Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
San Fermin is full of grace and a storied place amongst my most recent and favorite things, songs namely. Their Ra Ra Riot remixed track Jackrabbit is infused with a masterful concinnity which makes me smile and dance shamelessly. I hope you liketh it as well. Peace. Continue reading “san fermin | jackrabbit (ra ra riot remix)”
Chet Faker has been plying his trade for a minute or two now, making it look easy as he drops track after track of irresistible music. And now this certified soul-man has gone and dropped his debut tour de force, Built On Glass (Downtown Records) and there isn’t an ounce of fragility within a light year of this release. Peep the Toby & Pete-directed video below.
The tracks are boisterous and sensual just like everything else Mr. Faker has touched in the past few years. Yes, he keep it frosty and no doubt he is moving with confidence. Get Built On Glass via iTunes. Peace. Continue reading “chet faker | built on glass | talk is cheap | official video”
Chet Faker teams up with newbie Kilo Kish and their output is a sonic heavy-weight champion of seismic proportions. Chet’s cigarette-cured masculine bravado gets a side of Ms. Kish’s dreamy and evocative vocals which propels the track Melt into loftcries of harmonic ecstasy. Good. Very good. Peace. Continue reading “chet faker // melt feat. kilo kish”
The music duo Houses (Dexter Tortoriello and Megan Messinais) is many things. The songs are contradictions too: a coalesced vibratory stillness which resonates the secret longings of timidity as it finds its strength to reach for everything. The song “Beginnings,” enters your ear like the echo of falling flower petal. Yet, once nestled within your inner ear it does something else too, it dies and it blooms simultaneously. Dexter’s vocals stretch deep roots as fragile as unrequited longing into sun, moon and stars and beyond. This one stays with you long after silence has filled the space of its distant yearning. Although the album ‘A Quiet Darkness‘ via Downtown Records is set for an April 16th release I am hopeful for more soon, real soon. Peace. Continue reading “houses // beginnings”
I’ve visited Miike Snow before. Well, at least their music. You know by now, or least understand my tastes (or maybe not) enough to know I cotton to bands that defy category. So, its no surprise that Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt, bka Miike Snow, end up upon these vaulted pages once again. And once again I’m singing their praises. The song “Black Tin Box” is a lot of things, but mostly it’s much like a lullaby of sorts with dreamy atmospherics and if a little sinister, story-like quality. I imagine the original story of Little Red-Cap by Die Gebrüder Grimm with “Black Tin Box” playing woefully in the background. The bands latest LP Happy To You is revealing itself to be a curio shoppe of sound and influence, much like the distinct phases of the year. On display is the lovely austerity of winter, the lush vibrancy of spring, and of course too you have the hectic galloping frenzy of summer, and lastly the cooled tempers of Autumn. All of this woven into, thus far songs for, if not every possible human facet, then a good fistful of them. An album to track the movement of your heart-sun across the horizon of beauteous sound tapestry, how novel and fortuitous for the listener. Peace. Continue reading “Miike Snow // Black Tin Box (Ft. Lykke Li)”