The top five tracks I’ve been diggin’ this week.
Rock out with the Ümlaut:
Handsome Furs “White City” from Face Control
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Skeletons” from It’s Blitz
Grizzly Bear “While You Wait For The Others” from Veckatimest
Land of Talk “Some Are Lakes” from Some Are Lakes
Morrissey “Something Is Squeezing My Skull” from Years of Refusal
It’s catchy. It’s twitchy. It’s exactly what you’d hear if your childhood arcade transformed into a band. Anamanaguchi’s new album of 8-bit röck, Dawn Metropolis is out now on Normative and iTunes.
(Thanks, Fang Found This)
ThruYou has been flying ’round the interwebz and it deserves all the attention it can get. Israeli musician and producer Kutiman cut together an album of music+videos entirely from YouTube content. The above vid is only the first track. Go check out the others. Especially “I’m New.” Well done.
I could only hear up to 17 kHz. Thanks a lot, drums.
(Sorry, Charlie, beat ya by 2 kHz)
Succumb to your bit-torrent guilt and actually purchase an album. It’s refreshing.
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Warning: This is crazy addictive.
Play the QWERTY Drum Set by director and visual/audio guru Ron Winter.
(I like to call it the DERF keyboard, but that’s just me).
Whoa. Their new vid. Directed by Andreas and Filip Nilsson. Starring one serious pomp. And a ton of Japanese, psychobilly dancers.
Watch the official video.
Kinda like Spike Jonze’s Fatboy Slim video. On acid.
(Thanks 2x, Ryan)
Happy Up Here from the necessary-umlauted Röyksopp on Vimeo. Directed by Reuben Sutherland. The vid answers the question: What if Space Invaders really came to Earth?
Though French artist Invader has posed that question all over the world, the vid is a delight.
I love Jizzed In My Pants and even Dick In A Box, but this shows they can bring the funny with other subject matter. Like a “nautical-theme pashmina afghan”.
“Poseidon, look at meee!” Watch I’m On A Boat now. (Thanks, Mike)
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