oOoOO – “NoWayBack (Feat. Butterclock)” (Stereogum Premiere)
Witch residence purveyors oOoOO return this spring with a new EP, Our Loving Is Killing, for Tri Angle Records. The song we have nowadays is a wispy, ominous track with a stuttering backbeat, Butterclock’s vocals including another layer of even now, hazy incantations. Download “NoWayBack” right after the jump.
Our Loving Is Killing Us is out four/10 on Tri Angle.
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Napolian – “False Memories” Video
Electronic music up-and-comer Napolian has now been folded into the Software Records crew (Oneohtrix Point Never, Ford & Lopatin), so it is almost certainly no coincidence that his clip for “False Memories” includes the soupy, murked-up found footage vibe that his labelmates seem to be to enjoy. Observe the clip for the dancey track under.
The Rejoice EP is out these days on Software/Mexican Summer time.
Mirel Wagner – “No Death”
Mirel Wagner is a youthful singer-songwriter who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Finland, which is an interesting mixture. Last year, her self-titled debut album came out in Europe, and it’ll get a release above here in March. Beneath, listen to and watch the video for “No Death,” a nonetheless and beautiful acoustic song from the album. It sounds like a creepy torch quantity from a spaghetti western, and it is the sort of song wherever you quit what you’re doing to listen when it comes on.
(by way of Pitchfork)
Mirel Wagner is out 3/27 on Friendly Fire.
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Album Of The Week: Leonard Cohen Old Ideas
The story goes like this: Just a couple of years ago, Leonard Cohen was a septuagenarian retiree, more or much less carried out with music, living in a Buddhist monastery in California. He stopped touring in 1993, and his final studio album, Dear Heather, came out in 2004. Cohen had carried out lots in his daily life, releasing at least four albums that are in the dorm-room canon for anybody getting severe about loving music and, along with Serge Gainsbourg, defining a sophisticated-sensualist persona that’s grow to be 1 of rock’s wonderful archetypes. He’d far more than earned the possibility to devote the rest of his life in quiet meditation. But although he was residing in that monastery, a former manager created off with all of his income, and he had to return to the road in 2009 in purchase to remain financially solvent. The men and women who noticed individuals shows said rapturous issues about them. At some point, a court awarded Cohen $ 9.five million, and I really don’t know if he’s collected however. But both way, he’s all of a sudden returned to the business of making music. And so maybe we have that crooked manager to thank for the existence of Old Ideas, Cohen’s lovely, elegiac sprawl of a new album.
Cohen was a full-grown guy and an acclaimed writer before he got into the music game, and his unflappable presence has constantly carried a specific gravity on record. Think about, for illustration, the way he sold the horrors-of-war narrative of “The Partisan,” an old French Resistance song that Cohen translated into English on his 1969 album Songs From A Room. The stakes on that song couldn’t be more urgent, but Cohen intoned them in a gravelly deadpan sing-speak that at occasions grew to become a straight-up sigh. He sounded bored, and that pushed the song additional toward the uncanny. With age, that presence has only elevated. At this point, his voice is a sandpaper whisper, one particular that only nods toward melody. And that’s fine, considering that his timing is impeccable and every single a single of his words feels weighted with meaning.
When he’s filling out his tax returns, Cohen most likely writes “poet” as his occupation, and The New Yorker ran the lyrics of the Outdated Suggestions opener “Going Home” as pure poetry. And as often, his lyrics are elliptical and challenging to parse. (Opening lines: “I’d like to speak with Leonard / He’s a sportsman and a shepherd / He’s a lazy bastard living in a suit.”) But as a sheer aesthetic experience, they operate.
The instrumentation on the album is bleak and minimal, not far eliminated from the sort of thing that’s been on each Bob Dylan album since Time Out Of Mind. On diverse songs, we hear refracted bits of blues or doo-wop or gypsy music. But it’s often completed by means of this smooth, relaxed filter, and Cohen usually sounds like he’s reclined in that chair on the album cover. But even with Cohen doing much less actual singing that he’s completed in the past, there’s a melodic grace and confidence to these songs. And so the finest way to describe Outdated Suggestions may possibly be this: It’s a late-period Tom Waits album, only with the junkyard hollering removed completely and only the basic, elegant lullabies remaining. It’s a deeply soothing piece of function, a single that does Cohen’s long legacy proud.
Old Tips is out these days on Columbia. Stream it here.
M.I.A. Confirms Super Bowl Appearance
Rumors have been swirling for a while, and now M.I.A. herself has confirmed them. When Madonna performs at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, she’ll perform her new single “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” and her collaborators M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj will join her in the middle of the field. M.I.A. may have had a spotty few years, but this is still just about as big as it gets.
M.I.A. dropped the info-bomb on Zane Lowe’s BBC radio show today, as NME reports. Here’s what she said: “If you’re gonna go to the Super Bowl, you might as well go with America’s biggest female icons.” I love the resignation there. This would, of course, explain why she didn’t sing with Tom Petty a couple of years ago.
M.I.A.’s own new album should land this summer. The first single “Bad Girls” is on the internet today, and it’s dope.
Watch Bon Iver’s Grammy Commercial
The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be handed out at the Staples Center on two/12, and although Bon Iver will not be executing at the ceremony, the band is up for some of the night’s greatest awards, like Record Of The 12 months, Song Of The 12 months, and Finest New Artist. That is enough to have inspired a specific commercial featuring cool, wintry animation and the sounds of “Holocene.” The spot was developed by the Recording Academy and ad partner TBWAChiatDay, and is one of 4 “We Are Music” artist-themed tune-ins (along with Adele, Foo Fighters, and Skrillex) being rolled out before the large night. Verify it out Bon Iver’s under.
Can somebody ani.gif that for me? The Grammys air 2/12 on CBS at 8 PM EST.
James Murphy Coffee Coming Soon?
Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy (it nonetheless hurts to type those words) is a noted foodie, as any person who go through this awesomely absurd GQ post can inform you. And like Bonnie “Prince” Billy just before him, he’s planning on giving the globe his own mix of coffee. As Grub Street reports, Murphy is arranging on developing his very own mix of espresso, which he plans to sell in a single single shop, and he’s pretty hands-on with the procedure.
According to Murphy himself, he plans to “just go to a roaster who lives near me and begin tweaking beans and temperatures… I believed it would be exciting. I have beans that I like. I like this at times and that at times. Occasionally in the middle.” He’s at the moment negotiating with this unnamed roaster. And I have to say: This coffee is going to have to be rather goddam great for me to experience Ok about LCD Soundsystem not staying a factor anymore.
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