Welcome to another Bleep update for early May, with a right mix of stuff all worthy of your attention and listening time. Instead of splitting the list into categories, we’ve added some simple genre tags next to each release. Lazy categorisation maybe/definitely, but it helps you find what you want. Clicking on links will take you to the release on Bleep where you can listen – the player will stop after 30 seconds, click the little ‘play’ icon again to continue (or click anywhere on the waveform). Any questions or feedback – info@bleep.com

Some excellent new releases worthy of your attention from the label that brought us The Go!Team and The Pipettes. El Perro Del Mar is a girl from Sweden called Sarah who went to a Spanish island in 2003 to sit on the beach and try to unlock the songs she had in her head. On the beach every momrning, she saw a dog walking past that somehow reinvigorated her and inspired her to write this collection of songs that hark back to the Brill Building era, the youthful emotions of Goffin and King. El Perro Del Mar (a tribute to the salty sea dog) is a minimal sound, an acoustic wash, a boom of tympani, some rippling chimes, kind of a lo-fi Phil Spector production. Totally beautiful and highly recommended

Hailing from the same celebrated Newcastle scene that spawned The Futureheads and Maximo Park, Field Music are totally different in sound, more cerebral with short, concise, harmonised songs that (to these ears) recall late Beatles, ELO or Supertramp - "Like Wire arranged by the Beach Boys" according to Uncut. ‘Write Your Own History’ is a collection of b sides and rarities - in effect telling the story of the Brewis' brothers previous bands Electronic Eye Machine and The New Tellers. “An almost baroque sense of minimalism and harmony, as though The Neptunes had become indie-pop producers" Uncut.

New releases from the seminal Chicago label, home to Tortoise, Radian and more.
Eleventh Dream Day (Rick Rizzo, Janet Beveridge Bean of Freakwater, Doug McCombs of Tortoise, and assisted by John McEntire and Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan) return to the limelight with their first new record in six years. “Zeroes and Ones” finds them still at the top of their game, wielding twelve new fierce guitar workouts. Also just out are two new records from punk godfather Tom Verlaine of seminal band Television. "Songs and Other Things" is a record of pop songs that echo the soaring guitar and poetic lyricism of his past efforts, whereas "Around" is an instrumental affair; made up of improvised nods to postwar noir film scores, and a kind of sequel to his 1992 effort, Warm and Cool, re-issued last year.

Sno Angel is a new project from Howe Gelb, recording and touring with a full gospel choir and ‘Like You’ is the name of the album. "But this is not gospel music, in theme or in content. Howe describes the album’s goal: “it was a grand experiment to see if we could mesh the sounds of the muck I make with the dizzying effect of the glorious sound the choir makes.”
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