In advance of Thrill Jockey‘s 7/1 release of their new full-length, I’m Going Away, The Fiery Furnaces will release a 12″ for “The End Is Near.” The record also features the tracks “Lost At Sea,” “Charmaine Champagne,” and the non-album track, “Teddy’s on Kent.”

In all likelihood, there’s a vigorous debate going on the Pitchfork Staff Board right now: Grizzly Bear‘s Veckatimest comes out next Tuesday, and they’ll be needing to figure out just how many tenths of a point over “9” they should assign it.
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Grizzly Bear – “All We Ask” (Black Cab Session)

You can download Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest in full when you purchase the vinyl edition– but apparently, there’s been some confusion. It seems there’s a misprint on the download card that states that the download is for “Two Weeks” only– but it is in fact for the whole album. FYI.

So you want to pick up a copy of Deerhunter’s Rainwater Cassette Exchange, in its limited-edition European tour format of (actual) cassette, but you’re not going to be anywhere near a European show? No worries, you can now order the Rainwater Cassette Exhcange cassette online from Rough Trade.

Jarvis Cocker “I Never Said I Was Deep” “I Never Said I Was Deep” is great partly because we all know in our hearts that Jarvis Cocker is not the miserable, idiotic cad that he portrays in the song. If you have any investment in Jarvis, you no doubt idealize the guy somewhat — he’s the smart, classy guy who always knows how to put horrible people in their place — but he’s deliberately messing with that here, kinda nudging you to think that maybe he actually is singing from his perspective. (Still, probably not!) This is a surprisingly sympathetic depiction of unthinking douchebaggery; casting the dink in question as a confused fool who knows when he’s doing the wrong thing, but cannot stop himself from always acting on his worst impulses. He’s selfish but helpless, and the pathetic tragedy of his existence elicits just enough empathy from the listener to blind us to the reality that he has absolutely none at all, and that’s his major problem.

Buy it from Amazon.