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The Fresh Sounds Podcast takes you around the world in five songs. Short reviews, song samples and a fair share of banter. Your hosts Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab are avid music zealots searching the domestic and global indie universe for their favorite songs. The Fresh Sounds podcast isn’t an algorithm, it’s two great old friends keen to share great music with listeners worldwide.
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This week's show covers new music from Catalonia’s Rosalía, from Malian guitarist and singer Vieux Farka Touré backed up by Houston’s Khruangbin, a new tune from Durham, NC’s The Mountain Goats, and Cambridge, England’s Anish Kumar. For the archive track this week, Brendan whips out a favorite from <checks notes> 14 years ago, from Melbourne’s Cut Copy. This is perhaps their signature song, “Lights & Music,” expertly produced by Tim Goldsworthy, then affiliated with DFA Records...
This week's show covers new music from Cambridgeshire’s SBTRKT, Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Kathryn Williams, London’s Jessie Ware, and West London’s George Riley. For the archive track this week, Mark breaks out of our recent ‘90s fixation with a tune from the aughts, 2007 in fact. Off to Paris for the Michael Jackson besotted “D.A.N.C.E” by the one and only Justice. (They soundtrack that electric Volvo XC 60 ad too, though with a different tune.) Yes, time is a flat circle and music from 200...
This week's show covers new music from London’s Hot Chip, Brighton’s Wax Machine, a collaboration between Chicago’s Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and the team-up of Paris’s Biche with the LA band Pearl & The Oysters. For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1992 for some mutant hardcore punk on the melodic side of that scene. This band was signed to Sub Pop Records at the time, which was about the best indie label on the scene in those days. The track in question is by t...
This week's show covers new music from Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens, London’s Two Shell, Brooklyn’s Mice Parade, and Toronto’s Alvvays. For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1994 for a slice of what was called slowcore back in the day, from a California band who went as Idaho. The song in question is entitled “Sweep,” from the band’s This Way Out album. Not the happiest lyrics, but slowcore was generally known for that sort of somber songwriting. (Brendan considers this genre t...
This week's show covers new music from Nashville’s Soccer Mommy, Hamburg’s Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Detroit’s Omar-S with Supercoolwicked on vocals, and Brisbane’s Moses Gunn Collective. For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1996 for a slice of melodic grunge track from Ash, a band from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. If you know of Ash, you will probably know this tune, as it was a Number 5 hit on the UK Top Ten that summer. It’s a quiet-loud-quiet 1990s tune; wh...
This week's show covers new music from Bristol’s Ishmael Ensemble, remixed by Medlar, London’s Sports Team, and while we are there, a new tune from Dry Cleaning, and similar from LA’s MUNA. For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1993 for a slice of electronic music from the Scottish act Finitribe. This song’s title is “An Unexpected Groovy Treat” and it sits right on the line between industrial music and the influence of early acid house. Sampling was primitive, but an integr...
This week's show covers new music from NYC’s Grace Ives, a new track from London’s Greentea Peng, some fusion electronics from The Range, and a new collaborative single between West London’s Lava La Rue and Cork, Ireland’s Biig Piig. For the archive track this week, Brendan takes us back to 1992 to the debut album from Aphex Twin, for what used to be called “ambient techno.” The song here is the undying “Xtal,” which one could argue put Richard D. James on the map as one of the key prod...
This week's show covers new music from the French band Phoenix, from a new synthpop project from Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar, called Au Suisse, a track that blends Dap Tone retro with Bollywood and Turkish elements from the pairing of El Michels Affair and Piya Malik, and a soulful new reggae cut from Horace Andy. For the archive track this week, Mark is heading back to 1993 and the debut album by Porno For Pyros, and “Cursed Female.” This was Perry Farrell’s attempt to move beyond Jan...
This week's show covers new music from a duet between the French producers Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, and LA R&B artist Sunni Colón. Next, some noisy dreampop from Ireland’s Just Mustard. We also feature a new track from London’s KH, which is Four Tet’s name when releasing dance bangers, and some spooky jazz from Britain’s The Natural Yogurt Band. For the archive track this week, Brendan honored Andy Fletcher, the recently departed member of Depeche Mode, with perhaps that band’s sign...
This week's show covers new music from a duet between Nigeria’s Obongjayar and British jazz musician Nubya Garcia, a new Daphni tune, a song from Morocco’s Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul, and a new song from Ghost Power, which features Tim Gane, a founder of Stereolab back in the 1990s. For the archive track this week, Mark selects a song from the New York City-based instrumental, post-rock act that goes as Mice Parade. Our song is entitled “Mystery Brethren” from the band’s ...
This week's show covers new music from Athens, Greece’s Σtella from her new Redinho-produced album, London’s The Hics, Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers, and the team of Danger Mouse and Black Thought, of The Roots. Brendan took us back to November of 1980 for this week’s archive pick, an early blast from the goth rock cannon. Yes, a non-album single later added to In the Flat Field from Bauhaus—the original goth rockers, if you ask him. “Dark Entries” is the track. Of course, th...
This week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes, LA transplant Carly Rae Jepsen, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and London’s Steak. Mark plucked this week’s jewel from the Fresh Sounds Music Archive. This time, it is another Aussie band: Empire of the Sun, from the hit album Walking On A Dream, which came out in 2009. Despite hit after hit on this record, they never really crossed over here in the USA. But the tunes still resonate, thirteen years later. Of course, there...
This week's show covers new music from Ghent’s Bolis Pupul, Aix-en-Provence’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, London’s Sault, and Oakland’s Hazel English. For the archive pick this week, Brendan went back to 1989 for the debut single from Inner City, the duo of Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey. Saunderson is, of course, one of the legendary Belleville Three, the originators of Detroit Techno, a still-vibrant and enduring sound that created a parallel to Chicago’s house music. Even 33 years later, ...
This week's show covers new music from Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo, Virginia Beach’s Pusha T, a Penelope Isles track remixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, and some new post-punk from Portland, Oregon’s Soft Kill. For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off an excellent mashup of the late Ranking Roger doing his thing over and with The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah.” Two great artists blended in a dubby, reggae-esque vibe. <Chef’s kiss> Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you ...
This week's show covers new music from Brisbane’s Hatchie, the excellent pairing of LA’s Mykki Blanco and Michael Stipe--of R.E.M. fame!--, a bit of techno from one of the two new albums from Stockholm’s Axel Boman, and some excellent music from Bremen’s Saâda Bonaire. For the archive pick this week, Brendan takes us back to 1978 for soul/funk gem from a band called Leo’s Sunshipp. We sample “Give Me The Sunshine,” a warm-weather jam that prefigures g-funk by a good fifteen years.&...
This week's show covers new music from London’s Jamie xx, Brooklyn’s Boyish, a film soundtrack by Pennsylvania’s Alex G, and a track from the debut album by London’s Walt Disco.For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off a 1989 gem from the Glaswegian band Deacon Blue. This is Scottish uptempo soul pop from an ‘80s band, which is always a fun thing to find via the time machine. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. I...
This week's show covers new music from Boston’s Cave In, London’s Kit Sebastian, Brisbane’s Confidence Man, and a great new single from Athens-based Σtella with an assist from London’s Redinho. For the archive pick this week, Brendan digs up some liquid fire from side one of Super Session. That record came out in the summer of 1968, and it features the work of keyboard ace Al Kooper and former Electric Flag guitar maestro Mike Blookfield. (On side two, Stephen Stills plays the guitars, b...
This week's show covers new music from LA’s Sudan Archives, a new single from Britain’s Yungblud, a great tune from Detroit’s Elzhi, produced by LA’s Georgia Anne Muldrow, and a hot tune from London’s Ibibio Sound Machine.For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a lost gem from Berkeley, CA-based Darondo that was released in 1973, called “Didn’t I.” This is a bohemian soul number, with dynamite vocals and an unexpected lead violin melody. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, ...
This week's show covers new music from Barcelona’s Rosalía, with an assist from The Weeknd, a new single from Amsterdam’s Weval, a deep cut from the new album by Christchurch, New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma, and a new single from London’s Robohands with vocals by Aleh. For the archive pick this week, Brendan sends us back to 1990 for a lost cut, that appeared right before Seattle turned into the grunge capital of the world. Mother Love Bone was the band, and the song in question is rockin’ rip...
This week's show covers new music from an LA and NYC combo, of American Dance Ghosts and Baltra, a new dance banger from NYC’s Doss, a lounge-y new track from Austin’s Flyjack and London’s Scrimshire, and some new indie rock from Philly’s The Districts. For the archive pick this week, Mark is heading back to 1995, and to the second volume in the late rapper Guru’s Jazzmatazz series. This is the sort of jazz-infused rap that Guru and Gang Starr before Guru went solo were known for, which ...
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