Russian Red - Agent Cooper

She's my secret love since 2008 with I Love Your Glasses. She's probably my favourite spanish artist, and I mean it. I've been living in Spain since 2003 and I don't listent to anything but her. It's probably that the nice indie comes always from the brit zone and the U.S. coasts.
So I woke up the other day, went to Spotify and saw a big banner. Agent Cooper is now available from Russian Red. I said, fuck yeah, finally. It's a surprise how different it is from the first two albums, it's less folk and more indie pop. It's also a surprise how much I love it. But that shouldn't be a fact, I probably would love anything she'd throw at me. She's that good. I'm actually listening to it right now. So that's that. Fucking love her.

Agent Cooper on Spotify

Best Album of 2013

Happy New Year guys, I hope you all won't quit you resolutions plans too soon. But we'll still enjoy good music. Yep, the year has ended. I've been waiting for it, like a year. Didn't start great, wasn't the best, but now it's over. Let's hope we all get lucky this time.
But we had little awesome moments in 2013. Like pop music turning inside out and upside down, with a young girl stepping out to the world. We probably all have heard Royals... I did, and... it was ok. I mean, it's nice to have something different now a days. But I decided to give it a chance so I got the whole album. And I was amazed. I don't like pop, but she got me. Every song is an experience. Of course I love Ribs the most, but it's just brilliant. I hope you give it a chance to the whole album.

Pure Heroine on Spotify

Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

The mother we share will never keep me from listening to this gold craft of everlasting enlightenment. Despite it may be another mainstream synth pop band, I just find it so awesome. In fact it may be almost the only one thing I've been listening to this week(s).

Hey, enjoy it. Because you will.
Chvrches on Spotify

HAIM - Days Are Gone

Let's forget about my random appearances and focus on good stuff... good music. You know, I kinda miss those days when you meet someone or just a good friend of you says "hey, have you ever heard this band?" Those are the times when you feel like... that's why I have friends for. But now with all these recommendations everywhere... Spotify, iTunes, Last.fm, etc... you loose that special moment of joy, excitement and... I don't know... surprise... incomprehensive delusion... yeah... let's throw on random words to pretend I know English. 

Anyway... I know HAIM because of Spotify... ok? Don't judge me. I wish I had friends who listen to this stuff, who actually talk to me about music. So I'm here to talk to you. And HAIM deserves to be talked about. Three girls and incredible talent, makes a wonderful diamond-flashy-light-pure-gold of an indie pop album. Just enjoy... ok? Who am I kidding..? You probably already know them.

By the way... don't bother with the new Arctic Monkeys album... Turner fell into a cycle of productivity going to a dead end... I hope he actually get himself to write new stuff that won't sound like the same song from the last two albums.

Sigur Ros - Takk...

What are you saying? This band is not indie? Pff... what do you know about indie. Actually this post-rock band has more indie than you might think. Maybe this is not their most indie album, but this is the one that changed my life. After discovering Radiohead I thought there's no way I could find something that makes me feel so great of having discovered it. (does that make sense?) You know what I mean. Sigur Ros is awesome. Yes. That's it. Oh and they write stuff in icelandic which makes correcting the spelling of the song titles a pain in the ass. But it's worth it!

Make love listening to this!

Bombay Bicycle Club

It's the first time i don't know which album choose. So I choose them all.
It's been a long time since I discovered these guys, and it was not until yesterday I actually considered having them on my iTunes. I realized that this band has many sounds, one for each album. Being the first one kind of freewill, looking for what they want to do. Flaws, the second one is kind of romantic-comedy-drama soundtrack and the last one, A Different Kind of Fix is more serious, solid. But they are all great. So if you were living under a rock and don't know this band, stop wasting you're time.

There's a few more bands I discovered this week. I'll get to that later. Starting with Sigur Ros.

The Anthem Sound - 4 Songs EP

These guys probably don't fit in this blog, but I thought I should share them with you. It's really sad that 4 songs is everything they have so far. 4 songs EP,  that's the actual title of the EP. It's a short 16 minute experience you shouldn't miss. C'mon... 16 minutes... make me happy... listen to this EP. It's complicated to find, but it's available on Spotify (actually it's easy enough).

4 Songs EP on Spotify