The 19 best songs from the last two weeks. New music from the US, UK, Canada, and Sweden. Tracks from TV On The Radio, Death From Above 1979, Stars, Karen O, Foxygen, Tennis, Ariel Pink, King Tuff, Maze, Ty Segall, The Radio Dept., Buke and Gase, Failed Flowers, The Hussy, Pocketknife, Kevin Morby and The Rural Alberta Advantage.

Stars ‘Turn It Up’
The first of two tracks from Stars forthcoming  No One Is Lost album (due out October 14). This quasi-title track finds Amy Millan on lead vocals and features the kind of life affirming nostalgia that many of the best Stars songs tap into. Specifically, ‘Turn It Up’ recalls images of the first day back at school as summer recedes into memory; lying on the floor, listening to music with your headphones on; seeing someone’s face for the first time. The chorus is particularly beautiful.
[Stars]

King Tuff ‘Headbanger’
Awesome power pop about falling in love over a shared taste for heavy metal. “Me and you we got a true connection / I knew it when I saw your record collection / You had Sabbath and ‘Priest and Number of The Beast it was Saturday night of perfection”.
[King Tuff]

TV On The Radio ‘Happy Idiot’
First taste of the band’s forthcoming fifth album Seeds, due out October 14. This tracks bodes well for it being better than the somewhat underwhelming Nine Types of Light.
[TV On The Radio]

Girlpool ‘Jane’
LA duo recently of Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker, recently signed to Wichita Records who will be giving the band’s eponymous EP a vinyl release.
[Girlpool]

Mazes ‘Letters Bewteen U&V’
Manchester indie rock band with a track from their third album Wooden Aquarium. Krautrock influences filtered through the work of the likes of Pavement, Yo La Tengo and Prolapse.
[Mazes]

Death From Above 1979 ‘Trainwreck 1979‘
The returned Torontonian dance punk duo with one of the killer tracks from their new album The Physical World.
[Death From Above 1979]

Tennis ‘Solar on the Rise’
Upbeat indie pop number from the husband-and-wife combo’s third album Ritual in Repeat, produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno.
[Tennis]

Ty Segall ‘The Clock’
Acoustic psych pop number from Ty Segall’s excellent Manipulator album. Can you hear shades of Love and J Mascis in this track?
[Ty Segall]

The Rural Alberta Advantage ‘This City’
Canadian indie folk trio with hints of The Decemberists return with their third album, Mended With Gold (out September 30, Paper Bag Records).
[The Rural Alberta Advantage]

Foxygen ‘How Can You Really’
From the psych pop band’s forthcoming …and Star Power album, out October 14 on Jagjaguwar.
[Foxygen]

Failed Flowers ‘Summer Vacation’
Ann Arbor, MI indie pop band featuring members of Saturday Looks Good To Me and Bad Indians. This is taken from their Demos 2014 cassette.
[Failed Flowers]

Buke and Gase ‘Seam Esteem’
First featured here two years ago with the Grizzly-Bear-meets-Dirty-Projectors ‘Misshaping Introduction’ (ITP #16), this track finds the Brooklyn duo developing their sound further. Download for free at the link.
[Buke and Gase]

The Hussy ‘EZ/PZ’
Garage rock duo with track from their latest 7″ on Windian.
[The Hussy]

Pocketknife ‘Push of Love’
From the Portlan band’s Dying to Pretend album, out now.
[Pocketknife]

Ariel Pink ‘Put My Number In Your Phone’
Lo-fi psych pop from Haunted Graffiti dude.
[Ariel Pink]

Karen O ‘Day Go By’
Karen O’s first solo album Crush Songs is a charming lo-fi affair. This is one of the stand out tracks.
[Karen O]

Kevin Morby ‘Parade’
Ex-Woods bassist and sometimes Babies frontman with a track from his second solo full length Still Life, due out in October.
[Kevin Morby]

The Radio Dept. ‘Death to Fascism’
Swedish dreampop / shoegaze band return with a track to mark the upcoming Swedish general election.
[The Radio Dept.]

Stars ‘From the Night’
Rollerdisco-tastic number from forthcoming No One Is Lost album, featuring Torquil Campbell on lead vocals.
[Stars]

The 21 best songs from the last two weeks. New music from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Tracks from Interpol, The New Pornographers, The Magic Numbers, Royal Blood, Avi Buffalo, Blonde Redhead, Twerps, Ty Segall, Caribou, Steven J Adams, Babaganouj, Faded Paper Figures, Sinkane, Literature, Radiator Hospital, Wand. Sleeping Bag, Larkin Poe, Peaking Lights, Cold Specks.

Interpol ‘Everything Is Wrong’
Classic stuff from Interpol, taken from their forthcoming fifth album El Pintor, due out September 9 on Matador.
[Interpol]

Benjamin Booker ‘Violent Shiver’
Garage blues musician from New Orleans with opening track from his eponymous debut album.
[Benjamin Booker]

Babaganouj ‘Buff’

Brisbane band featuring two former members of the sadly defunct Go Violets with super melodic indiepop follow up to March’s ‘Too Late For Love’ single.
[Babaganouj]

The New Pornographers ‘Backstairs’
From the new album Brill Bruisers.
[The New Pornographers]

Faded Paper Figures ‘It’s Not The End of The World (Even As We Know It)’

This is how you pay homage to a famous song with something original (and some hints of Her Space Holiday). From the band’s excellent Relics album.
[Faded Paper Figures]

The Magic Numbers ‘Better Than Him’

If you ever had any love for this band but were disappointed with everything they’ve released since their debut, then you should give new album Alias a listen. NB: skip the title track and dive in from track two. This is one of many excellent tracks and features a couple of lyrical nods to Elvis Costello.
[The Magic Numbers]

Steven James Adams ‘Tears of Happiness’

The former Hofman / The Broken Family Band / Singing Adams frontman releases his first solo album under his own name on Monday. It’s been a long time coming but if this track is anything to go by, it’s been worth the wait.
[Steven James Adams]

Radiator Hospital ‘Fireworks’

Philadelphia-based indie rock charmers led by Sam Cook-Parrott with another track from their forthcoming second album Torch Song, due out next month on Salinas Records. This one features vocals from Maryn Jones.
[Radiator Hospital]

Sinkane ‘New Name’

Sinkane’s ‘Jeeper Creeper’ opened In The Pharmacy #1 way back in January 2012, now sometime Yeasayer member Ahmed Gallab returns with new album Mean Love.
[Sinkane]

Literature ‘Tie-Dye ‘(Your Life)’ 

Philly indiepoppers with one of the standout tracks from their Chorus album (out now on Slumberland).
[Literature]

Peaking Lights ‘Breakdown’

From new album Cosmic Logic, due out October 7 on Weird World.
[Peaking Lights]

Ty Segall ‘Tall Man, Skinny Lady’
From the prolific psych rocker’s new album Manipulator (Out now on Drag City).
[Ty Segall]

Larkin Poe ‘Stubborn Love’
Atlanta natives Rebecca and Megan Lovell have been making music as Larkin Poe for five years, but only released their debut album last week. Lovely stuff.
[Larkin Poe]

Twerps ‘Wait til You Smile’

Taken from their excellent new EP Underlay (out now Chapter Music / Merge).
[Twerps]

Royal Blood ‘Better Strangers’
Closing track from the bass and drums band’s debut album.
[Royal Blood]

Cold Specks ‘Let Loose the Dogs’
From the Mute-signed “doom soul” Canadian artist’s Neuroplasticity album.
[Cold Specks]

Avi Buffalo ‘Think It’s Gonna Happen Again’
From new album At Best Cuckold, out now on Sub Pop.
[Avi Buffalo]

Sleeping Bag ‘MT Cup’

From the Bloomington Indi(e)ana band’s third album Deep Sleep
[Sleeping Bag]

Blonde Redhead ‘Penultimo’

The suitably titled last but one track on their forthcoming ninth album Barragán (due out September 1)
. Baroque dreampop.
[Blonde Redhead]

Wand ‘Clearer’
Thick, retro psych rock from LA band signed to Ty Segall’s God? imprint. Debut album Ganglion Reef out now.
[Wand]

Caribou ‘Our Love’
Title track from Dan Snaith’s forthcoming album, his first as Caribou since 2010’s Swim.
[Caribou]

The 20 best songs from the last two weeks. New music from the US, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada and Australia. Featuring Twin Peaks, Spoon, The Raveonettes, Alt-J, Blonde Redhead, Summer Camp, Allo Darlin’, Robert Scott, David Kilgour, The Juan MacLean, TOPS, Bishop Allen, Faded Paper Figures and more…

Bishop Allen ‘Start Again’

Taken from the New York indie band’s new album Lights Out (out August 19 on Dead Oceans)
[Bishop Allen]

Alt-J ‘Every Other Freckle’
Now reduced to a trio, this is the third (and by far the best) track to emerge from their soon to be released second album This Is All Yours (22 September, Infectious). Proggy folktronica.
[Alt-J]

Twin Peaks ‘Making Breakfast’
Lou Reed and Iggy channeling number from the young band’s sporadically brilliant Wild Onion album.
[Twin Peaks]

The Juan Maclean ‘A Simple Design’

Superior electronic dance pop from John MacLean and Nancy Whang’s forthcoming album In A Dream (September 15, DFA).
[The Juan Maclean]

The Raveonettes ‘Sister’
Fuzz pop from the Danish duo’s excellent Pe’Ahi album.
[The Raveonettes]

The Number Ones ‘Sharon Shouldn’t’
Punk power pop from young Dublin band’s debut album.
[The Number Ones]

TOPS ‘Blind Faze’
Catchy melodic indie from Montreal band who manage to channel a little bit of Phoenix and the occasional bit of the Notwist. Taken from their forthcoming album Picture You Staring (September 2, Arbutus)
[TOPS]

Army Navy ‘Dumb Luck’
Another super catchy, melodic power pop track from the California band’s third album, The Wilderness Inside out now on The Fever Zone.
[Army Navy]

Faded Paper Figures ‘Lost Stars’
This is from the band’s latest album Relics.
[Faded Paper Figures]

The Forest and the Trees ‘You’re in My Skin’
Electronic tinged indie pop taken from the Swedish husband and wife duo’s second album Missions.
[The Forest and the Trees]

The Growlers ‘Good Advice’
Psych-pop from California band’s forthcoming fourth album Chinese Fountain (Everloving Records).
[The Growlers] 

Summer Camp ‘House Party’
Brief, melodic indie from the UK husband and wife duo, taken from the soundtrack to Beyond Clueless.
[Summer Camp]

Weyes Blood ‘Hang On’
Self proclaimed ‘ghost folk’ – which seems suitable given the haunting nature of this track. Weyes Blood is the work of Natalie Mering, former member of Jackie-O Motherfucker and Axolotl. You may recognise her voice from its contribution to Ariel Pink’s Mature Themes.
[Weyes Blood]

Allo Darlin’ ‘Romance and Adventure’

Minor key loveliness from the London-based, ex-pat Aussie fronted indiepop band’s forthcoming third album We Come From The Same Place (Fortuna Pop / Slumberland, Oct 7),
[Allo Darlin’]

Miss Destiny ‘The One’
Female fronted rock n’ roll band from Melbourne. This is the b-side of their debut 7” ‘House of Wax’, due out imminently on HoZac.
[Miss Destiny]

Neighbors ‘Power Country’
Ramshackle indie rock from Seattle-based band’s Raymond Carver referencing Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? album (out now on Beating a Dead Horse). Not to be confused with similarly monikered Brooklyn band.
[Neighbors]

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights ‘Christopher Columbus’
NZ legend and sometime Clean frontman with a track from the latest album of his other project.
[David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights]

Robert Scott ‘Now In Your Hands’
Another track from a sometime member of The Clean (and frontman of The Bats). This is taken from Scott’s wonderful solo album The Green House and, like a handful of the tracks, features fellow Kiwi Hollie ‘Tiny Ruins’ Fullbrook on vocals.
[Robert Scott]

Blonde Redhead ‘The One I Love’
Third track to surface from forthcoming ninth album Barragán and yet another stylistic turn. Stripped down verses, baroque chorus. Can’t wait for the album.
[Blonde Redhead]

Spoon ‘New York Kiss’
Closing track from They Want My Soul.
[Spoon]

The 23 Best songs from the last two weeks. New music from the US, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada and the UK. Killer tunes from The Raveonettes, Low, Goat, Spoon, Alvvays, Jenny Lewis, Beck, J Mascis, Purling Hiss, Cymbals Eat Guitars and more…

The Raveonettes ‘Endless Sleeper’
Opening track on the new (excellent) surprise released Pe’ahi album
[The Raveonettes]

Goat ‘Gathering of Ancient Tribes’
Taken from their new album Commune, due out September 23 on Sub Pop.
[Goat]

Army Navy ‘The Mistakes’
This is some super catchy, melodic power pop from the California band’s third album, The Wilderness Inside out now on The Fever Zone.
[Army Navy]

The Ghost Wolves ‘Shotgun Pistol Grip’
Husband and wife garage blues duo from Austin, Texas. This is taken from their debut album Man, Woman, Beast out now on Plowboy records.
[The Ghost Wolves]

Low ‘I’m On Fire’
Taken from the track for track tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, Dead Man’s Town due out in September on Nashville based indie label Lightning Rod Records.
[Low]

Jenny Lewis ‘Head Underwater’
Lead track off her third (and best) solo album, Voyager.
[Jenny Lewis]

Spoon ‘Outlier’
Taken from their new album They Want My Soul, their first for Loma Vista.
[Spoon]

Hooray For Earth ‘Airs’
Industrial guitars over melodic indie rock from the New York band’s latest album Racy
[Hooray For Earth]

Wray ‘Blood Moon’
Birmingham Alabama ‘Power-gaze’ trio. This is the lead track from their eponymous debut, out now on Communicating Vessels.
[Wray]


Alvvays ‘Archie, Marry Me’
Another great slice of indiepop from the Toronto based band’s debut album.
[Alvvays]

Twin Peaks ‘Good Lovin’’
Young Chicago garage rockers with a (circa ’71) Stones-y track from their new album Wild Onion, out next week on Grand Dury. First featured here back in May last year with with Stand in the Sea (ITP #32)
.
[Twin Peaks]

The Vacant Lots ‘Mad Mary Jones’
Lead track from debut Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember produced album from Vermont garage-psych duo. Out now on Sonic Cathedral.
[The Vacant Lots]

Beck ‘Heaven’s Song Leader’
Lovely Beatles-indebted psych-pop. The only Beck sung track on the Song Reader album.
[Beck]

LVL UP ‘Soft Power’

From the Pavement-indebted Brooklyn band’s forthcoming second album Hoodwink’d (Double Double Whammy, September 23).
[LVL UP]

Bad//Dreems ‘My Only Friend’
Follow up to Dumb Ideas from the Adelaide rock band with a penchant for the output of Flying Nun, SST and Greasy Pop.
[Bad//Dreems]

Woman’s Hour ‘In Stillness We Remain’

Previously featured on ITP #42 back in September 2013 with ‘Darkest Place’. Both tracks appear on their just released debut album Conversations (Secretly Canadian).
[Woman’s Hour]

Cymbals Eat Guitars ‘Warning’

Staten Island indie rockers return with their third album LOSE out later this month on Barsuk.
[Cymbals Eat Guitars]

Absolutely Free ‘Beneath The Air’

Sunshine pop from the Toronto band.
[Absolutely Free]

J Mascis ‘Wide Awake’
Featuring Cat Power, this is taken from the Dinosaur Jr guitarist’s second solo album Tied to A Star, out 25th August on Sub Pop.
[J Mascis]

Field Mouse ‘Netsuke’
Indiepop from the Brooklyn band’s Hold Still Life album, out now on Topshelf.
[Field Mouse]

Purling Hiss Learning Slowly’
First track to surface from Weirdon (out 23 September, Drag City) the follow up to the Philly band’s 2013 breakthrough, Water on Mars.
[Purling Hiss]

Mystic Braves ‘Bright Blue Day Haze’

Taken from the Echo Park psych band’s new album Desert Island, out now on Lollipop Records.
[Mystic Braves]

Say Hi ‘Critters’

Seattle based Eric Elbogen formerly recorded as Say Hi to Your Mom, this is taken from the newly abbreviated band’s Endless Wonder album out now on Barsuk.
[Say Hi]

After the half-year Spotify best of (http://spoti.fi/1pmHhcM) ITP returns to Mixcloud with the 24 best tracks from the last few weeks. New music from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland.

Interpol ‘All The Rage Back Home’
Classic stuff from Interpol, taken from their forthcoming fifth album El Pintor, due out September 9 on Matador.
[Interpol]

So Cow ‘Barry Richardson’
Irish indie rock band with track from their forthcoming The Long Con album, due out on Goner records in September.
[So Cow]

Courtney Barnett ‘Pickles in the Jar’
New track from CB on forthcoming Milk Records 10” compilation album. Download it for free on Soundcloud.
[Courtney Barnett]

Reigning Sound ‘My My’

A young-Van Morrison fronting the Rolling Stones vibe from the veteran Memphis garage punks, newly signed to Merge who just released their new album Shattered.
[Reigning Sound]

Speedy Ortiz ‘Bigger Party’

Nineties-indebted indie rockers follow on from February’s Real Hair EP with this new track.
[Speedy Ortiz]

Dick Diver ‘New Name Blues’
New track from Melbourne dolewave pioneers (think lo-fi early Go-Betweens meets 80s Flying Nun). This is from a one off US single on Fruits and Flowers.
[Dick Diver]

Radiator Hospital ‘Cut Your Bangs’

First featured here in July last year (ITP #37) with ‘Our Song’ (from their debut album Something Wild). Now the Philadelphia-based indie rock charmers led by Sam Cook-Parrott return with a track from their forthcoming second album Torch Song, due out next month on Salinas Records.
[Radiator Hospital]

Plague Vendor ‘Garden Lanterns’
Californian garage punks with a wonderful guitar sound (hints of the Dead Kennedys’ East Bay Ray in in the hard mix of surf, twang and psych). Taken from their fantastic 18 minute-long debut Free to Eat.
[Plague Vendor]

The New Pornographers ‘War On The East Coast’
More power-pop magnificence on this Dan Bejar-sung track from the forthcoming Brill Bruisers album.
[The New Pornographers]

Cat Power and Coldplay ‘I Wish I Was Here’
Best way to make Coldplay sound better? Get Chris Martin to shut up and let someone else sing. From the soundtrack to the new Zach Braff movie of the same name.
[Cat Power]

Spoon ‘Do You’
Second track to surface from the band’s forthcoming eighth album They Want My Soul.
[Spoon]

Ex Hex ‘Don’t Wanna Lose’
DC veteran Mary Timony’s post-Wild Flag outfit deal in strident glam / powerpop. This follows on from February’s ‘Hot and Cold’ and is taken from their forthcoming Mitch Easter-produced Merge debut Rips (out in October).
[Ex Hex]

Wunder Wunder ‘Wonderful Way’
Ex-pat Australian production duo now based in LA with a track from their electronic psych-pop flavoured debut Everything Infinite.
[Wunder Wunder]

Cold Beat ‘OSOTW’
Hannah Lew (formerly of San Francisco’s Grass Widow) returns with ‘Other Side of The World’, the stand out track from her second Cold Beat album, Over Me (out now on Crime On The Moon).
[Cold Beat]

Alvvays ‘Next of Kin’
Sunshine indiepop from Toronto band’s self-titled album. NB: it’s pronounced Always.
[Alvvays]

Eastern Hollows ‘Northern Lad’
Anglophile Brooklyn band with a taste for janglepop, shoegaze, britpop and psych rock. From their eponymous debut album on the AC30 lablel.
[Eastern Hollows]

The Proper Ornaments ‘Step Into The Cold’
Jangling guitars and male harmonies, sounding very much like early Ride from the fourpiece fronted by songwriters James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) and Max Claps. Taken from their debut album proper Wooden Head out now on Fortuna Pop.
[The Proper Ornaments]

The River Monks ‘I Am A Lake’
Self-described as “wistful harmonious megafolk from Des Moines, Iowa”, this is taken from their second album Home Is The House.
[The River Monks]

Jenny Lewis ‘One of the Guys’
Former Rilo Kiley frontwoman, half of Jenny and Johnny, and Postal Service member returns with The Voyager, her first solo album since 2008’s Acid Tongue. Polished, melodic pop for adults.
[Jenny Lewis]

Tweedy ‘Summer Noon’

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy son Spencer Tweedy are about to release an album together, this track is also featured on the soundtrack to Boyhood
[Tweedy]


Blonde Redhead ‘Dripping’

The New York trio have evolved over their 21 year existence from their noiserock origins on those Touch & Go albums via the dreampop and shoegaze influenced recent releases on 4AD. Now they return, four years after Penny Sparkle with a new label (Kobalt) for ninth album Barragán and what seems like it may be something different again. The haunting instrumental No More Honey had an almost Rick Wright feel to it, while this slow but danceable number feels like it wouldn’t be out of place on a Caribou album.
[Blonde Redhead]

Burnt Palms ‘Don’t Go’
Fuzz pop from the Seaside, CA all female trio.
[Burnt Palms]

Peter Matthew Bauer ‘You Are The Chapel’

PMB’s Liberation! is the third album released by a former member of The Walkmen so far this year, following on from Hamilton Leithauser’s indie-lounge croon Black Hours and Walter Martin’s guest-star-heavy family album We’re All Young Together. Just as good and idiosyncratic as those other two releases, it’s an album informed by Eastern religion, intellectual agnosticism and Jungian psychology and has a hyper, ramshackle charm. The only good thing about the Walkmen splitting up is that we now get (so far) three great new albums instead of just the one.
[Peter Matthew Bauer]

Bat For Lashes ‘Skin Song’

Slow, glitchy number from Natasha Khan taken from Body Of Songs, a project which pairs artists with scientists to create music about a bodily organ
.
[Bat For Lashes]

The eight best songs from the last two weeks. New music from the US, Canada and the UK. The return of Spoon, The New Pornographers, J Mascis, Avi Buffalo, and Bleached. Plus cover versions of Duran Duran and Bacharach and David from Warpaint and Julia Holter.

Bleached ‘For The Feel’
LA sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin return with a slice of surf-garage-noise-pop taken from their forthcoming digital EP/ 7” single on Dead Oceans.
[Bleached]

The New Pornographers ‘Brill Bruisers’

Canadian powerpop indie supergroup return with the title track of their sixth album.
[The New Pornographers]

Spoon ‘Rent I Pay’
From forthcoming album They Want My Soul, their first since Transference back in 2010.
[Spoon]

J Mascis ‘Every Morning’
From forthcoming solo album Tied to A Star, the follow up to Several Shades of Why
[J Mascis]

Avi Buffalo ‘So What’
Four years on from their precocious debutFrom forthcoming second album At Best Cuckold, due out on Sub Pop in September.
[Avi Buffalo]

Ethan Johns ‘This Modern London’
Best known as a producer of the likes (of Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Laura Marling Crowded House, etc) this is taken from the English man’s second album The Reckoning. Ryan Adams returns the favours and produces.
[Ethan Johns]

The Donkeys ‘Ride The Black Wave’

After featuring the breeezy ‘Nothing’ earlier this month, here’s the more downbeat title track of the San Diego band’s fourth album.
[The Donkeys]

Julia Holter ‘Don’t Make Me Over’
Classically trained experimental-art-folk-electronic composer/singer takes on the Bacharach and David classic, made famous by Dionne Warwick
[Julia Holter]

Warpaint ‘The Chauffeur’
Don’t you love it when one of your favourite artists takes on a track by another of your favourite artists? Here, the LA art rock band cover the Duran Duran classic as part of Manimal’s Duran Duran tribute album / Amnesty International album ‘Making Patterns Rhyme’.
[Warpaint]

The 17 best tracks from the last two weeks. New music from Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada. Tracks from Parquet Courts, Bob Mould, Röyksopp + Robyn, Tennis, jj, Tiny Ruins, The Rich Hands, Hundred Waters, Caribou, The Faint, Saskwatch, Walter Martin, First Aid Kit, Hamilton Leithauser, The Donkeys and Craft Spells.

Walter Martin [featuring Karen O + Nick Zinner] ‘Rattlesnakes’
Former Walkmen multi-instrumentalist has enlisted a bunch of talented buddies for his kid-friendly album We’re All Young Together which has resulted in a record that should charm people of all ages.
[Walter Martin] 

The Rich Hands ‘I Get By’
After last episode’s ‘Other Boys’, here’s another great track from the San Antonio trio’s garage-power-pop second album Out Of My Head.
[The Rich Hands]

Röyksopp & Robyn ‘Every Little Thing’
Another great track from the brilliant mini-album collaboration between the Norwegian duo and Swedish synthpop star.
[Röyksopp]

Parquet Courts ‘Black and White’
One of the highlights of this year’s Laneway festival and one of last year’s best Light Up Gold, Parquet Courts return with the new Sunbathing Animal.
[Parquet Courts]

Saskwatch ‘Left Me To Die’
Epic showstopper from the Melbourne soul band’s stunning Nose Dive album.
[Saskwatch]

Bob Mould ‘Mr Grey’
Typically effusive stuff from Beauty & Ruin, the excellent follow up to Silver Age (2012).
[Bob Mould]

The Faint ‘Lesson From The Darkness’
Nebraska cold wave / dance punks have put out a a great comeback album in the shape of Doom Abuse. Here’s the closing track, following on from the previously featured ‘Evil Voices’ (ITP #55).
[The Faint] 

Tiny Ruins ‘She’ll Be Coming ‘Round’
Quasi-title track of the superb new album Brightly Painted One from the Kiwi trio fronted by Hollie Fullbrook.
[Tiny Ruins]

Craft Spells ‘Twirl’
After the excellent ‘Breaking the Angle Against the Tide’ (ITP #55) here’s another track from the San Franciso / Seattle band’s Nausea album (Captured Tracks), it’s breezy indie with hints of dreampop, and a tasteful guitar solo.
[Craft Spells]

Haunted Hearts ‘Love Incognito’
Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girs) and Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) have created an album of psych pop that betters either of the recent releases by their respective main projects.
[Haunted Hearts]

The Donkeys ‘Nothing’
The San Diego band’s fourth album of breezy Cali-pop Ride The Black Wave is something special indeed. This is one of many highlights and reminds me of Local Natives at their best.
[The Donkeys]

Tennis ‘Never Work For Free’
First taste of the husband and wife duo’s forthcoming third album Ritual in Repeat. Sounds like it will be a more polished and 80s sounding affair than their brilliant 2012 album Young & Old. Catchy stuff, mining a similar vein to The Preatures and Haim.
[Tennis]

First Aid Kit ‘Waitress Song’
The Swedish folk duo seem to have tapped into a similar vein of alt country as Neko Case on this track from their forthcoming third album Stay Gold, produced once again by Mike Moggis .
[First Aid Kit]

Hundred Waters ‘Down From The Rafters’
Alt-folky meets dreampop on the track from the Gainesville band’s second album, The Moon Rang Like A Bell.
[Hundred Waters]

Hamilton Leithauser ‘Self Pity’
Another highlight from the erstwhile Walkmen frontman’s solo debut Black Hours.
[Hamilton Leithauser]

jj ‘All White Everything’
Swedish experimental pop duo return with a beautiful track from their forthcoming third album, V. This will be their first release since 2012’s mini-album High Summer.
[jj]

Caribou ‘Can’t Do Without You’
Dan Snaith’s first outing as Caribou since 2010’s Swim, taken from the forthcoming album Our Love.
[Caribou]

The 20 best tracks I’ve heard in the last two weeks, garage rock, power pop, blues rock, synthpop, dreampop, soul, indie folk, shoegaze, psych pop, indie rock etc. New music from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Finland and New Zealand.

The Rich Hands ‘Other Boys’
Killer track from the San Antonio trio’s garage-power-pop second album Out Of My Head, the follow up last year’s Dreamers.
[The Rich Hands]

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde ‘Who Rings The Bell’ 

Catchy, experimental pop, Another highlight from the electronic music veterans’ collaborative album, Someday World.
[Brian Eno & Karl Hyde]

Saskwatch ‘Call Your Name’
Always a great live act, the nine piece Melbourne soul band have hit a high with their second album, Nose Dive (out now on Norhside). This track surfaced as a single here in Australia a few weeks back but deserves wider exposure.
[Saskwatch]

King Dude ‘Bottomless Pit’
Rollicking, primal blues rock from King Dude aka T.J. Cowgill, last heard here in February collaborating with Chelsea Wolfe on Be Free (ITP #51). This is taken from his latest album Fear, produced by Ministry’s Bill Rieflin.
[King Dude]

Nun ‘Evoke The Sleep’
Melbourne dark electronic pop band with an early-Mute Records / early Cabaret Voltaire aesthetic. You can hear Sue Tompkins (Life Without Buildings) and Lesley Woods (The Au Pairs) in Jenny Branagan’s vocals. This single came out a couple of months back but worth flagging up noiw as their debut album has just been released on Aarght and Avant.
[Nun]

Emma Ruth Rundle ‘Shadows of My Name’
For someone know for playing instrumental post-rock in Red Sparrowes, Los Angelino Emma Ruth Rundle is in possession of a remarkable voice from the Liz Fraser school of warble-belters. More straightforwardly indie folk than the shoegaze influenced stuff she does with Marriages, this is taken from her beautfiul debut solo album Some Heavy Ocean.
[Emma Ruth Rundle]

Phonograph ‘Fading Into You’
Not to be confused with the similarly named Brooklyn band, this is from the London band’s powerpop album Volume 1, which takes The Beatles as a starting point in much the same way Crowded House did. This was recorded back in 2001, but has only just seen the light of day via bandcamp.
[Phonograph]

Haunted Hearts ‘Up Is Up (But So Is Down)’
Indie rock power couple Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girs) and Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) have been teasing their collaborative psych pop project as Hanuted Hearts since at least the end of 2012 (‘Something That Feels Bad Is Something That Feels Good’ featured way back in ITP#23). As the release of their debut album Initiation is now imminent (out May 27th on Zoo music) here’s another taste of what to expect.
[Haunted Hearts]

Hamilton Leithauser ‘Silent Orchestra’
The former Walkmen frontman releases his solo debut ‘Black Hours’ next month. After the thumping Alexandra, this number featuring gentle percussion, xylophone, strings and *that* voice – offers more of an insight into what is a varied and nuanced album.
[Hamilton Leithauser]

The Antlers ‘Intruders’
A band that have followed a similar trajectory to fellow Brooklynites Grizzly Bear, this is taken from their new album Familiars the full lengrth follow up to 2011’s Burst Apart.
[The Antlers] 

Cheatahs ‘The Swan’

One of the highlights of the London shoegaze band’s long awaited eponymous debut album, out now on Wichita.
[Cheatahs]

Popstrangers ‘Violet’
Lovely bit of psych pop from the Kiwi band’s second album Fortuna, following on from the previously featured Country Kills (ITP #53).
[Popstrangers]

High Ends ‘The Weight’

Lush pop from Canadian Jeremy Innes, best known as a member of radio friendly indie rockers Yukon Blonde. Stylistically different to that project, but just as catchy.
[High Ends]

Ought ‘Today More Than Any Other Day’
Quasi-title track from the Montreal band’s debut album on Constellation. Like the previously featured Habit (ITP #55) the track generates its own identity while seemingly having a myriad of touch points from the way the Blue Aeroplanes channeled Television, the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Talking Heads, Thom Yorke etc.
[Ought]

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat ‘Televan’
Eighty-Five seconds of energetic, spasming quirk-punk from ESMB’s new album Party Jail.
[Ed Schrader’s Music Beat]

Parquet Courts ‘Instant Disassembly’
The hangover follow up to the party of the Brooklyn punks breakthrough album Light Up Gold. Taken from the forthcoming Sunbathing Animal album.
[Parquet Courts]

Muscle & Bone ‘Song for the Broken Road’
Asheville, North Carolina band with a late 80s / early 90s college rock / Teenage Fanclub / powerpop-jangle vibe
[Muscle & Bone]

Landlady ‘Dying Day’
Following on from The Globe (ITP #54) here’s another track from the Brooklyn indie-rockers forthcoming debut album Upright Behaviour (due out in July on Hometapes)
[Landlady]

Mirel Wagner ‘Oak Tree’
Finland-via-Ethopia singer/songwriter / gloom-chanteuse first featured here way back in Feb 2012 on ITP #2 with the haunting ‘No Death’. Now signed to Sub Pop
[Mirel Wagner]

Lykke Li ‘Heart of Steel’
Gospel and 60s girl pop flavoured highlight of the Swedish singer songwriter’s latest album I Never Learn.
[Lykke Li]

The 19 best songs I’ve heard in the last two weeks. New music from the US, Canada, Sweden, Norway and the UK. Indie rock, electronic pop, garage rock, noise pop, experimental pop, dreampop etc.

tUnE-yArDs ‘Left Behind’

Quasi-title track from Merril Garbus’ new album Nikki Nack.
[tUnE-yArDs]

Montreal Sex Machine ‘Blackout’
New York label Godmode’s in-house supergroup with a catchy slice of dance punk, like a funkier Franz Ferdinand.
[Montreal Sex Machine]

Zig Zags ‘Brainded Warrior’
Heavy grunge garage rock threepiece from LA.
[Zig Zags]

Little Big League ‘Year of the Sunhouse’
Female fronted Indie rock from Philly band featuring ex-members of Titus Andronicus and Strand of Oaks. First featured here back in April last year (ITP #30).
[Little Big League]

Röyksopp & Robyn ‘Do It Again’

After 2009’s collaboration ‘The Girl and The Robot’, the Norwegian duo and Swedish synthpop star team up again for a mini album and tour.
[Röyksopp]

The Black Keys ‘Gotta Get Away’

Faces-like blues rockerclosing track from the new album Turn Blue.
[The Black Keys]

Say Lou Lou ‘Everything We Touch’

Third single proper from the Swedish twins is their least moody and most dancefloor friendly.
[Say Lou Lou]

Big Eyes ‘Asking You to Stay’
Seattle based garage punks fronted by former Brooklynite Kate Eldridge, first featured here in April last year with ‘Back From The Moon’ (ITP #30).
[Big Eyes]

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde ‘Daddy’s Car’
Electronic music veterans team up for surprisingly accessible album Someday World.
[Brian Eno & Karl Hyde]

Lykke Li ‘Gunshot’

From the Swedish singer songwriter’s post-break up bummer of an album I Never Learn.
[Lykke Li]

Rose Windows ‘There Is A Light’

Low key 7” release from the Seattle folk-infused psych rock band, their first new material since last year’s excellent debut album The Sun Dogs.
[Rose Windows]

Gold-Bears ‘Memo’
Another track from the Slumberland-signed Atlanta ban’d second album Dalliance.
[Gold-Bears ]

Pink Mountaintops ‘Shakedown’
Another track from their Get Back album, this one finds Stephen McBean channelling the Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler.
[Pink Mountaintops]

Thee Tee Pees ‘Indian Bingo’
Short burst of garage rock with organ stabs from Los Angeles.
[The Tee Pees]

Three Man Cannon ‘Patiently’

Laid back indie rock from Pennsylvania.
[Three Man Cannon]

Trespassers William ‘Fairest of the Seasons’

The now sadly defunct dreampop band recorded this Nico cover for the just released Wes Anderson tribute album I Saved Latin!
[Trespassers William]

Hannah Diamond ‘Attachment’
Quirky London synth pop.
[Hannah Diamond]

Tiger Dare ‘Morning After Morning’
Dreamy indie from the Brooklyn band’s Wires Over, Wires In album
[Tiger Dare]

Sharon Van Etten ‘Everytime the Sun Comes Up’

Closing track from the singer songwriter’s Are We There album, the follow up to 2012’s Aaron Dessner-produced Tramp.
[Sharon Van Etten]