Funeral Party - The Golden Age of Knowhere / Live at the BBC (V0 / 320)

Every day is repost day.

So Funeral Party's debut album finally got a proper release, sometime earlier this year. Anyone with no life might remember it being posted here as a leaked album in September of last year. Apparently it wasn't even meant to be a self-titled! Go figure.

So now, in all of its dance-punk, raw and energetic glory is the official Funeral Party debut The Golden Age of Knowhere, complete with slightly less annoying album art.

For those of you who don't know, Funeral Party is an up & coming dance-punk band who basically kick all sorts of ass. Like I said about 4 sentences ago, it is raw and energetic dance-punk. Almost like catchy and somehow not cheesy post-hardcore, the vocals will make your neck hair stiff.

BUT WAIT!

THERE'S MORE!

I took the liberty of including their newest effort, a live EP entitled Live at the BBC. It's 6 songs long, with three live recordings and three remixes, done respectively by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio (and more recently Jane's Addiction), Kids of 88, and Mike Relm, the Youtube DJ sensation.

All of which are awesome.

Get it here, and finally do yourself a favor and buy this new and potential-laden band's album here.

Johnny Foreigner - Grace and the Bigger Picture (V0)

Johnny Foreigner is mostly associated with bands like Los Campesinos! but much unlike LC!(!!!!!) JF follows a much more punk and much less cute method of telling you sad stories and wanting to kick your metaphorical ass. Lyrics are a lot more blunt than LC!, instrumentation is limited to mainly a guitar/drum/bass combo with female/male/male vocals throughout and constant sing-alongs (for you and all your campfire friends that like jumping and singing wildly and sometimes accidentally falling into the campfire and then having to go through intense burn treatment [totally worth it though] where in time you'll be back to doing stupid shit near campfires again) that you can enjoy over and over again.

If you get the chance to see them live with LC! on their current tour in the US, take it. It's a god damn amazing experience.

OUR TOWNS RUN BY CRIMINALS? YES!
Don't be a hater, take another sample

Download because you can write a blog post better than me.

Nana Grizol - Ruth (V0)

I walked into my home, opened the door and ran downstairs. A CD was laying on the floor, had a note on it saying “Play Me.” I put this album onto my computer, and began playing it on my speakers. As the first notes began ringing I heard the sound of footsteps upstairs, running downstairs and suddenly my entire house was being filled with children that were running in through the front door and then out through the backdoor, they got older slowly as they kept running in and out of the house and eventually died. This repeated over and over until the album finished.

I need to stop drinking.

Cynicism isn’t wisdom, It’s a lazy way to say that you’ve been burned... it seems if anything you’d be less certain after everything you’ve ever learned.

Funeral Party - Funeral Party (V0)

This year has been a fine year for music. Some of my favorite albums in my entire music collection are from this year, and surprisingly I can say that I actually am having to be selective in making my "best albums of 2010" list. Big Echo, Wild Nothing, Nolens Volens, Ruth, and even the new Have a Nice Life EP were all spectacular in my eyes, so there's no complaints on this end.

I wasn't sure if it was just a phase or an accidental obsession, but there has been one album so far this year that has gone from being unknown to me to being my new musical infatuation in less than 2 months. That would be Funeral Party's self-titled, a new dance-punk masterpiece that has carved the band their own niche in what is otherwise a still developing genre of music. While it lacks the primal rock-and-roll feel of Death From Above's music, it presents itself with a much more cutting edge and chilled out style that hooks you from the beginning. The opening track, NYC moves to the sound of LA, while somewhat different from the rest of the album, is undoubtedly the most fitting opening track, in that it captures the style and message of the band in the first thirty seconds.

The album gets better each time you listen to it, and over time you develop a very thorough knowledge of the songs due to the sonic richness and stunning clarity. This album is the dark chocolate of modern alternative rock. Carwars, Just Because and Youth in Poverty are a couple of the best songs of 2010.

If my description doesn't do it for you, at the very least have a listen to the album, which you can get here, and make sure to buy it from them when it's finally released sometime soon. You could even be like me and go to any of their shoes supporting Two Door Cinema Club at this time. They are cheap and will be nothing short of amazing.

Pain - Midgets With Guns (V0)

Pose, pose, nobody knows,
Just what we go through we go through for one of these shows.
We have sweat on our nutsacks and corns on our toes.
But if you want to be honest,
Nutsack sweat feels pretty good,
And corns only make me walk faster,
Faster than I normally would.
Pose, pose, why do you suppose,
That Pain is our name?
Because that's what we chose,
And life without Pain is a long endless chain,
Of errors repeated again and again,
So don't be afraid of Pain don't run away.