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New East Berlin & Other Stories
Since fall of 2014, Bryan Gottshall and I––with the help of Haley Comet, Adriane Quinlan, and Missy Wilkinson--have been hard at work on our debut LP as Shouts & Murmurs. The LP, "New East Berlin & Other Stories," showcases a number of songs I have written on my own over the years (in New York, Minneapolis, San Diego), and newer compositions, native to New Orleans, where the record was recorded, in Bryan's studio on Alvar Street.
The record is available to stream at Soundcloud here, and can be downloaded for a small fee at Bandcamp. We're hoping to make it available on Spotify and iTunes soon, as well as to play some live shows in New Orleans before too long.
Enjoy, and if you haven't happened to like our Facebook page yet, that's something to do.
My 25 Favorite Records of 2013, Loosely Arranged
- Darkside, Psychic
- Arcade Fire, Reflektor
- Ducktails, The Flower Lane
- Phoenix, Bankrupt!
- James Blake, Overgrown
- My Bloody Valentine, mbv
- Merchandise, Totale Nite
- Courtney Barnett, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
- Ducktails, Wish Hotel
- Radiation City, Animals in the Median
- Julia Holter, Loud City Song
- Young Galaxy, Ultramarine
- Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
- David Bowie, The Next Day
- Blood Orange, Cupid Deluxe
- Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
- Atoms for Peace, Amok
- Rhye, Woman
- Haim, Days Are Gone
- Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
- Mayer Hawthorne, Where Does This Door Go
- The National, Trouble Will Find Me
- Youth Lagoon, Wondrous Bughouse
- The Field, Cupid’s Head
- Cheatahs, Extended Plays
I stayed up far too late last night making this. I didn’t have any cocaine; any apparent Bowie resonances are pure Canadian Club and affectation. Enjoy.
This is my new favorite song by my new favorite band. I bet they get huuuuge.
More where this came from, soonish. For older compositions, visit http://andypants.bandcamp.com/.
No special greeting, special greeting for today
No Happy Easter, no Merry Christmas
Only how are you today
Make it a good day anyway
grading marathon anthem
"There are many ways a man can serve his time"
you’re the only one now x 11
R. Kelly joined Phoenix at Coachella to play Ignition (Remix) mashed up with a bit of 1901
Dreams come true.
x3
New year, new Andypants song (“The Last Will and Testament of Michael Joseph Jackson”). In fact, I’ve compiled this and some of my more recent compositions into The Frank Sobotka EP. Listen, if you are so inclined.
The 50 Best Songs of 2012
A little late, I know—but here you are, nonetheless.
- Cat Power, feat. Iggy Pop, “Nothin’ But Time”
- Beach House, “Myth”
- Jessie Ware, “Devotion”
- Merchandise, “Time”
- Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”
- Jessie Ware, “Running”
- R. Kelly, “Feelin’ Single”
- Grizzly Bear, “Yet Again”
- Frank Ocean, “Sweet Life”
- Beach House, “Lazuli”
- Jessie Ware, “Sweet Talk”
- Lee FIelds & the Expressions, “You’re the Right Kind of Girl”
- Frank Ocean, feat. Earl Sweatshirt, “Super Rich Kids”
- Jessie Ware, “110%”
- Grizzly Bear, “Sleeping Ute”
- R. Kelly, “Believe That It’s So”
- Frank Ocean, “Thinkin Bout You”
- Tame Impala, “Apocalypse Dreams”
- Mac DeMarco, “Cooking Up Something Good”
- The Shins, “The Rifle’s Spiral”
- Frank Ocean, “Crack Rock”
- Frankie Rose, “Know Me”
- Daniel Rossen, “Up on High”
- Mac DeMarco, “Freaking Out the Neighborhood”
- Young Prisms, “Floating in Blue”
- Mac DeMarco, “Ode to Viceroy”
- Tame Impala, “Elephant”
- Allah-Las, “Ela Navega”
- Cat Power, “Sun”
- R. Kelly, “Share My Love”
- Grizzly Bear, “Gun-Shy”
- Mac DeMarco, “My Kind of Woman”
- kitty pryde, “okay cupid”
- Wild Nothing, “Shadow”
- Cat Power, “Human Being”
- Bob Dylan, “Duquesne Whistle”
- The Shins, “Bait and Switch”
- Cat Power, “3,6,9”
- Hot Chip, “Let Me Be Him”
- Dirty Projectors, “Offspring Are Blank”
- Dirty Projectors, “Gun Has No Trigger”
- Cat Power, “Manhattan”
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, “Baby”
- Merchandise, “Roser Park”
- Frankie Rose, “Apples from the Sun”
- Julia Holter, “In the Same Room”
- Sébastien Tellier, “Cochon Ville”
- Father John Misty, “I’m Writing a Novel”
- Dirty Projectors, “The Socialites”
- Cuckoo Chaos, “Super Skeleton”
My 20 Favorite Records of 2012
Ranked meticulously and pseudo-scientifically after much listening and re-listening over the course of the last week.
- Merchandise, Children of Desire
- Jessie Ware, Devotion
- Mac Demarco, 2
- Grizzly Bear, Shields
- Cat Power, Sun
- Allah-Las, Allah-Las
- Tame Impala, Lonerism
- Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
- Beach House, Bloom
- Wild Nothing, Nocturne
- R. Kelly, Write Me Back
- The Shins, Port of Marrow
- Lee Fields & the Expressions, Faithful Man
- Air, La Voyage Dans La Lune
- Hot Chip, In Our Heads
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Mature Themes
- Bob Dylan, Tempest
- Daniel Rossen, Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP
- The Congos, Sun Araw, & M. Geddes Gengras, Give Thank
- Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan
This song makes me want to wear eye make-up regularly for the first time since 2004.
…mmmm…
WHOA
I recorded this little baby song last night, using all the reverb I could find.
“Lou Reed is my own hero principally because he stands for all the most fucked up things that I could ever possibly conceive of. Which probably only shows the limits of my imagination.”