Bjork discusses ‘Biophilia,’ elves on ‘Colbert Report’
Every person understands Stephen Colbert is the toughest interview in town — not even Iceland’s adorable quirk-princess Björk is off the hook when she exhibits up in his studios.
Following delving into the background and composition of her new album-slash-app Biophilia, the million-dollar satirist reduce to the heart of the matter, asking the Umlauted One: “Can I lick the album?”
Björk, below her technicolor hairdo, replied positively: “You ought to give it a go!”
The two also got to speaking about her native land’s most intriguing characteristic: elves.
Colbert wished to know if the excellent people of Iceland really imagine in elves. Spoiler alert: they do. She then went on to highlight the merits of her people’s traditions and note that elves represent their close connection with nature. “It’s all about respect,” she advised Colbert.
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Graham Coxon Teasers Posted Online
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Ellie Goulding hopes to release new album by end of summer
Ellie Goulding has exposed that she hopes to release her sophomore album by the finish of the summer season.
The ‘Guns and Horses’ singer, who released her debut LP Lights in 2010, stated that she is nevertheless in the procedure of writing materials for the new record.
Asked about her progress on the upcoming release, Goulding told HelloGiggles: “Nicely, I am creating it – I’ve been writing the last six months or so and I still have a lengthy way to go. I’m genuinely excited for the new album to come out, which I hope will be the finish of the summer in the UK.
“We’ll see. But I am fairly content about the new stuff I’ve been writing and I am truly searching forward to finding it out. It really is about time, as nicely!”
The 25-12 months-outdated also divulged much more particulars on the kind of album she hopes to make, which she previously confessed would be “undoubtedly diverse” to Lights.
“It is fairly distinct, yeah, but it is since I am nonetheless truly finding stuff with each other. I assume I just want less restriction, I want my album to breathe a bit a lot more,” Goulding explained.
The Creepy Domesticity of White Rabbits
The phrase, “you will never ever appear at polygamy in the very same way again” is not 1 that is often uttered. You could say it for Huge Enjoy and now you can say it for the new song Heavy Metal from Missouri-born, Brooklyn-based mostly boys White Rabbits.
The director of this shady minor music video is Andrew Droz Palermo and, boy, does he take triple-peopled domestic harmony to creepy lengths. Each day scenes of private grooming and breakfast preparation are made hyper-bizarre by the alteration of tiny particulars in .gif inspired special effects.
This film is an exploration of suburbia reminiscent of Gus Van Sant‘s disquieting communities. The deadpan faces and minimal movements of the actors contribute to a contrasting yet coinciding sense of unease and quirky beauty. Things turn surreal for the threesome post-consumption of little white tablets. As White Rabbits informed NPR:
…it was a thrill to see how completely he [Droz Palermo] picked up on the looping piano and the suspicious tone of the lyrics as properly as our profound appreciation for smoke bomb baseball.
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.
M.I.A. Talks Madonna, Super Bowl, and New Album
M.I.A. has remained out of the spotlight considering that the release of 2010’s ///Y/. Today she resurfaced with a new single “Bad Girls,” developed by Danja, and her 1st interview in months. Speaking with BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe from the Super Bowl rehearsals, the firecracker femcee dished on her upcoming efficiency with Madonna at Sunday’s halftime show, collaborating with the pop queen, and her fourth album, due this summer.
On performing with Madonna and Nicki Minaj at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis: “Yes, I’m going to the Super Bowl. Really I’ve never been to the Super Bowl, so it’s my first time. I’m going to be carrying out with Madonna and Nicki Minaj. If you’re gonna go to the Super Bowl, you might as properly go there with America’s greatest female icons.”
On collaborating with pop royalty: “She is the unique. If you’re gonna assistance an individual, that’s a rather dope achievement. I’m positive my mum is gonna be way [far more] into that than me putting ‘Galang’ out.”
On why she desired to operate with Madge: “As musicians, we’re two women and we represent two opposite sides of the world. If we can come with each other on a piece of music or some thing like the Super Bowl, I experience like that’s in fact a cool factor to see this year because it is obtaining silly out there.”
On her as-nevertheless-untitled fourth album: “I want it to be a summer time thing ’cause it is a summer season record. As soon as I finish the Super Bowl, I’ve gotta do one more couple of weeks with European producers.”
