First: Foster The People has announced their sophomore album Supermodel, to be released March 18. It is available for pre-order right now, and their first single "Coming Of Age" (free download with pre-orders) is out. Here's the promotional video (with the full song), which you should watch because it's pretty neat (a time lapse video of the painting of a gigantic wall mural, which is the album's cover):
The song is great. Foster The People is one of the bands I've been most excited to hear from again, and I'm really excited that 2014 is going to be the year. The song has everything that Torches had, but it's not duplicative. It makes me remember why I fell in love with this band.
Second: Broken Bells, who will be releasing their second full album next month, continue to give us snippets of their new material. Hot on the heels of their album's lead single "Holding On For Life," the band has shared a second single, the album's title track. "After The Disco" picks up right where "Holding On For Life" leaves off, with a throwback synth-drum rhythm and James Mercer's vexing falsetto cutting over the top. It's cool. Check it out.
But as if that weren't enough, Broken Bells has given us a third new song in a "Take Away Show" for La Blogothèque. Blogothèque recruits interesting acts to perform their music live in unorthodox locations (check out this one and this one to get a sense of how they work). This one is a song called "The Changing Lights" in a piano shop in Paris.
So, that's fun. Two very exciting albums are headed our way in the coming weeks and months, and I'm thrilled by what I am hearing of each so far. 2014 promised to please, and so far it does not disappoint.
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