Listen to a New Battles Song Now

Finally! It’s been over three years since NY’s prog-math-rock juggernaut Battles released its debut album, and really haven’t heard a fresh thing from the band since. We heard a while back that the quartet would be contributing a song to the soundtrack for the third movie in the teeny bopper-friendly Twilight series, Eclipse, and now we can finally listen to the song. Praise be!

After scrolling through songs by UNKLE, Beck and Bat For Lashes, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, and other respectable tunes from the ‘indie’ elite, you’ll find “The Line” by Battles. The track starts out sounding quite similar to “Tonto” from Mirrored, but—what’s this?!—you can understand what Tyondai Braxton is singing and its not in a squealing impish pitch. We could go into more detail about how awesome “The Line” is, what with its accelerating tempo, epic turns of melody, and almost pop-friendly nature, but we’ll just let you make your own assessment of it here. And listen quick, because this is coming down tomorrow.

Stream the New Ratatat Album Now

Those two NY dudes with the guitars and the drum-machines and the overflowing sample bank, Ratatat has a brand-new album coming out soon. It’s the duo’s fourth album, so they felt calling it LP4 was good enough.

Not too long ago, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud hooked the world up with the record’s first single, “Party With Children,” and now we’ve all got a chance to stream the as-yet-unreleased new album in its entirety. Head over here to listen to LP4, thanks to NPR, and you can pre-order your copy before its released June 8 via XL Recordings, here.

Listen to a Bunch of New Albums Now

We’d like to think that record labels are becoming generous and thoughtful with age, but it’s more likely that they offer their latest releases for full streaming weeks before the release dates to combat against you whippersnappers trying to download something for nothing. Regardless, right now over on AOL Spinner you can listen to a whole lot of new, as-yet-unreleased albums, some of which are pretty great.

Among the list of available titles, web surfers will find Broken Social Scene’s Forgiveness Rock Record, Holy Fuck’s Latin, Minus the Bear’s Omni, The Hold Steady’s Heaven is WheneverBooka Shade’s More, and Rusko’s O.M.G.!. Listen to those albums, among many others, over here. Enjoy!

pictured Rusko

Listen to a New Battles Song Now
Stream the New Ratatat Album Now
Listen to a Bunch of New Albums Now

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