Shannon & The Clams / Old Man Winter

Why haven’t you listened to this record yet?! Shannon Shaw has the voice of a god. Ranging from deep sultry roughness to smooth buttery melodic sweetness and back to an angrier deeper rawness, all glued together with warm guitar work that screams 60’s beach rock vibes. Old Man Winter is one of the weirder tracks on the record, a sugary pop number where Shaw really displays the incredible versatility of her vocals. Sleep Talk is full of quirky funky garage pop confection that will leave you falling in love with The Clams. It’s so good, it might be one of the best records that 2011 has offered thus far. Shannon Shaw, I love you.

Top 30 Records / Potatoes

1 PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Belong Slumberland
2 BEACH FOSSILS What A Pleasure [EP] Captured Tracks
3 STROKES Angles RCA
4 RINGO DEATHSTARR Colour Trip Sonic Unyon
5 HUNX AND HIS PUNX Too Young To Be In Love Hardly Art
6 CHAIN AND THE GANG Music Is Not For Everyone K
7 CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion Slumberland
8 RAINBOW ARABIA Boys And Diamonds Kompakt
9 IS/IS This Happening [EP] Guilt Ridden Pop
10 CUT COPY Zonoscope Modular
11 BIBIO Mind Bokeh Warp
12 DEATH SET Michel Poiccard Counter
13 FEDERICO AUBELE Berlin 13 ESL
14 DUM DUM GIRLS He Gets Me High [EP] SUB POP
15 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND JAMIE XX We're New Here XL
16 DELICATE STEVE Wondervisions Luaka Bop
17 JOY FORMIDABLE The Big Roar Atlantic
18 PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time We Are Free
19 RAVEONETTES Raven In The Grave Vice
20 STARFUCKER Reptilians Polyvinyl
21 BROWN RECLUSE Evening Tapestry Slumberland
22 TELEKINESIS 12 Desperate Straight Lines Merge
23 DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Don't Say We Didn't Warn You Cooking Vinyl
24 LYKKE LI Wounded Rhymes Atlantic/LL
25 MARITIME Human Hearts Dangerbird
26 MICROSCOPIC SEPTET Friday The 13th: The Micros Play Monk Cuneiform
27 FEMI KUTI Africa For Africa KF
28 MOVITS! Out Of My Head SLIMSTYLE
29 MOUNTAIN GOATS All Eternals Deck Merge
30 TORO Y MOI Underneath The Pine Carpark

Jib Kidder / Epiphany 1

For the last year or so, WUSB has been turned onto the really incredible experimental projects released by Asthmatic Kitty via the Library Catalog Music Series. The most recent fixation has been the result of California’s Jib Kidder. The mastermind behind the project, Sean Schuster-Craig, used the effects of recho, reverb, EQ and splicing to manipulate the existing sounds of the Asthmatic Kitty catalog. Music For Hypnotized Minds is a combination of hip hop and experimental noise psychedelia that results in layers of moody mellow trippy sonic adventures. Epiphany 1 has a playful warped nostalgia vibe that erupts towards the end with eclectic percussion and quicker bursts of the looped melody and it’s all pretty fantastic.

Colleen Green / Y Do U Call Me

This video kinda made me hungry. Time for a spaghetti party & some Colleen Green jams. Check out the new 7” via Hardly Art.

K-Holes / The Gutter

Is it cool to post two videos from the same artist back to back? K-Holes just released the most disturbing inappropriate full length I’ve ever heard via the one and only, Hozac Records. Think haunted houses, witches with young boys caged up, strange spiritual rituals or a scene from SAW. Aside from the brilliance of K-holes, this video was created by the very amazing Alice Cohen who also created videos for Talbot Tagora and Fergus and Geronimo, just two of my favorites from her brilliant collection. All of them are really incredible and Gutters is just another awesome piece to add to the list.

Two Tears / Senso Unico

Senso Unico is the filthy b-side from Kerry Davis’ one woman band, Two Tears. The intensity and rawness of Davis’ vocals feels like acid eating your flesh, melting with brilliantly stripped down instrumentals. The track is beautifully exposed with Davis’ vocals and guitar work stinging like you were dragged across a highway. A side is killer, too, but not nearly as dirty. Get it via Kind Turkey Records.

Video: White Fence / Baxter Corner