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The New Year - "MMV"
We thought it would be wise (and witty) to start the New Year with the New Year, so this week's Drop finds the post-Bedhead Kadane brothers-fronted Touch & Go quintet offering up "MMV," a suitably thematic track from their excellent self-titled third collection. Professor Matt Kadane ably answered our questions about the track and the year ahead.
You're using "MMV" as the Roman Numerals for 2005? Yes.
Who'd you write this for? If it was for anyone, it was for Michael Dahlquist (Note: the Silkworm drummer who died when his car was struck from behind in 2005) and some people who were close to him.
Did you follow the resolutions in the song? I've tried to. On tour this past summer and fall drinking and laughing were easy. I don't sleep well and have failed in my resolve to sleep more. I find myself daydreaming a lot but not really dreaming at night, maybe for lack of sleep, as much as I think was the case twenty or even ten years ago.
Any resolutions this year? I never come close to living up to the big resolutions, like having more focus or being more productive. I'd be happy to be a better baker.
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)
The Fresh & Onlys - "Vanishing Cream" Video
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... (more)
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... (more)
