Solar Bears

Dublin/Wicklow duo Solar Bears will release debut LP She Was Coloured In in September, but in the meantime they're making friends in all the right places. Having being praised highly by numerous domestic commentators, they've now been picked up on by influential blog 2Ojazzfunkgreats. This is the blog that was recently selected by Pitchfork as one of their chosen ones, i.e. contibutors to their newly launched Altered Zones site/blog-aggregator-of-sorts. And they certainly sound impressed: "one of the most astonishing albums that 20jazzfunkgreats have heard in a long time- like Subway soundtracking Fantastic Planet or something. But you are going to have to await until September to listen to it in its utterly transfixing glory. In Planet Mu, those guys know."

Read it - and get an mp3 - here:

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/cats/solar-bears/

Solar Bears - Crystaline Be Again by Nialler9

Stream: Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers

One of the most highly anticipated releases of the year, Crooks & Lovers is the debut LP from Peckham post-dubstep experimentalists Mount Kimbie. It follows hot on the heels of the critically-acclaimed EPs Sketch on Glass and Maybes.

Over at FACT, the album is now streaming for a week : http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/12/stream-hear-mount-kimbies-crooks-lovers-exclusively-on-fact/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

As a bonus, here's their superb remix of Foals' 'Spanish Sahara':

Foals: Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie remix) by theharro

Video: !!! - AM/FM

Of Montreal for Tripod show

Of Montreal don't put on your average live show: with men in pig costumes, theatrical accompaniments and unexpected cover versions, you're guaranteed visual and aural entertainment. They'll be returning to play Tripod, Dublin on October 3rd. Of Montreal's upcoming tenth album, False Priest, will be released on September 10th and features guest appearances from Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae. ‘Coquet Coquette’ is now available as a free download:

Of Montreal - Coquet Coquette by modernmysteryblog

Tunes of the week

Hyetal - 'Phoenix'



Sharon Van Etten - 'Love More'



Pink Moth - 'A Mirror We Found On The Ground'




Keepaway - '100'

Keepaway – 100 by Hypetrak

Keep Shelly In Athens - 'Fokionos Negro Street'

Fokionos Negri Street by Keep Shelly in Athens

Baths - 'Hall'



Gold Panda - 'I Suppose I Should Say 'Thanks' Or Some Shit'



Nouveaunoise - 'Goni'




Eels - 'Looking Up'

Eels - Looking Up by P.i.X

Tieranniesaur - 'Sketch!'



Actress - 'Lost'



Kurt Vile - 'Invisibility: Nonexistent'