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Audio Download: Shigeto - What We Held On To EP
This free EP from electronic music artist Shigeto comes to us courtesy of the fine folks at Ghostly International, one of my favorite record labels of all time. A work of stunning texture and expansiveness, the What We Held On To EP is an exciting precursor for what is in store on his upcoming full length, Full Circle. 
phantogram - new record and a video treat
Just a friendly reminder of the best band out of Saratoga Springs, NY: Phantogram are about to release their first full-length, Eyelid Movies, on Barsuk Records on February 9th (and on Ghostly International, exclusively vinyl and download). They will be in DC on February 15th at DC 9. For now, here’s a live in-studio rendition of their older but eminently worthy single, “Mouthful of Diamonds”.
new mux mool - “lady linda”
As any listener of Some American Radio will know, there are those of us here who enjoy music of a more electronic variety, and then there is me… who doesn’t. But it is a criminal fallacy to believe that I thus hate all electronic music, as every so often a song or an artist will capture my attention and cause me to reconsider trusted formula of music listening: keyboard/machines = bad. Mux Mool is one such artist.
Mr. Mool, neé Brian Lindgren of Minnesota, brings a nerdish disposition toward collecting, working feverishly and continuously collecting bits and pieces to weave seamlessly into his creations. “Lady Linda”, the first single from his upcoming full-length debut, Skulltaste (March 23 on Ghostly International), is measured and unhurried, full of soft, vintage tones, and injected with eerie, even alien sounds and “melodies”, and rounded off by a wave of lush strings that pulls it all in from the outer reaches. A crisp break-beat, a subdued air, some odd touches, and a varied trajectory: it’s not that hard to make me like an electronic track, friends.
