About to Die EP - Dirty Projectors (Domino, 2012)
"About to Die," from Dirty Projectors' excellent 2012 LP Swing Lo Magellan, plus five more tracks. Some folkier, some gnarly, quirky, almost lo-fi balls-out rawk. There are some really great moments, but I can certainly understand why these songs were left off the album.
An Obscure Moon Lighting an Obscure World EP - Glocca Morra (Kind of Like, 2012)
2012 = the year of Glocca Morra. They just killed it.Their LP from this year, Just Married, is about as close to perfect as a band can get. Then, they come out of nowhere to end the year with this sweet EP? If I've read correctly, these songs were even written and recorded before the full-length. This probably explains the lower, dirtier fidelity, and overall gnarly feel of these songs as opposed to the crisp production and clean guitars of Just Married. An Obscure Moon Lighting an Obscure World is a little less emo and more pop punk mixed with 90s indie rock like Pavement and Archers of Loaf. I hear some Pinkerton in there too.
Blonde Album - Lightning Love (Quite Scientific, 2012)
Lightning Love's sophomore LP, Blonde Album, has been a long time coming. It was a little deceiving to me at first, as I had seem them play half of these songs countless times live by this point. And, don't get me wrong, they're still great songs, but the surprise jams were very much welcome. They're still doing the cutesy piano/synth, guitar, drums thing that's contrasted with juvenile yet clever lyrics, but there has definitely been some immense maturation since 2008's November Birthday. There's no "Friends" on this joint, but there are plenty of awesome chord progressions and melodies to make up for it. Second track, "Just Friends," is without question the most exciting moment on the record in every way.
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