Archive for March, 2010

MGMT – Flash Delirium (official site)
A particularly surreal start to your Tuesday morning here (two posts in two days – I’m amazed as well), with the brand new MGMT video.
It’s taken from Congratulations, the follow up to their epic self titled debut, and has widely been described as the album that might end their career. [...]

Mother Mother – Hayloft (Youtube)
A scorcher of a track for your Monday afternoon from Mother Mother. This was introduced to me by the lovely Lauren Laverne when I was working on her BBC 6 Music show (a station which you should all get involved in saving, by the by), and I was ashamed to say [...]

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim featuring Santigold – Please Don’t (DavidByrne.com)
A fantastic track, this, that needs a little explaining. Fatboy Slim and David Byrne have put together a concept album called Here Lies Love, based on the life of the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos. Yep, you read that right.
There’s some fantastic [...]

Caribou – Odessa (Youtube)
Just a quick one today – the very wonderful Caribou return with the very lovely Odessa.
Take some time out of your day to enjoy this track, because the way their sound has developed is truly outstanding. A band and an album to watch.

Yeasayer – ONE

In: Music Video

14 Mar 2010

Yeasayer – ONE (Vimeo)
Yeasayer are one of the favourite acts round at Bitter Fingers towers. After having a gander at Ambling Alp towards the end of last year, we now get to take a look at their video for the really rather brilliant ONE.
I’m not going to attempt to explain the video, because I have [...]


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