Fleet Foxes s/t
Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane 
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too
Deerhunter Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
M83 Saturdays = Youth
I've been thinking and believe that the metric song I posted yesterday was the perfect thing to hear after the election. It appears others were also ecstatic as well, including Thom Yorke, who put up this remix on Dead Air Space.
James Murphy has a new band and they are hopefully going to be releasing material in the near future on DFA (next year). According to Rodrigo Davies of the BBC:
My ride to go surfing occasionally sleeps in, leaving me, without a car, to spend the rest of my day how I may. I think I have mentioned how much I love the California coast before in posts. And on hearing "Sea Stones" by Small Sur I had an instant flashback to cold water, wetsuits, sunsets, and rocky beaches.
This past June Devendra Banhart and Priestbird’s Greg Rogove made their debut appearance as Megapuss at the hammer museum in LA with Devandra wearing a skirt made of plastic dicks and Greg in a summery man dress. The group also includes the Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti. Megapuss was inadvertently formed when the Devendra and Greg where touring together in their separate groups trying to pass the time away backstage. Banhart says, "Before a show, we'd have fifteen minutes to get in the zone. So the plan was to have a finished song written in fifteen minutes each night." Banhart also reassures us that this isn't just him spit balling songs at us. "Usually, a lot of my songs are based on stuff from my shitty diary. Megapuss is a lot more fun." Its true. Surfing, Megapuss' debut album, is more pop oriented than Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain, with out loosing the hippie folk aspiration. The album also contains a constant feeling of jocularity, and it is advised to take each song (especially "Duck People", "Mister Meat") with a grain of salt.
I see that this is catchy and why it would appeal to some, but I feel like Passion Pit is just another hype band ready to decay under the scrutiny of time. Some of these songs do contain quality pop, like the single "Sleepyhead" (really catchy). However the song "Better Things", which has been commemorated by some, spells out my reaction in the first lines, "You're driving me crazy/You're driving me mad". My teeth get set on edge when hit with high, whiny electronics and equally irritating voices. Here is the groups first single off the Chunk of Change EP.
Snake Flower 2's debut album, Renegade Daydream, preaches the way of dusty highways, dialing up the volume, and flooring it to ninety just as well as The Stones or Steppenwolf. These lo-fi San Fransisco rockers could give any teenager the motivation to liberate themselves from the confides of society as well as any playing in the sixties. Matthew Melton, the lead singer and guitarist of the trio, says that Renegade Daydream is basically ""the first batch of songs I wrote after I escaped from the South (Memphis)." 
I keep hearing the influence of different rock and folk legends every time I listen to Blitzen Trapper, and I find it pretty funny when I read that their previous album, Wild Mountain Nation, is heavily compared with Pavement. Frankly these guys just can't lose. Though these influences are recognizable, Blitzen Trapper is not just rehashing the same sounds of a previous generation (like Dr. Dog's Fate). No, these hardy Portlanders have their own story to tell. I compare them to Dylan only due to their lyrical beauty, which offers much to dissect after the first listen. Their sound is fertile with that down to earth feeling that northwesterners can inspire.
From what I've found out, he does everything from animation and painting (album cover) to extreme sports on Letterman. His songs are recorded on an old tape machine in his basement with a quirkiness and freeness that is expressed in everything he does. Through out Soft Airplane, he incorporates a mix of guitars, synths, and any other instruments he can acquire. The end product is an incredible collection of acoustic pop, lo-fi synth pop, as well as some playful and sharp (sometimes sad and eerie) song writing.
I have to say I've always cracked a smile at the sense of jubilation that I feel when I listen to the gaiety and playfulness heard within all of Of Montreal's hullicantory rave-ups. "Nonpareil of Favor", off of Skeletal Lamping, is no exception. Kevin Barnes' wit and charm it seems is not at all suppressed when it comes to digging up the skeleton's in his closet. Kevin Barnes addressing the title said, "This record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous...fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that I can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head." While the opening track "Nonpareil of Favor" is more of a thank you note for being accepted, "St.Exquisite's Confessions" is more along the lines of the humorously disturbing, with the eye opening first line "I'm so tired of sucking the dick of this cruel, cruel, city", said and performed with that glamorous theatricality that is the essence of Of Montreal's appeal and genius.
