by SHANE SINNOTT

With summer over, we’re fully into the new-album-release, and more importantly for our purposes, the new-album-leak time of year. Here’s a couple that will no doubt be ballyhooed, dare I say much ballyhooed, upon their release. Both artists are playing here in the coming weeks, so brush up.

“Nantes,” from the new Beirut album The Flying Club Cup, due out Oct. 9, is available here: tinyurl.com/29zz3s. You’ve probably heard Beirut, even if you think you haven’t, because it’s extremely unlikely the person whose house you were at listens to any traditional Eastern-European folk music, much less puts it on when people are over—that was Beirut. This new track is hardly a departure, though you can’t blame them, what with the success of the previous record Gulag Orkestar, and the distinct lack of other popular bands making music that sounds like theirs.

“Seahorse,” from Devendra Banhart’s new album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, out Sept. 25, is here: tinyurl.com/yt8exq. Banhart is one of the best-known extracts of the “freak-folk” or “psych-folk,” genre, and writes stark acoustic songs with often surreal lyrics. His backing band is sometimes called Hairy Fairy and First Woman Millionaire.

Tonight, meanwhile, there’s a big show for fans of hyper-paced, attention-span-lacking mixing and mashing: Girl Talk with Dan Deacon at la Tulipe. Both artists have found their way into this space before—Girl Talk is Gregg Gillis who, when asked by ACRN Radio to describe his music, said, “Taking bits and pieces of tons of different genres of music from different eras and kinda jumbling them all together in a kinda hectic but steady sorta deal.” (You can listen to the interview here: tinyurl.com/27vak8.) Deacon is this nut who makes what has been called “absurdist electronic music,” which has more of a focus on the particular electronic noises that people in their mid-20s will associate with their youth. You can download Girl Talk’s “Minute by Minute” at tinyurl.com/2coh7g. If you’re more of a Dan Deacon man, you’ll want to go to tinyurl.com/23o8tc, where I’ve so nicely made a link to “Wham City.”