Jack White (who was the king of vinyl sales last year) recently recorded a session for Austin City Limits. The episode will air tomorrow night. Until then, occupy yourself with this video of him performing Blunderbuss cut, “Love Interruption.”
The Dandelion Council is a Los Angeles-based collective with stars in their eyes and a pocket full of Teen Daze-like synths. Take a listen to their freshly released EP Glow in the Dark Galaxy, and take a trip through the mountains, streams, universe, and great beyond.
“Nine of Arrows” is a slice of early 80s synth bliss, brought to you by producer Daniel Chen and vocalist Kelli Scarr, a.k.a. Color of Clouds. Wrap yourself up in the cozy analog bliss of the track below. The song also serves as the title track of the band’s forthcoming EP, due out at the end of January.
Shugo Tokumaru = the equivalent of a meeting between The Flaming Lips and Sufjan Stevens? It doesn’t seem like such a crazy proposition after listening to “Katachi,” a delicate piece of psych pop recorded at the musician’s home studio and mastered at Abbey Road. It’s part of his new album In Focus? due out January 23 via Polyvinyl.
Singer/songwriter Angel Olsen used an interesting technique to film her haunting new videos “Tiniest Seed” and “Sweet Dreams.”
“The score was mailed back across the Atlantic and then interpreted using a hand-wound 16mm camera,” she tells NPR. “Two rolls of film were shot in barns and fields, and in gorges and on piers in Upstate, New York. The beginning of the score called for a meiotic effect to be used in tandem with the song “Tiniest Seed.” The film was exposed and then rewound and re-exposed many times. Later in the score a more intuitive approach to shooting was the direction, as a reaction to the song “Sweet Dreams.” These images were collected with the foreknowledge that the film would be extensively manipulated in the darkroom. The film was mailed back to Vienna. An archaic homemade contact printer was used to create the final look and that film was hand-processed, and rinsed and repeated all in the same room in which the score began. The final version is the documentation of an epistolary-exchange lasting nearly a year. It is an attempt to sync the unsyncable and our experiment at reconciling the space between us. Every hand visible in the final film. A 16mm print available and recommended for screening purposes. This is the digital version.”
Here’s a new playlist that we’ve made over at Rdio featuring highlights from our Best of 2012 issue (available now). Some tracks are from artists that we interviewed in the issue, while other songs appear on our various Best of 2012 lists.
Included are cuts from our cover artist Grimes, Beach House, Wild Nothing, Chairlift, Father John Misty, Bat For Lashes, First Aid Kit, Purity Ring, DIIV, Dan Deacon, Yeasayer, and more. Check out the playlist below and follow us on Rdio for future playlists.
Ólöf Arnalds
“Treat Her Kindly” MP3
Dec 21, 2012
“Treat Her Kindly is the first single from Ólöf Arnalds’ forthcoming album Sudden Elevation (out February 4 via One Little Indian). There’s a breezy Joni Mitchell-like quality to the guitar ballad, where—in the sweetest way possible—Arnalds reminds us to all get along.
Minimal Danish duo Furns just sent us their newest single “Power.” It’s another entry in the dreamy file—full of light electro refrains and talk of a love with a Biblical-like power to consume. Check it out below. You can also revisit their first single “Love Aches” here.
