Peter Cat Recording Co. unveiled their first record in five years with footage of a herd of elephants feasting on an edible arrangement of the album announcement. The multifarious New Delhi collective devours genres with similar aplomb, taking nibbles from psychedelia, indie-rock, pop, jazz, and more on Beta. The album, the band said in press materials, is “a collection of stories about the future told 50 years in the past, to make sense of the present, on our only home, planet Earth.”
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Google Earth, James Riotto & John Vanderslice: Street View [Tiny Telephone]
John Vanderslice and James Riotto are Google Earth, an electronic duo whose synth fantasias are otherworldly yet murkily tactile, like a crystalline dream of a 1980s warehouse party. In press materials, Riotto said of their debut album, Street View, “John and I have been friends and collaborators for a long time now, but this record feels really different because it’s sort of a culmination of years of pushing each other into more abstract electronic palettes.” The results put jazz chops in service of winding, synth-driven compositions with lyrics attuned to mortality and melancholy.
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Belong: Realistic IX [Kranky]
Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich murmur back to life for their third album as Belong, Realistic IX. The Kranky duo merges shoegaze and noise-rock in a gauze of smoggy distortion on their follow-up to 2011’s Common Era, letting subterranean earworms wriggle up through your subconscious.
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