New MS MR song Painted

MS MR have given us the first indication of their forthcoming album in the form of the new, high-energy, catchy pop tune "Painted".

Give it a listen:

Pic from Facebook.

The Top 20: The best albums of 2013, according to me. The year's most awesome and cool pop, indie, and alternative albums.

As has become my habit, I'm not ranking my albums list. These are the 20 albums that made the biggest impression on me in 2013, alphabetically.

1984 Influenza

Biffy Clyro Opposites

Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe

Cults Static

Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart

Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse

Haim Days Are Gone

Lorde Pure Heroine

Metz Metz

MS MR Secondhand Rapture

Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals

Small Black Limits of Desire

Superchunk I Hate Music

Telekinesis Dormarion

The Darcys Warring

The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law

The Naked And Famous In Rolling Waves

The National Trouble Will Find Me

Young Galaxy Ultramarine

MS MR and Wildcat! Wildcat! at The Phoenix in Toronto

MR MR hit up the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto with Wildcat! Wildcat! on September 17. They're touring behind their début full-length album Secondhand Rapture.

I put up a few posts (1, 2, 3) on these guys, starting back in December of last year and was happy to take the opportunity to check them out live.

Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow have a bassist/keyboardist and drummer with them on tour to provide a more "live" sound and band dynamic on stage. It serves them well as they present their fun tunes. Lizzy's day-glo green hair and groovy moves combine with the other band members' energy to create a fun show. Max even breaks free of the keyboard to bust some moves on a couple of occasions.

They played pretty much all of Secondhand Rapture, saving "Hurricane" for the big ending. We can add them to the list of bands whose last song is actually their last song. No encores here. For now.

For your listening and dancing pleasure, here is a trio of tunes from Secondhand Rapture, starting with my current favourite, "Think of You".

"Fantasy"

"Hurricane"

Love the Animotion keyboards in this Chvrches remix of "Hurricane".

Now they didn't play this track at the show, but I found it while searching through old saved-for-later stuff and thought I'd share it.

Wildcat! Wildcat! did a good job opening the show with their mellow tunes and high harmonies. They have a very current sound which should do them well. I personally could use some more up-beat and energetic tunes in the mix.

Their début EP was released September 10. Check it out below.



And here's the video for "Mr. Quiche".

I took the pictures in this post. I wish I had taken the last MS MR picture with my good camera rather than my iPod Touch, but, what can you do?

New video by MS MR - Hurricane

MS MR's début album is coming out May 14. It's called Secondhand Rapture. Here's a track that I posted before, that now has an official video. The tune is "Hurricane".

Cool new one from Ms Mr called Fantasy

I put up a post about Ms Mr before. Now they've put out a new song from their forthcoming album. This song's called "Fantasy" and their début full-length album is out May 14.

MS MR

Cool, groovy, easy to listen to tunes by MS MR.

Check out the upbeat "Hurricane", the piano tinged and tom-tom laden "Bones", the downtempo and luxurious "Dark Doo Wop", and the moody "Ash Tree Lane". They're all from the Candy Bar Creep Show EP.