*all pics retrieved from prefixmag.com - I was too involved to take my own.
This concert was good - I wish they played "Homme," though, and also that Celebrate Bklyn's neighborhood laws weren't so stingy as to prevent BG from playing "Jique" at only 10:30! Regardless, the crowd was wylin'. Brazilian Girls / Crosseyed and Painless (Talking Heads cover) and download their single "A Good Time" from the upcoming Aug. 5th debut New York City
1. Brian Eno returns - He introduced Bowie to noise, and Talking Heads to polyrithms.* Who wouldn't want Eno to produce their record? Even if his last project, U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is not that great, the work seriously shows- (this might be a testament to the band.) With everything from lyricless interludes in the beginning to Chris Martin's vocal reprises of "ooooh" in every other song, all of these aspects mirror the timeless qualities of a record. I wouldn't like this album as much if I heard it in pieces. Eno makes you want to listen to the whole thing. "Life in Technicolor" fades into "Cemeteries of London" seamlessly. This is, frankly, moreso Eno's cool comeback than it is Coldplay's. After "Clocks," I thought this band had totally sold out, and it somehow deterred me from liking their music as much. I soon realized that you should just like music because you like it, and this record assisted me in coming to that conclusion. Props!
2. No more sun moon sky space bullshit - On X/Y this was all Chris Martin sang about. The band literally lives their lives on Earth in Viva la Vida and their is a musical death to all his celestial friends.
3. More reverb - it just sounds more produced. This goes back to Brian Eno...
4. Influences - If you're going to have Brian Eno on your team, and everything but "Violet Hill" is going to sound a bit different than your old music, you might as well learn from the best. Eno evidently shed light on Pink Floyd for "42." The entire those who are dead sequence is very Floyd. As well, in "Lovers in Japan," I found myself subconsciously mashing up U2's "I still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For" with it. It's that driving drum beat that underscores the guitars.
5. The lyrics are better - In "Violet Hill," Martin says "when the future's architected by a carnival of idiots on show, you better lie low." Pretty good.
I found this notepad with a glaring blue stain from a sharpie on it, and on the four sheets behind it were the remains, so I drew something on each sheet inspired by the stain.
Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne The Battery Maritime Building 10 South Street, New York, NY (Map) 31 May - 10 August 200
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon - 6PM (Free) Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure -- to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes -- and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
Yesterday was my graduation, and I'm having one of those days where you don't know what to do with yourself, so you just sit in front of the computer and mindlessly indulge yourself on the internet. I've been downloading music for an hour now, and attributing all of these new songs I like to old memories, I'm going to post them.
Although people have told me that they think the new Sigur Ros video for "Gobbledigook" is pretentious, which I agree with, I think that the song is very good. I haven't heard all of his very recent (6/23 release of,) Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, but I can tell from at least this track that he's starting to expand into more Animal Collective-y territory while maintaining his ambient/folk/evidently Icelandic sound. The sound that I'm talking about - (The Beach Boys vs. Ladysmith Black Mambazo vs. Supernatural/Theatrical instrumentation) is being mimicked so much nowadays, however, by bands like Au with their new album Verbs which I just thought was another Panda Bear project...but I genuinely feel that Sigur hit it on the dot with this one.
And - after being talked to by another music enthusiast and additional listening periods, (this is an entry update,) I'd also like to compare the new Sigur to a more progressive Rhythm of the Saints Paul Simon. The reason I like "gobbledigook" so much is that it conveys that kind of innocence that I enjoyed as a baby on a swing in the early 90s. NOW, there's a nice segue...
I read something funny on the YouTube responses to the Gobbledigook video and I thought I'd share it because it displayed some insight.
"There has always been scenery in Sigur Ros's videos that isn't innocent. In "hoppipolla," there's a shoplifting steal; in "glosoli," kids are about to set a car on fire. I don't think they like the usual and polished way of portraying innocence."
Trudat: "Gobbledigook"
The making of: "Gobbledigook"
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The new Beck album, Modern Guilt, is going to be good. He collaborates with Dangermouse, Cat Power etc. It's out July 8th, but as we all know by now, there are leaks.
