Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam

Haven't had a chance to listen to this one yet, but the solo album from Animal Collective member, Panda Bear, that came out earlier this year was excellent. Critics typically fawn over this group, and their albums are always worth a listen.

LINK:
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam

A couple quickies

It's been a few days, so here's a couple of quickies to keep you busy, including Andrew Bird as requested. I also found new ones from White Rabbit, Battles (hot), Elliott Smith, Spoon and the long-dormant Greyboy Allstars.

This self-titled release from Besnard Lakes is also one of the more interesting rock listens of the year. BL might have actually one-upped My Morning Jacket in terms of heaviest vocal reverb ever used on a single release.

LINKS:
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
The Besnard Lakes - (s/t)
Greyboy Allstars - What Happened to TV?
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
White Rabbit - Fort Nightly
Battles - Mirrored
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Elliott Smith - New Moon

Beastie Boys - The Mix Up

UPDATE: Sorry gang, this one got pulled. Let me know if you didn't get a chance to snag it.

Big thanks to An Aquarian Exposed, who provide the link below. Rejoice, the new Beastie's disc is here in full. It's labeled as an advance, but sounds like a final mix to me. Love it so far! It's sure to provide background music for many sports highlights, and soda drink commercials to come.

DOWNLOAD:
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up

New Beastie Boys Videos

This new all-instrumental B-Boys album is going to be excellent. I'm totally stoked they decided to return to this approach, but who would have thought we'd get an entire album?

"Off the Grid"


"The Rat Cage"


Fingers crossed that they filmed videos for every song and will release as DVD-audio.