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+/- {Plus/Minus} - "Reeling In The Years"
Last month we brought you +/- 's "Snowblind," a dusky, exhilarating track from the Brooklyn trio's forthcoming forth album Xs On Your Eyes (10/21, Absolutely Kosher). In this week's Drop, we're offering up "Reeling In The Years" (not "Reelin' In The Years," mind you), the Japanese bonus track for the collection. We caught up with front man James Baluyut and asked him about Steely Dan, among other things.
Is the title of the song a direct reference to Steely Dan? Indirect? It's indirect. I was writing the lyrics and somehow it just made sense. It has nothing to do with their song ... just happened to work out in a way where I could reference their great song title in a fun/not so subtle way.
What inspired the song's storyline? Based on personal experience or on a certain type/fictional narrative? It's vaguely about someone I know and how his all-encompassing indecision/fear is ruining his life -- so I guess it's based on personal experience.
Will the song's subject ever get it down? I certainly hope so. But I've been waiting for that for a long time.
New Frightened Rabbit - "Living In Colour" & "Nothing Like You" (Live On BBC6)
Frightened Rabbit's already four-and-half minutes into the best album reviews of their career on the back of the expansively intimate lead single "Swim Until You Can't See Land," which landed complete with an appropriately simple yet stunning, flashlit video. The... (more)
New Lavender Diamond Video - "Like A Prayer" (Madonna Cover)
Two years late is better than never. Becky Stark aka Lavender Diamond joined the likes of Ariel Pink and Giant Drag on Through The Wilderness, an album of Madonna covers benefiting Madge's Raising Malawi charity released the third week of... (more)
Parenthetical Girls, Xiu Xiu Cover Morrissey
The bands split sides of a 7" to pay tribute to Moz, with Xiu Xiu tackling "I Am Hated For Loving" and Parenthetical Girls on "Handsome Devil." Hear the Girls' take at MySpace. More info at Upset The Rhythm.... (more)
Let The Joanna Newsom 2010 Rumor Mill Begin
The bra commercial, the urban mom video cameo, popping up as an anonymous model on a street-style blog, and now a photo for Giorgio Armani's United Artist campaign for W mag: Joanna Newsom's in the midst of a clear shift... (more)
