Ketch Harbour Wolves
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HIGHLY REC’D – THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE
Because good music is a right, not a privilege.
by: Jon Wolf
June ’10: “You Know How We Get Down!”
1. The Apples in Stereo – No Vacation
2. The Young Friends – I Won’t Break Your Heart
3. Cold Warps – Stupid Tattoos
4. Marching Band – It Is Hidden
5. Naked Hearts – Mass Hysteria
6. Jamaica – I Think I Like U 2
7. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Sink / Let It Sway
8. Darwin Deez – DNA
9. Savoir Adore – Early Bird
10. Walter Schreifels – Requiem
11. Walter Schreifels -Arthur Lee’s Lullaby
12. The Silver Seas – What’s the Drawback?
13. The Bird and the Bee – I Can’t Go For That (Hall & Oates cover)
14. Elvis Costello – The Other Side Of Summer (1991)
15. Wintersleep – Astronaut
16. Wolf Parade – What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)
17. Ketch Harbour Wolves – Body Without Organs
18. Fanfarlo – What Makes You Think You’re the One
19. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Is That You?
20. Born Ruffians – Oh Man
21. The Powder Kegs – La Mariposa
New Feature: Highly Rec’d's Highest Rec!
Aside from unnecessary apostrophes, there is nothing we like more than Ketch Harbour Wolves‘ last album Dead Calm Horizon, it has been our highest recommendation for the past two years (which the band is still offering for FREE?!?!), we still listen to it regularly, and they are finally releasing the follow-up Anachronisms on Dead Calm Records on June 1st!
We are obviously very excited, and the band was nice enough to donate the amazing track “Body Without Organs”, so enjoy that, then go find Dead Calm Horizon, and then buy Anachronisms, available on iTunes, as well as Maple Music for all your physical CD/LP/t-shirt needs. These guys are creating music with real shelf-life, which is an incredibly rare quality anymore, and their music only gets better, now go give it a chance to grow on you, in a good way.
And we’re not alone, check out the first official review of the new album over at I(Heart)Music.
New Feature: The Best Band Never?
Walking Concert, holy crap do I love this band, they made one perfect pop album in 2004, and then that was about it, but lead Walter Schreifels, also of Quicksand and the soon to be reunited hardcore supergroup Rival Schools, just released a solo album, An Open Letter to the Scene, to get the rest of the pop-rock out of his system.
I still give their album as a gift, the songs are unbeatable mixtape secret weapons, and I hope this post at least increases the awareness of their lone album, Run To Be Born, that I have come to associate heavily with summer:
