1 MUM Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know Euphono
2 A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW Ashes Grammar Mis Ojos Discos
3 MOUNT EERIE Wind’s Poem P.W. Elverum And Sun
4 LE LOUP Family Hardly Art
5 WHY? Eskimo Snow Anticon
6 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk Shangri-La
7 VIVIAN GIRLS Everything Goes Wrong In The Red
8 VOLCANO CHOIR Unmap Jagjaguwar
9 JAY REATARD Watch Me Fall Matador
10 TAKEN BY TREES East Of Eden Rough Trade
11 ISLANDS Vapours Anti
12 ROSE MELBERG Homemade Ship K
13 DARLINGS Yeah, I Know Famous Class
14 YO LA TENGO Popular Songs Matador
15 SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE Diary Sub Pop-SUB POP
16 BOX ELDERS Alice And Friends Goner
17 HELADO NEGRO Awe Owe Asthmatic Kitty
18 DODOS Time To Die Frenchkiss
19 GANGLIANS Monster Head Room Woodsist
20 DESOLATION WILDERNESS New Universe K
21 OS MUTANTES Haih Or Amortecedor Epitaph-Anti
22 VARIOUS ARTISTS Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009 Strut
23 FOREIGN BORN Person To Person Secretly Canadian
24 DARK MEAT When The Shelter Came [EP] Emergency Umbrella
25 SIGNER Next We Bring You The Fire Carpark
26 BEATINGS Late Season Kids Midriff
27 BIG PINK A Brief History Of Love 4AD
28 TURBO FRUITS Echo Kid Fat Possum
29 FANFARLO Reservoir Self-Released
30 WILD BEASTS Two Dancers Domino

Thanks everyone who dropped by to say “hi” at the Arlington Street Fair this past Saturday!

9/22

WVKR is proud to present the world premiere EP from Chicago scenestars Yawn.

Don’t let the name confuse you, Yawn’s self-titled EP has plenty of adrenaline staunching beats to set your night spinning at high RPM’s.  The sound is eclectic, mixing West African guitar clefs, junky world loops, sparkling keyboard delays and concussive tom attacks into a groundwork of psychadelic rock bliss with enough ins and outs to satisfy even the most jaded auditor.  Not to mention the vocals.  Their myspace lists the group as, among other things, gospel, and this is certainly borne out in the spiritually charged interlacing of vocal ability.  On “David,” putative front man Adam Gil sings with swooping intonation — admirably aping Avey Tare — while bassist / keyboard player Sam Wolf provides faded a cappella backup and a hymnal byte loops.  Drawing comparisons to Animal Collective  and El Guincho (mostly from me), the group walks a very narrow path, producing a concatenation of sound that somehow operates harmoniously while not sounding derivative.

Download the full EP (5 tracks) @ yawntheband.com