New Tracks for 2015

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Duran Duran - Paper Gods (Paper Gods - 2015)
Son Lux - Lost It to Trying (Lanterns - 2013)
Youth Lagoon - The Knower (Savage Hills Ballroom - Out 9/25)

I Break Horses - You Burn (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Chromatics - Shadow (Dear Tommy - Out Sometime, we hope)
Tamaryn - Fade Away Slow (Cranekiss - 2015)
Beach House - Sparks (Depression Cherry - 2015)

Low - No Comprende (Ones and Sixes - 2015)
Widowspeak - My Baby's Gonna Carry On (All Yours - 2015)
DIIV - Dopamine (Is the Is Are - Out This Fall)
The Raveonettes - Summer Ends (Pe'Ahi - 2014)

Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (Ende Neu - 1996)

New tracks for 2014

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Perfume Genius - Grid (Too Bright - 2014)
Absolutely Free - Beneath the Air (Absolutely Free - Out 10/14)
The Raveonettes - Wake Me Up (Pe'Ahi - 2014)
The Twilight Sad - There's A Girl in the Corner (Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave - Out 11/4)

Break - Max Richter - Cathodes (24 Postcards in Full Color)

Vessel - Red Sex (Punish, Honey - 2014)
Driftmachine - Call Mr. Moriba (Noctournes - 2014)
Foxes in Fiction - Ontario Gothic (Ontario Gothic - 2014)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Double Dutch (Sea When Absent - 2014)
MONO - Where We Begin (The Last Dawn - Out 10/28)

This Will Destroy You - Memory Loss (Another Language - 2014)
Grouper - Call Across Rooms (Ruins - Out 10/28)
Swans - To Be Kind (To Be Kind - 2014)

MBV

Drinking a bottle glass of wine while listening to the new My Bloody Valentine album, minimally titled MBV. So far the verdict is very good. Obvious comparisons to Loveless will flood the internet in no time I'm sure. And certainly there's enough fuzz, warble and wave to merit it. It is, after all, My Bloody Valentine. That's what we want and what we expect from Kevin Shields and the gang. But there's definitely a lot of new ground being tread here, like joyful whoops and overt electronic instrumentation. Shields is notorious for his perfectionism in the studio and it shines through beautifully here. Though fuzzy and distorted as always, the record is meticulously engineered and it's readily apparent that we're hearing only what they want us to hear. Someone else might criticize them for being too clean or not "raw" enough. If those people want to take a sketch over a masterpiece, let them.
In any case, here's the lush, swoon-y opening track, "She Found Now":

Buy the album here: My Bloody Valentine - MBV

October 17th, 2012

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The Luyas - Fifty Fifty (Animator - 2012)
Dum Dum Girls - I Got Nothing (End of Daze - 2012)
Echo Lake - Another Day (Wild Peace - 2012)
Lissy Trullie - Madeleine (Lissy Trullie - 2012)
Moon Duo - Sleepwalker (Circles - 2012)

Egyptian Hip Hop - Yoro Diallo (Good Don't Sleep - Out 10/23)
Chairlift - Met Before (Something - 2012)
Ultraísta - Static Light (Ultraísta - 2012)
Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Vas Tu Rentrer? (Melody's Echo Chamber - 2012)

Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Kind of Paradise (Carousel - 2009)

Bat for Lashes - Oh Yeah (The Haunted Man - Out 10/23)
ERAAS - Ghost (ERAAS - 2012)
Errors - Relics (New Relics - Out 11/06)
Crystal Castles - Wrath of God (iii - Out 11/06)

Trust - Dressed for Space (Dressed for Space - 2012)

Bonus Video Time!
Chairlift - Met Before (Girls & Bass version) - Literally just the chorus and the bassist using the acoustics of a gymnasium. Absolutely lovely:

Traveling into Uncertain Distances

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Tamaryn - Sandstone (Tender New Signs - Out 10/16)
Bleeding Rainbow - Drift Away (Yeah Right - Out 01/29/2013)
Halls - Reverie (Ark - Out 10/15)
Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Who Needs Who - 2012)

Mark Eitzel - Oh Mercy (Don't Be A Stranger - 2012)
Sera Cahoone - Naked (Deer Creek Canyon - 2012)
Trespassers William - Far Too Far (Cast - 2012)
The Calm Blue Sea - Mary Ann Nichols (Arrivals and Departures - 2012)

Susanne Sondfør - White Foxes (MAPS remix) (The Silicone Veil - Out 10/16/2012)
Holy Other - Held (Held - 2012)
Hammock - Words You Said... I'll Never Forget You Now (Departure Songs - 2012)

Outro - Rachel's - An Evening of Long Goodbyes (Selenography - 1999)

Whorls of Smoke and Pins of Light

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ERAAS - Fang (ERAAS - Out 10/02)
Dracula Lewi$ - Permafrost (Permafrost 12" - Out 11/05)
Black Marble - Static (A Different Arrangement - Out 10/09)
Human Behavior - Wasting Away (Single - 2012)

TRUST - Divine (Dressed for Space EP - 2012)
School of Seven Bells - Low Times (Ghostory - 2012)
Cold Cave - A Little Death to Laugh (A Little Death to Laugh 7" - 2012)
The Raveonettes - Sinking With the Sun (Observator - 2012)

:papercutz - Where Beasts Die (Sun Glitters Remix) (forthcoming digital EP)
Tamaryn - Heavenly Bodies (Tender New Signs - Out 10/16)
Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers (Strawberry Switchblade cover) (End of Daze EP - 2012)

Purity Ring - Obedear (Shrines - 2012)
Grimes - Be A Body (侘寂) (Visions - 2012)
Bat for Lashes - Marilyn (The Haunted Man - Out 10/16)
Woods - Give Your Light Off (Cali in a Cup 7" - 2012)

A forward looking gaze

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Young Prisms - Better Days (In Between - 2012)
Fear of Men - Mosaic (Mosaic - Out 10/15)
Teen Daze (feat. Frankie Rose) - Union (The Inner Mansions - Out 11/06)

GRMLN - Coral (Teen Daze Remix) (Explore - Out 10/23)
Memory Motel - Wasted Days (Wasted Days/Lost Souls - 2012)
Dead Horse One - He Goes Down (Heavenly Choir of Jet Engines - 2012)

Ringo Deathstarr - Shadow (Shadow - 2012)
Mothlite - Something in the Sky (Dark Age - 2012)
School of Seven Bells - When You Sing (Certain Creatures Remix) (Of Art & Artifice: A Ghostly International Exhibition - 2012)

Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Monument

Trespassers William - Never You (Cast - 2012)
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Looking to Remember (Grandfather Harmonic - 2012)
Halls - Roses for the Dead (Ark - Out 10/15)
Slowdive - Here She Comes (Souvlaki - 1993)

Bonus Video Time!
The Raveonettes - Enemy (Observator - 2012)

Sound of Sunsets

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Dead Can Dance - Children of the Sun (Anastasis - 2012)
Low - Sunflower (Things We Lost in the Fire - 2001)
Codeine - Kitchen (When I See the Sun boxed set - 2012)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth - Sun - Moon - 1990)

Morphine - Buena (Cure for Pain - 1993)
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who (Love this Giant - Out 9/11/12)
Dirty Three - Rain Song (Toward the Low Sun - 2012)
Idaho - Up the Hill (You Were A Dick - 2011)

Lotus Plaza - Eveningness (Spooky Action at A Distance - 2012)
Night Sins - Spectral Bliss (New Grave - 2012)
Trust - Sulk (TRST - 2012)

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley cover) (It'll End in Tears - 1984)
Bauhaus - Severance (Dead Can Dance cover) (Gotham - 1999)

New Tracks from Forthcoming 2012 Releases

Tons of great music due to come out over the next few months. 2012 has yielded some great material so far. Let's hope it continues through to the end. In the mean time, Stream or Download.

Com Truise - Open (In Decay - 2012)
Black Marble - A Great Design (A Different Arrangement - Out 10/09)
Mode Moderne - Foul Weather Fare (Strange Bruises - 2012)
The Luyas - Fifty Fifty (Animator - Out 10/16)

TEEN - Electric (In Limbo - Out 08/28)
DIIV - Sometime (Oshin - 2012)
Seapony - Prove to Me (Falling - Out 09/11)

A Place to Bury Strangers - Burning Plastic (Split 7" - 2012)
Ceremony - Send Me Your Dreams (Split 7" - 2012)
Ringo Deathstarr - Rip (Mauve - Out 09/24)

Exitmusic - The Night (Passage - 2012)
Ormonde - I Can't Imagine (Machine - Out 08/07)
Halls - White Chalk (Ark - Out 10/15)

Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows (End of Daze - Out 09/25)
Bat for Lashes - Laura (The Haunted Man - Out 10/15)

Outro - Rachels - Cuts the Metal Cold (Selenography - 1999)

Bonus video time:

New Dark Electro

Lots of new tracks this episode, including a fresh one from Crystal Castles that dropped this morning. Stream or Download.

Chromatics - Kill For Love (Kill for Love - 2012)
Soft Metals - Pain (Soft Metals - 2011)
Gazelle Twin - Changelings (John Foxx and the Maths Remix) - (The Entire City Remixed - 2012)
Grimes - Genesis (Visions - 2012)

Purity Ring - Belispeak (Shrines - 2012)
Crystal Castles - Plague (2012)
Add N to (X) - Revenge of the Black Regent (Avant Hard - 1999)
Soft Moon - Total Decay (Total Decay EP - 2011)

oOoOO - Springs (feat. Butterclock) - (Our Love Is Hurting Us - 2012)
Miss Kittin - Dub About Me (I Com - 2004)
Balam Acab - Apart (Wander/Wonder - 2011)
Esben and the Witch - Eumenides (Violet Cries - 2011)

New Gothy/Gazy/Indie/Electro Tracks for 2012

All stuff released (or due to be) since May of this year. Stream or download.

Holograms - Monolith (Holograms - 2012)
The Raveonettes - Observations (Observator - Out Sept. 11, 2012)
DIIV - Doused (Oshin - 2012)

Beak> - Deserters (>> - 2012)
DNTEL - Retracer (feat. Nite Jewel) (Aimlessness - 2012)
Purity Ring - Fineshrine (Shrines - Out July 24, 2012)

Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities (Take Care Take Care Take Care - 2011)

Young Prisms - Four Hours (Away) (In Between - 2012)
Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back (Dawn of the Eternal Summers - 2012)
Slug Guts - Stranglin' You Too (Playin' in Time With the Deadbeat - Out July 24, 2012)

No Joy - Junior (Negaverse - 2012)
A Place to Bury Strangers - Dissolved (Worship - 2012)
Exitmusic - The Sea (Passage - 2012)
Beach House - On the Sea (Bloom - 2012)

Mount Eerie - House Shape (Clear Moon - 2012)

Asphalt Heat, Neon Light

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The Raveonettes - Into the Night (Into the Night - 2012)
M83 - Midnight City (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)
Client - Drive (Heartland - 2007)
Depeche Mode - Route 66 (Bobby Troup cover) (Behind the Wheel - 1987)

Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari (Something - 2012)
Blonde Redhead - Not Getting There (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Cut/Copy - Corner of the Sky (Zonoscope - 2011)

Station Break - Gary Numan - Random (The Pleasure Principle - 1979)

Soft Metals - Psychic Driving (Soft Metals - 2011)
Frankie Rose - Pair of Wings (Interstellar - 2012)
Blouse - Time Travel (Blouse - 2011)
Chromatics - The Page (Kill For Love - 2012)

Warpaint - Set Your Arms Down (The Fool - 2010)
Fever Ray - I'm Not Done (Fever Ray - 2009)
Beach House - Other People (Bloom - 2012)

Dark Night Before the Dawn

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School of Seven Bells - Show Me Love (Ghostory - 2012)
Bryan Ferry - Heartache By Numbers (Olympia - 2010)
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind (live June 24, 2000) - (Bowie at the Beeb - 2000)

The Velvet Underground - Oh, Gin (1970 Demo - Peel Slowly & See Boxed Set - 1995)
The Magnetic Fields - Love Is Like A Bottle of Gin (69 Love Songs - 1999)
Tom Waits - Talking at the Same Time (Bad As Me - 2011)
Patti Smith - Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter) - (Banga - 2012)

Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (M83 Mix) - (Remixes 2 81-11 - 2012)
Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time (Colour Trip - 2011)
Grinderman - Worm Tamer (A Place to Bury Strangers Mix) - (Grinderman 2 RMX - 2012)

Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve (Sweet Heart Sweet Light - 2012)
Soulsavers - Bitterman (The Light the Dead See - 2012)
Iggy Pop - Only the Lonely (Frank Sinatra cover) - (Apres - 2012)

Mojave 3 - Got My Sunshine (Excuses for Travellers - 2000)

Exitmusic - The Night (Passage - 2012)

Also, check out this New York Times fashion article featuring Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Dave Gahan and more.

Chrome Waves / Concrete Flowers

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Galaxie 500 - Flowers (Today - 1988)
Cocteau Twins - Road, River, and Rail (Heaven or Las Vegas - 1990)
Secret Shine - Spellbound (Untouched - 1992)

The Cure - 2 Late (Love Song 7" - 1989)
Ride - Chrome Waves (Going Blank Again - 1992)
Catherine Wheel - I Want to Touch You (Ferment - 1992)
Curve - Lilies Dying (Doppelganger - 1992)

Station Break - My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental B

Sonic Rising - Solar Eyes
A Place to Bury Strangers - You Are the One (Worship - 2012)
Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation 9) (Endless Flowers - 2012)

Eternal Summers - Dye (Silver - 2010)
Fresh and Onlys - Waterfall (Play It Strange - 2010)
Beach House - Myth (Bloom - 2012)
Esben and the Witch - Argyria (Violet Cries - 2011)

Medicine - Time Baby III (Time Baby III - 1993)

Bonus Photograph Time!

The Cure's Robert Smith with Andy Bell and Mark Gardner of Ride.

New(ish) Music

My definition of "recent" is sketchy at best, but there's at least two tracks from tonight's episode that were only released yesterday, so there. Stream or download.

Frankie Rose - Know Me (Interstellar - 2012)
Best Coast - Dreaming My Life Away (The Only Place - 2012)
Seapony - Nobody Knows (Go With me - 2011)

S - Wait (I'm Not As Good At It As You - 2010)
La Sera - How Far We've Come Now (Sees the Light - 2012)
Warpaint - Undertow (The Fool - 2011)

Station Break - Monster Rally - Surf Erie (Deep Sea EP - 2011)

Beach Fossils - The Horse (Beach Fossils - 2010)
Tashaki Miyaki - Something Is Better Than Nothing (Sounds of Sweet Nothing - 2012)
High Highs - Horses (High Highs - 2011)

Austra - The Noise (Feel It Break - 2011)
School of Seven Bells - Love Play (Ghostory - 2012)
Beach House - Wishes (Bloom - 2012)
Spiritualized - I Am What I Am (Sweet Heart Sweet Light - 2012)

My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Loveless - 1991)

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Lush - Kiss Chase (Split - 1996)
Curve - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (Cuckoo - 1993)
SPC ECO - Gone (You Tell Me - 2011)
School of Seven Bells - Love From A Stone (Lafaye Single - 2012)
Austra - The Future (Feel It Break - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Love or Prison [Kastellet Remix] (Remixes - 2011)
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities
Widowspeak - Wicked Game [Chris Isaak Cover] (Gun Shy 7" - 2011)
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (Epic - 2010)
Caitlin Rose - For the Rabbits (Own Side - 2011)
Carissa's Wierd - Heather Rhodes (Ugly But Honest - 2000)
Fleet Foxes - Someone You'd Admire (Helplessness Blues - 2011)
Low - Especially Me (C'mon - 2011)
The Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind (Realism - 2010)
Lotte Kestner - True Faith [New Order cover] (Stolen - 2011)

BtWos 06-01-11

Great new material from Sleepingdog, Low, SPC ECO and some older, soft and melancholy tunes. Stream or Download.

I am a winner at posting playlists. Sorry for the near-month delay. Here we are:

Sleepingdog - Untitled Ballad of You and Me
Lightning Dust - Take It Home
Hosannas - Asleep in the Woods
Station Break - Max Richter - The Twins (Prague)
lowercasenoises - Depths
Low - I'm Done
Milton Mapes - Fallen Angel (Neil Young cover)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
Robin Pecknold feat. Ed Droste - I'm Losing Myself
Morning Clouds - Wasted Youth Blues
SPC ECO - Feels Like Flying

Bonus Video Time! Great French wall of sound here by the Psychocandies:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-04-11

Apologies for the late post. I had, erm, lost the jump drive with this show and just found it yesterday when Blogger was down. So anyway, here it is in all its dreamy, noisy glory. Stream or Download

The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire (The Soft Moon - 2010)
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (In Love With Oblivion - 2011)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Must Be Nice (Frankie Rose and the Outs - 2010)
Craft Spells - Beauty Above All (Idle Labor - 2011)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart in Your Heartbeat (Belong - 2011)
Station Break
Tashaki Miyaki - All I Have to Do Is Dream [Everly Bros. cover] (Tashak It To Me - 2011)
Dum Dum Girls - Wrong Feels Right (He Gets Me High - 2011)
The Raveonettes - Apparitions (Raven in the Grave - 2011)
Ceremony - Dreams Stripped Away (Not Tonight - 2011)
Quiet Lights - Simple Mechanics (The Big Fear - 2011)
Station Break
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say (Share the Joy - 2011)
The Art Museums - So Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore (Rough Frame - 2010)
Weekend - Youth Haunts (Sports - 2010)
Moon Duo - Seer (Mazes - 2011)

What Dread Sounds Lie Beyond the Wall of Sleep?

We've missed some great music during the show's absence. Let's try and recap, shall we? Stream or Download

Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time (Colour Trip, 2011)
The Telewire - Never Been Alive (The Telewire, 2011)
L'Altra - Winter Loves Summer Sun (Telepathic, 2011)
C'est La Mort - Nothing Ever Lasts (Empty Words Fill Lonely Spaces, 2010)
The Raveonettes - Evil Seeds (Raven in the Grave, 2011)
Station Break - Crocodiles - Neon Autobahn
Autolux - The Bouncing Wall (The Bouncing Wall/Census EP 2011)
SPC ECO - White Light (Out of the Sky EP, 2010)
The Hope Slide - The Westward Pull [Fathoms Remix] (The Hope Side Remixed 2, 2011)
Hosannas - Obsolete People (Thug Life Nicole EP, 2011)
Station Break - Hosannas - Right As Rain
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Anne with an E (Belong, 2011)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Little Brown Haired Girls (Frankie Rose and the Outs, 2010)
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Sleep Forever, 2010)
Best Coast - Honey (Crazy for You, 2010)
Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo (Teen Dream, 2010)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 04-28-10

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Shearwater - Landscape at Speed
School of Seven Bells - White Elephant Coat
Lightning Dust - Never Seen
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Trouble
Station Break - Fleeting Joys - Into Sun & Dark
Jatun - Blanket of Ash
Sunsplit - She Said
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Fleeting Joys - Closer to My World Without Pain
Scarlet Youth - Before the Surface Breaks
Station Break - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - The Owl
Dead Leaf Echo - Pale Fire
Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Stay Alive
Crocodiles - Here Comes the Sky
Engineers - The Fear Has Gone
New Ghosts - Sinking Feeling
HTRK - Rent Boy
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Falling Sun
Dorias Baracca - Silence
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Autochromes
Ceremony - Our Last Goodbye
Screen Vinyl Image - Slipping Away
Ringo Deathstarr - Sweet Girl
SPC ECO - Spotlight
Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Gone Forever
Zola Jesus - Clay Bodies
Team Ghost - Sur Nous Les Etincelles Du Soleil
Highspire - Glass in My Mouth
Trespassers William - What of Me?