A good friend of ours told us recently that he doesn’t have the slightest bit of love for Discovery’s self-titled R&B odyssey. He think it’s electro-laziness, we think it jams. A duo comprised of members from Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, Discovery are releasing their debut next week and “Orange Shirt,” is an ounce of mpfree goodness we’ve been meaning to share for the past couple weeks to help you decide— Modest Mouse and LIFE got in the way is all.

Discovery, Orange Shirt

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For the next few days we’re sharing an exclusive sneak preview of “Whale Song,” a recent live staple and now B-side on Modest Mouse’s new limited Autumn Beds 7-inch. It’s as dark and dissonant a six minutes as Isaac Brock has churned out since The Moon & Antarctica, the master stroke that made the Mouse indie rock holy cows. Only drawback: You probably shouldn’t hold your breath for the Kids Bop version to come bouncing down the pipeline any time soon.

Modest Mouse - The Whale Song

Cambridge’s Drug Rug was our favorite band for a minute back in 2007, the sun-blasted vocal harmonies on that self-titled debut of theirs enough to convince us we needed to start dating someone we could jam with as soon as possible. They’re back with a new record full of Galaxie 400-meets-the Dead stompers and the timing couldn’t be better—their country needed them. Paint the Fence Invisible is out July 28.

Drug Rug, “Never Tell”

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It’s like hearing Devendra for the first time five years ago, except now I don’t have to have that inner monologue about whether contrived sounding vocals are annoying or not.  ”Tenebrae” is the somber title track off Theo Angell’s new album on Amish Records.  The record is out TODAY (!), June 9th.  So if you’re not in disgusting, rainy New York City like we are, bike over to your local record store and give your money to a dirty hippy.  Trust us, you won’t regret it.

Theo Angell, Tenebrae

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Fans of Neutral Milk Hotel or of the many other insanely great Elephant 6 projects (Olivia Tremor Control, Hawk and a Handsaw, Icy Demons, etc.) all collectively shit their pants when Circulatory System announced a new record, Signal Morning, coming up September 8th on Cloud Recordings.  The last record was like 7 years ago!  This is just like The Wrestler, except Hart is back in the game because he’s sick rather than being sick because he’s back in the game.  Is that offensive? 

Circulatory System, Overjoyed

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