Tumbleweave - ♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪

Tumbleweave's "♪♫♪♫♫♫♪♪♫♪" (extra points if you clap that out) is by far the freakiest chip-noise album I've heard. three tracks of totally bitcrushed synth mixed with way-too-loud drums make for three minutes of a beautiful, beautiful headache. I don't know much about this band aside from that they've recently released an even more insane full-length, and I really can't find anything to compare this to. Check it out!

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Trevor Hicks - Home EP

Here's a collection of four demos that Trevor Hicks recorded live and in one take at my house in one night. Very mellow sounds, great for an evening alone. Free music!

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FlubCast 1/6/11 Tracklisting

Listen to the podcast here if you missed it live!

"Shell Games" - Bright Eyes

"Rattling Locks" - Josh Ritter

"Birds" - Margot and the Nuclear So & So's

"You" - Gold Panda

"Day 54" - letlive.

"Texico Bitches" - Broken Social Scene

"Bad, Bad Dreams" - Tim Kasher

"Polaroids and Red Wine" - Jaguar Love

"Kampa" - Drivan

"Knowledge of Good and Evil" - Jenny and Johnny

"Turnpike Ghost" - Steel Train

"Color Me Badd" - Land of Talk
"Party Stronger" - Anamanaguchi

"I Walked" - Sufjan Stevens

"Bees" - Warpaint

"Hi, I'm Lust" - Trevor Hicks

A Weather - Cove

"A postcard from the green and gray environs of Portland, Cove ismoody and warm, rife with odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self and hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists, Norfolk and Western), the songs on Cove are marked with an intimacy so striking that it feels like you’re eavesdropping on the pillow talk of two forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.

At the core of A Weather’s warm, soft-spoken sounds are the comely vocals of frontman / singer / songwriter Aaron Gerber and singer/drummer Sarah Winchester. With remarkable restraint and understated delivery, their harmonies trace each other, cross paths, diverge and intertwine, undercutting the gravity of AWeather’s material. 'In one way Cove is a catalogue of closely observed moments and particulars,' says Gerber. 'In another it is an oddly inspirational document of transience and entropy and trying to keep yourself together when things are falling apart.'

Cove swells with layers of sound (organs, Mellotron, percussion) and then drifts downward into moments of sparse acoustic guitar or a single piano. Winchester’s drumming (using only an upturned bass drum, a snare and a cymbal) is rock solid, uncluttered and highly musical. Meanwhile, guitarist Zach Boyle’s meandering, sinewy lines of electric guitar have been compared to a babbling brook – and why argue with that?"

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Top 10 Albums of 2010

Hello everybody! It's my favorite time of the year again... Time for things to end, beginnings to come, and more importantly - time for Cameron to put ten of this year's albums into a list! So, without further adieu...

10.) Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels

Originally released in 2004 on Crank! Records, 2010 saw the revival of this wonderful collaboration EP in CD/LP/Digital format through my second favorite label, Saddle Creek. It features 4 new tracks from Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova, which is what puts it in the running for a "new" album of this year - such great tracks, new and old!

9.) Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away

The latest album from Josh Ritter feels more like an emotional viewing of the music South Pacific than a typical Josh Ritter album(ironically, there's a son

g titled South Pacific). So Runs the World Away is Ritter's orchestral folk masterpiece - judging on his comments of this album marking a "new point" in his musical career, I'm more than interested in seeing where he takes this full-music mentality in the next few albums.

8.) Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Buzzard

2008 - 2010 has brought Margot & the Nuclear So and So's plenty of attention from hipsters and music afficianados alike(heck, we're all hipsters here). Sure, Buzzard isn't the Margot we know and love from The Dust of Retreat anymore, but taken from a separate mindset this album is surprisingly simple and enjoyable. Sometimes befriending distortion isn't all too bad.

7.) Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner

I'm an "electronic musician," so naturally I'm interested in the new movements of electronic sound creation and the like. This year, Gold Panda's Lucky Shiner struck me as the most intuitive and sincere electronic albums I've heard in a long time(possibly ever). This glitch DJ has a way of mashing sounds in a way that can completely surprise the senses. It's a wonderful thing.

6.) letlive. - Fake History

It's not often that I actually enjoy and am

able to sit through an entire hardcore record, but letlive. has definitely pulled it off. Such raw sound, comparable to a faster Glassjaw.

5.) Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

Broken Social Scene has always had a way of making music sou

nd much fuller than need be. Their album You Forgot It In People will forever be marked in my mind as the first album I deemed worthy of converting to .flac, and this album follows front. Although it gets a bit slow at times, there's always a sense of weight in each song. Great stereo music.

4.) Tim Kasher - The Game of Monogamy

A change from his usual routine in Cursive and The Good Life(I'm wearing a Good Life t-shirt as I write this), Tim Kasher's reflections on modern commitment is written in an almost satirical format. Tending towards a more orchestral(and sometimes ska-ish!) sound, this release is both beautiful, hilarious, and heartwarming.

3.) Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams

I'm a huge fan of anything Johnny Whitney related, so as soon as I heard of Jaguar Love I knew I'd be in love. Cleaning up my tears from Blood Brother's ashes, Hologram Jams was the perfect electro-pop pick-me-up. Whitney's shrill vocals layered into hip-hop beats and electro synth is just plain perfect.

2.) Drivan - Disko

Maybe it's because I'm learning the Swedish, or maybe it's because Drivan isn't really a band; either way, there's something I really love about this album. Filled with lo-fi riffs and glitch-pop beats, this is the perfect sleep album even if you don't understand what they're singing.

1.) Steel Train - Steel Train

After plenty of problems with major labels and Jack Antonoff having some fun.(oh gosh Cameron you're so hilarious), Steel Train decided to take their hand at a self-release for a change. What a difference it made! Taking influence from 90's pop and denim jackets, this is exactly the album that I imagine pop rock to be. So much energy, so much emotion.

Honorable Mentions:

Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher

Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Soundtrack

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

Tron: Legacy OST

Warpaint - The Fool

FlubCast 12/09 Tracklisting / Mentioned Links

Listen to the podcast here if you missed it live!

"Jaglin' (RAC Mix)" - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

"Sparrow" - Young Professionals

"There Must Be Something I've Lost" - Tim Kasher

"Psalms 40:2" - The Mountain Goats

"Coin-Operated Boy" - The Dresden Dolls

"Sun Down" - Nik Freitas

"Will" - Maps & Atlases

"You Are What You Love" - Jenny Lewis w/ the Watson Twins

"Hand of God" - Jason Boesel

"Det gor ingenting" - Drivan

"Calm" - C418

"Cats" - Kupek

Operation BSU - SquidLord's podcast, back from the dead!

Team Love Library - free albums galore, including some played tonight

Also, search "FlubCast" on iTunes and download any episode for free!

FlubCast Playlist / Mentioned Links

HERE'S A LINK TO THE EPISODE IF YOU MISSED IT LIVE

"Cherry Soda" - Jaguar Love

"Don't You Evah" - Spoon
"Golden Shackles" - Flowers Flowers

"Heart Sweats" - Japandroids

"Love Song" - Andrew Jackson Jihad

"Starring" - Freelance Whales

"Manana" - Desaparecidos

"Cartoons and Forever Plans" - Maria Taylor

"Touch Me Bad" - Steel Train

"Does You Cat Have a Moustache?" - The Format

Mentioned links:

http://elyagurlukovich.tumblr.com (guest host Elya Gurlukovich's new blog)