General Music Discussion Thread (a.k.a. indie lovefest)

[Jurollo]

Circa Survive - On Letting Go....

Buy it.

[correia]

Tokyo Police Club - Very into the A Lesson In Crime EP

Cajun Dance Party - Apparantly Thom Yorke is a big fan, that should be enough to at least check them out

[LuckOfTheDraw]

OK, I'm pretty new to indie music (and man is there a lot of it to wade through) and I'm still adjusting to the structure of most of the songs. I wouldn't say I'm a fan, but there are definitely some bands I can dig. One song I really like is Young Folks (Writer's Block) by Peter Bjorn and John. I heard it on the radio and got the CD because of it. The rest of the CD is pretty good as well, but I'm completely jocking this one song.

[Jack of Arcades]

If you can find the new Architecture in Helsinki, it's amazing.

[nyc999]

If you haven't heard of the site, hypem.com aggregates music posted in the top music blogs. It has a lot of indie music, and it has a pop-up flash player where you can listen to the last 50 songs posted on the web.

If you're a fan of a particular music blog, you can also play the music from individual sites. This is usually the best option so you can avoid the random junk posted on some blogs.

[illuminati]

PIGEON DETETCTIVES AND THE CRIBS NEW ALBUMS FOR YOU AMERIDONKS

TOO DRUNK TO ANALYSE

DEAL

[Marwan]

Anyone hear Jarvis Cocker's solo album? As a Pulp fan, I'm excited to get a hold of it..

[Potvaliant]

Gogol Bordello : Gypsy Punk rock. If you like the Pogues, or the way they combined their country's traditional music with a punk/rock aesthetic, you will probably like this.

Also, J.U.F. (Jewish Ukrainian Freundschaft) : lots of the same people, but it's dance music, with "Balkan, Turkish, dancehall, Rai and flamenco beats." I can't stomach much that's called dance music, but the first download on that site ("Gypsy Part of Town") is really cool.

Balkan Beat Box too - again some of the same guys. And again, they do interesting things with traditional Eastern European folk sounds.

[Senor Cardgage]

Six tracks from Animal Collective's new album, "Strawberry Jam", have leaked.

It is AMAZING so far.

Just something for people to keep an eye out for.

[Entity]

Of recent albums I've listened to and really liked, Bayani by the Blue Scholars is probably the highest. Check out a few tracks (I highly recommend "Joe Metro") on their Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/bluescholars.

And yet another group brought to me by KEXP who I'm really digging: Vampire Weekend. http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend.

Rob