Since you are interested in Embryonic, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Vampire Weekend
Contra [ XL Recordings / CD - released 11/Jan/2010 ] Bustling with fresh ideas & immediately familiar; 'Contra' is heavily layered but taut & kinetic; it chews ravenously through sound palettes & rhythms, yet it's nimble & assured; it's still breezy, yet it smoulders with a newfound emotional heft.... |
Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly [ Crammed Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2009 ] Megafaun are just as taken by quietly tortured dark-night-of-the-soul whisperings, lo-fi oddities, and shards of feedback shade as they are of banjos and summertime evenings... |
Air
Love 2 [ EMI Music / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Air's fifth studio effort (well, seventh if you count 'The Virgin Suicides' & 'City Reading' discs) is instantly recognisable as their sound, but sees the band exploring some new territories, with the help of L.A.-based percussionist, Joey Waronker. |
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... |
The Residents
Ten Little Piggies [ Cryptic Corporation / CD - released 3/Nov/2009 ] Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity... |
Steve Mason
Boys Outside [ Domino / CD - released 31/May/2010 ] With the hauntingly elegant, 'Boys Outside', Scotsman Steve Mason reminds us a little of his earlier work on the Beta Band's 'The Three EPs'. |
Rain Machine
Rain Machine [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Rain Machine is a startling new musical venture from Kyp Malone, known to many as guitarist & lead vocalist for soulful art rockers, TV on the Radio. |
Volcano Choir
Unmap [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] With the vibe of some intimate backwoods gospel, plus a spirit of patience & thoughtful repetition, the music Volcano Choir have captured on 'Unmap' is as dynamic as it is lovely. |