Phoenix: “1901”
[from Wolfgang Amadeux Phoenix; out 05.25.09]
New Phoenix tune! YUSSSSSSSSS!!
[Photo via pds]
Oh! Camera Obscura’s announced their first single from the forthcoming album release of My Maudlin Career, which comes out on April 20th. Take a listen.
Besides this and the aforementioned Hush, I’ve been really looking forward to Phoenix’s new LP that’s ridiculously titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix . The music outlook for 2009 is shaping up to be mighty AWESOME.
[from Microcastles/Weird Era Continued; released 10.28.08 on 4AD]
It’s Friday! And that calls for a celebration!
Is it just me or did Deerhunter become a lot sexier with this song?
Cat Power has been cruelly teasing us with this gorgeous cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity for the past six months. Watching this 30-second clip of an ugly, overpriced car with subpar performance over and over is just torture; release the entire song already!
100 milestone
It’s always a momentous occasion when a song reaches the century mark on iTunes. After scanning through my list of songs earlier, I couldn’t help but notice that Vampire Weekend’s Cape Code Kwassa Kwassa was at 99 plays and has been stuck there for a while. I couldn’t help myself; I had to press play and cement its place in history.
I know it’s a little embarrassing when someone gets a glance at your list of top played songs on iTunes, but 100 plays is a big deal. I’ve had this laptop for a year now so my play counts didn’t transfer over from my last computer where I think I had over 20 songs that reached that milestone. (They were even more embarrassing.) It’s a shame my car doesn’t have a dock for my iPod otherwise this list would be much different.
Anyway, this is a pretty good snapshot of what’s been going through my ears on repeat for the past year. It’s of course biased towards songs released last year, although some tunes from the soon to be released Hush has crept in the top 25 faster than expected.
[from Merriweather Post Pavilion; released 01.20.09 on Domino]
Carles is right YALL! We are living in a Post Merriweather Post Pavilion World. Electrobloghaus-core, gimmicky art and fashion, and the resulting degenerate partying lifestyle are dying off. Nirvana’s Nevermind waved the end of a decade of greed, excess, and moral decay. But no one complained let alone cared about the Nineties because we had a prosperous economy with a taste for blissful yet cursory entertainments, via mass media consolidations before the indiscriminate rise of the internets. The rapid deterioration of the current economy is a telling sign and a reflection of the overindulgent Eighties and of the present lost generation of information junkies. We need to be more responsible and our meme meme generation has to grow up and redirect its youthful energies to worthwhile causes. AnCo’s MPP marks a paradigm shift to an ethos starved for individual selflessness that is meaningful, sustainable, and collectively altruistic. Is it by chance that this release coincides with the Obama Presidency? I think not.
2009 Coachella lineup
The 2009 Coachella lineup has been up for a while now and it does not look pretty, especially with the $300 price tag + lodging.
The first day is a total let down and the big acts on the second day are all right but the smaller acts leave something to be desired. The only day worth going to is Sunday where there are quality acts from top to bottom: No Age, Vivian Girls, Lykke Li, Friendly Fires, Sebastien Tellier, Clipse, The Kills, Jenny Lewis, Antony & the Johnsons, Peter Bjorn & John, Lupe Fiasco, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and the Cure — it’s actually great, really.
Coachella is lacking that wow factor this year and I’m still surprised none of the top trance DJs are playing. I’ve gone the past four years, but it looks like I’m going to miss out this time around. I wish I had the extra dough to go to SXSW in March…
[from Get Awkward; Released 03.17.08 on XL]
Dare I say, Best Song of 2008? YES! Be Your Own Pet’s Becky is the Best Song of 2008. There, I said it.
R.I.P. Be Your Own Pet
[Photo courtesy of Mudsugar]
Runner-ups:
Alphabeat - 10,000 Nights Of Thunder
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Chairlift - Bruises
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season
Deerhunter - Saved By Old Times
The Dodos - Fools
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Being Bad Feels Pretty Good
Dragonette - I Get Around
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Friendly Fires - Paris ft. Au Revoir Simone (Aeroplane Remix)
The Kills - Last Day Of Magic
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Lykke Li - Little Bit
M83 - Kim & Jessie
MGMT - Kids
Sebastien Tellier - Divine
No Age - Here Should Be My Home
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
Pretty Sky
Lush vocals soaring weightlessly above euphoric feedback, Asobi Seksu returns with their third full-length, Hush. There is a quiet unrest throughout this properly titled album. The ethereal vibrancy of Yuki’s voice coupled with the boisterous guitars and drums create an atmosphere interlaced with aggression, jubilation, and the subsequent ecstasy. Refined and less impulsive and sonorous than their previous efforts, Hush is blissfully sweeping, colorfully layered, and all the more infectious.
São Paulo photo by Jan Egil Kirkebø. Moleskine-inspired image by Lost in Scotland.
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