Fresh New Music -- Anne
You know Portland, Oregon, the breeding ground for such bands as The Dandy Warhols and Mackintosh Braun. Well Portland has produced another excellent band that calls itself Anne, and they're the Fresh New Music featured band of the day. The band exemplifies the fuzzy sound of lo-fi shoegaze and is best listened to as loud as you (or your neighbors/roommates/passengers) can stand.
The five tracks from the Demo EP are all excellent and I highly recommend "Punk Bike" for its retro-modern Joy Division influenced guitar and bass hooks. Take a listen, listen takers:
Both the Demo and Mixtape are available for download from the band's website. Click here to download the Demo and here for the Mixtape. If you like them, tell your friends and if you're up in the Pacific Northwest, be sure to catch them in a club near you. They will be releasing a split 7" with American Gods on Austin, Texas' Withdrawal Records. No release date yet, but check back for updates.
The five tracks from the Demo EP are all excellent and I highly recommend "Punk Bike" for its retro-modern Joy Division influenced guitar and bass hooks. Take a listen, listen takers:
From Anne's 2010 mixtape, here's "Stripping." It's a bit more upbeat than "Punk Bike," but it shows off the guitar work of the band and it's very radio friendly. I hope to hear it on Y-Not or even the new music show on Radio 104.5 one of these days.
Both the Demo and Mixtape are available for download from the band's website. Click here to download the Demo and here for the Mixtape. If you like them, tell your friends and if you're up in the Pacific Northwest, be sure to catch them in a club near you. They will be releasing a split 7" with American Gods on Austin, Texas' Withdrawal Records. No release date yet, but check back for updates.
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. New York transplants Ian Mackintosh and Ben Braun are excellent additions to the scene.
, entitled "Could It Be," is a great synthesizer-based track that sounds right at home in either a crowded club or in your iPod. It's not as early '80's sounding as La Roux or as poppy as Owl City, it's much deeper; a lusher sound and more expressive lyrics than usually found in synthesizer tracks. According to the band, their sound is "exciting and innovative, but that's also familiar" and I found it to be very innovative and still familiar. It pushes the boundaries of alternative music to where they intersect with chillout and trance and yet it retains the emotion that pure electronic music often lacks. The entire album continues the theme of expanding alternative and dance music to where fans of either will find Mackintosh Braun worth a listen.
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