For as much as I enjoyed The Maccabees’ first album, 2007′s Colour It In, I never found time to listen to their follow up, and I haven’t done any better with their newest release, Given To The Wild, which was put out less than a month ago. This video is for their track “Feel To Follow,” which is on that third album. And because I haven’t been paying attention to what the band’s been up to, this seems like a totally new direction for them, although they could have been at it for a while now. Whichever it is, I like it.
Miike Snow’s new album, Happy To You, isn’t due out for another six weeks or so, but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing a trio of tracks from it already. They put together this completely nonsensical video for “Paddling Out,” in which a guy is having a hell of a hangover hallucination and imagines himself dancing, being blasted by extraterrestrial ray guns, flying in outer space, etc. If that’s what Banana Juice does to a person, consider me not interested.
Bon Iver brought their wares to the Saturday Night Live stage this past weekend, performing “Holocene” and “Beth/Rest” for the program. (I’m posting only “Holocene,” however, because I like that song better.) The performances themselves are pretty great, but I’m a biased observer because Bon Iver was my favorite album of last year. How many times do you think Channing Tatum had to practice saying “Bon Iver” to get it right?
The ways in which bands form is as diverse as the genres of music they play. The members of Milano Sun all hail from Gothenburg, Sweden, but they met on a trip around Europe in 2010. The band managed to record an album this past year, and the single below is their debut, a lightweight, synth-heavy track titled “Already Gone.”
There’s a section right in the middle of “Already Gone” where it sounds like the band went out to the beach on a windy day and just recorded the sounds they heard; all things considered, that’s exactly what this song seems perfect for: a drive to the beach in the warm days of July, with your hand outside of the window, feeling the air rushing past.
There’s no word on when the rest of the band’s aforementioned album is going to be available, so we’ll have to make do with just this track in the meantime. I think there are worse ways we could all be spending our time. And if you must, the video for “Already Gone” is available as well. It will make you long for the open road and warmer, less-restrictive days. Also, it has nipples in it. Consider yourself warned.
M. Ward isn’t seen much these days without the She to his Him, Zooey Deschanel. But he’s apparently carved out some time to record a new album, entitled A Wasteland Compilation, which is due out on April 10. This is the second animated video we’ve had on the blog today, and it’s for the first single from that release, entitled “The First Time I Ran Away.” It goes the literal route, and I’m totally OK with that.
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About the Author: Dave
I like music. I can't describe how I came to like the music I do, because I don't know how or why, I just do.
Many years ago, Napoleon's brother, my great-great-great-great-great-great Grandfather, came to America. He was asked his name on Ellis Island while being processed as an immigrant. Not understanding English, he was under the impression that he was being asked how he had arrived in the new land. So he turned around and pointed at the sea vessel and said, 'LaBarge.'
About the Author: Andy
I come by my music taste of my own free will. My friends listened to 2Pac, my parents to contemporary Christian and me? Sunny Day Real Estate. I can’t explain it.
“Music, true music, not just rock ’n’ roll, it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones…” - Lester Bangs
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