"Inaugural Trams" -- Super Furry Animals

The Super Furries return with a new mp3 for free download. It's Welsh. It's Krautrock.

"Middle Cyclone" -- Neko Case

Finally! Pitchfork has the first track from Neko Case's new album. Very spare and lovely.

Listen to it here.

Lovecraft in Brooklyn

The Mountain Goats go loud with "Lovecraft in Brooklyn," a track from their forthcoming new album. Their previous acoustic sound is replaced here by barking electric guitars, and a jittery paranoid beat. More Taxi Driver than Lovecraft but still interesting.

[Via Vulture]

Smiths Sound Check

Dead Flowers has some cool and rare recordings of the Smiths playing instrumental versions of "How Soon Is Now?" and "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", as well as an excellent impromptu cover of Hendrix's "Purple Haze."

Contrary to popular myth the Smiths were neither dirge-like or whiny. And these tracks confirm Johnny Marr's status as a guitar god.

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Listening to: R.E.M. - King Of The Road
via FoxyTunes

"Is There a Ghost" - Band of Horses

Band of Horses release their first single from their upcoming album, Cease to Begin. It's awesome.

Giallo at the Disco

This record's from March but I only came across it today. "I Always Say Yes" by Glass Candy which Pitchfork describes this way:

eight minutes of skeletal terror-disco, with horror synths straight out of Dario Argento's Suspiria set to a pulsing analog beat and singer Ida No's chilly, haunted vocals.

If no one had told you, you would have thought it was just a dance track, but the notion of "terror-disco" is too good to pass up.

Mogwai - "7:25"

Salon has a link to the new track from Mogwai. It's both very beautiful and very boring. Post-rock extended to its logical proggy conclusion. And yet, I want to hear it again.