Systems Officer – “Shape Shifter” Systems Officer (Pinback’s Zach Smith) returns in November with new album, Underslept, on Temporary Residence.

(and don’t forget that, coincidentally, Smith’s other other band, Three Mile Pilot, have a new limited-edition 7-inch out on Temporary Residence come 10/6)

San Francisco’s Citay have just wrapped up an LP of remixes (titled, appropriately, Remixes), that features reworkings of tracks from their 2007 album, Little Kingdom. The remix contributors include White Rainbow, Black Mountain, and Cornershop’s Anthony Saffery. The record’s out 11/3 on Dead Oceans.

Asobi Seksu – “Suzanne” (at Olympic Studios) From the band’s “acoustic album,” Rewolf, out 11/10 from Polyvinyl.

The Amazing – “Code II” From the band’s forthcoming 10″ on Mexican Summer (the one we mentioned here).

(via Fader)

Little Dragon - “A New”Some singers rely on lyrics that convey their meaning with directness and precision, but Yukimi Nagano is the type to let her words roughly sketch out a feeling that she embellishes with her voice. This approach puts more faith in the unique effects of music — you could say what you need to say if you have to, but singing can successfully communicate nuances that writing and conversation will typically fail. “A New” is not exactly inscrutable, but you can better intuit the connections between Nagano’s lines, and sense her wonder and confusion as everything she understood about someone is upended, and she attempts to sort it out. Are things better? Are things worse? Has nothing actually changed? It’s hard to say, but I’m sure that she doesn’t know, and that’s the point.

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