Everything you read about Wavves is sure to mention what an asshole Nathan Williams is. However, most everything you read will also mention how his music is pretty great every once and a while. "Linus Spacehead" is a pretty good example of this. At first listen, "Linus Spacehead" sounds in-line with the whole lo-fi beach pop thing that has been sweeping through indie rock these past couple of years. The repetitive cooing throughout has Noah Lennox written all over it (sidenote: is it ok to stop citing the Beach Boys on this stuff and start giving credit to the guy who really ushered in this sound over the past couple of years? Not saying Lennox wasn't inspired by Wilson and Co. Just saying Nathan Williams and Bradford Cox are on Panda Bear's jock, not Brian Wilson's.) However, what I love most about this song is the rhythm section. The way those quick drums fill in that groove of a bass line just has me bobbing my head throughout. Check it out...

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If you read this blog, then you know I am a big fan of the Japandroids (#2 album of 2009). If up until this point, you have disregarded the Japandroids...well, every day is another chance to turn it all around. The formula has not changed here on "Younger Us" (single they released a while back as part 7" series they are doing this summer), and I don't think anyone is complaining. Fast, fuzzed-out guitars. Drums that are about ready to bust through the floorboards. Two guys singing their assess off. HUGE hooks that will make you nostalgic for a time you don't even remember. Check it out...

YOUNGER US by JAPANDROIDS

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Lose our shirts in the fire tonight...

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This post was begun almost a month ago, so it will very shortly be followed by several other song of the moment posts... however, this song is too good to pass up.

Irresistably creative in it's unoriginality, Late of the Pier have created a Beatles/Summer of '68 retread that is a perfect summer anthem filled with moments of nearly Animal Collective-like musical blemishes.  It only very rarely repeats itself note for note and word for word, which is almost entirely unheard of today, making for a song listen that sounds more like an album than a singular track.

Listen to the last minute and a half and tell me you don't think of Revolver... but also simultaneously tell me you think it's a ripoff... just try... it's very difficult.

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This is the woman that crushed the heart of Noah and the Whale front man Charlie Fink, as was so obviously displayed on their 2009 album The First Day of Spring.

It's easy to see why he was so affected by the breakup... she is not only phenomenally gifted in voice, but she has a true talent for tapping into the classical songwriter vein that morphs this album from being simply another modern retread of vintage sounds and themes to sound like it was recorded long ago and been a lost classic, lusted after by collectors of obscure vinyl and remembered by modern listeners with an air of awe and reverence.

It has it's slower points that drag at times, but these can be easily forgiven due to the effect the entire album has upon the listener.  Marling will hopefully continue to grow into her status as a modern day songwriting heroine on future albums, but for now, I Speak Because I Can, has already cemented a place of acclaim in the current scene.

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So I banged on here a few months back about Chapel Club and the passage of time has only caused me to salivate more over their musical output thus far.  Embedded here are their first single, "O Maybe I", and its associated b-side, "Machine Music"... both are insanely catchy and addicting.

"All the Eastern Girls", "Surfacing", and forthcoming single "Five Trees" are also phenomenal and I cannot wait until the rumored September release of their first album... this is a band that will be huge in GB by the end of the year.

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I am head-over-heels...

Somewhere between the vocals of Karen O and Kazu Makino (of Blonde Redhead), the guitars of Boxer Rebellion and Hope of the States, and the sensibilities of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, reside three very talented and beautiful women and a drummer with the percussive tendencies of Loz from Ride.

It couldn't get much better.

Elephants, Billie Holiday, Burgundy, Krimson, Stars, and Beetles all are phenomenal and all can be heard at their mypsace page here: http://www.myspace.com/worldwartour

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