Hi! Welcome back! Happy New Year! It's Season 5! Beginning with a 2-part Best of 2012 Special. Part 1 is just a lot of songs I really loved this year. Part 2 (next episode) will be the Best of 2012 DANCE MIXXX. A Sounds Ace tradition! 

Today's songs:

Fiona Apple / Werewolf (The Idler Wheel...)

Liars / No.1 Against the Rush (WIXIW)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Only In My Dreams (Mature Themes) (pictured)

Cat Power / Silent Machine (Sun)

Tame Impala / Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Lonerism)

Julia Holter / Goddess Eyes II (Ekstasis)

Sharon Van Etten / Give Out (Tramp)

Perfume Genius / Take Me Home (Put Your Back N 2 It)

Dum Dum Girls / Season in Hell (End of Daze EP)

Lotus Plaza / Strangers (Spooky Action At A Distance)

Jens Lekman / The World Moves On (I Know What Love Isn't)

Frankie Rose / Moon In My Mind (Interstellar)

Dirty Projectors / Dance For You (Swing Lo Magellan)

x esther

It's the final episode of Season 4! WHATTA SEASON. 

Anyway here's the playlist!

How to Dress Well - & It Was U

Peaking Lights - Beautiful Son

Divine Fits - Shivers

Grizzly Bear - A Simple Answer

Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode 

Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers (pictured, now blonde!)

Actress - N.E.W.

Dirty Projectors - Dance For You

Port St. Willow - Amawalk

Woods - Is It Honest?

(intro/outro: Q-Tip - Wait Up)

Hello! I'm back after a little hiatus (SORRY!) with a Country Ladies special, as a sort of tribute to the recently departed Kitty Wells (who I may have referred to as Kitty Webb in the actual episode, thank you 3am). Featuring Dolly Parton (pictured), Jolie Holland, Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, The Dixie Chicks, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Loretta Lynn, Gillian Welch, Neko Case and of course, Kitty Wells. 

Bye!

Hi everyone! This week's episode features brand new music FROM: King Tuff (pictured), Beck, Lower Dens, Fiona Apple (yes, again), Liars, Laetetia Sadier, Hot Chip, Azealia Banks, Perfume Genius and Lotus Plaza. Hooray! Just a regular episode of Sounds Ace. 

x esther

Sounds Ace & Friends! Sounds Ace pal and fellow Jerusalem resident Laura Graber and I decided to make an episode about the music we were listening to when we started caring about music, I guess, or when we were finishing high school and starting university. Heads up; nostalgia for 2002-2004. 

Featuring The Strokes, Wilco, Cat Power, Broadcast, Erlend Oye, Ben Kweller, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene (pictured, and a word about this picture: I had this picture up on my wall. I thought it was beyond cool), The Flaming Lips and The Fiery Furnaces. 

I'm back i'm back i'm baaaaack. Sorry it's been so long. I was away! Anyway back now, with really a great episode with lots of new songs that I really love INCLUDING Spiritualized, Hunx and his Punx, Eleanor Friedberg (ever-photogenic, and pictured), Japandroids, Diiv (f/k/a Dive), Daniel Rossen, Chromatics, Fiona Apple, The Men and The Shins. I hope you like it! 

As ever,

Esther C. W. 

Sorry! I have a cold and that shit's all up in this episode. Hope you think it sounds cute, or something. So! Regular Episode here, featuring Grimes (pictured), Julia Holter, Crystal Stilts, dumbly spelled Miike Snow, Lotus Plaza, Perfume Genius, Disappears and Sleigh Bells. 

<3 esther

I FOUND IT! 

enjoy <3

I'm back! From Paris! Just in time to bring you this Slumberland Records Special. Slumberland are one of my favourite labels ever, active since the late 80s and continuing to release really great music from their Oakland HQ. Featuring old and current bands from the Slumberland roster, including The Softies, The Aisler Set (pictured, with Amy Linton seated on the floor), Henry's dress, Frankie Rose, The Ropers, Boyracer, Lilys, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Veronica Falls. 

I hope you like it! 

x esther

Okay! Regular episode this week, featuring music both NEW and OLD! Lower Dens, Sharon Van Etten, The Partridge Family, Japanther, R. Stevie Moore (gloriously pictured), Chairlift, Nicolas Jaar, Neutral Milk Hotel, Zola Jesus and Girls At Our Best. 

I hope you liiiiiiiiiike it and you can email me if you have any questions or suggestions for specials! Or if you want to be on Sounds Ace and Friends. 

x esther