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Tame Impala - "List of People (To Try and Forget About)"

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Tame Impala has a new EP out featuring a handful of B-sides and remixes from the Currents era. It's definitely worth checking out if you are fond of that album, but if we had to pick a highlight it'd be this opening track, "List of People (To Try and Forget About)." It could've been a solid, somewhat rock-oriented addition to the album. If the song does it for you too, you can stream the full EP from Spotify below:

Mogwai - "Eternal Panther"

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The latest B-side from Mogwai's new album Every Country's Sun finds the Glaswegian post-rockers taking a refreshing turn toward more direct songwriting. "Eternal Panther" is a short, sweet, and to the point noise rock tune in the vein of Dinosaur Jr. (I'm far from the first person to make that comparison, but it's very apt). Being a non-album track, it isn't really indicative of the band's current direction, but at any rate, Every Country's Sun drops September 1 via Temporary Residence.

of Montreal- "Our Love is Senile"

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In 1996, of Montreal released Cherry Peel, a delicate, sensitive, and heavily Beatles-indebted debut album that rivaled even the Fab Four in terms of simplistic pop songwriting. Ten albums later, Kevin Barnes and company have released a plenitude of fantastical concept albums, gotten married to glossy synths and dance beats, explored multiple personas, and dabbled in avant-garde classical composition. If leaked tracks are any indication, the recently announced odds and ends compilation Daughter of Cloud is a fine document of both primitive and maximal of Montreal. Featuring an infectiously catchy melody and muscular bassline, the song “Our Love is Senile” is a garage pop song of the highest order. The song contently bounces along as Barnes breaks down a failed relationship, creating a divine juxtaposition of upbeat instrumentation and pained lyrics that has become a signature technique of the band. Lines like “You can only breakup so many times / Before losing us to absurdity” and “How can we continue? / If you’re telling the truth and I still don’t believe you!” will have your heart empathizing with Barnes as your toes tap along to the beat. Historically, of Montreal’s greatest works have been results of Barnes in states of crushing (often relationship-related) depression and while I certainly don’t wish sadness to the brilliantly odd songwriter, “Our Love is Senile” is further proof that the “write what you know” technique works magnificently for of Montreal.

You can preorder the compilation over at Polyvinyl.

Big K.R.I.T.- "Sideline"

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Stream: Big K.R.I.T.- "Sideline" Following up his fantastic new mixtape 4EvaNaDay, Big K.R.I.T. has dropped another sports analogy-laden track that almost made it onto the release. It's titled "Sideline," and delivers the Mississipi rapper's usual combination of smooth production and determined lyrics. Stream the track via the link above, and look for K.R.I.T.'s major label debut this June with the album Live From the Underground.