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Fujiya & Miyagi - "Dishwasher"
Brighton smooth talkers Fujiya & Miyagi's new album Lightbulbs is forthcoming 9/16 on Deaf Dumb & Blind in the States. (It follows 2006's "Ankle Injuries"-birthing Transparent Things.) In advance of the release, Lightbulbs standout "Dishwasher" premieres in this week's 'Gum Drop. F&M's David Best, aka Miyagi, answered our questions about the track.
"Dishwasher" feels like part come-on/part yuppie/bourgeois critique. Can you explain the inspiration for the storyline? The intention? It's not really an attack on a consumer society, more an observation. Maybe it's also a comment on the death of ambition or just getting older, when people stop thinking about sex and think more about how much storage facilities they have. Because everybody buys their furniture from IKEA and gets their food from Tesco's, people and places are beginning to look the same. We think we've got choices but we haven't really.
What will she find when she looks inside the encyclopedia? Maybe a nice pair of curtains or a rug to tie the room together...
Evan Voytas - "I Run With You, Spirit Animal" Video
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... (more)
Dr. Dog - "Shadow People" (Stereogum Premiere)
Dr. Dog have been a band for over a decade now, Philadelphia-based throughout. Their hometown hasn't factored much into their sound, which throws back to the Beatles-era of the classic rock school, or their themes and lyrical schemes. That's changed... (more)
Joanna Newsom - "Kingfisher"
We've heard the stylistically diverse "81" pastoral and jazzy "Good Intentions Paving Company" outing. Now, after adding the gorgeous 9-minute madrigal/short story "Kingfisher" to the Have One On Me tracklist, the only thing to be sure of is that the... (more)
Under Byen - "Alt Er Tabt" Video (Stereogum Premiere)
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... (more)
Archie Bronson Outfit - "Shark's Tooth" Video (Stereogum Premiere)
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... (more)
