OOIOO, “OOIAH” MP3

This one from Boredom’s Yoshimi and her side-job OOIOO was on the internet a week ago but it wasn’t in this Flickr set so we missed it. It also just so happens that we’ve been listening to OOIOO’s new album Armonico Hewa a lot lately because the the weather, the work and the weekends have all been so hectic and disorienting that only freaky Japanese psych pop and Tangerine Dream are making sense. The album is out now on Thrill Jockey, and in addition to “OOIAH,” which is good for midday mayhem, we highly recommend “Orokai” for morning calisthenics and “Honki Ponki” for happy hour.



Download: OOIOO, “OOIAH”

Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast

If your only options for a Halloween costume at this point are Balloon Boy, some visual representation of Kanye interrupting something or Carles, please get off the internet (after you’re done reading a bunch of posts here). We have a few recommendations. First, as a friend recently said, “I’m sexy every day of the year—Halloween is my chance to be ugly,” so forget the Sexy [fill in the blank] and turn yourself into a walking Swine Flu booger or enormous pair of saggy boobs. Option two, Hobo You: basically just you but wearing all the stuff at the bottom of the closet. Carry a knapsack and look eager for work because hobos are not bums. Someone might even offer you a job! Number three, fat cat. And finally, follow Fever Ray’s lead, dress normally (if not a little more stylishly) but act so fucking creepy that it actually makes people not want to be alone with you. Some of you are already really good at this so maybe just paint a spider web on your face or something. To prep and inspire, go grab the newest Resident Advisor podcast, helmed by Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson and her touring bandmates.

Download: Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast

Premiere: The Marshmallow Ghosts, “Shrieks” MP3

Though the band and song name might lead you to think The Marshmallow Ghosts and their new single “Shrieks” 7-inch belong to the widening swath of goth recorded on a laptop mic, they are in fact the result of a special Halloween side project of members of Black Moth Super Rainbow, the Appleseed Cast, Casket Girls, and Dreamend. The limited and handnumbered single will come as a horrifying swirly picture disk sheathed in a glow in the dark sleeve of madness created by Stoughton (check it out after the jump). The music itself sounds almost identical to the record the neighbor played when we were kids that challenged our will for Reesies and bubblegum. She invariably handed out apples. Screw that lady. the “Shrieks” single, with b-side “Creaks,” will be out on October 20th, but seeing as how the 96 special pre-orders are already sold out, we recommend you hop on the broom and get over to Gravesend. By the way, what’s everyone gonna be for Halloween? Can’t go as Lagerfeld or Captain Craps-His-Pants again, need ideas.



Download: The Marshmallow Ghosts, “Shrieks”

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Actual Pain x Blessure Grave Mixtape + F/W 09

On this darkest of mornings, two FADER worlds collide in an abyss of filth and confusion… wait no, it’s so nice outside. But worlds do collide as Blessure Grave, a favorite of Jamie Johns’ Freak Scene, and Actual Pain, a fashion and mixtape-maker favorite of the rest of us, collab for another stellar, if somewhat bummer styles mixtape, which includes Siouxsie, Crisis, Wire and more. The irony with both the mixtape and Actual Pain’s A/W 09 line of tees and sweats, though, is that both make us feel really good while we’re walking around in the morning sun. Like we might actually get a suntan listening to goth and wearing a tank-top with maybe Satanic imagery on it. Anyway, check a few images from the line and the mixtape’s tracklist after the jump and go here to buy any/all of it. We got dibs on that black “6 Eyes” joint.

Download: Actual Pain Presents Blessure Grave: Darklands: Goth, Post Punk & Darkwave

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Winter Drones, “Winnie Cooper’s Bones” & “Two Long Weeks Part 2″ MP3s

How fucking awesome was The Wonder Years? Like, as far as TV shows go it had everything you could want, including a rumor that the gawky kid with glasses was actually Marilyn Manson. We mention this because Winter Drones have a song called “Winnie Cooper’s Bones” (referring to the main character’s love interest, in case you forgot) that balances Bob Dylan-esque uptalk with layers of dense guitar. We can’t quite make out the lyrics, so we’re just going to assume that it’s about how it’s a borderline travesty that The Wonder Years is still not out on DVD and move on. Equally as good/heavy is “Two Long Weeks Part 2,” which comes off like a palate cleanser after all that guitar fog, but it’s a little sharper, a little more biting. Winter Drones’ Blood in the Coffin is out soon.



Download: Winter Drones, “Winnie Cooper’s Bones”



Download: Winter Drones, “Two Long Weeks Part 2″ (via Pinglewood)

Video: Transformation Surprise, “Oceans Pray”

When High Places bounced to LA from Brooklyn, it seemed like a pretty calculated move. Because the two were already making tropical music, they should be somewhere at least a little more sunlit than New York. Since they’ve been gone, they’ve stayed relatively quiet—releasing a split 12-inch with Soft Circle on PPM and, apparently, doing stuff like this. Transformation Surprise is Mary Pearson’s solo project. It’s somber and significantly darker than anything High Places has released in the past, and in that sense it’s a fitting soundtrack to the parts of LA that are beautiful and weird and kind of grimy underneath the glitz. (via No Conclusion)

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White Ring, “Suffocation” MP3

Rather than debate over whether we can actually get into this White Ring song because it sounds a lot like the stuff Salem has been doing, we’re just going to post it because it is a jam. Mixing Salem’s penchant for drum machine snap combined with the murky dregs of a shitty keyboard, White Ring tighten the blurred edges, keeping things sharp with some Karen O-influenced snarls. Kind of Salem part two, or maybe just another unrelated excursion into the depths of a still-nascent genre. Either way, when can we get a band that’s cool with wearing Dracula capes?



Download: White Ring, “Suffocation” (via Turnstile Music)

Manic Street Preachers, “Virginia State Epileptic Colony” (Fuck Buttons Remix) MP3

Last night at some ungodly hour, the entire FADER staff worked away to create the next issue of our magazine. Somewhere close to midnight, someone put on Fuck Buttons‘ undeniably epic Tarot Sport, their new Andrew Weatherall-produced record that sounds like a bunch of vampires having a rave in a church (see also: the first two Blade movies). We have never turned out pages faster than while we were jamming that record. It turns out that in addition to their new album, FB have been working on other stuff, like this remix of Manic Street Preachers’ “Virginia State Epileptic Colony,” which sounds more like an outtake from Fuck Button’s debut record, anchored not by hypnotic drum pulse, but ground to dust under the weight of synthesizers and cement mixers and pedal loops or whatever the hell it is these dudes use to make their music. In addition to the Fuck Buttons remix, the Manic Street Preachers have a grip of reworks featuring the aforementioned Weatherall, Optimo, The Horrors and others on a second disc that will accompany their record.



Download: Manic Street Preachers, “Virginia State Epileptic Colony” (Fuck Buttons Remix) (via Stereogum)

Lightning Bolt, “Colossus” MP3

Pitchfork premiered this new Lightning Bolt with about as much as enthusiasm as your grandfather’s doctor premieres the latest colonoscopy results, so we’ll go ahead with the hysterics and say HOLY CRAP NEW LIGHTNING BOLT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A SONG. It’s like Sabbath if Ozzy was too wasted to even pick up the mic and just yelled at Geezer’s bass instead but the band still played like it was the best show they’d ever had (and then Ozzy barfed). Real riffs! Real hooks! Drums that have a soul almost! Is Chippendale singing a harmony? What the eff. These are big changes for anyone who cares to notice. Lightning Bolt’s new album Earthly Delights, which hopefully sounds a lot like “Colossus” and was almost five years in the making with two ditched full lengths in between it and Hypermagic Mountain, is out on October 13th on Load. The tracklist is after the jump along with some new tour dates. What a weird day!



Download: Lightning Bolt, “Colossus” (via P4k)

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Volcano Choir, “Island, IS” MP3

Volcano Choir: not that different from Bon Iver! No, just kidding, this is pretty out there in comparison to For Emma, Forever Ago. Justin Vernon’s collaboration with Collections of Colonies of Bees follows the same “torn-down-by-the-world-but-I’m-still-optimistic” road that Vernon has made a mega-career out of, but more inclined to branch off into warm electronic side streets. Has dude been listening to a lot of Prefuse 73? Maybe. But maybe he just got tired of people freaking out about how he chopped his own wood in the forest. Now we can all get super into how he programmed his own songs in ProTools! So rustic.



Download: Volcano Choir, “Island, IS” (via P4K)

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