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A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "Shut Your Mouth, It's Christmas"

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https://soundcloud.com/geonorth/a-sunny-day-in-glasgow-shut-your-mouth-its-christmas Back in June, the zestful noise poppers over at A Sunny Day in Glasgow delivered perhaps 2014's greatest summer album, Sea When Absent. The Sydney six-piece's refreshing shoegaze production rendered this the perfect beach music (on an overcast day). But now, a week from Thanksgiving, the band is in a properly wintry spirit, participating in the limited edition cassette series Sketch for Winter. Theirs is the first installment this cycle, comprised of four "new Christmas classics" and, naturally, one Mariah Carey cover. Above, stream the confrontationally-titled "Shut Your Mouth, It's Christmas," which perfectly captures the holiday ethos. Happy listening!

Sketch for Winter I: New Christmas Classics is available here for pre-order via Geographic North (limited to an edition of 300). Also, A Sunny Day in Glasgow's label Lefse shared a cold new video for Sea When Absent cut "Crushin'." Watch that here:

Bun/Delofi - Colors Tape/Winter Tape Split

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Brooklyn label Dirty Tapes certainly lives up to its name with its latest split release between Japanese electronic music producer Bun (Fumitake Tamura) and Cleveland experimental beatmaker Delofi. The instrumentals across the Colors and Winter tapes are serene, chilled, and are lent an additional avant-garde edge by their being caked in all sorts of sweet analog grime. The tapes can be streamed and ordered (on cassette, naturally) above via Dirty Tapes' bandcamp page. Happy listening!

Bradien- "Ponte ATF" ‡ MP3

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Time for some strange instrumental music that seeped into my inbox this week. It comes from a split cassette featuring two projects taking instrumental music in a strange direction. However, they still manage to keep their sound fun and engaging.

The two artists on this tape: FS BLUMM and Bradien. The latter of the two is from Spain and build their tracks out of found sounds, original melodies, and samples. I don't know exactly which is which on "Ponte ATF," but I'm positively sure they share some common tastes with the late rap producer J Dilla. Listen to the song below, and download this entire split at the Poprebop Records website.

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