CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG AND BECK: HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Discosalt Video of the Week 12/07/09: New Video from Charlotte Gainsbourg for her new single “Heaven Can Wait” featuring Beck.
YEASAYER: AMBLING ALP
Discosalt album of the week 30/11/09: New Video for Yeasayer’s new single Ambling Alp.
NEW GRIZZLY BEAR VIDEO: READY, ABLE
I first saw Allison Schulnik’s Claymation short “Hobo Clown”, this past summer as part of the Dark Toons Rooftop film festival in New York and it absolutely floored me. Now Allison has lent her happy fool/sad misfit clown character to a new music video to one of my favorite tracks from the summer, Grizzly Bear’s ‘Ready, Able’ off their album Veckitimest. Check out the Grizzly Bear video and Hobo Clown below.
FUCK BUTTONS: BRIGHT TOMORROW
With a name like Fuck Buttons, you are obviously going to get peoples attention. The real trick is holding it and the two piece experimental dance minded noise group from England do a pretty good job. The new single “Surf Solar” off “Bright Tomorrow”, runs over ten minutes on the album but has been condensed into a nice 3:42 vid treatment that melds a four-to-the floor pulse to stuttering samples smeared with an intense, industrial and somewhat evil sonic loop. For a noise group, Fuck Buttons are surprisingly accessible, and they drop a dreamy mix of sheen melodic undercurrents and abrasive climaxes. Kinda sounds like a girl I used to date. A style that hints less towards unwelcome noise and more towards Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Purient, and Black Dice. Trippy video to boot.
THE ANTLERS: HOSPICE
Recently, Ive been really getting into Brooklyn band The Antlers. The new album Hospice tells the story of a man who is slowly losing the love of his life to bone cancer as he watches over her in the hospital ward. Sound heartbreaking?, well it is. but the album is more about overcoming things than sinking into helplessness. And the video for “Two” is anything from dreary. Bright, vivid, 2-D version of the band playing alone in an apartment where the music fills up the empty space. Eventually, the music overcomes everything and the band members limbs, heads and bodies slowly float off in different directions.
OH NO ONO: EGGS
Death, sexual fantasies and embarassing erections…just not as funny as junior high or a Woody Allen movie. Its Danish alt-pop band Oh No Ono’s new eerie video for “Swim” released on their new album Eggs. I’m strangely intrigued by Director Adam Hashemi’s creepy direction and yet the ending of the video left me wanting to shower with my clothes on. Im also dumbfounded as to how the kid from the shining has only reached puberty and is acting in music videos? I guess the idea is that puberty is confusing, and so is this strange journey into the Oedipal daydreams of a creepy kid. redrum!
MIKA MIKO: WE BE XUXA
What is this? It’s Mika Miko, an underground youth punk/noise band from LA that have been turning out no-wave pony funk for the LA rave-up Smell Scene, since 2003. 4 chicks, 1 guy, 4 of whom claim to still live with their folks, who are notorious for playing rowdy free shows at random kids birthday parties in the valley. Classic post punk mixed with a little art punk, some B52’s base lines, 1970s fractured dance beats, jagged guitars, raunchy jokes and songs about late night snacks. The new album “We Be Xuxa” which is out May 5 via Post Present Medium, features not one, but two songs about wanting a turkey sandwich. Sold! “I Got A Lot( New New New)” is the first single and the band will be on tour on the east coast beginning in June. Buy the album, play it loud and annoy your neighbors.
BAT FOR LASHES: WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO
Discosalt Video of the Week 7/31/08: Bat for Lashes aka. Natasha Khan’s video for “What’s a Girl to Do” from the record Fur And Gold out now on Caroline Records.
