The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Formlessness

So silly name aside, this band is fucking amazing! They, along with Deer Leap, played my house last night and both of them were great. They have a bunch of pretty "post-rock" sounding guitar parts, but they don't overly drag the parts out and keep things constantly changing. Their vocals remind me of older Kickball and they're very good to sing along to, as most people were doing last night. They also have a keyboard player in the band, but use it very tastefully and mostly as just added soundscape background sounds that really fill in the sound. They rule, so just listen already.
They have both of their EPs up on their Bandcamp page for download for free, or you pay what you like. Throw 'em a few bucks, please!

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Short Attention Span Compilation

so gentleman extraordinaire, biff swenson, rounded up 24 great bands of all sorts of genres and put together a free compliation for download. my newest band, dads, was asked to be a part of this and i'm really pumped on it! here's the tracklisting so you can see for yourself how good this is!

1.) Chalk Talk - Pine Cone
2.) Into It. Over It. - Nashville, TN
3.) Quiltary - Will You Still Kiss Me with This Silly Beard of Mine?
4.) Band Name - The Countdown
5.) John Bradley - Henry Rollin's Creepy Crawl Tattoo
6.) By Surprise - Year Plus One Month (Makeout Party Cover)
7.) Wood Goold - Rolling in Our Eyes
8.) Sirs - Starting at the Chin
9.) Malegoat - Time Passes
10.) Ape Up! - Chinchillin
11.) Foxes & Lions - I Prefer Tall, Classy, European Women
12.) Black Churches - Hexed
13.) Small Oaks - Claim
14.) Cameron Wisch - What Star Do You Live On?
15.) Dads - Soccer Dads (Fifa World Fuck)
16.) Paddlepuss - Mahalo Brother
17.) Nick Cucci - 11 Days
18.) Make Wave - The Cape
19.) It's A King Thing - Hangin' Out
20.) Cecil - Sheldon Mopes [A Lot]
21.) Static Sex - I Hope You Die Alone
22.) John Muccino - Untitled Excerpt
23.) Ba Babes - Come Back Home with Me
24.) Dark Surfers - Planet Drunk (Me and My Satanic Babe)

a bunch of twinkly shit-esque bands, a bunch not, but all are great!

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Castevet/Into It - Snack Town 7"

You already know who this is, it's good. Download it, pre-order it, whooo cares.
EDIT - THIS IS POST #69. FUCK YES.


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Coping - 2 Song Demo

I got this demo by Chicago's Coping yesterday, again from the lovely world of VLV. Totally fun upbeat late 90's style emo jams. You know the style! "Seniors" is a jam and a half! I don't know what else to say. Download this, add them on myspace, get them to play your friend's kitchen sometime. They're still a new band, so I'm excited to see what else comes from them soon!

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Cats and Cats and Cats: If I'd Had An Atlas

I was very excited/surprised by this release so I figured I would post it as soon as I heard it. Cats and Cats and Cats (if for some strange reason you haven't heard them by now) play fairly epic sounding twinkly music. Most of their stuff I would say sound like sped up postrock jams with vocals. They also have a violinist which sets them apart a bit (just like Yellowcard!). Like Maps and Atlases, CACAC seem to be branching out a bit with this release. If you enjoy what you hear, please think about purchasing this album.



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Owen - Abandoned Bridges 7"

Owen has a new 7" that's up for pre-order on Polyvinyl. I pre-ordered it and got the download code for the songs, so I'm sharing it with all you. But like everything else we post, you really should still buy the music or else it's kind of pointless for us to post this. So go do it.

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Castevet - The Echo & The Light

So because we are ballers at Twinkly Sh*t, here's the new version of Castevet's "The Echo & The Light". It was all re-recorded and with 2 extra songs and sounds somehow even better than the tape version! Not much else to say about this album, if you're at this blog you already know who Castevet is. PLEASE BUY THIS OR WE WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU.

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...Of Sinking Ships: S/T

This upload is by request. ..Of Sinking Ships is a side project of Chad Waldrup who was apparently in some band called Hopesfall. Instrumental twinkles but not what I would really consider post rock. Most of the music still follows a verse/chorus feel rather than the rise/fall pattern you see with most. I get a faster tempo American Football vibe from it. Check it out.

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Plesiosaurs - Lorelei (Teaser Track)

So my good good friends in Plesiosaurs have recently been ~signed~ to a/s/l records out of Atlantic City, NJ. Since then, they recorded a new EP to be out soon. Overall, they're not tooooo twinkly, but they have tons of riffz all over the place. Plus they have cool gear and are really loud, so they're all good in my book. Their more usual sound is a mix of 90's indie a la Pavement (i.e. "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat") with some loud more shoegazy parts, maybe? Who knows, who cares? John was a sport and let me post one of their new tracks so I could share their new music with everyone on here! This is, by far, their most twinkly/fitting song for this blog and it rules hard! They're doing a late summer tour and playing a bunch of shows with Deer Friends, so go see them! If you see them, tell them to "go to space"! They'll get it.

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Maps and Atlases - Perch Patchworks

So here's the new Maps and Atlases. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but I figured I'd post it for people who want it! I'm not going to bother to explain their sound, you should know if you're on this blog!

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