This is the new one from !!!, which they claim should be pronounced as any three sounds in a row, chik chik chik or boom boom boom or whatever…
I saw these guys play in DC once in this tiny art space on Eye St downtown and they tore the roof off, it was amazing. This song has a stone groove that just doesn't stop, kind of like most of their other tracks…the video is helpful and mindbending…
They play Williamsburg Waterfont on Aug 15, if you're in town, you wanna go? It's free!
this track…I keep listening to it over and over (the album version), it's got something so good about it…it's great that at Glastonbury Florence showed up to make it happen with the xx, and I love that she sings it in the same way they sliced and diced her vocal on the remix…great… FIXED!
And in a similar vein from yesterday's post, check this…pretty great, big beat, nice dancing/footwork, a bit pop at times, mainly in the chorus, but overall very feelgood…and Big Boi never goes amiss…I predict this may be the jam of the summer…KT's gonna love it…and the video, beautifully filmed, echoes of Cuckoo's Nest, Wes Anderson's font in the opening titles, a great jam of influences, and Janelle appearing throughout like a fully-formed star, but of the kooky variety…
I'm sure that somewhere there's a way to make MIA's Paper Planes sound lame, but this is not it. Onion AV is doing this thing where they have bands cover new and old classics, and this is The Clientele rocking MIA. The violins and everything…it's so good… The Clientele covers M.I.A.
I'm posting this here because if you haven't seen Spike Jonze's return to music vids with the new LCD Soundsystem single, you really should. Defines "anarchic". Feels good/scary, which is a nice combo. I'm still out on the single…I didn't think that much of it when I first heard it, but I must say, it keeps getting stuck in my head…
Yeah, so this guy made a version of Dark side of the moon just using the audio capabilities of the NES sound chip. It sounds amazing, somehow. I've been listening to the whole thing over and over, there are some parts that are just haunting, and computer game-y at the same time. Go here to download for yourself, and here's a sample ("Great Gig In The Sky") of what I'm talking about:
"Years ago, some girl wrote in the classifieds saying she was looking for a man 'with the poetic sensitivity of Leonard Cohen and the raw power of Iggy Pop,' so Leonard tried to get me to set up a three-way with her [laughs]. He said, 'Dude, we can give her both!'"
also, in some kind of internet irony, because everyone kept saying that Merton sounded/looked just like Ben Folds, apparently Ben Folds heard about it and filmed his own "tribute", which is also pretty good…the "bobby" song is especially inspired…
