Phoenix: Listomania

This song puts a smile across my face and makes me want to dance.

Lisztomania

Silversun Pickups: "Panic Switch"

Wow! It's been a while since I posted. This song is pretty much my new favorite thing. Check it out.

The Antlers: "Kettering"

I have been waiting for the last few weeks for a version of this song to become available on their website or youtube. So finally after a long wait something even better has come along. An embeddable stream of the album that the band has released - complete with a sweet visualizer. I wish every band released this type of thing. The first song I heard off their most recent album, Hospice, was "Kettering" - the the second track on the album (skip ahead to this one if you are impatient and don't understand long ambient intros into albums.) Hospice is a concept album of sorts and handles a rather heavy subject matter with ambient indie rock. It's pretty sweet.

While their stuff may not be for everyone, much like a lot of stuff I put on this blog, I am absolutely in love with this song. This album, Hospice, is by far my favorite of their works. On another closely related subject let me say that I am excited to see what is yet to come this year. 2009 is looking to be a pretty awesome year for music. There has already been a few great albums in my mind - Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion being one of them. This album is set in my mind to be in, at the very least, my top 10 of 2009.

The singer for The Antlers at times reminds me of Jeff Buckley, which is pretty cool (I should post a few of his songs for any of you who have not heard him). Regardless of who The Antlers remind me of this is very strong album. I dig it. I hope you do too.

Video = ICE: Music by Sigur Ros - "illgresi"

Today is a short post. This is a pretty sweat video that features a song by one of my favorite bands - Sigur Ros. It is even better in high-def but you have to go to the Vimeo site to watch it - you can do so by clicking here. I hope you enjoy it.

ICE from Alex Horner on Vimeo.

Dan Deacon: "Get Old" & "Okie Dokie"

I am not going to kid you with this one. The music of Dan Deacon is not that accessible - it is just really stinking weird. Now before you brush of this post and just move on to people.com or facebook you have to understand the context of this music - this music is made for a live club scene where dancing is involved. Weird dancing, but none the less dancing just the same. Mr. Deacon is releasing a new album next month which is far more accessible to most people than any of his previous works. Here is a great, be it redundant, track from this album entitled Bromst (don't bother looking it up it is a word he made up).

It sounds like a sound orgy for sure. It is exciting and vibrant material crafted from the cold software world of synthesizers, computers, and modulators. Here is a track of his new album, "Get Old."

Dan Deacon - "Get Old"

There is also another track off an older album of his which has caught my attention. It is entitled "Okie Dokie" and I have found it to be absolutely amazing. I'm not going to lie it blew my mind a little bit. No here is the thing. Below I have posted the music video for the song. There is also a really good live version you can find below it (way even better than the studio version in my opnion), however be for warned there is a string of expletives so offensive, so profane to some (ok, most) before the song begins that some of your grandmothers will roll over in their graves. I am not kidding you. If you do choose to listen to these songs - pump up the volume and dance!

Dan Deacon - "Okie Dokie"

(flip the High Quality Switch on this one)

LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK - (or fast forward to at least 0:20)

Dan Deacon - "Okie Dokie"