Since you are interested in Oracular Spectacular, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
M83
Saturdays = Youth [ Mute / CD - released 21/Apr/2008 ] Anthony Gonzalez looks back upon his youth with affection - the defining theme of this enchanting album. "On this record I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed with this period of the Eighties." he says. |
Menomena
Friend and Foe [ Barsuk / CD - released 23/Jan/2007 ] Hotly sought-after Portland, Oregon trio Menomena offer here an album that shines Northwest indie songcraft through a Chicago post-rock lens; illuminating the quiet recesses with an unpredictable, experimental light. |
Music Go Music
Expressions [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 6/Oct/2009 ] "Music Go Music begin with a bright-eyed Scandinavian sashay and end with a ten-minute Mediterranean disco romp featuring programmed drums, making detours along the way into rainy day ballads and guitar infernos... |
Black Devil Disco Club
Eight oh Eight [ Lo Recordings / CD - released 25/Aug/2008 ] Like it's predecessors, this features the trademark Black Devil sound, but even more haunting and bizarre. This is surrealistic disco for space cadets - totally unique, yet disturbingly familiar, with sinister, psychedelic, analogue throb. |
CSS
Donkey [ Sub Pop / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] Produced in Brazil by the band's own Adriano Cintra and mixed in L.A. by Mark "Spike" Stent, 'Donkey' is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of a CSS live show. |
Groove Armada
Black Light [ Shock Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] The masters of reinvention move in some thrilling new directions-- including intriguing and fascinating collaborations with Bryan Ferry, Will Young and Nick Littlemore (Empire Of The Sun / PNAU) to name a few. |
Wave Machines
Wave if You're Really There [ Shock Records / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] A mercurial Merseyside four piece, Wave Machines create instinctive art-pop; rhythms built of melodic ticks & bleeps, polka dots of sound drawn together beneath singer, Tim Bruzon's falsetto vocal. |