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July 14, 2010

Best of 2k10 (so far)

The year is half-way over, and we’ve listened to some amazing music, and some that we initially loved but have since deemed slight disappointments (I’m looking at you She & Him and Vampire Weekend). Anyway, here’s our lists of our Top 10 Albums of 2k10 (so far), for whatever they’re worth:

March 27, 2010

Aesthetic Octopus Radio Show Playlist 3/27/10

1. Wedding Bell – Beach House

2. That Song – Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family (mp3)

3. Hey Boy – Magic Kids (mp3)

4. Time To Pretend (MGMT cover) – Jónsi

5. Beach Girls – Sleigh Bells (mp3)

6. Fake Blues – Real Estate (mp3)

7. Go Outsite – Cults (mp3)

8. Round and Round – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (mp3)

9. Daily Routine – Animal Collective

10. Dark Eyes – Dirty Projectors (mp3)

11. Image of Chicago – Happiest Lion

12. Flash Delirium – MGMT (mp3)

13. In The Sun – She & Him

14. Thirteen - Big Star

15. Cut Your Hair – Pavement

16. Daisy - Fang Island

17. British Intelligence – Jamie T

18. Lenin - Arcade Fire

19. Train Song – Ben Gibbard & Feist

20. Modern Girl – Sleater-Kinney

21. Smile When You Kiss – Bombadil

22. Drunk Girls – LCD Soundsystem (Ed. Note: I hate this song with a passion)

23. Give Him A Great Big Kiss – The Shangrilas

March 20, 2010

Aesthetic Octopus Radio Show Playlist 3/20/10

1. Flash Delirium – MGMT

2. Go-Go Gadget Gospel – Gnarls Barkley

3. Round and Round – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (mp3)

4. Image of Chicago – Happiest Lion

5. Hey Boy – Magic Kids

6. Excuses – the morning benders (mp3)

7. Most Wanted – Cults (mp3)

8. Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

9. When I’m With You – Best Coast (mp3)

10. Ambling Alp – Yeasayer

11. Congratulations - MGMT

12. Life Coach – Fang Island

13. Yeah I Know – The Darlings

14. When We Swam – Thao

15. The High Road – Broken Bells

16. When They Fight They Fight – The Generationals

17. Cranberry - The Ruby Suns

18. Down River – The Temper Trap

19. Calculator - Micachu & The Shapes

20. Icarus - White Hinterland (mp3)

21. Lil Wayne vs. The Office

22. Dark Eyes – The Dirty Projectors (mp3)

February 6, 2010

Aesthetic Octopus Radio Show Playlist 2/6/10

1. I Was A Love – TV On The Radio

2. Bad Romance – Lady GaGa

3. Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox) – Atlas Sound (mp3)

4. Daniel - Bat For Lashes

5. When The World Comes To An End (live on Jimmy Fallon) – Dirty Projectors (mp3)

6. (Am) & Deadbeat Summer – Neon Indian

7. Norway - Beach House (mp3)

8. 81 - Joanna Newsom

9. Go Go Gadget Gospel – Gnarls Barkley

10. Don’t Be A Jerk Jonny – The Drums

11. In The Sun – She & Him

12. O.N.E. – Yeasayer

13. Keep The Dog Quiet – Owen Pallet

14. Zebra - Beach House

15. Are You Hurting The One You Love? – Florence & The Machine

16. Tonight - Lykke Li

17. Laura - Girls

January 11, 2010

Dirty Projectors Release "Ascending Melody" For Free

The Dirty Projectors have released a couple songs that didn’t quite make the final cut of their last album, Bitte Orca. If you go to their website, you can download the songs for free and buy a physical copy of the songs.

Also, whoever does the artwork for their albums and what not, A+ to you!

January 5, 2010

Solange Knowles Continues to Up Her Indie Cred

So it looks like Solange Knowles, she who introduced Jay-Z and big sis Beyonce to Grizzly Bear and covered Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is the Move” earlier this year, will be appearing on Of Montreal‘s next album (along with the epically brilliant Janelle Monae). Huzzah I say! Sounds like a great collab (as we say in “the Biz”… I think… I wouldn’t know…)

Also Kevin Barnes is apparently writing songs for Beyonce, who cites the band as possible inspiration for her next album.

Worlds are colliding my friends.

Pitchfork has all the deats (as we say in “the Biz”… I think… I wouldn’t know…) here.

January 4, 2010

Mp3 of Dave Longstreth's Old Ironic Boy Band Surfaces

Back when Dave Longstreth (frontman of Dirty Projectors) was around the age of, in his words, “17 or something,” he wrote a parody song that he envisioned a boy band from the era may sing. Read Dave’s clarification of the project, entitled Chances R, he gave to Stereogum and the listen to the mp3 after the break… Continue reading…

December 20, 2009

Aesthetic Octopus’ Best of 2009 Choices! Extravaganza.

Our first ever year end list! Hooray! We made it all the way to the end of our first year (I am saying this even though we only started a matter of months ago!) of blogging and radioing. Yes. True. Statements of congratulation all around, for us.

Anyways, as we are new at this and still extremely incompetent in all fields (creativity, writing ability, creative writing ability) we are going to keep it simple. Below we will list each of our favorite three albums, our favorite television show, and our favorite lady all from the last year with no explanation at all. This is probably for the best anyways, as no one really reads the reasonings so why spend time writing them? All the readers are all like, “The Pitchforked gave this band a 9.2, alright they good.” That is what they are definitely like.

So here they are… Continue reading…