new Lemuria track is radcakes / old Aye Nako track remains radcakes

Hey sorry but it's another one of these dinky 'new shit' plug posts. I'm working on a couple bigger ones as we speak, so... or "you speak", presumably. See, I'm dying of lung cancer, so it's been sorta hard to talk for the past couple days. All this coughing up chunks of my pulmonary alveoli takes a lot out of you. I think that's how lung cancer works.
Alright no but I actually am sick.
SICK OF BLOGGING THAT IS HA HAAAKkh  qw

I am xHxCx excited about this. Ever since they opened for P.S. Eliot's last show in 2011 (the emotional moment of my life thus far), I've been actively watching the kettle, waiting for new material to drop. Aye Nako's 2010 demo's been covered somewhere in the dimmer beginnings of this blog, but if you don't want to backtrack as bad as I don't, imagine a pop-punkier Superchunk with Go Sailor-esque vocals and the kind of hooks that bury themselves in your subconscious like emotional trauma in your formative years. When I saw just now that they'd released a new track from their upcoming LP due out next month, I uncontrollably peed everywhere in excitement (as my nature dictates), but promptly clammed up urethra-wise 'cause it was just a re-recording of "Molasses". Come on you jerks, we've all listened to "Molasses" a jillion times already. That said, the track sounds fantastic, and while there's no real overhaul in it's performance (aside an acoustic guitar augmentation), the production sounds thick 'n' clean and perfectly suited to the band's style.
If you're an established fan, click here for a great mix of glee and mild disappointment. On Pitchfork's site, weirdly enough. I guess they are stationed in Bwooklyn, tho.

Slightly less exciting (but not by much) is Lemuria's first single from their upcoming LP, The Distance Is So Big. I also wrote about Lemuria before here, but to sum it up, I pretty much loved everything the band released up to and (somewhat) including Get Better (emphasis on their split with Kind Of Like Spitting) but was really disappointed by Pebble. I don't really wanna get into that album here, but shrimply putt, it's kind of an overlong mess with some really, really shitty hooks, muffly production, and the feeling the band recently came out of a K-hole. This track seems to dispel all of deepest, Lemuria-related fears, though, and sees the band return to the crispy production that suits them and get hella sad-pumped while pushing their sound into new territory. The sweet pop hooks blending with the jaunty, proggy angularity of the riffz and structure remind me why I sweated these guys so hard in the first place. Can't wait to hear the whole thing.

Also, did anyone else notice that the artwork for Pebble is now a total trendbreaker? Was that album a diversion or what?