sugar//mercy//acid//rain. Misheard lyrics became my name.
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Carpe noctem, darlings.
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New, hazy and dreamily sedating video for the Nico Jaar remix of Shlohmo’s “Rained The Whole Time,” off his Vacation EP, which stands as one of my favourite releases of the year so far. [Buy it here]
It’s rather idyllic having these two producers blend their aesthetics on this track, and that goodness is taken one notch further with Video Marsh at the helm of this visual interpretation (past work includes Caribou, Crystal Castles and more). Things get really hypnotic about half-way through, and I can’t promise you’ll have much certainty about what exactly it is that you’re seeing. Oh, that intrigues you, does it?
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My favourite band Beach House have a new album entitled Bloom out on Sub Pop May 15th. I couldn’t be more thrilled, and the news came just as I was rediscovering my love for every single song on Devotion. I only wish I could listen to it tucked away in a little cottage on the east coast, playing board games and drinking wine by candlelight while this crackles over an old record player like fire from a fireplace. Listen and fall in love below.
Download available here via Gorilla vs. Bear.
N E X T S T A T I O N // V I D E O
My friend Andrew, better known as Nacey, just posted up this song he made highlighting sounds from the Washington DC metro, and combined with the visuals, it’s making me feel nostalgic as hell. Love.
Source: socialstudiesdc.com
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R H Y E - O P E N // V I D E O (NSFW)
Oh, it’s a bit bittersweet, isn’t it?
Rhye - Open (Soundcloud dl link courtesy of The FADER)
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O B L I V I O N V I D E O
Grimes, you are my best friend. You just don’t know it yet.
Director: Emily Kai Bock.
Brand new SBTRKT video featuring Roses Gabor for “Pharaohs”, a highlight off the South London producer’s debut self-titled album, one of the year’s best, without a doubt. The pace and style of the songs vary fantastically throughout, taking eclectic cues from reggae, dub, R&B, jungle, experimental bass and urban pop. With one ear tuned to the past and about seven other ones to the future, the album is a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable listen, start to finish. And oh yeah, you can dance to it. !
Pick it up from Rough Trade recs right here.
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“Video Games”
Swingin’ in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name.
Open up a beer
And you say get over here
And play your video games.
I’m in his favourite sundress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown.
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Why are unofficial videos always so much more interesting? I don’t know either. Check this one out from Jamie Stones for the dub version of “Birds Of Paradise” by Peaking Lights. It’s a whirlwind of a trip. Writes Stones:
“This video was originally part of a sequence of images that I projected at a party in 2008. It was inspired by the film leader that appears at the end of film rushes - a seemingly random collection of pictures, flash frames, shapes and colours. Here the video clips and stills have been exaggerated further with various effects and overlays and cross cut into a retro montage. The story is deliberately vague, but loosely based on journeys, rhythms and visions, all themes evident in my other work.
The clips are sampled (borrowed) from various sources including Rockers, The Wicker Man, Vanishing Point, 2001 A Space Odessy, BBC Documentaries, Glastonbury, Adaptation.”
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![Photographer: D.L. Anderson.
First single off the self-titled sophomore album from Bon Iver, the most notable out of the abundance of Justin Vernon incarnations. I feel generally won-over by it, from the opening notes of gentle intimacy to the outro that lingers just long enough to the understated (but really fucking great) drumming that carries the shifting emotional context of the song throughout. It’s an interesting piece in that it seems to be at odds with itself, most distinctly as the climax is drowned in a lo-fi blur that nearly undermines the delicacy present elsewhere in the track. But to call it a departure would neglect the fact that Vernon has always looked to go beyond the singer-songerwriter moniker, and “Calgary” displays some of the experimental tendencies we saw on the Blood Bank EP (but, you know, sadly thankfully no auto-tune). In revisiting the juxtaposition between rough and soft, raw and fragile, Vernon has capitalized on what made 2008’s For Emma, Forever Ago so unwittingly powerful. That being said, “capitalized” seems a vile and inappropriate word for an artist as wholly genuine as Vernon. The heartfelt honesty of For Emma—the endlessly relatable, bittersweet truth of the human experience he built those songs on—hasn’t left his side.
While Vernon has received deservedly widespread acclaim for his lyrics, both famously wrenching and strikingly close-to-home, in the end it’s that voice that will get you every. single. time. It’s an oft-imitated sound these days; in fact you’ll regularly hear music critics referring to an artist as “going for a Bon Iver sound,” and you know they aren’t talking about the instrumentals. Yet there’s nothing quite like the original. In those dazed moments, the ones when as distracted listeners our minds wander through regrettable pasts and idealistic futures and we aren’t even trying to make out the words, the haunting presence of that voice will eventually pull our consciousness back into the present. And then you’re just sitting there, listening to some guy you’ve never met tell you about yourself.
Of course, I am going to take special interest in this song because of it’s name. What can I say? There’s just something about that city.
♫ Bon Iver - Calgary [320]
Bon Iver drops June 21st on Jagjaguwar. You can look forward to further experimentation from Vernon and camp—this isn’t just acoustic music anymore. My verdict is still out on whether or not that’s a good thing. Pre-order the LP in all formats here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lldm94tuFC1qzblvgo1_500.png)
Photographer: D.L. Anderson.
First single off the self-titled sophomore album from Bon Iver, the most notable out of the abundance of Justin Vernon incarnations. I feel generally won-over by it, from the opening notes of gentle intimacy to the outro that lingers just long enough to the understated (but really fucking great) drumming that carries the shifting emotional context of the song throughout. It’s an interesting piece in that it seems to be at odds with itself, most distinctly as the climax is drowned in a lo-fi blur that nearly undermines the delicacy present elsewhere in the track. But to call it a departure would neglect the fact that Vernon has always looked to go beyond the singer-songerwriter moniker, and “Calgary” displays some of the experimental tendencies we saw on the Blood Bank EP (but, you know, sadly thankfully no auto-tune). In revisiting the juxtaposition between rough and soft, raw and fragile, Vernon has capitalized on what made 2008’s For Emma, Forever Ago so unwittingly powerful. That being said, “capitalized” seems a vile and inappropriate word for an artist as wholly genuine as Vernon. The heartfelt honesty of For Emma—the endlessly relatable, bittersweet truth of the human experience he built those songs on—hasn’t left his side.
While Vernon has received deservedly widespread acclaim for his lyrics, both famously wrenching and strikingly close-to-home, in the end it’s that voice that will get you every. single. time. It’s an oft-imitated sound these days; in fact you’ll regularly hear music critics referring to an artist as “going for a Bon Iver sound,” and you know they aren’t talking about the instrumentals. Yet there’s nothing quite like the original. In those dazed moments, the ones when as distracted listeners our minds wander through regrettable pasts and idealistic futures and we aren’t even trying to make out the words, the haunting presence of that voice will eventually pull our consciousness back into the present. And then you’re just sitting there, listening to some guy you’ve never met tell you about yourself.
Of course, I am going to take special interest in this song because of it’s name. What can I say? There’s just something about that city.
♫ Bon Iver - Calgary [320]
Bon Iver drops June 21st on Jagjaguwar. You can look forward to further experimentation from Vernon and camp—this isn’t just acoustic music anymore. My verdict is still out on whether or not that’s a good thing. Pre-order the LP in all formats here.
Speaking of Hot Chip! Entertaining, creative and highly pixelated new video from the new-ish Shit Robot single “Losing My Patience,” featuring Alexis Taylor. Director: Fergal Brennan.
Download the radio/video edit below, and be sure to pick up the full wan (including the Hot Chip remix) over here.
♫ Shit Robot - Losing My Patience (featuring Alexis Taylor) [320]
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![One of my all-time favourite bands, NYC’s Gang Gang Dance, have a new LP due out May 10 via the ever reputable 4AD. When you talk about distinctive, innovative, fresh music—this is it. Gang Gang Dance effortlessly manage the fine balance between being highly inspired—they take cues from everything from Afrobeat to psychedelic to grime to jazz to early 90s house and back again—and highly original. Yesterday I was playing their new album and my East Indian friend (dearly beloved) asked if I was playing Hindu music. And just so we’re clear, I will personally hunt you down and hurt you if you label them “indie dance.”
The second single from Eye Contact, “MindKilla,” has been making rounds on the blogs for some time now, but since I have lots of studying I’m supposed to be doing today, I’ve decided to post it now. Procrastination 101. “MindKilla” demands full attention from the very first cords right until the ear-throbbing end. Stabbing synths and the off-kilter percussion Gang Gang Dance is famous for swirl dizzyingly around the wholly unique vocals of musical mercenary Lizzi Bougatsos. She zips up and down her incredible range with lightning speed, and her propensity for the strange and indiscernible will leave you feeling possessed and breathless. Long-standing fans will not be disappointed, while those new to the band might not know what to do with themselves during and immediately after their first listen. It’s gonna be OK. Just dance.
♫ Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla [320]
Another album highlight is “Romance Layers,” a lush slow-jam piece featuring Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip fame. This isn’t the first time these acts have collaborated: on the Japanese edition of 2008’s monumental Saint Dymphna, Hot Chip remixed “House Jam” with favourable results. AKA, it rules.
♫ Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (Hot Chip Remix)
Pre-order Eye Contact now. Digital. Vinyl.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkbpq3yz8t1qzblvgo1_500.jpg)
One of my all-time favourite bands, NYC’s Gang Gang Dance, have a new LP due out May 10 via the ever reputable 4AD. When you talk about distinctive, innovative, fresh music—this is it. Gang Gang Dance effortlessly manage the fine balance between being highly inspired—they take cues from everything from Afrobeat to psychedelic to grime to jazz to early 90s house and back again—and highly original. Yesterday I was playing their new album and my East Indian friend (dearly beloved) asked if I was playing Hindu music. And just so we’re clear, I will personally hunt you down and hurt you if you label them “indie dance.”
The second single from Eye Contact, “MindKilla,” has been making rounds on the blogs for some time now, but since I have lots of studying I’m supposed to be doing today, I’ve decided to post it now. Procrastination 101. “MindKilla” demands full attention from the very first cords right until the ear-throbbing end. Stabbing synths and the off-kilter percussion Gang Gang Dance is famous for swirl dizzyingly around the wholly unique vocals of musical mercenary Lizzi Bougatsos. She zips up and down her incredible range with lightning speed, and her propensity for the strange and indiscernible will leave you feeling possessed and breathless. Long-standing fans will not be disappointed, while those new to the band might not know what to do with themselves during and immediately after their first listen. It’s gonna be OK. Just dance.
♫ Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla [320]
Another album highlight is “Romance Layers,” a lush slow-jam piece featuring Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip fame. This isn’t the first time these acts have collaborated: on the Japanese edition of 2008’s monumental Saint Dymphna, Hot Chip remixed “House Jam” with favourable results. AKA, it rules.
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TONIGHT. From one of 2011’s best albums…
♫ [download] Destroyer - Kaputt
He’s (Dan Bejar) touring with an 8-piece orchestra. Picture me hyperventilating.
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At a total and complete fucking loss. Mitch Dubey, punk-rocker, vegan, bike enthusiast, was shot and killed in a break and entry Thursday night in his home in New Haven, CT.
He was a super talented, rad dude who played in various bands, either as the guitarist, bassist, or saxophonist (!).
DL one of his projects, the Swear Jar demo tape from ‘09 right here. Really different from the music I usually post—prepare for raucous, youthful noise.
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Explosive art. No, but really…
This is the video for “M.I.R.I.A.M.” by the esteemed hip-hop and soul jam band Orelha Negra, directed by and featuring the work of street artist Vhils.
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