Tiny Masters of Today – “Skeletons” From the forthcoming Skeletons LP, out 6/16 on Mute.

Suckers - “It Gets Your Body Movin’ (Alternate Version)” That pressure, that push that I give on the steering wheel. You know the one where you kind of push it away from you, you make your arms straight, to kind of feel the strength of the car and stretch your arms out to show you're tired of driving. I do that a lot. And that is actually putting pressure on the recliner of the seat, since it can also go back if you want it to. I'm doing 160, I know I shouldn't be, it's 5am, I'm rushing home to I forget what, trying to hold open my eyelids with inertia, out of coffee and I can see the deep colour of the sky swelling with a sunrise. I feel a click and now I'm looking at the ceiling. The light that is switched to 'door' and I wonder if that means the light is a door. Maybe it flips out and there's one thing behind it, like a locket holds one thing, or a false book. If I opened this door now, whatever's inside would just fall in my face, but that might be nice, it would wake me up a bit. I need to be awake, but I forget why. I find the dark trees look like a digital equalizer in my peripheral vision, like they're reacting to the music. All of nature and all those opposed to nature reacting to the same song in the same way: a weary lifting, sliding, and fall. [Buy]

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - “Kris Kringle Ju Ju” In line at the pharmacy. Rounding the corner out of sight. Driving past while you're waiting for the light to change. From the other room on the television. Across the street with the light on. The cause of a siren unseen. A half-ring of your phone. At another table, back turned. A faded, illegible address. A forgotten jacket. Red velvet with black leather piping and a thin fur lining. Cruel, cold, faceless, distant. Spreader of joy. [Buy from In The Red]

Richard Swift - “The Atlantic Ocean” “The Atlantic Ocean” is bouncy, assertive and smooth, which is more or less the impression its character wishes to convey to the world at large. He’s terribly self-conscious, but he’s making it work for himself — he’s insinuated himself into a scene, he’s built up his social and cultural capital and he’s ready to spend. He may not be fully at peace with his studied affectations, but he’s become what he wants to be, and that is something to be proud (and envious) of, given how much courage it can take to actually go through with such a thing. Maybe he’ll get lucky, and he’ll eventually get to the point when he, as Courtney Love used to sing, will be able to fake it so real he’ll be beyond fake.

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You can stream the album, it is entirety, here at MBV.

NPR has the full-album stream for Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band’s new 16-tracker for Merge, Outer South. Check it out and then follow your instincts and put in your pre-order for the CD, Digital, or monster double-LP. Release date is 5/5.

John Vanderslice – “Too Much Time” A new one from Romanian Names, out 5/19 on Dead Oceans.

Be one of the first 100 to pre-order, and you’ll get a sweet, personalized letterpress sleeve containing, literally, tape from the cutting room floor of Tiny Telephone.