PMACAST No.026

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Last week the PMACAST celebrated its twenty-fifth installment on its one year anniversary — yet no one wished us a Happy Birthday! What rude listeners we have. PMACAST No.026 pmacast feature

Anyway, moving on to the twenty-sixth episode, we are looking at 2010′s first quarter in music releases. I’ve assembled a 17-song playlist that will hopefully give you a nice taste of the album’s we’ve liked that will be released in Twenty-Ten. Download the mp3 below, find the tracklist after the jump.

PS:Subscribe to the pmaCAST via iTunesor RSS feed to stay up-to-date on the newest episode updates!

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  1. Vampire Weekend I Think Ur A Contra from Contra
  2. Beach House Zebra from Teen Dream
  3. Broken Bells The High Road from Broken Bells
  4. Spoon Written In Reverse from Transference
  5. Los Campesinos There Are Listed Buildings from Romance Is Boring
  6. Warpaint Elephants from Exquisite Corpse*
  7. Mumford & Sons Little Lion Man from Sigh No More
  8. Basia Bulat Gold Rush from Heart of My Own
  9. Jónsi Boy Lilikoi from Go
  10. Hot Chip Thieves In The Night from One Life Stand
  11. Delphic This Momentary from Acolyte
  12. Good Shoes Under Control from No Hope, No Future
  13. Local Natives Sun Hands from Gorilla Manor
  14. Free Energy Something In Common from Stuck On Nothing
  15. Freelance Whales Generator ^ 2nd Floor from Weathervanes**
  16. Massive Attack Parasise Circus from Heligoland
  17. The Soft Pack Mexico from The Soft Pack
  18. Surfer Blood Swim (To Reach The End) from Astro Coast
  19. Tanlines Real Life from Real Life EP

*Warpaint’s Exquisite Corpse was actually released in October 2009, but we were consumed by year-end and decade-end lists to appreciate it then, so we’re bulking it up with the great music we’ve heard in 2010.
**Freelance Whales’ Weathervanes will be officially released by Frenchkiss Records this spring.

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Andrew January 17, 2010 at 10:11 pm

Wow, great selection of songs. Looks like 2010 is going to be another big year for music.

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Devin January 18, 2010 at 12:41 am

Happy Birthday!

Sincerely,
A very grateful fan

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Joeri January 18, 2010 at 7:03 am

Here is another happy subscriber!

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Josh January 18, 2010 at 8:20 am

Looks like a good playlist! Is this latest one not up on iTunes yet?

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Josh January 18, 2010 at 8:32 am

Nevermind, I found it.

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Mary January 18, 2010 at 10:00 am

Hey Happy Belated Anniversary!!
I just got turned onto your site, it’s definitely my favorite find of 2009.
xoxo

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Henry January 18, 2010 at 11:38 am

Great episode. Also, Happy Late Birthday :) I’ve been a subscriber since Episode 1.

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NotManyExpertsPhil January 18, 2010 at 11:45 am

What a selection! Really great podcast, I mean… I knew 2010 was going well, but this is a great selection of songs.

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syl January 18, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Happy birthday Pretty Much Amazing !!!!!! :D
Thanks a lot for the podcast
xoxo

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pmablog January 18, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Audacify January 18, 2010 at 3:41 pm

wasn’t Mumford & Sons 2009?

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Henry January 18, 2010 at 9:19 pm

Their album Sigh No More will be released in the US in March! :) So technically, it counts as 2010, since this is an American blog (judging by PMA’s twitter account)

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lady_wraith January 19, 2010 at 2:16 am

happy belated birthday!
also “Gold Rush” is pma :)

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Lee Ward January 19, 2010 at 7:49 am

Holy hell! What a terrible oversight…

A (belated) happy birthday!

~ L

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lundy January 19, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Got referred to PMA last spring by my friend who mixes for pjo in Gifted, and you’ve been my homepage ever since. Thanks for all the great tunes!

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Roke January 20, 2010 at 8:32 am

Oh God.

You’re playlist’s make it a little easier to get up in the morning

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8449 (REM) January 20, 2010 at 3:24 pm

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Perlonkid January 22, 2010 at 3:40 pm

That first song is a belter. Was planning on giving the new VW album a miss, but may have to re-evaluate my plans!

Can someone talk me through this m4a chapters business?

What players recognise the chapters? Winamp aint got a clue. Will my ipod nano 2nd Gen work?

Problem with unsplit mixes is that i listen to the first 5 songs to death and never get near the end! Plus I never know what song is playing…

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mike January 22, 2010 at 6:03 pm

yea so I just joined the pma cast and i just wanted to give you guys a heads up that this stuff is the shit…

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