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RCRD OF THE DAY: Hot Chip - Take It In

by RCRDLBL on Fri, 2010/02/05 - 2:30pm

Though it’s slotted last on their new album, One Life Stand , "Take It In" is really Hot Chip at their most essential and distilled–re-contextualizing incredibly intimate, forlorn pop for the club-going populace. Musically, that means cutting darkwave synth-bass and steel-sharpened snares with some of the most conceivably flushed harmonies around. It’s like ending the album with a unicorn ride and a steam bath.

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The Paraffins

by Einstein Music Journal on Wed, 2009/02/04 - 1:29am

 

Weird electro space-pop in the vein of Lemon Jelly, The Beta Band or Hot Chip, Scotland’s The Paraffins are resolutely independent. I mean literally – Billy Samson is the only member of The Paraffins, who gathers a host of extra players only when he records or plays live. Billy emailed me the debut video single for his song Cardboard Cutout (above), created by the multi talented Lachlann from one of my all-time favourite midi/electro spazz-core anti-pop duos, Gay Against You, a band that has one of the most exciting and down-right weird aethetics I have ever seen. Employing his love of technicolour, Windows ‘95-era primitive animation and weird, ancient mythological beings and beliefs, Lachlann has created a trippy masterpiece, embedded with colour and characters that will blow your mind. Admittedly slowing down the pace of his style to fit the slower, more ambient mood of The Paraffins’ more simplistic and moody music, the video (to me) sort of stems from brainwashing propaganda and Disney cartoons from the ’90s. I like it a whole lot.

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Proper Songs Podcast #003

by Proper Songs on Wed, 2009/01/07 - 2:03pm

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RED WIRE BLACK WIRE - Locked Out

by RCRDLBL on Tue, 2008/11/18 - 10:19pm
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