Something Borrowed: New Releases: Blackbird Blackbird Pure 7” (2010) Reblog From:doubledenimrecords / yvynyl
DD001 - 23rd July 2010.
Double Denim Records is beyond excited to announce Blackbird Blackbird as our inaugural limited release on our favourite format - the 7” single.
Blackbird Blackbird has emerged as one of the most talented guys in electronic music, with his shimmering sparkly pop jams - songs like ‘Pure’ and ‘So Sorry’ are like capsule love letters, set to the kind of glitter-ball synth music that is defining the year. ‘So Sorry’ is his breakout moment, with no time to catch your breath, straight in to the bounciest synth pop jam of the year so far and ‘Pure’ is the stuff of after hours dreaming, like being picked up by a cloud from your sleep and carried around on its back.
SIDE A - Blackbird Blackbird
1. Pure
2. So Sorry, Girl
Next Friday we will announce Side B. All we’re saying for now is that it’s a very exciting collaboration. Stay tuned.
You can pre-order the single here and it’s out on 23/7/2010:
Curse you currency exchange rate, you fickle mistress!
On the one hand, there is actually little in the world that I enjoy more than ordering the first vinyl release of a new label. I love supporting anybody that’s willing to put out a vinyl release in this climate, because trust me folks, short run, limited edition vinyl releases are often a break even proposition at best.
On the other hand, there’s little I enjoy less than paying to have vinyl shipped from england.
This is quite the dilemma, but I’m sure I’ll do the right thing.
Something Borrowed: New Video: Broken Social Scene “This Movie Is Broken” Reblog From: baeblemusic:
The much buzzed about movie centered around a Broken Social Scene concert is not in any way a documentary about the band. Rather it uses the music as a backdrop for a love story shot in Toronto. Not enough dialogue to tell if it will be a tear-jerker or a groan machine. The folks at NXNE have already seen the whole thing, so I suppose more can be found via Googling. For now, watch the trailer and decide for yourself…
Something Borrowed: New Releases: Reblog From:forestfamily
Pre-order the debut 7” from Lafayette, Colorado’s Gauntlet Hair. Limited to 500 copies on clear/white “cloudy” vinyl, with cover art featuring the Gauntlet Hair compound. Will ship on or before June 8 release date. Download both tracks below, and grab the 7” here while they last.
“Particularly heart-melting is Gauntlet Hair’s “I Was Thinking,” which is five minutes of cascading guitar bliss and shivery echoing vocals that sound like the wind blowing through your hair down the open road. Someone needs to put it on a movie soundtrack immediately.”
—THE FADER
“…a snowball made of sunlight and wrapped in glass, floating in a hall of reverb. It probably also has a Cadbury Creme center, for all I know”
—STRATOSPHERING
“…delirious, fire-spewing stomper from this Denver-based avant-pop duo…an unstoppable melodic heart that beats like it just ran an Alaskan winter mile in short-shorts…”
Normally I’d add something, but other than I hoped the Gauntlet Hair Compound was more like this, I think it’s all pretty much covered here! Give a listen to “I Was Thinking”, as well as read up on some hilarious Gauntlet Hair Dickery HERE.
Also, the last Forest Family release sold out it roughly a week. So if you don’t want to miss out, I wouldn’t sit on it.
Something Borrowed: Reblog From:thelionsmansion New Video: Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Later Live… with Jools Holland)
I think “Ambling Alp” is still possibly the hookiest single to come out this year.
The fact that it manages that in spite of truly atrocious lyric writing that attempts to make it the “Tubthumping” of the next generation is a testament to exactly how damn infectious the instruments and melody are.
Covers like this rarely get me. In the end the stripped down “vocals as the instruments” thing just leaves me wanting the original.
However, with the kick drum covering the low end, and the whistles covering the highs, Levek moves this particular cover to the next level dynamically. So when you combine that with the visual accompaniment, which matches perfectly, I am sold.
It also gives me a sudden craving to listen to Elliott Smith’s “I Didn’t Understand”
Further Information on Levek from yvynyl:
We’re totally going back to Yellow House on this baby, but damn. This a cappella rendition by Florida’s Levek (aka David Levesque) is stunning, especially with the visuals he set the song to. It makes sense… his bio he says, “I’m a bus driver that makes music. After a long day of elementary schoolers putting gum on my lovely pleather bus seats I enjoy a good space jam while sorting through the Disney VHS collection.”
Canada’s Memory House have added some new songs, and bits of songs to their tumblr blog, including a snippet of the song “Lately (Deuxieme)” from their amazing The Years E.P. with a few additions in the form of violins.
I’ll be honest, anything that takes me back to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is something I consider a good thing, and the use of Brion’s music from that as a backing in “lately” is something I’ve loved since hearing it. By the sound of it, more of that is only better .
In April, memoryhouse will be shooting some live videos with the talented folks over at Wood and Wires Productions . The stipulation is that, as with Vincent Moon’s Concert à Emporter series, the songs must be rendered without the pomp and circumstance of electric instrumentation.
We made some demos of how we’re performing the songs, with “lately” being my favorite, so I provided an excerpt above. Because I couldn’t resist slipping another nod to the ESotSM soundtrack in there somewhere, I decided that for the string arrangement (so great having memoryhouse songs with violin!) I’d transcribe a phrase from my favorite song from Brion’s score, “Bookstore”. Enjoy!
Look out for “lately (deuxième)” on wax this spring.
