Idolator

Earlier, a tipster let us know that an unreleased song by Relaxed Muscle—the electro-spook side project undertaken by Jarvis Cocker and Jason Buckle in the earlier part of this decade—had, under the innocuous title "left over relaxed m.....," surfaced on Buckle's MySpace page. The tipster asked us if the song may fall under the "forgotten classic" category; while we need a few more comparative listens to the rest of A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle to properly judge, we really like its spooky backing vocals and the breakdown where Jarvis commands someone to "pull your pants up and settle down." We're pretty into the other songs Buckle has on display, too, although we have one question: Is that Scott Walker getting the taffy-pull vocal treatment on "Give Inn"? More »

The blogger behind Under the Rock was kind enough to let us know about his $7.26 purchase of A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle—the 2003 full-length by Jarvis Cocker's electroclashy collaboration with Mercury Prize nominee Richard Hawley, Relaxed Muscle—at Tower's downtown Philadelphia outpost. Unfortunately, he's pretty sure that he got the last one in the store, but we figured this was just as good an excuse as any to post a couple of songs from the album, which, like the fine Jarvis, was never released Stateside. More »