Cold Cave - Love Comes Close

(via Stereogum)

Directed by Art Boonparn, who also did The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Everything with You and Young Adult Friction. It's pretty amazing when two of your favorite things come together.

Untitled Fragile Machine - Arthur Ganson

"Long before making sculpture I dreamed of being a surgeon. The challenge of working so carefully with my hands was satisfied by the creation of very fragile machines. A machine with no utilitarian purpose, this is as close to drawing or painting as I can get. After giving myself a starting point, the machine grew organically. The actions and movement of parts are meaningfully trivial."

Ape School - 'Wail to God'

"Wail to God" Music Video from Anthony Schepperd on Vimeo.

Weekend

"The ferocity of punk, the drama of shoegaze, the ambition of Springsteen and the textures of noise." - That's the description on Weekend's blog and it's pretty accurate. I'm quite quick to like anything shoegaze or shoegaze-y, but Weekend's a standout I think. Just have a listen. 'All-American' is a real gem. 7" expected this November via Mexican Summer.


Weekend - All-American


Weekend - Coma Summer

(via MBV)

Mark Jenkins

I'm a big fan of the work of DC- based Mark Jenkins. I'm particularly fond of the pieces that use human figures. The way he puts private moments on display and is able to convey affective experiences using bodies with obscured faces is really impressive.

Here's a quote from Jenkins:

"There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it's good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators. I think it's understanding the strangeness of the playing field where you'll realize that painting street artists, writers, as the bad guys is a shallow view.“ -Mark Jenkins (via My Modern Met)

Do Make Say Think + Múm

Looks like some old favorites are back in action. Toronto's Do Make Say Think are releasing their 6th album, 'Other Truths', on Oct. 6 and earlier this month immortal Icelandic collective Múm dropped their 5th album, 'Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know' (if you get it from gogoyoko, 10% of the sales go to refugees). To be honest, the Múm track bores the hell out of me. And I like to think that I've got a lot of patience for boring music. I think it's because I assess all music based on how they fit into my imaginary life soundtrack and I really can't imagine any scene where this would be playing. The DMST mp3 below is actually a sampler for the entire album, which is just four tracks ('Do', 'Make', 'Say' and 'Think' - how clever). I'm really liking it, especially the first track. 'Sounds like something I'd put on while getting dressed. Yep, that's the extent of my critique. I've got to save brain space for my thesis.



Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (album sampler)


Múm - Illuminated

Deerhunter + Atlas Sound Live

La Blogotheque got some great footage of Deerhunter at La Route du Rock in St. Malo, France. The video also features Bradford Cox doing a bare version of 'Kid Climax', a track off the forthcoming Logos (Oct 10 from Kranky). I actually saw Deerhunter live earlier this year in Melbourne and they were really incredible. Video also includes Marissa Nadler and Delano Orchestra.

Here are a couple of Atlas Sound bonuses:

Stream: Attic Lights (via Stereogum)
MP3: Attic Lights (live at The Earl) (more here)

Nosaj Thing

Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.

Adam Guzman and Julia Tsao collaborate on the Nosaj Thing visual show. The result is awesome.

The Nextdoor Neighbors

I'm a little bit in love with these tracks from The Nextdoor Neighbors' 'folktronic'/'organically-grown bedroom pop' album, Magic Vs the Machine (Bicycle Records). They make me feel like a teenage girl. They're all simple and pretty. And I don't mean that in a patronizing way. At all. It's exactly the kind of stuff I'd be listening to on a Sunday afternoon, if, you know, I didn't spend my Sunday afternoons getting killed by my PhD thesis.

As if the tracks weren't enough reason for me to love them, here's a description of what went down during their album launch:

Saturday night was the duo’s CD release party for their debut album Magic Vs. the Machine (Bicycle Records) at the Vera Project, with the most opportune word in this sentence being 'party'. The band was perfectly lovely, striking a balance between being ready for their big night and being overwhelmed by it. The room at Vera was packed with teenagers, and you could guess most were friends. Between songs, Kathy (Cote) and Jessie (Hill) tried to thank everyone who showed up and it felt like an Academy Awards acceptance speech during every break: rushed for time and afraid that someone would be left out and not thanked (but they did control when the music started). I think Cote wanted to delay the start of the set (from 8:45) by a few minutes so that her brother could make it, who was driving up from Vancouver, WA to be there. He eventually showed up about 10 minutes into the set. (via Three Imaginary Girls)

Seems really 'real'. 'Wonder if they'll turn into assholes if they make it big.



The Nextdoor Neighbors - Anti-Lullaby


The Nextdoor Neighbors - Cultural Revolution


The Nextdoor Neighbors - Magic Vs the Machine

Memory Tapes / Fool's Gold

I feel obligated to blog about the Memory Tapes remix of Fool's Gold's Nadine, 'coz the whole world is blogging about it. Half-joke. I think Memory Tapes/Memory Cassette/Weird Tapes is my most favoritest discovery of the year (and probably every other person's). Yeah, in case you didn't know, it's all the same dude, though I read somewhere that Memory Cassette is supposed to be the feminine version of Weird Tapes, which was Dayve Hawk's first monicker. I'm not sure if I really 'get' that from the tracks or if I'm just hearing it coz I read about it. I'm also not sure if my queer-theoried brain really dislikes Hawk for even thinking about that split, though I suppose the fact that the full length Seek Magic is coming as the hybrid 'Memory Tapes' is reassuring.


Fool's Gold - Nadine (Memory Tapes Version)



Memory Cassette - Surfin