New Albums of 2009

A Shoreline Dream – Recollections of Memory

Amiina - Re Minore

Amusement Parks On Fire - Young Fight

Asobi Seksu – Transparence

Balmorhea – All Is Wild All Is Silent (Remixes)

Caspian – Tertia

Do Make Say Think – Other Truths

Epic45 - In All The Empty Houses

Giardini di Mirò – Il Fuoco

Jesu – Opiate Sun

Lady&Bird - La Ballade of Lady and Bird

Long Distance Calling – Avoid The Light

Mew – No More Stories

Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know

Ólafur Arnalds - Found Songs

Port-Royal - Dying In Time

Portugal.The Man – The Majestic Majesty

Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist

Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia

Saxon Shore - It Doesn’t Matter

The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away

The Radio Dept. – David

The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead

This Will Destroy You – Field Studies /  Split (Lymbyc Systym)

Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

Jónsi & Alex

Jónsi & Alex began as a Sigur Rós side project around 2003 under the name Riceboy Sleeps. On November 24, 2006, they released their first picture book with the same name as their project. One thousand hand-numbered editions were produced, and only available in Iceland. However, they released a second edition in July 2007, but it was not hand-numbered.

To spread the word of the book’s publishing, Somers and Jón held an art exhibition at Gallery Turpentine in Reykjavík, Iceland.In August 2007, they went to Arkansas to hold their first exhibit outside of Iceland. In October of the same year, they held a third exhibit at Melbourne International Arts Festival and were part of the Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavík.

The two have released two singles: “All the Big Trees” and “Daníell in the Sea.”

They also contributed the song “Happiness” to the Dark Was the Night charity compilation album produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National.  At that time, the duo were known as Riceboy Sleeps.
Their debut album Riceboy Sleeps was released in Europe on July 20, 2009

Download: Riceboy Sleeps (2009)

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Sigur Rós

Parachutes

Frakkur

Bibio

Bibio is the recording name of British music producer Stephen Wilkinson. A resident of West Midlands, England, Stephen Wilkinson developed a passion for experimental music during his time at Middlesex University in London, where he studied “sonic arts”. He developed his own style of music, drawing from contemporary experimental electronica bands such as Boards of Canada, and incorporating field recordings and found sounds. Electronically modified guitar melodies and droning synthesizer sounds are a recurring theme in his pieces, causing many people to label his music as a hybrid of electronica or intelligent dance music and traditional folk music. His music has recently been licensed for commercial campaigns by L.L. Bean and Toyota.

Bibio’s first release on Mush records, Fi, was released in 2004, followed up in 2006 by the release of Hand Cranked, also on Mush. In June 2009, he signed with Warp Records, and in June of that year, released his third studio album Ambivalence Avenue.

Download:

Ambivalence Avenue (2009)

Vignetting the Compost (2009)

Hand Cranked (2006)

Fi (2004)

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Max Richter

Composer Max Richter was born in Germany in 1966 and grew up in the UK. He studied composition and piano at Edinburgh University, the Royal Academy of Music and in Florence with Luciano Berio.

He has released four solo albums: Memoryhouse (2002), Blue Notebooks (2004), Songs From Before (2006), and latest, 24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008), a collection of miniatures meant to be used as ringtones.

Download:

24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008)

Songs from Before (2006)

The Blue Notebooks (2004)

Memoryhouse (2002)

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Balmorhea – Remembrance

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Balmorhea

Klimt

Klimt is  a Polish ambient/shoegaze one man band of Antoni Budzinski.

Firstly check their myspace page and listen  ”Spowiedz Syren”

Download: Jesienne Odcienie Melancholii (2008)

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The Last Shadow Puppets

The Last Shadow Puppets is a indie band that consists of Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of The Rascals and composer/producer James Ford.

Download:

The Age Of The Understatement

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Sumner McKane

Sumner Mckane is a guitarist and composer from Maine. He performs both as a solo artist, & as part of ‘The Sumner Mckane Group’ along with bassist Joshua Robbins, and Todd Richard on drums and percussion.

Download:

North

Night Blooming Cereus

What A Great Place To Be

Two If By Sea

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Ulrich Schnauss

Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German town of Kiel in 1977. During his formative years, he came to love a wide spectrum of music, ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Tangerine Dream, from Chapterhouse to early bleep and breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical heroes in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996. By that time, Ulrich was already a prolific musician in such genres as ambient and drum and bass, with a variety of pseudonyms. These earlier works soon caught the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO who took him up. Soon his submissions to CCO developed into Ulrich’s first album under his own name, entitled Far Away Trains Passing By. It became an electronic classic; listeners were smitten with the lush instrumentation and the emotional impact of his elegant music. Yet nothing could prepare his growing army of supporters for the next record, A Strangely Isolated Place, which slowly came together in 2001. The album truly displayed Ulrich’s youthful indie influences and established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer. A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences: a record that slowly grows in stature by virtue of its overriding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer.

Download:

Goodbye

A Strangely Isolated Place

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Parachutes – Tree Roots Turn To Forts

Parachutes

Fjord Rowboat

Download: Saved The Compliments For Morning

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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is an indie rock band best known for their heavy yet anthemic music and their tendency to destroy their equipment at the end of their performances (a rock and roll tradition usually associated with The Who). According to the band’s website, the name “…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead” is taken from both an ancient Mayan ritual chant and an Egyptian burial text. Band members have also claimed that they made it up because it sounded cool and discovered the association after the fact.

Download:

The Century of Self (2009)

So Divided (2006)

Worlds Apart (2005)

Relative Ways (2002)

Source Tags & Codes (2002)

Madonna (1999)

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (1998)

Web:

Myspace Page, Website

Jesu

Jesu is an experimental rock band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu’s sound is heavily layered and textured, drawing from and incorporating an eclectic mix of influences, ranging from ambient music, post-metal and drone doom, to shoegazing, downtempo and industrial music. Some have described their more recent releases as “avant-pop” and avant-garde doom.

Download:

Pale Sketches

Conqueror

Silver

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Arcade Fire

Neon Bible (2007)

Black Session (2007)

Funeral (2004)

Arcade Fire (2003)

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Paavoharju

Paavoharju is a Finnish folk musical collective of lutheran Christians formed around two brothers, Lauri and Olli Ainala.

Download: 

Yhä hämärää 

Laulu Laakson Kukista

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Beach House

Beach House is an indie rock/dream pop group which formed in 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The group consists of Victoria Legrand (vocals, organ) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Legrand is the niece of french composer Michel Legrand.

Download:

Used To Be (2008)

Devotion (2008)

Beach House (2006)

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Detektivbyrån

Detektivbyrån is Jon Ekström, Anders Flanders and Martin Molin, who formed in Karlstad, Sweden in and are now located in Gothenburg. They are making instrumental folky electronic music using vibes, accordions, trumpets, drums and guitars.
Download:

Wermland

E18 Album

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Elf Fatima

Elf Fatima are an atmospheric, Dark Pop/Post Punk, Post-Heavy-Rock-Instrumentalist, Underground band from Hong Kong.

Download:

- Kill All W

- Elf Fatima

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Melodium

The man behind Melodium is Laurent Girard. He was born in 1975 and lives in Angers, France.In 1999, he contacts the label Tugboat to ask for a cd of one of their bands, Isan. At the same time, he sends some of his own compositions, and receives a kind reply from Glen Johnson telling him to send him other tracks.Glen Johnson sent then the tape to a friend label, Static Caravan, who released his 7” called “Rhythmil”. The same year, Laurent Girard buys a computer and finds it much easier to create sounds.

Download:

Lullabies for Adults (2009)

Music for Invisible People (2007)

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Balmorhea

Balmorhea, pronounced Bal-moor-ay, are Rob Lowe and Michael Muller from Austin, Texas. They list some of their influences as Ludovico Einaudi, Six Parts Seven, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Rachel’s, Gillian Welch, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt and John Cage
Have shared the stage with such notable acts as Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Fleet Foxes, Efterklang, Helios, Grouper, Tiny Vipers, Human Bell, Slaraffenland, Anathallo, This Will Destroy You, Pattern Is Movement, and Dosh.
Download:

All Is Wild, All Is Silent (2009)

Tour Ep (2008)

River Arms (2008)

Balmorhea (2007)

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Giardini di Mirò

Giardini di Mirò is a post-rock unit based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group formed in 1998, and its members include Jukka Reverberi, Lorenzo Lanzi, Mirko Venturelli, Luca Di Mira, and Corrado Nuccini. Notable acts the unit has toured with include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Karate, Ulan Bator, and Unwound.
Download:

DIVIDING OPINIONS (2007)

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY OF LOVE (2006)

PUNK…NOT DIET! (2003)

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Her Name is Calla

Her Name Is Calla’s sound brings to mind a raw, stripped back Radiohead with strong post-rock influences thrown into the mix.

Download:

Heritage 2008

Condor and River 2007

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Subheim

Subheim is the deeply personal project of electronic music composer and visual artist Kostas K., a downtempo, experimental venture fusing IDM elements with rich ambiance and female vocals by Katja.
Complex and uncompromising, Subheim’s debut album on Tympanik Audio is full of intricate rhythms, deep reverbs, and bitcrushed sounds, combined with pianos, cellos, and beautiful synthwork. Haunting melodies and distant voices meet complex beats and luring atmospheres to create a unique blend of dynamics and emotion. ‘Approach’ flirts with post-rock and atmospheric downtempo styles, while still maintaining an original sound that is both captivating and inspirational.
Download: Approach

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Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind (New Album 2009)

The new album of Japanese post-rock band Mono. (Highly Recommended)

Download: Hymn To The Immortal Wind

Mono

Yo La Tengo

The Hoboken, NJ-based unit explore the extremes of feedback-driven noise rock and sweet melodic pop. Prolific and independent, Yo La Tengo have transcended their influences to establish themselves as an institution of the indie community.

Download:

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000)

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)

Electr-O-Pura (1995)

May I Sing with Me (1993)

Fakebook (1990)

Ride the Tiger (1986)

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