March 24, 2010

VHS Jam Session 3.24.2010

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Posted this Cults track a while back and am still insatiably obsessed with it.

Lucky for us they just released a video for it, equally as beautiful, equally as mysterious.

Who is this blonde girl?  And why does she throw puppies?

Go Outside from Helene Park on Vimeo.

Cults – Go Outside

Source: Gorilla v. Bear

Hot Chip, you’re popular dance rhythms do little for my aural capacities, but your absolute spot-on ability to broadcast bizarreness has a city block of my heart all reserved for condos.

I swear.

Hot Chip – I Feel Beter Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos

I can only watch this video once though, as the lazer beaming white skeletor haunts my waking dreams.

Source: Stereogum

March 4, 2010

The Daily Choice: Cults – Go Outside

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It feels as if a lot is going on in this song by Cults.  There’s  xylophone (oh how I love the xylophone), there’s a sound swooping bit of psych-vocals, and driving it all is a giant pop-engine.  A hustling, bustling bit of machinery glued together with lollipops and honeycomb.

I understand the name Cults, this is music to become addicted to, to throw one’s self down on their knees and pray to the great goods of pop amalgam.  To speak in tongues and barricade one’s self behind walls, with high-powered firepower and yearning to do things right for pop.  I’ve listened to it four times in the last half an hour, because I thought it would help my write-up, but it’s more of inkling need.  A brainwashed bit of yearning that just doesn’t seem to end.

Drink the kool-aid.

Download the full 3-song EP HERE.

Cults – Go Outside