LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Atlas Sound - Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 & 2

Bradford Cox just posted up 2 free compilations, entitled 'Bedroom Databank Vol.1/Vol. 2'. All the tracks were recorded at home and Volume 1 includes a cover of Kurt Vile's 'Freak Train' and a cover of  Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's 'This Wheel's on Fire.' Both can be downloaded here.

Atlas Sound - "Wild Love" from The Tearist on Vimeo.

WATCH: Real Estate featuring Bradford Cox - Mind Games (John Lennon Cover)

LISTEN: Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)

Also now available on NPR is the new Deerhunter album! You can listen to it here. A perfect autumnal album, full of dreamy, shimmering sounds to daydream too. I'm pretty sure this is going to end up being a favourite of mine for 2010.

Albums I Enjoyed In 2009

I think it would be impossible to even attempt to compile a Top 50 of 2009, simply because one, I probably haven't listened to 50 new albums this year and two, if I had there's no way I could've given them all the attention they deserve for them to become a favourite. Therefore, I thought I'd list some albums I enjoyed from 2009.
Obviously, you'll probably read it and say "I can't believe he missed this or that", but if you think I should give something a listen please leave a comment. Sure, there are a few albums that featured heavily in major lists that I didn't care for too much, but there are just as many that I just never got around to listening to.

There are quite a few albums I'm just getting round to listening to and would probably make the list, but I haven't given them enough attention yet for the to join the list. For example, I recently got into Kurt Vile, but haven't got round to listening to his latest album 'Childish Prodigy' and I love Espers, Bob Dylan and Sufjan Stevens but haven't listened to their latest albums as of yet. Also, I've recently been listening to Dam-Funk's 'Toeachizown', Dinosaur Jr's new album, The Mantles and Flaming Lips' 'Embryonic' and I like the sound of them, but just haven't heard them enough to warrant a place in my favourite's list.



Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Grandes Exitos (tour release only)
Atlas Sound - Logos
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
BLAKROC - BLACKROC
Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer EP
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Smoking Acid EP
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - One EP
Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Conor Oberst - Outer South
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Devendra Banhart - What Will Be Will Be
DOOM - Born Like This
The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay
El Michel's Affair - Enter The 37th Chamber
The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
GIRLS - Album
Grizzly Bear - Veckamist
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Leonard Cohen - Live at The Isle of Wight
The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Monsters of Folk - S/T
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract 
Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II
Real Estate - Real Estate
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys and Girls Club
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
Ty Segall - Lemons
U-God - Dopium
Wavves - Wavvves
White Denim - Fits
Woods - Songs of Shame

Sunday Afternoon micromix

Here's a new mix for you to listen to on Spotify:


Sunday Afternoon micromix


I know everybody doesn't have Spotify, but it's easy enough to get an invite if you ask around, so no excuses!


01 Bobb Trimble - Premonitions - The Fantasy
02 Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w. Noah Lennox)
03 Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer
04 Dillard & Clark - Polly
05 Neil Young - Tell Me Why (Live at Massey Hall 1971)
06 Devendra Banhart - Goin' Back
07 Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together (live at Woodstock)
08 The Felice Brothers - Cooperstown
09 The Doors - The Crystal Ship
10 Beach House - Apple Orchard
11 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)
12 Beastie Boys - I Don't Know
13 Black Lips - Trapped In A Basement
14 The Dandy Warhols - Ride
15 Nirvana - Come As You Are (live at Reading 1992)
16 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The 'One'

Atlas Sound

Just started getting into Atlas Sound's new album and this is an early favourite:





While on the subject of Atlas Sound, I downloaded his recent Virtual 7" and on it is a cover of Doctor originally by Five Discs. I hadn't heard the original before, but it was an instant hit with me!





The 7", along with several micromixes (the latest includes the Five Discs version of 'Doctor'), can be downloaded at Bradford Cox's blog:


http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/