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SEE: The Horrors perform “I Can See Through You” and (a bit of) “Endless Blue”
TV. It’s a big rectangle with light coming from it, but that doesn’t matter right now. What does matter, is that our favourite Psychedelic Furs/The Chameleons tribute influenced act recently performed on it, for one man charisma vacuum Carson Daly, no less. Rather, they did less performing for him and more performing for a packed audience at the El Rey Theatre in L.A. Carson just sort of stands in an abandoned bowling alley, desperately clutching at his plastic sphere in what can only be described as one horrifically lonely man, desperately clinging to his dreams as everything else shuts down around him. Performance wise, The Horrors do that thing where they look down a lot, letting the perpetually leaning Faris Badwan take up all the limelight so they can get busy building those lovely textures in the background and looking cool. They played “I Can See Through You” and a few very brief moments of the sprawling “Endless Blue” before they get ruthlessly cut off by the end credits a couple of minutes in. You can see both of them below, in the order previously mentioned.
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VIDEO: SoKo – First Love Never Die
A long time ago (2009), in a land far away (France), SoKo got all upset with everything, everybody, and every sound she produced, then ran off to go make some more films over in her homeland. It wasn’t all that fun, mostly because I found myself with distressingly low quality recordings of her work and no sign of an album in sight (she shelved it, as discussed here). So what did we, fans of cutesy idiosyncratic folk pop do? Uh, well, nothing. Actually. Just moaned a bit on the internet and carried on with our lives, like any sane human being would do. Not to say we didn’t lose our shit in a incredibly subdued way in August when she broke the news of her forthcoming début album, “I Thought I Was An Alien“, because we absolutely did. No, we’re a crazy bunch, sometimes we put two sugars in our tea. Splendid news, then, because we’ve got an entirely new video for the lovely “First Love Never Die”. Which features some lovely children frolicking around lovely places being all lovely and that, as directed by Soko & Matthew Gray Gubler. You can see it above.
BONUS: Oh, Matthew Gray Gubler, where do I know that name? Oh, wait.
“I Thought I Was An Alien” is being released on 20th of February
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SEE: Wild Beasts perform in a lift, in Copenhagen
Continuing the fine tradition of bands performing in places where they shouldn’t really be performing, Wild Beasts recently took to a freight elevator in Copenhagen in one final bid to one up every other band on the planet. Whilst there, they embarked on a journey not only to play gorgeously stripped down versions of both “Bed Of Nails” & “Reach A Bit Further” but also to hide their immense sadness behind walls of beige clothing, circular glasses, stupid hats and beards. All of which can be seen in the video’s both above and below courtesy of They Shoot Music (they actually do, you know)
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BELATED: Hear new Thom Yorke tracks “Twist” and “Stuck Together”
Whoa-ho-ho there, where do you think you’re going? Step back, spend some time, there’s no rush. Now, a little birdy told me you’ve been ignoring old uncle Yorke, not responding to his texts and refusing to acknowledge his numerous, increasingly desperate voice mails. So what is it? Is it his eye? It’s probably his eye. It is a pretty strange eye, I’ll give you that. Although, it’s not like he’s without his plus points, though. Radiohead do have at least five 9+/10 records, as well as being a pretty formidable bleepy musician in his own right. So please, find some time in your busy, busy schedule to listen to his two latest solo efforts, titled “Stuck Together” and “Twist” respectively. Both of them fit rather comfortably into his cannon of sub-Flying Lotus efforts, which is a bit like saying they’re sub-totally brilliant, in this case, they’re just great. So, you know, get to it.
/information: Both tracks came from a swanky fashion event for equally swanky clothing label Rag & Bone, which means you can’t lay your grubby little mitts on them outside of those YouTube videos directly above. Oh, and that atrocity of an image? Courtesy of DeviantArt, remind yourself never to visit that website.
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STREAM: The Flaming Lips and the Plastic Ono Band’s joint EP
Fond of Embryonic? Consider Yoko Ono to be one of the worlds very finest purveyors of largely ignorable avant-garde experimentation and screaming inside art galleries to the bemusement of understandably distressed onlookers? Well, kid. Sit down and get a piping hot load of this shit. I actually really enjoyed this, I hope you do too. I’m not sure why I’m hiding this text.
“The Fear of Litany”
“Do It”
“Brain Of Heaven”
“Atlas Eets Christmas”
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