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Brookville, the side-project for Ivy’s Andy Chase, will be playing three shows in New York in the next few weeks, including one TONIGHT at Park Slope’s Union Hall.

Next week there will be TWO chances to see the band, including a very special show on Tuesday, December 16 at Arlene’s Grocery with Lana Mir and Grey Race.

Dec 11 New York, NY @ Union Hall
Dec 16 New York, NY @ Arlene’s Grocery w/ Lana Mir
Dec 19 New York, NY @ Rockwood

Brookville - “Golden” [DOWNLOAD]

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The Postmarks played at the Anti*Pop Festival in Orlando this past weekend at a show with Au Revoir Simone and Rachel Goodrich, and today their cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “One Note Samba” was featured on NPR’s Second Stage and in their All Songs Considered email.

You can hear “One Note Samba” on the Second Stage podcast here.

You can also download a free ringtone for “Goodbye,” off the Postmarks 2007 self-titled record, right here.

More from The Postmarks at Myxer

And of course, the band has a new video for their November By-The-Numbers song, “11:59.”

 
 
 

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: By-The-Numbers
Label: Unfiltered
Street Date: November 11, 2008

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It may only be mid-November, but if you’re one of those who does best-of lists, you’ve probably already started thinking about everything that’s come out. World’s Fair has had a big year in 2008, with releases from all our labels. Here they are, in chronological order.

British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music (Rough Trade)
“Listening is like riding a beast; BSP’s unvarnished, delightfully meandering anthems sound larger than life. Bring on foliage and military uniforms, lads, we’re prepared to salute…” - The Los Angeles Times, Buzz Bands

“The glorious sound of a unique band going for broke….” - The Guardian (4/5 stars)

DOWNLOAD “Waving Flags”

The Autumns: Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys (Bella Union)
“Los Angeles’ the Autumns have been a reliable source of brooding, dreamy pop since 1994, appealing to fans of shoegazers like Cocteau Twins and goth titans the Cure. For their fourth full-length, founders Matthew Kelly and Frankie Koroshec have sharpened their teeth and made some decidedly authentic noise. ‘Boys’ signals newfound aggression for these underground darlings.” - Chicago Sun Times

“Succulent dream pop collides with fast and racy indie rock.” – Exclaim

DOWNLOAD “Boys”

Daptone 7″ Singles Collection, Vol. 2 (Daptone Records)
“Few top Brooklyn’s R&B champs Daptone Records, which compiles the cream of its DJ-friendly 45s for a second volume of the label’s Singles Collection. The reverb is delicious and soulful (Lee Fields’ ‘Could Have Been’), the guitars snarl (The Mighty Imperials’ ‘The Matador’) and everything grooves.” - RELIX

“From start to finish, this compilation of rarities represents first-rate soul music.” - UR Chicago (4.5/5)

DOWNLOAD Charles Bradley & The Bullets’ “Now That I’m Gone”
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Cover records have been done before, but hardly with the unique direction that By-The-Numbers, the newest music from indie-pop darlings, The Postmarks (out 11/11 on Unfiltered), takes. No mere collection of favorites or inspirations, the tracks on the record are united not only by their ability to meld to Tim Yehezkely’s breathy vocals and Christopher Moll and Jonathan Wilkins’ lush arrangements, but also by the fact that their titles consecutively climb from one to eleven – the twelfth song is cleverly left for the Pointer Sisters’ “Pinball Number Count,” made popular by Sesame Street. It’s a calendar’s worth of material that traverses everything from the Cure (“Six Different Ways”) to the Jesus and Mary Chain (“Nine Million Rainy Days”) to the Ramones (“7-11”) to Antonio Carlos Jobim (“One Note Samba”).

Despite the diversity of the originals, each rendition fully encapsulates The Postmarks’ sound, a sound that has only continued to develop and deepen since their 2007 self-titled release, an album that has quickly established the trio as a hometown favorite and crush band to fans worldwide. These same elements, the love of lush John-Barry-esque arrangements, the attention to detail, and the willingness to constantly push forward and expand, all came into play in By-The-Numbers.

No better example of this can be found than in their take on “11:59,” from Blondie’s 1978 classic Parallel Lines. The track was, according to Moll, “one of the most difficult to do,” because the band had no desire to sound like they were trying to do new wave. They don’t: The Postmarks’ version contains the important elements of the original – the faintly apocalyptic feel, the bouncy drums – and it’s a darker edge the group is willingly embracing; yet there’s still the casual Brigitte Bardot airiness that surrounds their production, the sunniness of Southern Florida or France.

DOWNLOAD The Postmarks’ “11:59″ here

With the gorgeous instrumentals and delicate sadness the band is known for, By-The-Numbers not only is itself a satisfyingly complete Postmarks album, it also alludes at what’s to come. There’s a darkness that still retains a warmth, a full range of emotion held in the spaces between words, alluring and mysterious and innocent and utterly beautiful all at once.

For all you Floridians, don’t miss your chance to see the band live this Saturday at Orlando’s ANTI*POP Festival. The trio is playing a show on Saturday, November 15 with Rachel Goodrich and Au Revoir Simone (Conor Oberst and the Mystic River Band, The Watson Twins, The Black Lips, Murs, and Matt Costa will also all be at the festival).

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The Postmarks’ new record, By-The-Numbers, is coming out next week, on 11/11 (there’s something rather wonderfully synchronicitous about that), and Stereogum, arbiters of good taste, premiered the video for their cover of Blondie’s “11:59.”

The video was directed by none other than the Postmarks very own Jonathan Wilkins. You, of course, can check it out here.

Download the track to hoard and keep forever (or at least until your hard drive crashes) here:
“11:59″ (from By-The-Numbers)

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: By-The-Numbers
Label: Unfiltered
Street Date: November 11, 2008

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Last Wednesday, the good people at Stereogum released “11:59″ in the ‘Gum Drop, their free weekly newsletter. This track is, of course, the Miami band’s version of the Blondie classic, and is off their forth-coming record By-The-Numbers. The album, a collection of covers whose titles consecutively climb from one to eleven (the twelfth song is cleverly left for the Pointer Sisters’ “Pinball Number Count”), comes out on November 11, courtesy of Unfiltered Records.

As the band’s Christopher Moll said to Stereogum about the song: “It was a bit of a trick. We didn’t want it to sound new wave … we had already established an overall sound on the album that was essentially ‘us’ and we had to find a way to translate the energy level in that song into something that worked within our universe. We think it works … it has this frantic quality that I would expect from a band making music about the last few minutes on Earth.”

Check out (and download) the song for yourself here.

By-The-Numbers tracklisting
One Note Samba
You Only Live Twice
Three Little Birds
Ox4
Five Years
Six Different Ways
7-11
Eight Miles High
Nine Million Rainy Days
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
11:59
Pinball Number Count

Artist: The Postmarks
Album: By-The-Numbers
Label: Unfiltered
Street Date: November 11, 2008

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