February 9, 2010
Wild Beats' previous Two Dancers video for "All The King's Men" was set in a mystical forest peopled with various fair maidens (and the band). Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, aka Institute For Eyes, pilot us toward some actual wild beasts in this clip for "We Still Got The Taste Dancin On Our Tongues," which we're told is "a tale of insatiable lust, full of twisted bawdiness and louche adventures." With that in mind, we find the guys floating on their backs in the presence of snorting, galloping horses. If the Institute For Eyes are referencing Zoo, its an interesting place to take this "insatiable lust." If they don't know the film? Hilarious.
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Los Angeles-via-Pennsylvania multi-instrumental singer and home recordist Evan Voytas -- sort of a more clean-cut Ariel Pink -- creates strange synth-pop/space-disco outings that feel danceable but private and insular. The idea's explored in the video for his most recent single "I Run With You, Spirit Animal." The clip was directed by Carlos Charlie Perez, who recently finished the upcoming Vampire Weekend video and shot those tongue-in-cheek promos that showed up on ithinkuracontra.com. You'll find that playfulness, here as well, after Voytas locates a place to rest his plank of wood while he tries on sunglasses and animal masks.
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Onetime BTW Under Byen's fourth album Alt Er Tabt ("All Is Lost") is out in April. The Denmark group's followup to 2006's Samme Stof Som Stof definitely has an anguished, although not done-for feel. In their new form, they're without a pianist and their one-time orchestra, which makes things immediately sparer, like the whispered warping and unfurling bedroom-folk abstractions of Islaja or Lau Nau. See, for instance, the collection's quietly swarming title track. In a translated statement about its video, director (and visual artist) Sidse Carstens says she's commenting on "how women of today still have to tear down their conception of perfection." It's like an intensely spare diorama installation. The Yellow Wallpaper came up around the water cooler this morning. You wouldn't be wrong to think about "Romance Is Boring," too.
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Four years after the worthy Derdang Derdang, London's Archie Bronson Outfit are set to followup that last LP's dark blues/rusty grooved garage rock with a long-awaited third album, titled Coconut. On production is sorta-ex-DFA-dude Tim Goldsworthy, whose stellar C.V. includes the likes of the Rapture and Hercules & Love Affair. You'll hear some of that dirty and discomfiting dance sensibility creep into Coconut's first single "Shark's Tooth": throbs of bass, scraped guitars, like their rock gut a little grimier and their dance-blues turned a little more to the psych. The official video is a sci-fi odyssey, with effects like Laser Cats and animation via Monty Python. Are we laughing, or are we vexed? "Dart For My Sweetheart" it is not. But it is good.
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A few days ago we posted the The Wicker Man-meets-Jewelled Antler sun splotches of the Fresh & Onlys' (sorta) eerie "Invisible Forces" video. Things get psychedelic in a more intensely tripped-out (and Sublime Frequencies DVD) way in the EyeBodega-directed clip for "Vanishing Cream," a new song from an upcoming 7" being released by the French label Plastic Spoons. One thing you might notice overlapping between this and the last one are a series of oracular/mystical triangle and diamond shapes.
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A statement from Third Man Records, the White Stripes, and their management at the band's website, claims the Air Force Reserve's Superbowl Ad used a re-recorded version of "I Fell In Love With A Girl" without the band -- or anyone involved with the band's -- permission. (It's a different monster than that Coke/Bond snafu.) To quote the Air Force about their "Grab Some Air" commercial:
The spot features the high-octane thrills of action sports at its best. This is sure to capture the interest of even the most enthusiastic sports fan.
It also features a re-recording of "I Fell In Love With A Girl" at its worst sure to capture the interest of even the most unenthusiastic sports fan. Watch "Grab Some Air" and then checkout the Stripes' carefully worded two cents:
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February 8, 2010
Ben + Vesper are a married couple in Northern NJ. They have kids. They also write that they "have almost exactly the same hair color in the right light and definitely both have curlz in any light." They also "paint pictures and have cell phones to call their friends and work at home and eat meals and drink drinks and have a sign above their kitchen door that says "Love One Another," etc. These are simple facts that could apply to just about anyone in a relationship, anywhere, which is part of the appeal of their simple, honest-seeming songs. But there's also an ambitiousness to the constructions. We checked in with their 13-track LP All This Could Kill You back in '07. That one was produced by their label's head Daniel Smith. B + V's new five-song, 16-minute EP LuvInIdleness was produced (and arranged sweepingly) by Sufjan Stevens: Its origins are as homey as the above quotes, the results grander (and weirder) than might be expected.
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Them Crooked Vultures, Crisis Of Conformity Play SNL • The supergroup's performance was overshadowed by Crisis Of Conformity, Fred Armisen and Dave Grohl's pitch-perfect hardcore punk spoof. Plus John Paul Jones had the line of the night in an unaired sketch (with ?uesto) about farts. Watch and learn.
