The Drums

God I love songs about love.

Is the best part of heartbreak & loving someone being able to listen to those songs that just hit home so hard? Well if you say yes The Drums out of Brooklyn NYC dropped their full-length release today and lets just say I'm feelin it!

It would be pretty annoying of me to post 90% of the album, so I narrowed it down to my sneak peek pick which is Forever and Ever Amen. And by typical 'Your New Neighbor' style, below is a remix by Saint Etienne that's currently circulating the Londontown scene.

The Drums - Forever and Ever Amen

The Drums - Forever And Ever Amen (Saint Etienne Remix)

TO DOWNLOAD: Click the link(s) above & then click the 'Download' link in the top right corner of the box.net web page that appears.

Sleigh Bells

I have to agree with Pitchfork:

"If you're half awake get ready to be wide awake. "Tell 'Em" is the first track from 2010's promising purveyors of all things loud and pop, Sleigh Bells. Fair warning: This thing will rumble your insides if played at high volumes, i.e. the more of those tiny boxes on your laptop screen are white, the better it sounds."

Sleigh Bells - Tell em

Broken Bells

Broken Bells is a collaboration between Danger Mouse (artist/producer) & James Mercer (lead vocalist and guitarist for The Shins). The two first met at a Danish music festival in 2004, and decided to collaborate. All good love stories are staged in Denmark. It took until March 2008, however, when the two began recording together in secret in Mercer's LA studio. Their self-tilted album was released exactly two years later, in March of this year.

A few Broken Bells tracks have massaged my ears since January, but none caught my attention as quickly as these two. Enjoy.

Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside

Broken Bells - The High Road