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Fiery Furnaces - "Keep Me In Dark"

"Keep Me In Dark" brings a warm wind near the end of the Friedbergers' mostly plaintive, piano-driven new joint, I'm Going Away. It's got double octave, quasi-Brian May hammer-ons and offs (doubled by a tack piano, natch!), fingers snapping a cool no you din't!, woodwinds and synths staggering through a solo like half-drunk day laborers, and some particularly pleading choruses ("please don't tell me nothin' / I'd rather ya tell me nothin' / keep me in the dark with the opposite of anything") butted against the typically worldly references to international travel and intrigue. It's some of their best work yet.

Fiery Furnaces - Keep Me In Dark

(I'm Going Away is out 7.21.09 on Thrill Jockey)

You Are So Beautiful

Thanks to Speck for ruining an otherwise perfect Thursday.

Dirty Projectors - "Two Doves"

(photo of angel deradoorian by cat connell)

dirty projectors - "two doves"

buy bitte orca on cassette now.

Grassfitti

(via Good)

The Tallest Man on Earth - "The Gardener"

This cat's really on to something. Playing Café 11 on June 19th.

!!! - "Yadnus"

Yeah, I know they sold this shit to Levi's, but it's still killer. And who doesn't like jeans? Party at my house this weekend. I'm making carnitas.

The Wu Reimagined

Dig Logan Walters' dope, Blue Note-inspired redesigns of Wu-Tang album covers.

Bonnie Prince Billy - "I Am Goodbye"

Some good old, juke jointy, phasey electric, sweet-fiddled, triumphantly bearded, springy stepped goodness for yr Monday.

from Beware

Nirvana - "Serve The Servants"

Wings - "Jet"

I can't tell you how many times I thought the major wash a lady.