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Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains The Blithe Sons, The Ivytree, and Varghkoghargasmal.A few years back I was obsessed with Californians Loren Chasse (Thuja, the Franciscan Hobbies, Ov, among others) and Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Flying Canyon, Birdtree, Ivytree, Thuja, etc.) and their Jewelled Antler collective -- that mixture of mystery, nature-folk field recordings (pin cone percussion, etc.), darkness, drone, lonesome pop, acid psychedelia. I just did a Google search and it sorta blows my mind -- and freaks me out re: the speed of things -- that the Birdtree's Orchards & Caravans was released in 2003, half a decade ago, and that the JA moniker's been around almost a decade. A couple months back when posting about The Child Readers, I mentioned that member Chasse also plays in Blithe Sons with Donaldson and suggested you track down We Walk The Young Earth (also 2003!). Blithe Sons have a new one on the way, The Great Orthochromatic Wheel. Take a listen to one of its five tracks "Try To Find A Memory In A Dark Room." There's still something magical about this stuff.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Caïna, Mamiffer, and U.S. Girls. UK's Caïna, aka 22-year-old Andrew Curtis Bignell, is one of the more uncompromising (and surprising) artists to emerge from the "extreme underground." He started out as a fairly straight-up one-man black metal act in 2004, but by 2007's Mourner (his "first 'real' album," in his own words) found a singular melding of one-man black metal, pretty shoegazing, indie/post-rock, Current 93-esque spoken excursions, and mournful balladry. Since then he's put out a notable split 7" with American black metal legend Krieg (on Grief Foundation) and his second proper (and brilliant) album Temporary Antennae, where he connects the crisscrosses of his eclectic musicality more seamlessly than on the at times slapdash Mourner, creating a satisfying, mesmerizing whole. He still has the fuzzy black metallic darkness, in fact it's even heavier and more clattering this time (note the Von shirt), but then take a listen to something like the title track, which might remind folks of Xiu Xiu going shoegaze. Or, if you're more into the metal thing, Xiu Xiu going Alcest (or Jesu).

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Bird Tree, Hair Police, and Hush Arbors. Despite a bunch of CD-Rs, cassettes, and vinyl-only releases, The Certainty Of Swarms is being marketed as Hair Police's "official" follow up to 2005's Constantly Terrified. Who knows how these things get decided. The Lexington, Kentucky/Ypsilanti, Michigan trio's morphed and imploded since the days of Blow Out Your Blood and Obedience Cuts (which I maybe over-dramatically reviewed as a harbinger of noise's crossover into the mainstream a few years ago) and beyond. Since those earlier times, frontman and Gods Of Tundra head Mike Connelly's replaced Aaron Dilloway in Wolf Eyes. His cohorts Trevor Tremaine and Robert Betty have collaborated more with Burning Stare Core. Everyone's solo projects (Failing Lights, Three-Legged Race, etc.) have continued. All that, and the band's more abstract, industrial, and blackened than when they reminded me of Jack Black fronting Harry Pussy (in a good way) at the debut No Fun Festival. They've kept getting better and better, which is why "Mangled Earth" lives up to its name. [Photo of Hair Police at No Fun '08 by Seth Tisue via Flickr]

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Diana Ross' concert in Central Park gets rained out • The Outsiders is in theaters • Which Dynasty star is the face of Scandal perfume?

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Crystal Stilts, Factums, and Babe, Terror. A couple weeks ago I was listening to and really enjoying the Crystal Stilts' self-titled Woodsist EP. It reminded me of some of the lo-fi, somewhat fuzzy, ultimately infectious music Chemical Imbalance would've championed, Slumberland would've put out, and I would've tracked down via Ajax back in the day. Lovely, melancholic under-the-weather Ian Curtis-on-Spector-and-American soil garage, or something. Ironic then that when I did a Google search to see what I could find out about the band I happened upon a rave review at Pitchfork via old Chemical Imbalance (and current YETI) editor, Mike McGonigal, someone who always, to me at least, seemed more interested in sound than his own critical ego. [Crystal Cake Shop photo by Jonny Leather]

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Pumice, Nurse With Wound, DJ Scotch Egg, more from Hayvanlar Alemi, and something from UlverPumice is New Zealander Stefan Neville. His new album QUO is my favorite of his dozens of releases, which go back to 1994 -- he's added a heavier rock 'n' roll kick to the usual melancholic folk and off-kilter noisy pop. It feels like he's really leaning into it this time, allowing punk and hardcore shambles to abut the blues, loner psychedelia, and lo-fi hiss. He definitely went noisier with 2007's Pebbles, but this is a darker racket. At this point, Neville has me thinking of my favorite NZ bands from the height of Xpressway and Flying Nun -- Terminals, Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos, the Jefferies brothers, Dead C, etc. Pumice is a one-man band, so the sound's insular, though not claustrophobic. This is what he sounds like some of the time. [Photo by Blink]

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains King Darves, Darsombra, and Maja S.K. Ratkje.Brian Daniloski is the Baltimorean who performs one-man ambient soundscapes as Darsombra. He's also a member of the awesomely fierce, sludgy Meatjack. Three years ago Daniloski released Ecdysis on At A Loss. It's Eternal Jewel, the second full-length Darsombra collection of dark, at times heavy, always beautiful, droning guitar-and-pedal drenched compositions, that's hooked me. Unlike Meatjack, the songs are more sad than sinister. Here he is doing an older song "Nymphaea" live at on April Fools at the Ottobar in Baltimore.I also have a "Lamentings / Auguries" from the new record.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Lucky Dragons, The Julie Mittens, MGR, and Xela. I wanted to start with Lucky Dragons, probably the widest known of this installment's artists. They (Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and friends) are part of the current Whitney Biennial and are playing a show there 5/23 with the excellent visual artist Matthew Brannon (they did a Biennial-related show with Rob from High Places on 3/11) and are tight pals with YACHT, et al, so you could argue that they're actually insiders, but this is about sound... When I reviewed Widows last year, I complained about the ADD quotient of the work, that I was hoping Fischbeck would get into (or at least emulate) Henry Flynt or Burning Star Core and let it flow: "His live shows receive high praise-- some sort of interactive Please Touch museum with audience participation and collaboration. To me, that seems like just the sort of endlessness Widows needs: songs moving from hand to hand, spiraling as long as the audience keeps the tools afloat." Listening to the new, more impressively mysterious work Dream Island Laughing Language, I decided to close my eyes and forget about when one song stops and another starts. I did that last time a well, but here there's enough going on that I can stop bothering with intention. They've tapped into something freer, less attached. So, if you see the work as a dream language, a stream-of-conscious river of sound, it's all the more hypnotic ... but then, going back on my own listening ideal, here's one track by its phantom-limb lonesome. I'm offering the last song on side A of the vinyl. This way, at least, I'm only dislodging it halfway from its context.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains a few SXSW suggestions..A bunch of bands are currently getting a bunch of SXSW attention. A bunch aren't. The following haven't been grabbing the biggest headlines, but they just might blow you away if you part the hype a little. Thing is, once I started scratching the surface, taking day parties into consideration and looking at the bands playing around the bands I wanted to recommend, the list got a tad unruly. So as a reaction to the overload, I'm just suggesting a handful. If they seem interesting to you, maybe you could do the math and figure out if there are other bands on the bill worth your time, effort, and eardrums. [Liz Harris, aka Grouper, out of focus in skeletal corpse paint]

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:16:19 -0800 Duration: 3495 minutes of completely new Material

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:16:19 -0800 Duration: 3495 minutes of completely new Material

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:16:21 -0800 Duration: 168More Randomness

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:16:21 -0800 Duration: 168More Randomness

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Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:46:16 -0800 Duration: 115A collection of GIF images assembled with audio clips from www.soundboards.com to a comical effect. This episode was made entirely by Kyle

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:46:16 -0800 Duration: 128More Randomness

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:46:16 -0800 Duration: 128More Randomness

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:46:16 -0800 Duration: 116More Randomness

Author: TheOutsiders Added: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:46:16 -0800 Duration: 115A collection of GIF images assembled with audio clips from www.soundboards.com to a comical effect. This episode was made entirely by Kyle

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Los Siquicos Litoraleños, Hayvanlar Alemi, and Eleanoora Rosenholm.I heard about the Argentinian band Los Siquicos Litoraleños while having a conversation sometime last week with Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies). He directed me to their MySpace and suggested I check out "Rancho Rocha" at YouTube. I return the favor. When I contacted the band about hosting some tracks they responded: "Just 3 things: no problem, no problem, no problem ... that is to mean we always like people over there to download our mp3s and make comments about them." Get to it.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Cursillistas, Growing, Rameses III, and a little something from Velvet CacoonI wanted to get this installment started with Cursillistas, the project of Portland, Maine's Matt Lajoie. (I remember folks were talking shit about Maine when we BTW'd locals Fire On Fire. Lajoie's but another reason to invalidate that sorta State-ism, or whatever you'd call it.) Cursillistas, who's previously released material on Time-Lag as well as a zillion other small labels, is back with Wasp Stings The Last Bitter Flavor, via the always reliable Digitalis Industries. He doesn't go it alone on this one: Time-Lag's Nemo Birdstrup and (occasional MV & EE collaborator) Sparrow Wildchild are also adding sounds. The lengthy, dark-naturalist album title comes from author Scott Heim's In Awe (you likely know him best from Mysterious Skin), but it might as well be torn from a Wiccan cookbook. Fans of Jewelled Antler's spookier rambles should be into it -- droning, looping psych-folk. Before heading into the more epic "Larks On A String," dip your toes into the cauldron with the sylvan, parading "Moccasin Tramp."Cursillistas - "Moccasin Tramp" (MP3)To hear a lengthier, admirably danker track from the same record, along with more spacious sounds from Growing, Rameses III, and Velvet Cacoon, please jump. [Cursillistas]

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Sascha Funke, Jon Mueller, and Collections Of Colonies Of Bees.I really like Sascha Funke's new record Mango, which comes out (around) 2/11 on BPitch Control. I'm not always sucked into electronic albums, but there's something about the melancholia and dark iciness woven through the gurgling beats that gets me. I decided to ask the German DJ/producer a few questions, so I could put more of a human touch behind the clicks and thumps of something I can't stop playing.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This week's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Nadja, Valet, Svarte Greiner, and something extra from Excepter.Since 2004, Aiden Baker and Leah Bucharkeff have gotten better and better at making a mighty clamor as Nadja (Baker began the group as a solo project in '03). Things are especially jam-packed on the Toronto duo's Bliss Torn From Emptiness, a reworking of an earlier CD-R, which layers guitars, shape-shifting drum machines, fuzzy electronics, bass, and the mastering of ex-Khanate, current Khlyst dude James Plotkin into a bigger 43-minute excursion. The new Bliss is divided into three 18-minute tracks, but if you don't stare at iTunes, they blend into one piece. The freakishly reliable Canadian label Profound Lore, who're releasing the record 1/29, were kind enough to let me stream all of part two -- see how it goes from an M83 choir-of-angels to a purring-then-lapping piano-esque sectional after the jump.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This week's eclectic virtual milk crate contains the best weirdo albums of 2007.It's rough putting your year-end favorites in a separate pile, dividing shit by genre or some other designation. I did an all-metal list elsewhere. This here involves metal (which I'm listing separately), but consciously expands the boundaries to include my other most-listened-to genres (and sub-genres and whatever). Every year January approaches, I hem and haw about placing a hierarchical rank on what amounts to deeply personal listening habits. This list is basically what I enjoyed (and enjoyed most often) over the past dozen months -- which only makes it the best to these buzzing ears, though I recommend each highly and if you enjoy a sample posted herein, I think you'll totally dig the rest of the artist's output. The list is only in a general order, but in that order for a reason. I kept it minimal so I was only writing about the stuff that truly blew me away.

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This week's eclectic virtual milk crate contains Ole-Henrik Moe, HTRK, Hild Sofie Tafjord and something extra from John Wiese.The end of the year -- its best of lists and shopping gridlock, a rat-racing info overload -- drives me a little crazy. That in mind, I was thinking it'd be nice to offer some supremely spacious music like Norwegian composer/improviser Ole-Henrick Moe's recent offering, Ciaccona/3 Persephone Perceptions, which came out last month on always reliable Rune Grammofon. It's a double disc, containing two lengthy pieces for solo violin (43 and 40 minutes, respectively). Moe's played as "OHM" on a number of records by Rune-associated acts like Deathprod, Nils Økland, and the White Birch. Here, he's written the compositions, but his wife, Kari Rønnekleiv, handles the bow. The result is a jagged, precisely intense trip -- sometimes silent for what feels like minutes, other times bristling with a manic, dark energy before pacing into less brittle, daggered notes and ghostly choruses. Really bad ass, and maybe not as quiet as I'd thought when I was listening to the entire piece, but at least there are no human voices messing with the gaps and pauses. The first two excerpts posted below run concurrently at the beginning of Ciaconna -- the disc has the segments divided into tracks, but it's to be listened to as a whole. The third MP3 is the final segment of 3 Persephone Perceptions. (When that last part comes in, it hits like KK Null.) The liner notes, written by fellow Norwegian composers Cecilie Ore and Rolf Wallin, mention "both pieces stem from personal experience. Ciaconna is connected with the death of Ole-Henrik Moe's former teacher Iannis Xenakis, 3 Persephone Perceptions with memories from childhood." Memories of what, exactly? I have my money on a blizzard of some sort -- emotional or otherwise.Ole-Henrik Moe - "Ciaccona (track 4)" (MP3) Ole-Henrik Moe - "Ciaccona (track 5)" (MP3) Ole-Henrik Moe - "3 Persephone Perceptions (excerpt)" (MP3)Don't worry, I'm not about to go full-on classical. Admittedly, I feel like a duck out of water talking about that sort of thing, but the album seriously hit me like an icier, more spare Wold ... if Jóhann Jóhannsson was piloting the ship, not Fortress Crookedjaw (okay, among plenty other stylistic shifts). A different kind of group that gives me similar sorts of chills is HTRK (Hate Rock), a trio from Melbourne, who've been around since 2003, and who currently reside in Berlin. Fitting with their shadowy, no wave sound, they've been opening up for Liars on their European tour (and hopefully the US?). The group doesn't have an official full-length debut out jyet, but they've already mastered a zoned-out, post-Suicide dark pummel. Portishead with a Teenage Jesus vibe? In the latest issue of Terrorizer, guitarist/electronics tweaker Nigel Yang tells the magazine, "I am a nihilist into psychedelics." HTRK, Yang along with Sean Stewart and compellingly disconnected frontwoman Jonnine Standish, are one of those groups who already have the style down pat: Beyond the Pussy Galore trash-rock vibe, they're associated with (or at least pimping) the magazine They Shoot Homos Don't They, sport a nicely oblique website, mention Bresson as an influence, etc. The sound? Reverberating guitar loops, electronic drums, and Standish's dazed vocals (judging from YouTube clips, she also beats a drum with one hand). Their Nostalgia EP collects seven two-mic recordings from 2004 (it was initially self-released by the band in 2005 and then slapped on vinyl by Fire Records in '07). Consider it an out-of-date stopgap while we await their proper debut. Hear a couple tracks, learn paths to a number more, and get a NSFW intro to the players after the jump.