Five Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now

This week's curators: Carlye Wisel and Donald Rasmussen.

Every two weeks, titans of the mediasphere give Hooksexup their music recommendations. This week: Carlye Wisel and Donald Rasmussen of the video blog Big Ugly Yellow Couch.

1. DOM, Sun Bronzed Greek Gods

This album is a fucking jam from start to finish. With songs like "Bochicha," about singer Dom's questionably legal cat, and, "Living In America," about how sexy it is to reside in the States, we're not sure what's more entertaining — the faded, dreamy-pop vibe that makes Sun Bronzed Golden Gods downright perfect for summer, or the sheer nuttiness of its themes.

2. Twin Sister, Color Your Life

Twin Sister and album Color Your Life

We recently shot a Couch Session with these guys that turned out to be one of our favorites. That's probably the best part of running a stripped-down video-session site: seeing the songs you love — in this case, "Lady Daydream" — reinterpreted in a completely different way that somehow still makes perfect sense. Revisiting this EP after having them in our home has made us fall for these songs all over again.

3. Punch Brothers, Antifogmatic

Punch Brothers and album Antifogmatic

There are few things more beautiful than Chris Thile's music. One of these things happens to be his face. But, besides being the bona fide Jude Law of the mandolin community, Thile has come so far with his band's recently released sophomore album that Punch Brothers can barely be called a post-Nickel Creek project any longer, managing to retain an emotive romanticism in all of their songs.

4. Seabear, We Built A Fire

We Built A Fire feels like the best winter, spring, summer, and fall days all put together into a kind of seasonal song cycle. "Cold Summer" and "Leafmask" are especially built for those quiet moments, with singer Sindri Már Sigfússon's voice carrying you away from the campfire, up through the rising smoke and into the night air.

5. Hall & Oates, The Very Best Of

The Very Best of Hall and Oates

Unhealthy obsession, guilty pleasure, and awkward passenger-seat dance party all rolled up in one. If both of us are in a car, there's a 90% chance we're listening to "Private Eyes" and doing something embarrassing.

Comments ( 13 )

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........*snortle* huh? wuh? is that hall and oates? oh man i must have faded once this list started. Thank goodness for that little pep talk at the end, i may have lapsed into a coma otherwise.

Reuter commented on Jun 30 10 at 3:28 am

h & O are so underrated, agreed on that call. I'm going to download the punch brothers as well.

ret commented on Jun 30 10 at 9:03 am

I have an undying love for Hall and Oates. Those before and after photos make me sad though. But not quite not as sad as the crowd that came to see them in Coney Island last summer.

manleyhopkins commented on Jun 30 10 at 10:17 am

Twin Sister has only gotten better since their days as Vampires

Bernard commented on Jun 30 10 at 2:03 pm

twin sister is the only good one on this list

juan commented on Jun 30 10 at 9:49 pm

Typical boring hipster music. Wake me up when there's something with some balls playing.

Jason commented on Jun 30 10 at 10:29 pm

Oh look, someone else reads Pitchfork... eh.. cool.

Pitchfork Reader commented on Jul 01 10 at 5:57 am

Again, can you lose the laughably pretentious title. "...Should Be Listening To Right Now" - Oh, God!!!

David commented on Jul 01 10 at 11:11 am

why do people always get so agitated when someone lists music that they personally like?

hi54lofi commented on Jul 01 10 at 1:03 pm

To all the people who are dismissing this list as 'boring hipster music' and the like. Did it not occur to you that the writers of this list might actually be enjoying these albums, and might want to recommend them to other people? You know, to help support bands they think are talented but not widely circulated? Not everyone listens to music just because they think it's cool, if you dismiss recommendations as such, you are just as bad, if not worse. If you don't like that style of music, that's fine, but you don't need to be a dick just because someone recommends something that isn't your thing.

sleazyjane commented on Jul 01 10 at 10:14 pm

To all of the people who are dismissing this list as 'boring hipster music'. Thanks. No seriously, thanks, for making an attempt at trying to hold the usually fabulous writers here at Hooksexup to a standard of quality, and reminding them that people come to them for cultural idioms. The world is full of knock-offs, and unfortunately, most of these albums are such. All I really hear is a bunch of Jesus and Mary Chain clones, faux-psychedelia, and poorly executed Appalachian music. Oh, and Hall and Oates, the trendiest shit group out there really. It's funny that it's somehow cool to like Hall and Oates, considering how liking them was bred out of making fun of them and their terrible music. Oh the irony! Well, I suppose that is how our pop culture operates isn't it?

wut commented on Jul 01 10 at 11:10 pm

I've loved Hall and Oates since they were on the AT40 in the 80s. They wrote some GREAT songs. So suck it.

MedinaCraig commented on Jul 02 10 at 2:44 am

You gotta admit... "Private Eyes" is hella catchy!

endlesswells commented on Jul 02 10 at 9:25 am