The Swimmers – A Hundred Hearts
(From Bag of Songs)
A rippling keyboard hook and swelling guitar line push this head and shoulders in front of the competition. "You've only got one heart but a hundred people want it, if a hundred people owned it, they'd be putting prices on it." With lyrics like that the Philly four-piece put the droll in hydrology. Thank you ... thank you. We're here once a week.
Digital Leather – Kisses
(From MySpace via Said the Gramophone)
There you go Julian – other people can sound like Devo fronted by limp-larynxed rock stars of old too.
Dog Day – Synastry
(From Captains Dead)
Quartet from Nova Scotia, Canada that stand side-by-side with Texas's Diagonals in their ambition to play like Sonic Youth when Sonic Youth aren't being awkward. From the Elder Schoolhouse EP, which you can order here.
Dead Man's Bones – My Body's a Zombie for You
(From Zeon Music and Side of the Blog)
What a week for the Hollywood alt-rock set: Zooey Deschanel's on honeymoon, Adam Brody's singing for the devil and Ryan Gosling's leapt from mumbling, miserable indie movies to mumbling, miserable indie music with the release of the surprisingly good Dead Man's Bones album. Meanwhile, "real" musicians like Vampire Weekend serve up smug, milky slop and expect us to wolf it down like Mexican food. Weird world.
Stakk Money – Dorkin
(From Fluxblog)
A few months ago Matthew Perpetua (aka blogging legend Fluxblog) went through a rough patch. Words like "despair", "paranoia" and "U2" started cropping up in his blog. If this posting of gonzoid rap squeaker Stakk Money's orally fixated filth is anything to go by, he's feeling much sunnier now. Good-oh.
