PAUL HARTNOLL FEAT. ROBERT SMITH - Please

I can't fully endorse this release from the guy from orbital, I don't know that I really knew them when they were around, but it has robert smith on vocals, and I was thinking about Connor Oberst and how I really thought, "I don't know if he knows it, but this is the Cure, vocally anyway." Of course he knew, in fact he loved the cure...but when I left that world of the cure and morrissey, I just thought it was completely forgotten, but of course people grew up with them. I think I'm suprised they actually influenced someone musically. I took a serious listen to these albums again, and I'm glad they rereleased them.
Plus I have been listening to the hell out of the cure peel sessions, everytime it comes up. They are so about that time, and I try to think about playing that now, of actually going into a studio to record those songs. Before you know that you are good, before you've sold out arena's. That's when it's really amazing.

PAUL HARTNOLL FEAT. ROBERT SMITH - Please
KIDS - 7"
Here's a collaboration you probably didn't see coming. A post-Orbital Paul Hartnoll taking on some swish, anthemic electronica with vocal accompaniment from The Cure's Robert Smith. The result is a surprisingly organic meeting of two artists with rather different backgrounds. Smith's vocals glide with a characteristic, warm sense of melodrama that makes for a very human, expressive counterbalance to the staunchly mechanised backing track supplied by Hartnoll. This 7' version comes with a Culprit 1 remix that preserves Smith's vocal and reinforces it with an epic helping of emo-electronics.

emo-electronics...that's awesome.

On Boomkat.

A Weather - team love records

A Weather - Feather Test 7" (Team Love)
The Feather Test / One More One Night Stand

If you feel like me and on a crazy rainy weekend and can go for some quiet slowcore acoustic guitars and a couple layers of vocals, elliot smith style, than this is seriously perfect for you. I already listened to their myspace tracks a million times. They also throw in slide guitar and a real slow almost bedhead feel. There's some really nice things happening with girl guy harmonies and then they go back and forth.
I'm skeptical, how much of this kind of music can I like, but they won me over quick. There's a million harmony's and really nice acoustic guitar. This is what I thought Connor Oberst's Team Love would be like, they are off to an amazing start.

This is easily obtained from Saddle Creek, I immediately placed an order.

A Weather, a Portland based band, consists of a shifting collection of friends. Aaron Gerber writes most of the songs and sings on a lot of them. Zoë Wright, and Sarah Winchester also sing a good deal of the time. Zach Boyle, who used to be in Super XX Man, plays electric guitar. Contributors include Aaron Krenkel of the band Exploration Team and Lou Thomas of the band Chores.