We were too busy listening to it all day that we didn't get around to posting it till now

In addition to making gorgeous, fractured folk songs, the Dodos are really nice guys. We bet they donate blood and help old ladies cross the street. We think this because they're letting you stream their new album Time to Die like 3 months before its physical release in September. Doesn't that just make you wanna take them home to meet mom and dad?

Stream it ALL here

And here's a track off last year's dizzying Visiter (it's mispelled on purpose y'all):

Red and Purple - The Dodos

Julie's Top Songs of 2008 (part the first)

1. My Year in Lists - Los Campesinos!

I listened to this song for about four months solid this year. I retitled my personal blog after it. I watched the video nearly obsessively. This was undoubtedly the song of the year for me. The hook, the twee, the nostalgia, it was unstoppable. Thanks, Danny.

2. Murder in the City - The Avett Brothers

I have been extremely remiss in not writing about the Avett Brothers show we saw earlier this year in Gainesville, Florida.



Thanks to a tip from my old pal Curtis, I had already started listening to Emotionalism pretty obsessively as early as February of this year, but their studio work left me completely unprepared for the live show. Raucous bluegrass hoedown, indeed. Although this year's release, The Second Gleam, left me a little bit cold, this particular track is just so sweet and family-oriented, it melts me every time.



3. Fools - The Dodo's



This is another twitchy genre mash-up that I found completely impossible not to listen to over and over again earlier this year. They may be sweaty, but they sure can put together four-plus minutes of music.

4. Bleeding All Over You - Martha Wainwright

The song doesn't start until about three and a half minutes into the clip, but it's worth it. Something about her music is so classic and timeless, a little Rickie Lee, a little Neko Case, a little twang, and a lot of bitter cynical melancholy. And we all need that sometimes, right?



5. Here's the Thing - Girl Talk

In the interest of ending this on an upbeat note (with a positive jam), and because it is so damned well-deserved, a little slice of genius from the brilliant minds at the Case Western Reserve University bioengineering department:

Siren Fest Mix!

It's that time of year again. Woohoo, tomorrow's Siren Fest! Great, free music at Coney Island all day. Did I mention it's FREE? Get ready to endure the heat (forecast says it's gonna hit 94!) and the hipsters (I can spot those plastic, neon shades already) because it will be so totally worth it! Check out that line-up and our accompanying mix:

7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
Gardenia - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Can't Say No - The Helio Sequence
Creeper - Islands
Heart of Chambers - Beach House
Dying is Fine - Ra Ra Riot
Bats Over the Pacific Ocean - Jaguar Love
Drop-Out - Times New Viking
Dry Clothes - Annuals
Red And Purple - The Dodos
Dear Me - Film School
Nowheres Nigh - Parts & Labor
Chipping Ice - These Are Powers
Get Off - Dragons of Zynth

"You're a victim of your cautiousness"

It's been an unseasonably cold and rainy spring in New York. I ran out on my lunch hour today and trekked three blocks without an umbrella, in need of a little musical retail therapy to cure my seasonal blahs. Among the albums I bought was The Dodos' "Visiter." I like it. It sounds a lot like the way I felt prior to buying it--prickly, melancholy, and a little wounded. Think skeletal acoustic melodies, with an Animal Collective-like freneticness, but minus the squawking.

Winter - The Dodos
Red and Purple - The Dodos