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Spiritualized “Soul on Fire”
Not quite finished messing with our heads, Jason Pierce returns more determined than ever on Spiritualized’s sixth album, Songs in A&E. Ease into it with this gently rocking psychedelic epic in which he sings, “I’ve got a hurricane inside my veins.”

(via The Yellow Stereo)

I Love Math “Josephine Street”
Did picking up the Juno soundtrack make you long for old school indie-pop with jangly guitars, frail male voices and starry-eyed lyrics? Then get on board with I Love Math, a group that features members of Apples In Stereo and the Old 97s and on this track from its debut album, Getting To The Point Is Beside It, sounds like the cardigan clad lovechild of Belle & Sebastian, the Clientele and Yo La Tengo.
(via Glurp Records)

Sigur Ros “Gobbledigook”
The Icelandic band most famous for singing songs in its own invented language doesn’t disappoint with this taster from its forthcoming fifth full length, With a Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly. They sound more upbeat than ever thanks to the scratchy acoustic guitars and hasty rhythmic changes, but no less delirious.
(via Gorilla vs Bear)

MGMT “Time To Pretend”
Is this grinding, impossibly catchy electronic tune a mindless celebration of hedonism or a jaded look at the fast life? We’re not sure but we sure like the part where the vocoded voice goes, “I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars/ You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.”
(via Slave To The Details)

Coldplay “Songbird” (Oasis Cover)
With anticipation for the new Brian Eno-produced album now at a fever pitch thanks to that omnipresent iTunes commercial, maybe it’s best if we all just step back and take a breather with this understated cover of this Liam Gallagher penned ballad.
(via Hard To Find A Friend)

The Tallest Man on Earth “I Won’t Be Found”
Our editor Jose Ramirez says, “It’s the best American folk since Devendra Banhart stopped being poor (and he’s Swedish).” Who are we to argue?
(via Ketelmuziek)

Icelandic pop etherealists Sigur Rós have made available a free download of the song “Goobledigook,” the first track from their new record Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, which translates as, “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly.” The new release will be available in its entirety on June 23rd.

A Not Safe For Work video of waify naked types frolicking in the woods is also available for viewing. The way these youngsters recklessly expose themselves to the Icelandic foliage makes a viewer truly hope that chiggers and poison oak are unknown to the geyser-glacier wonderland, or wherever they shot the thing.

This is the fifth full-length studio release from Sigur Rós (Icelandic for “victory rose” and named in honor of the birth of the singer Jonsi Birgisson’s little sister) in their fourteen-year history. Their second album was textured by palindromic string arrangements composed by keyboardist Kjarri Sveinsson, the only band member with any formal musical training. Which begs the question: if the music is the same backward as forward, how does the devil get his message across?

Distinguished by Birgisson’s girly falsetto and his cello bow guitar technique, Sigur Rós have summer touring plans that will take them from Mexico to Melbourne and on to Moscow between now and the end of August.