Mix Ten Tracks: August 2011 August 22, 2011 Cancel all immediate plans; the new Article Ten Tracks playlist is here! Let our pick of the month’s music occupy your auditory organs for the next forty minutes and twenty seven seconds.

Grimes – Rosa
Grimes has been a little self-deprecating regarding Geidi Primes (re-released on CD this month) since its first outing on cassette and download over a year ago, but it’s difficult not to get along with Rosa’s unremitting baseline and sinuous vocals

Amen Dunes – Bedroom Drum
Through Donkey Jaw, the new album released last week on Sacred Bones, takes a little time, but its sparse songs creep all over you, rewarding a listen that’s loud and late

Beirut – The Peacock
New album The Rip Tide sees Zach Condon tighten up and slightly tone down on the horns and nomadic tendencies, settling in to a sound a little closer to home

Slow Club – Where I’m Waking
Sitting with Henderson’s Relish, cutlery, Pulp and Moonshine on the list of top five Sheffield exports, Slow Club return with a second LP next month; less of a shouty affair than their last, but still with those lyrics shifting between death and heartache, some marching drums, and a good deal of wit

Sea of Bees – Gnomes (Tunng remix)
Tunng have tweaked this track from February’s Songs for the Ravens album for the Gnomes single’s B-side, out this month

M83 – Midnight City
Shooting through space on that euphoric M83 sound, to end in a sax solo at the far end of the universe – from forthcoming album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Balam Acab – Oh, Why
Despite pitch-shifting close to Chipmunk territory, this is creepily lovely – Wander/Wonder LP is out at the end of the month

A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Requiem for the Static King Part One
Composer Dustin O’Halloran and Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie took to acoustic spaces like this to record their ambient collaboration – this track is in memory of Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous

Active Child – You Are All I See
Pained love songs by an ex-choir boy who took to synths and harp, from the album due out in October

Grandaddy – He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot
I nicked The Sophtware Slump from my dad when I was a kid because it had a cool cover; now ten years later it’s gone ‘Deluxe’, giving us a great excuse to end proceedings with this timeless expanse of a track

And thanks to Hannah Martin for her ‘ten turkey tracks’ picture!