Posts Tagged ‘Shoegaze’

WARPAINT

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I recently started lis­ten­ing to Warpaint, who are SO good. With quite a lot of bands I either really like all their stuff but they all sound kind of the same after awhile, or I’d maybe really really like one or two key pieces and that’s it. Warpaint is amaz­ing because they do such a wide range of styles but they do them so effort­lessly that they make it sound cohe­sive, like it all belongs.

The track Bil­lie Hol­i­day is all ethe­real and lo-fi acoustics while Bur­gandy is this beau­ti­fully haunt­ing pagan post-rock-esque trib­ute. Stars reminds me of a much more suc­cinct Blonde Red­head. Ele­phants has psy­che­delic ele­ments to it that’s uniquely com­ple­mented by shoegaze vocals. Krim­son makes me want to cry, in a good way. Other artists they’ve been com­pared to include: Atlas Sound, Surfer Blood, and Trailer Trash Tra­cys.

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1. Warpaint — Bil­lie Holiday

2. Warpaint — Burgandy

3. Warpaint — Stars

4. Warpaint — Elephants

5. Warpaint — Krimson

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In Electronica We Trust

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Most Sun­days I wake up usu­ally around mid day — after­noon. Some Sun­days I wake up and feel like lis­ten­ing to pop all day: while show­er­ing, poo­ing, doing the dishes, star­ing into space, etc. Some Sun­days I like to drink cof­fee and lis­ten to Mozart on spo­tify. Some (select) Sun­days I don’t even wake up at all. It’s like a void in my life where noth­ing hap­pens in antic­i­pa­tion of every­thing that must hap­pen the fol­low­ing day.

This Sun­day, while some go to wor­ship at church, I feel like doing my wor­ship­ping at the church of Elec­tron­ica. Today’s ser­mon will be car­ried out by Thieves Like Us, a Swedish-American trio who com­bine dark elec­tronic beats with non­cha­lant shoegaze vocals. When you leave this place you will find in you a new­found faith in Electronica.

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1. Thieves Like Us — Drugs In My Body

2. Thieves Like Us — Drugs In My Body (Just A Band Remix)

3. Thieves Like Us — Your Heart Feels

4. Thieves Like Us — Fur Judith

5. Thieves Like Us — Really Like To See You Again

6. Thieves Like Us — Never Known Love

7. Thieves Like Us — Fass

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Up down turn around, please don’t let me hit the ground, tonight I think I’ll walk alone I’ll find my soul as I go

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I love New Order. Who doesn’t? It’s like some kind of mor­tal sin to not love them. Here are a few cov­ers I’ve amassed, I hope you’ll enjoy that famil­iar prickly hair-raising feel­ing when the intro to Temp­ta­tion starts…

There’s quite a mix down there, Iron & Wine makes Love Vig­i­lantes their own by basi­cally singing the song the way he sings all his other songs. Mean­while, a cover of the same song done by The String Quar­tet is a serene instru­men­tal. Juke­box the Ghost’s inter­pre­ta­tion of Temp­ta­tion is super POP. The only band that’s stayed true to the shoegaze vibe is Sen­nen with their Bizarre Love Tri­an­gle cover. Obvi­ously none of them can top the orig­i­nals, but it’s kind of nice to hear dif­fer­ent takes of the same golden tunes.

1. Iron & Wine — Love Vig­i­lantes (New Order Cover)

2. The String Quar­tet — Love Vig­i­lantes Instru­men­tal (New Order Cover)

3. Juke­box the Ghost — Temp­ta­tion (New Order Cover)

4. Sen­nen — Bizarre Love Tri­an­gle (New Order Cover)

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