French.
Newly relocated Portland resident and fellow label-mate Arrange will drop his Five Years With The Sun on February 14th with JUKBOXR Records. Malcom wrote the record as a goodbye letter to South Florida. Check out the opening track below and stream the entire record on his SoundCloud.
Sure we now find our joys these days in obscure electronic music and thugged-out rap music, but we’d be lying if we said the sweet sounds of The Shins didn’t have a major impact on our musical tastes growing up. It’s been years since we’ve even thought about the Portland rock collective let alone hear new music from them. But here we are, at the beginning of 2012 posting about a new Shins song and an upcoming full-length LP to go along with it. Stream “Simple Song” below and look for Port Of Morrow out March 20.
