Zoos of Berlin

Listen to new songs by Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Efrim Manuel Menuck, Bleached, I Love Your Lifestyle, Clairo (Strokes cover), and more...

Protomartyr's album, Ultimate Success Today, was supposed to come out May 29 but will now be out July 17 via Domino.

This week in the Basement: new albums from BEAK> (ft. Portishead's Geoff Barrow) and Berlin's Fenster, plus a 20th anniversary reissue of The Beta Band's ’The Three EPs,’ Zoos of Berlin side project South South Million, and a solo record from Cool Ghouls' Pat Thomas.

Detroit's weird and wonderful Zoos of Berlin are back with Instant Evening, their third album (and first in three years). As ever, frontmen Trevor Naud and Daniel I. Clark weave a variety of influences ('80s pop, '70s kraut and Steely Dan, '60s baroque) into something that only sounds like Zoos of Berlin.

Zoos of Berlin keyboardist/bassist Will Yates has a new solo EP, I Know the Feeling, coming out November 6 via his own The Leadership Circle imprint...

When Detroit band PAS/CAL called it quits at the end of the '00s, singer Casimer Pascal kept going in much the same baroque vein with his nephew, Vincent, as Casimer & Casimir (who just released their first 7"); while instrumentalist Trevor Naud joined up with Daniel I...

Detroit's Zoos of Berlin are an intriguingly odd lot, whose music doesn't really sound like anything else going on right now. The word I keep coming back to is regal...

DOWNLOAD: Weekend - Coma Summer (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Weekend - End Times (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Young Prisms - Sugar (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Acrylics - Nightwatch (MP3) This will be a shorter column than usual (please hold your applause till the end) as I'm heading across the Canadian border to attend this year's M for Montreal festival where I'll be seeing the likes of The Dears, PS I Love You, Valleys and a bunch of bands who sing in French...

DOWNLOAD: Best Coast - This is Real (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Zoos of Berlin - Electrical Way (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Mr. Dream - Knuckle Sandwich (MP3) This week is extra-packed with musical goodness, so I'm breaking up TWII into two parts...

DOWNLOAD: Zoos of Berlin - Electrical Way (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fanfarlo - Finish Line (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fanfarlo - I'm a Pilot (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fanfarlo - Luna (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Ballet - The House of Fire (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Phantogram - When I'm Small (Mp3) DOWNLOAD: Invisible Hand - There's Room in My Will (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Invisible Hand - Caught Myself in a Coy Trap (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Drunk Tigers - Outer Banks, Inner Peace (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Phil and the Osophers - We Have All Summer (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dream Diary - Bird in My Garden (MP3) As previously reported, Detroit band Zoos of Berlin are in town this weekend -- playing Matchless tonight (12/18) and Cake Shop tomorrow (12/19)...