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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Colin Hay Responds To "Down Under" Verdict • Hay is not happy. He says the flute line in question was a live "improvisation" that made it onto the official "Down Under" recording a year after the song was written. Read his full statement, including a few other convincing counter-arguments, here.
From naming stages and tents Which, What, This, That, and Other so that asking for directions can't help but become a stoned Abbot & Costello routine, to unveiling its lineup via a protracted runup of internet-published "clues," to just generally seeing what happens when hipsters and hippies are forced to be unshowered together on a farm for three days, Bonnaroo's always run their festival with an eye toward having fun with the form and taking the piss -- while also being the most high profile of the "totally immersive" fests (case in point: seeing Kanye at 5AM, which would happen nowhere else on earth). This year, though, the fest is going even further with having fun with the form or the protracted-lineup-reveal situation and the etc.: Bonnaroo's announcing their lineup over a twelve hour period today, on MySpace and Twitter, from 12PM to 12AM. Neat! I mean, if you like your lineups piecemeal, this is great news. You might even want to buy tickets the second they go on sale, at noon today. If you like knowing who is playing all at once, come back tonight. Either way we'll be updating this post with the lineup as it's announced.
We've heard various Bonnarumors, but here's a dynamically updated list of BonnaCONFIRMATIONS (perfect):
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With their carefully sustained clandestine aesthetic and tendency toward darker but still deeply jubilant dance music, the Golden Filter are, in one sense or another, the NYC version of the Knife. And, yeah, in other senses their not. As far as Big Apple groups go, though, Penelope and Stephen do an admirable job of getting out there and going for it without the attendant overexposure. Now, after a series of impeccably packaged singles and sundry remixes, their official full-length debut Voluspa is out in April. Take a listen to "Hide Me," which might sound familiar until it goes where the "demo" didn't.
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MGMT Congratulations Details • So much better than their sophomore album's working title, Mad Kudos. Spacemen 3's Peter Kember produced and Dave Fridmann mixed Congratulations, which will be out April 13. Andrew VanWyngarden reveals the tracklist and the album's "surfing thread" over at SPIN.
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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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