Sufjan vinyl bonus track

Hopefully everyone reading had a good Thanksgiving break (yes, both of you). I’m back at school and enjoying bonus track “The Avalanche” from the Illinois vinyl while I suffer quantum mechanics at four in the morn. You can get the MP3 at YANP.

Tapes n’ Tapes, Weird Sisters, and Bowie

Tapes n’ Tapes sounds like a good band from the three tracks posted on their website (Insistor is an especially good track) but I’d like to hear more before I buy the album — if they never mix up the instrumentation, it could become pretty boring.

ANABlog has the Weird Sisters (Jarvis Cocker of Pulp fame with Johnny Greenwood and Phil Selway of Radiohead) tracks from the mostly excellent Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie. The songs don’t really fit the movie very well — I hope that Pulp doesn’t have singing like that — but you can hear the Radiohead influence in the guitar and the bandmembers’ kids must get a kick out of the whole thing.

Finally, you can hear the new Futureheads single, Area, at You Ain’t No Picasso. Like many Futureheads songs it has some rough edges, but some vocal heroics really save this one. Can’t wait to hear the rest of the EP.