Audacity of huge! Simian Mobile Disco! Super traaaack!
* Paolo Nutini
* Whitest Boy
* Ellen Allien – hope she brings Apparat
* Micachu & the shapes
* Ye vet
* Houray Fever Ray
Thanks to the Coen’s latest film, Burn after reading, I rediscovered how a guffaw sounds, and as if that wasn’t enough spoiling, I got to know a jolly band through the soundtrack. The Fugs couldn’t end the film better with their ‘CIA man’. Speaking of icing on the cake.
I’ve just been listening to Worried Noodles, a double cd (released in 2007) raked together by the quirky incarnation of quirk, artist David Shrigley. The songs are created by 39 top-drawer bands, and are based on the artist’s lyrics, which are Shrigley all over. This track, for example, is just fatter than fat (music by Tussle, lyrics and voice by David Shrigley):
Here you find an in depth review by the (slightly top-down) Pitchfork guys.
And the full tracklist (which immediately gives you the 21st century canon of nifty bands)
which you can partly listen to here.
And for the sake of completeness, a short portrait of David Shrigley about his animationfilm “Who I am and What i want“.
Snorry, no images but the sound will do. This is a brand new track from yoyow-species Common, in collaboration with Chester French, two boys from Massachusetts, being chased by Pharell, Mr West and Jermaine Dupri to catch them into their labels (they chose Pharrell’s Star Trak).
Choosing your buddies, rule number one on planet music. And yes, letting yoyow-species do it with hipcat-species seems to be very fruitful. This will become a popular dancefloor killer, if you ask Suzy from the musicpolice.
More Chester French here. ‘Beneath the veil’ is a good song, the other ones are so so. To keep an eye on anyway.
Source: Lifelounge
Diplo has made a cooled down remix of Brazilian Girls’ new single ‘Good time’. Jumpy jumpy!
Source: Lifelounge
(or live a little more) (better)
Lykke Li ‘Breaking it Up’
Very very belly.
Another one (she’s too cool), together with Bon Iver in LA.
Or, same song, but different setting, and as candycool.
candycool.. new word..
Short Lykke Li’s debut cd review
I just listened to her full cd ‘Youth Novels‘, and I must say I’m a little disappointed after seeing her
grooving so well. The cd is a little ‘flat’ or ‘one-dimensional’, and the sound is faint sometimes,
although songs like ‘Breaking it up’, ‘Dance dance dance’ and ‘I’m good, I’m gone’ certainly
deserve a poppy bow. And she is young, after all. Or is that a cheap excuse nowadays?
In general, Lykke Li maybe needs a band with more body to give her songs, well, euh, more body.
But she’s got a great groove, and the voice (as long as she doesn’t sweeten it up too much),
and the right gaze. Already a good start, if you ask Suzy from the music police.
Keep on jamming with the rough guys in between the dog poos Lykke Li!
Afterthought about the busking phenomenon.
Making music on the streets in between garbage and dog poos no longer appears to be the privilege of buskers.
With Roisin Murphy singing – out of the blue – on the streets of London and Frank Pixie Black on the
rue Dansaert in Brussels, the vibe is certainly set this year. After getting art out of the musea,
the time is now for popmusic to explore the streets…
Let the post-modern hippie era begin!
With Roisin as heroine..
..the concert was actually organized by BBC’s Culture show as part of their Busking Challenge..
Yes yes, post-modern hippie-ism, that is.
PS: And the list gets longer..
Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws do it on the streets as well. Perfect song for a cobbled road..
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