fresh: NEW Two Door Cinema Club & Helio Sequence

As a fresh addition to your indie rock collection, you get two little gems of joy today.  The Helio Sequence finally returns after a 4+ year hiatus.  In January 2008, they released what was easily the best album of the year, Keep Your Eyes Ahead.  I still listen to it often, and am haunted by the chords of the title track in all the right ways.


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Two Door Cinema Club, my favorite dance-rock band to pop up in the last few years, returns with the unenviable task of topping their 2010 debut album, Tourist History, which drew heavily positive reviews (not only from yours truly, but) from virtually all of music critics.

Both of these tracks, from each respective act, are simply solid returns (even if they don't quite stack up yet to the previous albums' works. All in all, these are solidly optimistic signs.  Two Door Cinema Club's album, Beacon, is due out the first week of September.  The Helio Sequence's Negotiations is due out the second week of said month.


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By the by, here are couple little video previews: 

essentials: the helio sequence

... and if you don't, you have no soul. It's my favorite song of 2008. Just figured I'd share.

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fresh wednesday : new interpol, the helio sequence

Interpol, easily one of my favorite bands, has returned with a new track, Lights. It's vintage Interpol: eerily honest with soft harmonies and a genuine post-punk early 2000's sound that is heavy on the love affair between vocalist Paul Banks' voice and lead guitar. It builds on Sam Fogarino's percussion and Banks' ability to do repetition like no other.

I can't help but think that this is a return to the sound that made their debut LP, Turn on the Bright Lights, one of the best albums of the last 10 years (and one of my favorites- easily one of the most shaping albums of my life). Give the new one a listen:

Lights - Interpol

Secondly we have a new track from The Helio Sequence, one of my favorite discoveries of the last two years. Their last LP, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, was my favorite album (hands down) of 2008. This track, their first since lead singer damaged his vocal chords and had to re-learn how to sing. How insane is that? Anyway, it's not bad:

Converter - The Helio Sequence