Almost a year ago, Tobacco, frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow, dropped his solo album, Maniac Meat. Packing a heavy dose of shooting synths and crashing drums, the album was something not of this planet. One of the top singles from the album, “Constellation Dirtbike Head”, came pretty darn close to making my eyes pop out the first time I heard it. With help from director Trevor G. Allen, the video employs some nifty psychedelic, sci-fi aesthetics, perfect for this track.
Hit the skip to peep the visuals for “Constellatin Dirtbike Head”.
Seattle dream pop group, Craft Spells, is currently touring with Cloud Nothings and Beach Fossils. They have a new vid for After The Moment, a track off their upcoming debut LP Idle Labor. The album is due out March 29th on Captured Tracks.
Tracklist:
01 Boys and Diamonds
02 Without You
03 Nothin Gonna Be Undone
04 Blind
05 Papai
06 Jungle Bear
07 Hai
08 Mechanical
09 This Life Is Practice
10 Sayer
11 Sequenced
RJD2, as The Insane Warrior, has released the official music video for his track “The Water Wheel”. This track is from his latest album project entitled We Are The Doorways which you can grab HERE. Check out the darkly awesome video below.
Clive Tanaka's story is an amazing one. A social outcast and extreme recluse most of his life, the Japanese producer found his voice within music and broke the bonds of self-imposed silence. Clive Tanaka y su orquesta has a Nu Disco sound. Check out the video for Neu Chicago below, a heartfelt track with an equally beautiful video. The track comes off his January 2011 release, Jet Set Siempre 1°.
PURITY RING is the project of a member of GOBBLE GOBBLE, an electro-pop band from Canada. Ungirthed is the first track to come out. It's a hauntingly beautiful glitch-pop track with fractured beats and vocals. The video is very fitting.
Montreal experimental pop outfit Braids just put out a video for Plath Heart, one of the tracks off their acclaimed 2011 debut, Native Speaker. Plath Heart uses primal drums, psychedelic synths, and playful vocal cadence to convey an otherworldly feeling. The video takes you down the rabbit hole as well.
Sleigh Bells finally releases a video for Rill Rill, the only slow tempo track off their 2010 debut, Treats. While the song may be lazy and sweet, the video is super creepy.
Check this beautiful new video for Zodiac Shit by Flying Lotus off his latest LP, Cosmogramma. I mean its Fly Lo so I'm not even going to go into detail about how good/strange the beat is. Just watch and listen. Perfection.
New vid from the psychedelic Floridians known as Prince Rama. Now based in Boston/Brooklyn, these former Hare Krishnas signed to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label to release their LP Shadow Temple in September. Peep the freaked out video for Lightening Fossil below. Looks like Pitchfork removed the vid or the embed is fucked. Try it here on this crazy Asian site.
Wise Blood, known to mortals as Chris Laufman, just released a vid for his experimental banger B.I.G. E.G.O. It's off the 2010 `+` EP, that I wrote up a few months back, here. Oh, also check his newest track, Loud Mouths. It's making the rounds and getting a lot of hype, as it should. Do not sleep on him!
L.A. producer Nosaj Thing (pronounced No Such Thing) put out a monster electronic record last year called Drift, gaining the attention of everyone from Pitchfork to the BBC. Then in November 2010, Alpha Pup Records released a remix album imaginatively titled Drift Remixed. The album features remixes by the likes of Jamie from The xx, Daedelus, and Dntel. But the standout track is the remix of Us by downtempo artist Jon Hopkins. Hopkins completely reimagines the track and gives it new life. The terrifyingly mad video compliments the glitchy beat.
Lawrence, KS producer Nezbeat is getting ready to release a project with Killa City rapper Joe Good that has been a long time comin. In fact, Joe Good has since retired from the rap game. The album, Good Hair, is slated to be released later this month but a few tracks are already up, available for free download on Bandcamp. Likewise, when the album drops it will be available for free via Bandcamp.
Make sure to check my favorite track so far, Sky High, a soulful, sample-heavy cut. And while your at it peep the single, Fuchsia, below. The mellow, melodic flute-loop was featured a few months back on URB.
Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman, Tom Fec, has released two solo LP's as Tobacco. A new video has just emerged for the track Motorlicker, off his 2010 full-length, Maniac Meat. The video is almost as disturbing as the beat.
Swedish pop singer/bombshell Lykke Li just dropped a video for her first single off the upcoming Wounded Rhymes, to be released Febuary 28th on her label LL Recordings. The single, Get Some, finds Lykke Li taking a more direct, over-the-top approach, diverting from the more artsy, subdued singing on her first LP, Youth Novels, released in 2008. The video is awash in occult imagery and overt sexual themes. Throughout the song she repeats the sexy chant, "I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some", over the pounding drums remindful of the Big Band era. Peep the vid below.
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