I like the song, but the music video is lacking in originality. Anyway, enjoy.
From the album Volition (2012)
For a new artist, she’s quite original and has definitely got ‘the sound’ and a solid voice too, as lately its not been too often that I’ve thought so highly of many of the new artists appearing on the music scene, but as for Ruby Fröst, she’s just parted the sea leading to the promised land – finally some absolutely wonderful new music!
This is an intriguing video. Make sure you wait for the end!
From the album When Will You Wake Up? (2012)
Adroit and lushly ecstatic future pop and diverse electronic ecologies from yung Dutchman, Julien Mier. Landing somewhere between Ryan Yorke, D’Eon and the Rephlex lot, ‘When Will You Wake Up?’ sweeps us across shaking tribal rhythms and Radiohead-like post-rock on ‘Watercolour Sky’ to the glitching electronics, concrete textures, fottwork rhythms and jazz/pop elements of ‘Je t’ecoute’, via hyper-kinetic and lushly harmonized pop on ‘Rainbow Covered Home’ to the filigree organic/synthetic intricacies of ‘Capsized’. Impressive.
I’m back! I’m employed and busy, but I’m still trying to post! Here is So Many Wizards. I like the filming of this music video!
From the album Warm Nothing (2012)
Last one for a bit. Here is Junk Culture. I’m finally caught up from when I was absent for a while! WEIGHT LIFTED. Not really because I really don’t need to do this blog, but I like to.
Junk Culture – Wild Quiet (2012)
This is silly but it made me laugh and I thought the song was pretty good.
From the album Thanks Anyway (2012)
The first track off Woodpeckers sophomore album “Thanks Anyway”.
Release date: July 24, 2012.
Created by Josh Steinbauer & Josh Hollywood
Directed by Josh Hollywood Reynolds
Actors: AJ Abucay, Amber Scorah, Josh Hollywood, Josh Steinbauer, Birdie
Crew: Adam Sherer, Andrew Xue, Joel Martin, Joseph Hung, Marianne Chai
Tech notes: this was shot on a GH2 (hacked). often with the Panasonic 20mm pancake or a 50mm Sigma F1.4
Eh, this is really quality stuff. Check it out! This is the Acoustic version of the song so enjoy.
From the Tigers On Trains – Foundry (2012) album.
Just a little about the album:
Foundry is a no frills, silver lined indie-folk record that sounds like it could have come straight out of a foggy, eighteenth century forest. Still aglow with Grandfather’s three year old embers, Tigers on Trains’ follow-up effort almost takes on a Renaissance feel; the poetic lyrics will tug at your heart strings, the existential themes will make you contemplate ideals that you haven’t pondered since your adolescence, and the stripped-down, natural, completely acoustic instrumentals will lull you into an almost nirvana-like state of emotional equilibrium. There’s this pervading sensation of starting over, as if the world of music has collapsed under its own weight leaving only Christian Van Deurs, Mason Maggio, and an instrumental set to pick up the pieces. It’s not without its flaws, but it’s a damn good place to start.
I’m doing it. I’m posting two videos. Enjoy.
Both from the self titled album Milo Greene (2012).
Check this out. Kind a crazy story I guess:
Somewhere in the isolated foothills of northern California, there must be something magical in the water. How else to explain the musical culmination of a house-sitting stint that took three college classmates and turned them into Milo Greene, a very new and very good band with a self-titled debut album?
To be clear, there is no man named Milo Greene — it was merely a device concocted in the band’s early days to make it appear as though they had a manager. They’re hardly faking it on this album, ‘‘Milo Greene,’’ a tapestry of richly reverbed guitar, inventive drum work and something sorely missing amid today’s morass of arrange-by-numbers rock music — a beautifully delivered concept.
That concept is to present their music absent of the disturbances of a frenetic society that closes in from all sides. They admittedly aimed for a pastoral feel and it shows on wind-swept tracks like ‘‘What’s The Matter’’ and ‘‘Perfectly Aligned.’’
Milo Greene, now a five-piece outfit, is often carried here by lush vocals from Marlana Sheetz. She hits each note on ‘‘Son My Son’’ with perfect pitch, yet with just enough throaty delivery to keep the lyrics alive and seeping with emotion.
Some songs have a jazz cadence, while others are tinged with bluegrass. Each approach carries with it something contemplative about isolation amid bustle. ‘‘Milo Greene’’ is about as impressive a debut album you can have for music of this flavor.
Something nice to listen to. Has a enjoyable appeal.
From the album Sunrise Mountain (2012)
Something different and fresh. I like the video too!
From the album The Very Best – MTMTMK (2012)
Some info:
The Very Best, a London-based collaboration between Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and Swedish producer Johan Hugo, has a history of globalizing U.S. and European musical influences. Yet by including familiar reference points, the group also has tried tried to make global pop music, especially African pop music, more accessible to those same U.S. and European audiences. Its first mixtape featured interpolations of songs by artists as disparate as Michael Jackson, M.I.A. and Architecture in Helsinki; the video for the Very Best’s latest single, “Yoshua Alikuti,” pointedly references Lil’ Wayne’s “A Milli” video.
The group’s sophomore full-length “MTMTMK” mostly does away with the cheeky, occasionally cheesy appropriation that helped the band rise to prominence, opting instead for broad-strokes pop that seems designed to hit as many pleasure centers at once for people of as many different cultures as possible. The album is simultaneously a retrenchment of the group’s African bona fides and a nod to the contemporary currents of electronic music. Unlike Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig guesting on TVB’s “Warm Heart of Africa,” there is no effort this time to bring American indie rock to Senegalese fans (Dutch electro house, maybe), but rather a guest list that seems aimed to expose artists like Senegalese rapper Xuman or Malian singers Amadou and Miriam to American listeners.
