MM Rating: 10/10

Here we go, it's one of those magical moments, I've got nothing to say about this album.

The MM Rating: 10/10

Band website: http://www.ofmontreal.net

After three years of touring and world wandering behind 2008’s critically acclaimed Golden Hour, Firewater resurfaces with a new full-length International Orange! out on 9/11. This is the group’s seventh album and comes on the heels of the re-release of four fantastic catalog titles.

International Orange!, produced by Tod A and mixed by Tamir Muskat of Balkan Beat Box, carries on from where their previous collaboration, The Golden Hour, took off, slipping across new borders into uncharted territory. Created in Istanbul and Tel Aviv during the 2011 Arab Spring, their latest release captures the frenetic pulse of a world in the state of flux. The songs tap into grooves as disparate as Turkish maqsoum, Punjabi bhangra, Jamaican ska, Greek rebetiko, classic punk and old-school mambo.

download: Firewater – “A Little Revolution”

This blog has always been a host for all kind of influential music. Please listen to the new Momus album, it's an amazing album.

9/10

MM picks: Erase, Farther

1. Teenage Funclub - The Concept
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2. The Jam - Town Called Malice
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3. David Sylvian - I surrender
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4. Sunny Day Real Estate - Shadows
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Spiritualized - Hey Jane

What's the thinking behind this cover? 

Jason Pierce: The album was always going to be called Huh?, but I couldn't for the life of me picture people going to buy it with that name. I kept picturing people locked in a Monty Python-like loop of trying to ask for the record with a question: "Have you got the new record, Huh?" "Huh?" It would just be this endless cycle. So I figured the best way to deal with that was to make the artwork like The White Album, where that name would travel and people would end up referring to the album as Huh? because it was all over the artwork. The other main thought behind it was that everybody has been moaning about the lack of 12" sleeves to put artwork on-- you know, the good old days when people made vinyl records. But I thought I'd make a piece of artwork that would work on a one-inch square. It doesn't matter how small that piece of work gets, it still looks amazing on a tiny little digital image.

Elliott Smith - Somebody That I Used To Know

It's not a brand new song, however I'm happy to share this lovely melancholic Lindsey Buckingham record.

The song is from Lindsey's Gift of Screws (2008) album. Hope you like it!