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Robbers On High Street "Crown Victoria" MP3
Grand Animals

It’s not often that you welcome robbers into your house, but when it’s Robbers On High Street, you’ll make an exception. Their latest release Grand Animals, due to be released on July 24th via New Line Records, is a quirky power-pop tour de force, where their wry storytelling style comes fully to the fore, with enough eccentric oddball characters, tall tales, and music hall melodies to fill a Brooklyn bar.

The band are currently on tour, and you can click here to see if they’re in your neck of the woods. Get a sneak preview of the album with the “Crown Victoria” MP3, demonstrating their way with a lyric and idiosyncratic songwriting.-Filter-mag.com

Pronto nuevo disco de Stars, después de su anterior disco versionando por sus amigos :)
Stars "The Night Starts Here" MP3
In Our Bedroom After The War

Having extensively toured the world in support of 2004's acclaimed Set Yourself On Fire, Stars then took a break and temporarily went their separate ways. Torquil Campbell released a third album by his side-project Memphis, while Amy Millan released her country-folk solo debut. Their fourth studio album, In Our Bedroom After The War, was recorded in Vancouver and mixed in Toronto by Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, The White Stripes.)

The first track to be lifted from the album, "The Night Starts Here" is a slow, building duet between Torquil and Amy. It's got an electro drum-beat, a rumbling bass line, and even an outro replete with laser beams. Stars' In Our Bedroom After The War will be released Sept 25th via Arts & Crafts.-Filter-mag.com


Fields "Song For The Fields (Ewan Pearson Remix)" MP3
Everything Last Winter


As it stands, London-based Anglo-Icelandic rockers Fields are critical darlings, riding high on a wave of ominous, awe-inspiring space-folk and touring behind their dramatic, expansive debut Everything Last Winter. The talented quintet has only been around since early 2006, but their anthemic (perhaps definitive) number “Song for the Fields” has already thrived as a sturdy EP pop-experiment, an enchanting, elongated LP highlight, and a sweaty, planetarium-appropriate slab of dance electronica, courtesy of producer/remixer extraordinaire Ewan Pearson.

What awaits you in Pearson’s frolic through Fields is a gentle but captivating reexamination of the band’s musically morose, lyrically livid single. Where the original haunts, the remix prods and pulsates. Where once it was the wide-open outdoors, now it’s high church ceilings and subterranean basements. Were you longing for lasers in the old version? Man oh man does Ewan Pearson have good news for you.
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Jesse Harris "I don't mind" MP3
Feel

In many ways, New York native Jesse Harris is something of a ghostwriter. His wonderfully simple melodies and words have been performed by the likes of Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Feist, Willie Nelson, and (most successfully) Norah Jones, but his commanding gaze and unassuming name have usually taken to the dark corners of the liner note or live photo. The thing is, you can’t release an album as lively and lovely as Harris’s Feel without stepping into the spotlight for a little recognition. The record (out July 10th on Velour) is only half of the songwriter’s output for 2007, as his compositions for Ethan Hawke’s new film The Hottest State will grace the star-studded soundtrack being released later this year.

Feel’s title track is a sprightly affair carried along by a coral reef of percussion; congas, bongos, kit and shaker rustle beneath the singer’s friendly, strangely comforting vocals as he sings in perfect lyrical threes, tracing a relationship from uncertainty to unwavering ambitious affection. What a guy!-Filter-mag.com


Bad Brains "Give Thanks And Praises" MP3
Build a Nation


There isn't much you can say about Bad Brains that's not already considered common knowledge. With a career that began in 1977, a list of their respective accomplishments would read as follows. An inspired blend of punk and reggae? CHECK. Live shows that will forever live in infamy thanks to equal parts intensity and vulgarity? CHECK. A continuous cultural and musical importance in an always evolving musical landscape? CHECK. With so much history behind the Washington D.C. natives already known, Bad Brains are adding yet another chapter to their legendary saga.

On June 26, Bad Brains released the highly anticipated LP, Build a Nation. The 14 track disc was produced by Adam Yauch, whose own relevance is equally paralleled through his own Beastie Boys notoriety. The opening track, "Give Thanks and Praises", is Filter's gift to you. In hopes of inspiring both legendary and vulgar feats on this Monday, enjoy.-Filter-mag.com