SXStereogum alum Blitzen Trapper put out the very fine Furr album last year, releasing the title track as a freebie. In posting Brandon said “The track’s mellow and straight-up folky until they let a harmonica in with a few electronics, making it a little coyote spacey but still pastoral.” I was really taken by their performance on Conan, which cut the digital squiggles and embraced the back porch stomp of it all, with a new round of earthy Trapper harmonies in tow. Director Jade Harris does the track proud here, sticking to the lyrics with a sepia photo flipbook of Blitzens and lupines and mice on magical beanstalks. Solid.
(via P4K.tv)
Furr is out via Sub Pop. This is what happened when we had Blitzen meet Carrie Brownstein. Speaking of, the Sleater-Kinney siren screened a rather hilarious ThunderAnt short with Fred Armisen last night as part of the Max Silvestri-hosted PopRally comedy event at MoMA last night. (Also showing: Nick Kroll and Soundfix stalwarts Gabe & Jenny and Joe Mande). The comedians screened responses to predesignated old-timey silent films, Fred & Carrie lampooning living room film critics while making me never want to use the word “fraught” ever again. Hopefully Videogum will have a look at that sometime soon.
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so. good. love.
Yay Blitzen Trapper! What an excellent video for my favorite BT song. This album was criminally underrated.
I put it on my top 10 (click below). I’m surprised it took this long for them to release a video.
These guys any good live?
I haven’t seen them yet, but I plan catching them when they play NYC next month.
saw them open for the hold steady in austin, the day before Wild Mountain Nation came out. they were absolutely incredible live.
Caught them in Boise, and thoroughly enjoyed them. It was a Wednesday at a small club, and they still came with a lot of energy.
They’re fantastic live. I think I’ve seen them four or five times?
Furr = Top 5 of 2008
I really really like this video, it fits the song quite nicely!
I don’t love the video, but the song is good and the band is excellent. #1 album of 2008 for me!
i saw em open for iron and wine and they were ok. nothing to get crazy over.
Great album, great song, great video!
very great song
on conan they “cut the digital squiggles”? then what was that dude with the synthesizer doing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCi6qr5qKw