The Pelican’s Perch

I mentioned that Annuals will be release their follow up album, Such Fun, on October 7th in my Sunfold post, but now there’s an actual song to listen to from the new album.  It’s called “Confessor” and it’s a nice little string filled number that is more laid back than most their songs, but I [...]

Detektivbyran, arguably my favorite instrumental band, finally finished their newest album, Wermland, and I’m more than excited to get my hands on it.  They posted two new songs over at their myspace, so here’s my heads up to all of you to go over there asap and give them a listen.  “Om Du Moter Vag” [...]

Time to be completely unoriginal here at the Perch.  I’m sure you saw this tidbit of news if you read any of the big blogs, but since Radiohead are one of my favorite bands, I figured what the heck, I’ll share.  Today marks the world premier of Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards” and, [...]

“With a Buzz in Our Ears, We Play Endlessly”
So the translation goes for Sigur Ros’ new full-length Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.  I’ve been so dang busy lately that this album completely slipped past me.  Usually I’m on top of things regarding Sigur Ros, but I both missed a recent show last Wednesday [...]

New Animal Collective video for “Water Curses” from their new EP of the same name. Haven’t had a chance to listen to the EP yet, but this song is pretty poppy and fun compared to most stuff AC have written. Short post before bed, but I figured a few of you would be [...]

I randomly caught the second half of this interview the other day at work and listened to the rest of the interview the day after on NPR.org once it was posted. If you’ve got time today, be sure and give this great interview a listen. There’s a lot of good tidbits of interesting [...]

For those of you that may have not been paying attention this last year, I have a record label I started with my friend Charlie called LemonDrop Records.  We’re oh so close to having the online store finished and up and running, then things will really take off.  But for now, we’re pumping out our [...]

I missed Stereogum’s exclusive mp3 from Wolf Parade’s newest album last week. It’s definitely an interesting direction for the band, who recorded long improvisational sessions in the Arcade Fire owned cathedral after scrapping five or so new songs since they sounded too much like Apologies. After a few listens to “Call It [...]

I just got done listening to Phantom Planet’s new album “Raise the Dead”, which is on Fueled by Rahmen and is out next Tuesday.  “Dropped” is great, as is most the album and I can see this album growing into a definite keeper throughout the year.  Where their previous self-titled album found them not quite [...]

So, I totally dropped the ball on this one.  I had no idea they posted their first single on their myspace, but I guess better late than never.  It’s something like 8 minutes long with the singing not starting until four minutes into the song.  This is a nice little twist to their normal song [...]