Yeah Yeah Yeahs - (2007) Isis EP

sound: Indie/Funk/Poolhall
length: 5 songs, 17.45 minutes
myspace
1. Rockers to Swallow
2. Down Boy
3. Kiss Kiss
4. Isis
5. 10x10

Im going to start this post by saying i'm not a huge fan of the new album, and truly half of A Fever To Tell has to catch me on a good day unless im listening to Maps because... well its Maps . That being said i fucking love this EP. It's just five straight songs that are damn catchy, each boasting their own version of scratchy guitars and punchy vocals. This EP commands your attention from foot tapping Rockers to Swallow to the steady drumbeat of Kiss Kiss. People like to get lazy and lump them together with Pretty Girls Make Graves because they're both women fronted. This is the only complete record by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs that can hang with PGMG, and that's high praise on this blog. It's good stuff, check it out.

sounds like: We Are Scientists, Band of Skulls, Blood Red Shoes

*Link taken down by BAND REQUEST.
However i cannot control people posting it anonymously in the comments.

Band of Skulls - (2009) Baby DollFace Honey

sound: Indie/Alternative Rock
length: 11 songs, 43.9 minutes
myspace
1. Light of the Morning
2. Death By Diamonds And Pearls
3. I Know What I Am
4. Fires
5. Honest
6. Patterns
7. Bomb
8. Impossible
9. Blood
10. Dull Gold Heart
11. Cold Fame

Earlier in the year this album was circulating around in teaser form, and basically i just waited it out until i found a complete record to give and talk about. Honestly it's like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the White Stripes got together and made a record. It's pretty enjoyable to say the least. Love the song, I Know What I Am.

sounds like: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blood Red Shoes, Cold War Kids

Bump

So Many Dynamos - (2009) The Loud Wars

sound: Indie/Funk/Progressive
length: 10 songs, 39.9 minutes
myspace
1 Artifacts of Sound
2 Glaciers
3 The Novelty of Haunting
4 New Bones
5 If You Didn’t Want To Know
6 Oh, The Devastation
7 Keep It Simple
8 Friendarmy
9 It’s Gonna Rain
10 The Formula

After discovering this band a couple months back i was instantly hooked. While the musical techniques are not necessarily something completely original to the mathrock or progressive genre, i still feel their delivery is 100% heartfelt, catchy, and completely fascinating. This record is far more electronic, phazers, pedals, so on and so forth then i was expecting. And while half the time on first listen it seemed as though they were trying to emulate the excellence of their previous album Flashlights (which fucking rules by the way and is also on this site) there's gems like the strangely exciting almost progrock of New Bones. I'd say give it a listen though if you like listening to drummers or you enjoyed We Are Scientists latest press Brain Thrust Mastery.



sounds like: the Plastic Constellations, Blood Red Shoes, Fugazi, For the Mathematics

Boom!

Tokyo Police Club - (2007) Elephant Shell

Sound: Indie/Funk/Poolhall
Length: 11 songs, 28 minutes
myspace
1. Centennial
2. In a Cave
3. Graves
4. Juno
5. Tessellate
6. Sixties Remake
7. Harrowing Adventures of..., The
8. Nursery, Academy
9. Your English Is Good
10. Listen to the Math
11. Baskervilles, The

So i was absolutely floored about how much i loved this album until i saw they were on MTV. But (thank the gods) all the shitty music loving teeny boppers were bashing them. So my love of them was reaffirmed :). Anyway, think really upbeat and damn catchy and you've got TPC. Normally i would say not my style, but really this record is too short to not enjoy. So if you came across them on MTV and decided against it, i would implore you to take another look.

sounds like: Blood Red Shoes, Foals, Tapes N' Tapes, Ra Ra Riot, Vampire Weekend

Fwoop!