New Morcheeba Video - "Enjoy The Ride"
Morcheeba's about to release their sixth album, the second without vocalist Skye Edwards, but someone's gotta add a voice to the trip hop, so they have plenty of help from guest singers like Thomas Dybdahl, Cool Calm Pete, etc. For "Enjoy The Ride" it's British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke. The mellow, melancholic, but ultimately uplifting tune comes armed with a Joel Trussell-drawn video set in a witching-hour graveyard. Tussell did the awesome "War Photographer" video, too. Remember those guitar-shredding Viking warlords? Here, folks perform pear-pealing, grave-rubbing rituals as the ravens fly. Ghosts -- sick of dealing with worms and vomit -- return to eat pears, toss gravestones, and cloud surf with a gaggle of shape-shifted animals. We're talking Nathaniel Hawthorne shit.
Accept death, dude, stop chasing shadows, just enjoy the ride. Kinda makes us think of this + this, though feel free to add Gorillaz to the equation. Also feel free to play the Dive Deep video game or hear more of the record at the band's MySpace.
Dive Deep is out 2/4 in Europe on Pias.
Posted at 9:47 AM in Video
Tags: Morcheeba
post-skye morcheeba just makes me sad.
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I agree with v. Morcheeba without Skye doesn't work.
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I thought the song and the video were actually pretty good. Maybe not, "run out and buy the album" good, but I enjoyed it all the way through.
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glad to see counting crows & morcheeba posted before radiohead. man.....
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What happened with that, anyway? The only vague reference I can find to it on Wikipedia is, "Upon being left out by Morcheeba, Edwards was replaced by... [blah blah blah]". Did the other two dudes throw a party and not invite her one time or something?
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The album is actually very very good. We have to let musicians evolve instead of being attached to one particular member of the group. Morcheeba is much much more than just their former singer. I think its only fair for fans to suspend their expectations and listen to the music before making judgments.
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