SNOW PATROL – Up To Now (Fiction/A&M)
Multi-platinum recording artists, Snow Patrol, have released their very first compilation, Up To Now. This 30-track double album features all of the band’s hit singles, cover versions, rarities and album tracks that span the part-Irish, part-Scottish quintet’s amazing 15-year career. Up To Now, also includes three previously unreleased songs, “Just Say Yes”, “Dark Roman Wine” and “Give Me Strength”, as well songs from the two albums Snow Patrol released on UK indie label Jeepster Records: 1998’s Songs For Polarbears and 2001’s When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up. The album also includes two songs by The Reindeer Section — an indie supergroup featuring members of Belle and Sebastian, Idlewild, Mogwai and Teenage Fanclub, among many others — from their 2002 album for Bright Star Recordings, Son of Evil Reindeer.
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/snowpatrol
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/up-to-now/id336380105
“Just Say Yes” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0WtFe4koFA&feature=player_embedded
THE CRIBS – Ignore The Ignorant (Warner Bros. Records)
Ignore the Ignorant, marks the first full album The Cribs, who are brothers Gary Jarman (vocals/bass), Ryan Jarman (guitar/vocals) and Ross Jarman (drums), have made with legendary ex-Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr, who became a formal member of the group in February 2008. Ignore the Ignorant , which was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Nick Launay (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Arcade Fire, Supergrass) has already garnered critically romantic raves in the UK and through its September US digital release. MOJO Magazine gushed: “The Cribs triumph…they sound loud, vivid and dynamic, like a rock ‘n’ roll band should, grasping for big moments, dramatic crescendos and grand tunefulness.”
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thecribs
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ignore-ignorant-deluxe-version/id327650978
“Cheat On Me” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkJDKdOlUGQ&feature=player_embedded
BRIM LISKI – Brim Liski EP (Latenight Weeknight Records)
Happy depression, electronic doom painted over with shimmering vocal layers and symphonic guitar tones – this is Brim Liski. Complexly self-described as electrogaze dreamhop, painted over with shimmering vocal layers and symphonic guitar tones. Dark, limitless night music perfect for driving down an endless moon drenched highway. Comprised of various producer conspirators in the US and The Netherlands, the project started in late 2008 and slowly but surely became an organic musical hydra. The debut release finds itself spanning eras of dark musical passages, poly-rhythmic dance beats and deep, moving bass lines all in which are inspired by the recent death of love, while also influenced by the blinding light of new beginnings.
Official Site: http://brimliski.com
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brim-liski/id334774446
“Fight” MP3: http://brimliski.com/tracks/fight.mp3
