Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens What Have You Done, My Brother?

With the support of the Daptone family, Alabama-raised New Yorker Naomi Shelton and her wise, stirring voice are finally being heard on a full-length release. On What Have You Done, My Brother?, Shelton conveys a genuine sense of everyday life and the struggles that surround it. The blatantly religious numbers won’t speak to everybody, but most of these warm gospel, soul, and blues tracks have an undeniable appeal. On “I’ll Take the Long Road,” a bluesy song about patience, the music seems especially timeless. This era-defiant resonance also comes courtesy of pianist/producer Cliff Driver, not to mention members of the Dap-Kings, who give What Have You Done, My Brother? just the right balance of crispness and lo-fidelity.

Elements: It’s Only Natural

Flora and fauna inspire this month’s selection of the street’s sweetest accessories.

1. Sherwood Forlee Walls Notebook for Quirk Books
$16.95 irreference.com

2. Incase x DQM NYC Messenger Bag
$289.95, goincase.com, davesqualitymeat.com

?3. Leah Chun x Poketo Alien mug
$14, poketo.com

4. Wild & Wolf Anemone flask
£15.95, bloomsburystore.com, wildandwolf.com

5. 55DSL x Bloody Beetroots windbreaker
$155, 55dsl.com

6. Quiksilver Limited Regal-Hi shoe
$85, quiksilver.com

7. Nike 6.0 Blood Oncore High shoe
$105, nike6.com

8. Burton studded wallet
$30, burton.com

12. David Weeks Gorilla ashtray
$27.50, areaware.com

13. Fred & Friends Earlybird alarm clock
$25, patinastores.com, worldwidefred.com

Blonde Redhead Does Free Brooklyn Show

Brooklynites (and the rest of the tri-state area) should head to the Prospect Park Bandshell on Friday, June 26, as none other than Blonde Redhead will be performing a free show that evening. The set is part of Brooklyn’s annual Celebrate Brooklyn! series, which lures about 250,000 folks each summer with its music and dance performances. Blonde Redhead’s set will take place at 7:30 p.m. (park gates open at 6:30), and the multilingual rockers will perform songs from across their discography.

Other noteworthy Celebrate Brooklyn! shows include Femi Kuti & Positive Force on June 25, Crystal Stilts on August 1, and Animal Collective on August 14 and 15.

Pissed Jeans “False Jesii Part 2”

Pissed Jeans is back with another album, its third full-length, King of Jeans. As with 2007’s Hope for Men, the boys seem hell-bent on reviving the noisy hardcore sound with the new record. We can’t understand a word being sung here, which is exactly what you’d expect from this guitar-shredding quartet.

King of Jeans is out August 18.

Pissed Jeans – False Jesii Part 2

Joakim Trades Monsters for Milky Ways

The last time we checked in with Joakim Bouaziz, talk revolved around all things monster-related. 2009 finds the French producer less concerned with where the wild things are and more laid back as he prepares for the release of his third full-length, Milky Ways. Though no less ambitious (he apparently included every genre from electro to blues on the release), the new album finds Bouaziz sharper musically, having fine-tuned his live band, which he used throughout the recording process. “I’m addicted to music,” he says. “I listen to a lot of very different things, and whenever I hear something interesting in a song I think, ‘Let’s try it, put it with something completely different and see what it does, like a mad scientist.'”

!K7 will release his experimental musings on September 15.

Milky Ways:
01 Back to Wilderness
02 Ad Me
03 Fly Like an Apple
04 Spiders
05 Glossy Papers
06 Medusa
07 Love & Romance & a Special Person
08 King Kong is Dead
09 Travel in Vain
10 Little Girl

Photo By Camille Henrot and Christophe McPherson Piedagnel.

Watch: Akufen Live at MUTEK_10

Akufen wowed audiences this year at MUTEK‘s 10th anniversary, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation affiliate Band à part captured the moment (plus a number of other MUTEK performances). “Memories de MUTEK” is a 20-minute clip that, if you missed this year’s festival, should give an idea of what went down at the Mecca of minimal techno. Akufen is featured, along with Modern Deep Left Quartet, Stephen Beaupré, Mateo Murphy, and others.

Anti-Pop Consortium “Capricorn One”

After a six-year break, the Anti-Pop Consortium crew has reunited and will release a new album, Fluorescent Black, this fall via Big Dada. The group—comprised of Beans, M. Sayyid, Earl Blaze, and High Priest—has always been known for pushing the boundaries of hip-hop, and continues to traverse that particular direction here. Photo by Sarah A. Friedman.

Fluorescent Black is out October 13.

Antipop Consortium – Capricorn One

Podcast 90: Daydreaming with The Long Lost

Alfred and Laura Darlington released their first album under The Long Lost guise earlier this year, surprising the music world with dreamy, orchestral pop songs that strayed from the experimental beats we’re used to hearing from Alfred (under his Daedelus moniker). For the latest installment of the XLR8R podcast, the two continue surprising us, with 28 tracks of indie-pop, folk, and ambient compositions from the likes of Jogger, Caribou, Lali Puna, and Fleet Foxes. It’s a mix bound to brighten anyone’s day.

01 Raymond Scott – When Will it End? – (Basta)
02 Raymond Scott – Bufferin: “Memories” – (Basta)
03 Computer Jay – 1000 Fold Feat. The Gray Kid- (Milan)
04 Barbara Morgenstern – Aus Heiterem Himmel (Dntel Remix) – (Monika)
05 Masha Qrella – I Want You to Know – (Monika)
06 Lali Puna – Nin-Com-Pop – (Morr)
07 Cate Le Bon – O Am Gariad – (Demo)
08 The Long Lost – Amiss (Tunng Remix) – (Ninja Tune)
09 Portishead – The Rip – (Island)
10 Blonde Redhead – Slogan – (Touch & Go)
11 Perrey & Kingsley – Umbrellas of Cherbourg – (Vanguard)
12 Clara Rockmore – Carnival of the Animals: The Swan – (Delos)
13 Carlos d’Alessio – Duo – (Remark)
14 The Long Lost – Finders Keepers – (Ninja Tune)
15 Aphex Twin – Nannou – (Warp)
16 Björk – Scatterheart – (One Little Indian)
17 Daedelus – Now And Sleep Feat. Laura Darlington- (Mush)
18 Stereolab – Baby Lulu – (Elektra)
19 Broadcast – Minim – (Warp)
20 Daedelus – Astroboy – (Plug Research)
21 The Long Lost – Past Perfect – (Ninja Tune)
22 Jogger – Falling Up into the Sky – (Demo)
23 Department of Eagles – Sailing By Night – (Melodic)
24 Caribou – Melody Day – (Merge)
25 The Beach Boys – The Warmth of the Sun – (Capitol)
26 Fleet Foxes – Heard Them Stirring – (Sub Pop)
27 Mia Doi Todd – Amor (Adventure Time Remix) – (Plug Research)
28 Flying Lotus – Auntie’s Lock-Infinitum Feat. Laura Darlington) – (Warp)

Photo by Laura Darlington.

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Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

Since its formation by Yale-educated music student Dave Longstreth in 2002, Brooklyn-based indie outfit Dirty Projectors has released a Don Henley-themed concept album, an album of re-interpreted Black Flag songs, and a single with David Byrne. Now the band’s eighth studio album finds the group diving into its own quirky, sweet, rock-tinged experimental pop. On “Cannibal Resource,” bass chases retro guitar into a unique blend of Longstreth’s falsetto and female vocals that are simultaneously angelic and eccentric. “Useful Chamber” is an opus that unfolds in distinctly different sections across restrained percussion, ambient vocals, and edgy electric guitar. Stripping down to a handful of essential ingredients, Dirty Projectors has created something interesting and complicated while avoiding unnecessary ornamentation.

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