Ach – crazy weekend/Monday. Here, belatedly, is Monday Music. So belated, in fact, that it’s actually Tuesday. Nevermind..
Ratatat – Loud Pipes
There are two brilliant things about Moritz Oberholzer’s video, below. One is the dream-like, cheering and often beautiful snapshot of a London glimpsed through bus windows; snatched moments of children playing and couples in love; of overturned motorbikes and traipsing tramps; of pedestrians, joggers, cyclists and skippers; of birds at Bank; all of it peculiarly London in nature, as good a summary of this crazy city as you’ll see. And then there’s the titanic soundtrack, a Ratatat anthem which explodes and subdues with frightening power. (via Londonist)
Blondfire – Where The Kids Are
A sweet-sounding brother/sister NYC duo, Blondfire channel the glossy cheer of MGMT and fuse it in with a slightly blissed-out, lights-low feel. It’s like the morning-after version of synth-pop. It’s lovely. (via Trendland)
Kurt Vile – The Creature (mp3)
A droopy-eyebrowed, shuffling great slowburn from Kurt’s new EP, So Outta Reach, due this Friday on Matador.
Kindness – Cyan
“Oh mummy, but it tastes so strange”.
“Swallow it down, son, there’s a good boy”.
(via SEXBEAT; out on Female Energy)
Lise – Textura Reversa
Lise is Daniel Nunes, a Brazillian post-rock/experimental multi-instrumentalist. And Textura Reversa seems to me to be a song about a day: a slow, groggy beginning, the gradual expansion to fully-fledged capability, a soft pause, the triumphant, wilful march of evening activities, and then the slow, irresistible fade to tiredness, and eventual quiet. It comes from his new album, ‘Qualquer Frágil Fio de Fantasia’, which will be released on DryCry Records on 29 November.