"If you are in the mood for a perfect accompaniment to a rainy evening or a relaxing drive with the windows down, They Know What Ghost Know needs to be on your list of albums to purchase. Hell, it should be on your list in any case. Yppah's electronica/shoegaze/rock blend might seem alienating to some, but he produces it so well and masterfully that everyone should make an effort to, at the very least, give him a try."

[8/10]

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A lovely new album from San Fran indie-folkers The Dodos kicks off today's featured releases, but that's not even the half of it. Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket's Jim James) and Julian Plenti (Interpol's Paul Banks) both go solo, and the world is richer for it.

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Pet Ghost Project is the inaugural band on up-and-coming new indie label On Another Note Records, and is all the work of one man: Justin Stivers. While Stivers brings along multi-instrumentalists Jacob More and Justin Gonzales for his live shows, that wall of sound you were just consumed by is the work of one very dedicated, very informed individual.

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Exclusively on Amie Street until the street release August 11th, the debut EP from this NYC post-punk band (formerly known as Blonde Acid Cult) is really good!

Download the first track for free, but shucks the whole thing's under a dollar...

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Blank Expressions, the latest album from Swedish new-wavers Kamera, slowly pulls into the parking lot, but comes out of the car full of energy and ready to jam. At least that's the picture album opener "Asleep" draws, introducing the record with a slow, far-away sounding hum that kicks into overdrive just as soon as the lyrics set in.

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New albums from Riceboy Sleeps (Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson and his boyfriend Alex Somers), Historics (a side project of the bassists from Maroon 5 and Amazing Baby, featuring Kool Keith), Sugar Ray (you probably know Sugar Ray), Greg Davis (a classically-trained Kranky Records dronemeister), and more!

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Like a toned-down version of The Get Up Kids meet Alkaline Trio, Serene also manages to inlay the epic-feeling swarms of Coldplay's songs. Their indie pop style may even be a little more laid-back than all of these bands, and to be quite honest, quite serene.

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