Another label that can seemingly do no wrong is Bloomington, IN’s Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar collective. A record that (if I had heard it last year) would have been in contention for my year-end best of list is The Crawl from Chicagoan Dave Fischoff. It is essentially an orchestral indie-pop album that has been obscured and populated by relatively obscure samples taken from the Chicago Public Library sound collection. Catchy and melodic in a strange way that interestingly (really) evokes The Beach Boys and (of course) Dntel and The Postal Service. It is a superb cut-and-paste sound collage of skittering hip-hop beats and electronic pop that you really need to hear to believe.

MP3 | Dave Fischoff – Ghost Of An Afternoon The Crawl
MP3 | Dave Fischoff – Landscape Skin The Crawl

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