I am thankful for the nameless couple that danced, alone, to all of the following indie pop songs, which to me (and apparently only me) are way dancier than anything by Jay-Z.
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Partied Out…
-One freak’s commentary on one song (or party) each week-
We was up in the club so hard this weekend I’m having a hard time finding the strength to type. Hope y’all made it for GlassesGlasses’s inaugural bash at Royal Oak. As you can see from these pictures, it ‘twas off da hook/chain. So I’m just [...]
11.21 at Royal Oak
Saturday, November 21: glasses glasses goes royal.
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Hush Arbors
These are classic songs, very consistently written and recorded. As always, there’s a death-hippie Laurel Canyon feel that I think maybe Devendra Banhart also strives for but never quite achieves. For Hush Arbors, the vibe seems to come effortlessly, like an uncalculated way of life.
Digital Leather
Digital Leather makes hard, catchy, synth-based rock music, of the sort that Jay Reatard used to make pre-Matador, through his Lost Sounds and the aforementioned Terror Visions projects.
Would You Rather?
I am spectacularly indifferent towards this week’s new releases, newly hyped releases, and highly anticipated upcoming releases.
JEFF The Brotherhood
These guys are actually brothers who look like they just stepped out of a shag carpeted, hot-boxed van parked somewhere in the mid-70s (the decade, not the lower portion of Carnegie Hill). Basically, these southern gents are what Kings of Leon would aspire to be if they had a soul.
CMJ 2009
The chance to see bands who are still relatively unknown, geographically distant, or primarily studio projects is what makes CMJ worthwhile. I can’t think of any artists I’m desperate to see this year but I’ve posted a few shows I’m keen on here.
The Raveonettes
The Raveonettes are a band much more in than out of control on this release, though it’s those occasional latter moments that provide most of the album’s appeal. Indeed, the band is consistent here to the point that there’s something middle of the road about this workmanlike effort, despite its occasional moments of exuberance and spontaneity.
A Place To Bury Strangers
This album is fantastically, astoundingly hooky. It’s a propulsive, clanking, semi-industrial dance album in the spitting image of Joy Division
The Black Heart Procession
The Black Heart Procession has crafted one dark, strangely sexy track that features a rubbery, top-of-the-mix bass line; they sit back and let it convert new fans. Rats sounds vaguely like something Six Finger Satellite or Girls Against Boys might have recorded in their prime (the latter, possibly, as New Wet Kojak) and it leaves the rest of the album in the dust.
Broadcast
Witch Cults is off the fucking wall. Seriously, it’s an intensely, aggressively strange album. Rehearsing My Choir strange. I should also come clean–it isn’t exactly a Broadcast album.
Sunny Day Real Estate
Know what? Y’all can keep your Pavement reunion: Sub Pop just released a remastered edition of Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary.
Health
On the off chance that anyone was wondering, there aren’t any huge stylistic shifts on this album. Health hasn’t recorded 9 tracks of lo fi, Beach-Boys-influenced haze, or a collection of reggaeton hits, or a concept album about robots. In many respects, they re-recorded their last album, which isn’t a terrible strategy. But I was hoping for more.
Yo La Tengo
Musically, it’s hard not to enjoy Popular Songs, though there probably isn’t anything on here that will change your mind one way or the other about Yo La Tengo.