Another amazing song entitled Kids (by Sleigh Bells)

I am seriously blowing out my eardrums listening to this... I can't wait to run to this song later on. Right about :53 to 1:05 is so sick.

The entire Treats album is awesome so far!!

Broken Bells

Mad good. Reminds me of high school music (maybe because of The Shins frontman James Mercer). The duo of Mercer and Danger Mouse (Brian Burton)=gold. Love the combination of electronic/experimental with classic beats and melodies. Cool "pastiche" as it were. Here are my faves so far:

Album was just released on the 9th, I DEFINITELY recommend it. Can't find any other good videos of the music, but it's all over the blogosphere so hop onto elbo.ws or hypem to find it.

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

New album is mad good. My favorite song right now is "Rhinestone Eyes." I'm digging into all the other songs, but this is the first that jumped out to me (though "Welcome to the World Of The Plastic Beach" is pretty badass with the Snoop track). Love the mixing of genres; got some inspiration from 80's pop, modern rap, electronica and spoken word. Genius in general. Can't wait to get more into it when I'm done with finals.



Other songs I love: "Superfast Jellyfish" (Parliament-esque) and "White Flag" (so freaking cool in its combination of rap and an almost video game style electro track and then framed in a fanciful eastern style instrumental track). The tracks are all so intricate and creative--seriously, genius.





Love the artwork/animation for Gorillaz. Fascinating. Need to work on my drawing skills so maybe I could make similar videos. Cool website, too.

Beach House on NYMag

Ok, like I've said before, I saw Beach House open for Grizzly Bear this fall and thought they were okay. But go into any Urban Outfitters now, or on the music blogs, and you'll see them topping the charts. NYMag interviewed Baltimore duo-member Alex Scally about their upcoming European tour, new album "Teen Dream" and the band in general.

I'm kind of getting won over by them. The new album sounds much better than their previous two.

It'd be really fun to shoot a music video for them (16 mil, hazy, dreamlike, gorgeous but haunting aesthetic, you know what I mean?...)



Funny quotes from the interview:

"Is there a reason you’re not kicking off your tour in the U.S.?
It’s really hard to cross the mountainous, rocky terrain of America in the winter time. It just seems really treacherous to tour really far up north this time of year, but come around March people are much more ready to be alive. Whereas in Europe, they’re so beaten down after millennia of oppression, they’ll come out whenever."

"Now that you’re constantly touring, what’s your relationship like with your hometown of Baltimore?
Well, we have a practice space in Baltimore that’s our place of solace, our hub. It’s so hard to find a space like that. It’s like a really cool girlfriend. It’s our replacement girlfriend. People making music here, the families of support for musicians, I don’t think there’s anything like it anywhere else in the country. It’s an easy place to live. It’s so cheap. I think that the world of arts and music is just not very competitive, it’s really lively, but not competitive. I feel like in New York there are people with money lurking in the shadows saying, “You’re next!” That’s not happening in Baltimore. It’s like a giant adult playground."


I like this one:

"The phrase “teen dream” is sort of self-explanatory, but I’m gonna ask you to explain it anyway.
I think it’s about pulling back the veil of that composed, structured feeling we all tend to give ourselves. It’s really not for teens, or about teens. It’s about that feeling that you had and then you lost. You’ll get it back for a day at a time, or for an hour when you’re conversing with some friend. It’s all about that wild sensibility. I think that’s intellectually why we named it that. But how we picked it, like everything with our band, it was just blurted out at one point and it seemed completely appropriate. I think Victoria uttered the words."

One Life Stand

Currently listening to the new Hot Chip album One Life Stand [slated to be released Feb 9th in North America omgggg] and it is SO GOOD so far.

The tracks are:

1. Thieves In The Night

2. Hand Me Down Your Love

3. I Feel Better

4. One Life Stand

5. Brothers

6. Slush

7. Alley Cats

8. We Have Love

9. Keep Quiet

10. Take It In

More substantial opinion coming soon maybe. It's just that new music high right now. It's love!!!