You Have Found A Home

2010 is already shaping up to be quite formidable for new releases.  Two months in and the young year has already graced us with albums that seek to force their respective (and at times staid) genres into new territory, by artists like composer Daníel Bjarnason, orch-pop maestro Owen Pallet, minimalist jazz groovers Jaga Jazzist & the schismatic noise-pop of Night Control.  2010 has also served to display the power still latent in old forms when their potential is realized, as can be heard in the mondo-garage of White Mystery, the jangle-pop of The Art Museums and Fake Fictions, and the synthscapes of Robert AA Lowe.

Thus, the first entry in The Friends Of Modern Music’s weekly series Monday Mixtown: a retrospective of new music I’ve enjoyed from the first two months of 2010.  The mix is available both as a downloadable zipped file or as a stream, both of which are below. Full tracklist below the jump.

download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mxmtexz3gzg

stream :

Tracklist:

1. Robert AA Lowe & Rose Lazar – Fantomoj de la Vitro Domo (from the Thrill Jockey release Eclipses)

2. The Art Museums – Oh Modern Girls (from the Woodsist release Rough Frame)

3. The Fake Fictions – Parallel World (from their free, self-released swan song Magic Infinity)

4. Parenthetical Girls – Evelyn McHale (from the Slender Means Society release Privilege, Part One: On Death & Endearments)

5. Harlem – Pissed (from the Matador release Hippies)

6. Jaga Jazzist – Prognissekongen (from the Ninja Tune release One-Armed Bandit)

7. AFCGT – New Punk 27 (from the Sub Pop release AFCGT)

8. That’s The Wizard That Stole My Powers – Forget Everything I Just Said (from their free, downloadable e-release I Shelve You, Ornament)

9. White Mystery – White Widow (from  their self-released LP White Mystery)

10. Night Control – Take Apart (from the Kill Shaman release Life Control)

11. Owen Pallett – Flare Gun (from the Domino release Heartland)

12. Daníel Bjarnason – Processions III. Red-handed (from the Bedroom Community release Processions)

13. Bonus Cut