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Bliss time

Kudos to whoever put it together.

Halo - Winning track from Lavinia (including members of Caspian and Eksi Ekso) This is top banana stuff right here!!

Sounds absolutely awesome!!!

The Grammys are acknowledging post-rock!!! About 10 years too late but hey, better than nothing.

Lungfish - Black Helicopters - Artificial Horizon Drawing you in, like a breath in the wind

Fricking awesomeeeeeee!!!

In no way is this post-rock but it is the entirety of The Postal Service's Coachella set from last night. Sweeeeeeeeeet......

Here's the link to this sweet BBC doc, presenter grates a little but still great to see some bonafide exposure from a couple of years ago.

Proper acoustic version of untitled 4/Nothing Song/Njosnavelin. Pretty darn awesome. Also, check out the BBC culture show piece on them that this comes from.

  Was suitably surprised and impressed with this new track by Sigur Ros. Reminded me very much of their Von-era. New album, Kveikur, is out in June and if this is anything to go by, it will be another shift away from the album before it. Also read that they are down to a threesome now after multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson departed. I hope it doesn't impact the scale or ambition of their music production and performance as this is one of the things I adore about the band. Guess we'll find out on the new album.

Ok, so I've gone a little poster mental recently. Seems like the US get the majority of amazing posters for gigs, guess that means they have a shedload of great local artists. Well, I thought Kevin Tong's posters were unsurpassable, with the Mogwai and Appleseed Cast ones just knocking me out of the park, then I came across this absolutely stellar poster for an Explosions In The Sky gig in Minneapolis by DKNG studios. Then, THEN, I found a video of one half of that team (Dan Kuhlken I think) actually drawing and designing the thing!! How ace is that?!! Anyway, please enjoy the video as much as I did, paired alongside, in my opinion EITS' stand out track from 2011's Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. Link to their site: http://www.dkngstudios.com/ 

This is another from the plethora of magnificent posters that Kevin Tong produces, and it really blew me away. Giant eagle being constructed/hewn from rock! What’s not to like right?! I happen to think it’s pretty ominous, like almost in a War of the Worlds kinda way (GIANT EAGLE!!!) and tend to associate it with this equally barnstorming number.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxW2TJOAmtM  (track in link above or in post below) 

The Appleseed Cast - View Of A Burning City

Curve - Deerhunter This is a beautiful ambient track by Deerhunter, and totally different to what I'd heard from them previously. I came across it on an album titled "We Are The Works In Progress", which was exactly what it sounded like, a collection of tracks under development, from a selection of artists. Well worth a listen if that kind of thing's your cup of tea. It directed me to their back catalogue in the search for more ambient gems, in the hope they haven't all been abandoned as tracks for another, slightly more solemn day.

http://tragicsunshine.com/ 

The article is run by the Guardian newspaper (about twelve years too late, most of the tracks are 2001 or earlier) and there's some choice stuff involved. But I wonder just how many of these are genuine keepers, how many would make most fans top 10? There are at least 4 or 5 tracks not on this list that I would have to find some room for in my own selection. And also, an emphasis on their first couple of albums - is it fair? I thought 2008's Hawk is Howling was cracking, but just the one track from it. Here's a link to the playlist of the top 10 also. Kudos to journalist Adam Boult for the Mogwai time though.