Filmed in Kaolack, Senegal and Prince Arts studio (formerly Xippi) in Dakar, also featuring Laye Lo (drums), Assane Ndoye Cisse (guitar) Paul Diouf (keyboard), Abdourakhmane Fall (bass), Fatou Mboup and Sidy Diop (dancers). [Source]
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Storied post-punk band Public Image Ltd are readying their release of THIS IS PiL, the group’s first new record in 20 years. Recorded in the U.K. last year at Steve Winwood’s studio, “Deeper Water” is a forceful track featuring frontman John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)’s quivering yells and tortured pleas. “It was an improv, done in one take. We made it up as we went. But there is a great deal of thought that goes in before you do that,” Lydon tells Rolling Stone. “It’s about bad influences, bad information, bad leadership. There’s ‘bristled bastards that will lead you to the shore, dash you on the rocks.’ Don’t follow the liars. It’s a very difficult thing for me to trust people.” THIS IS PiL is set for a May 28th release date through PiL’s own label, PiL Official. [Source]
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Check out a new track from Perfume Genius. “Rusty Chains is a cut that didn’t make it onto his latest release Put Your Back N 2 It. Featuring Hadreas’ lornful vocals on top of barren crashing piano, it makes out to be one of his more heart-wrenching endeavors. [Source]
The indie rock band The National has been making some serious guest spots on some geeky soundtracks. After contributing a song to Portal 2 way back when, the band has now performed the Lannister-praising tune “The Rains of Castamere” for the upcoming Game of Thrones second season soundtrack. [Source]
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Communist Daughter are set to release their EP “Lions and Lambs” on July 10, 2012. In anticipation, we’re premiering the EP’s first track “Speed of Sound.” The group is product of Johnny Solomon (formerly of Friends Like These) and the EP is their second release, a follow-up to the band’s 2010 album Soundtrack to the End. [Source]
Night riding motorcycle lover Blood Orange, AKA Devonté Hynes, succumbs to a femme fatale in director Abteen Bagheri’s pop promo for “I’m Sorry We Lied.” First surfacing in UK dance-punk trio Test Icicles, the Essex-raised Hynes moved to New York five years ago and garnered critical acclaim for his alt-folk Lightspeed Champion solo project. While writing and producing for the likes of Florence Welch and Solange Knowles, Hynes pieced together the distinctive retro-infused R&B of Blood Orange, releasing the Coastal Grooves album last summer. “I’m obsessed with the obsession with the 50s and 60s that people had in the 80s,” explains Hynes. “Grease, Billy Idol, Happy Days. It might have been the last time people were cool.” Having worked previously on the video for breakout Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky’s “Peso,” Bagheri shot “I’m Sorry We Lied” over two days along the one-mile Main Street strip of the small desert town of Barstow, California. The young filmmaker drew inspiration from classic 80s noirs like Near Dark, The Wraith, and the Coen Brothers’ debut, Blood Simple, and even used footage of American Ninja 4, which was fortuitously playing on the motel television while filming. “There was something inherently cinematic about it,” says Bagheri on first hearing Hynes’s track. “It was like an updated, demented 80s pop soundtrack, dark with catchy melodies.” [Source]
Directing Duo Matt Moroz & Tracy Maurice deliver a twisted nightmare in his clip for “You Are The One,” the new single from Brooklyn-based, noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers. Shot on 16mm film, the dark experimental style elevates the music video to a higher cinematic plane along the lines of a 70s-era, B-movie. The clip follows a mysterious figure as he beats strangers to a bloody pulp, attends a basement rave replete with booty shaking, and partakes in the creepiest make-out session you’ll ever see.
“Reunion,” the second single from M83’s second album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, is a straight-A student of a song: successful and likeable enough, but maybe just a little a bit too perfect. Here it gets the royal treatment from six different producers, who each pervert it a little differently. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.’s remix gets obsessed with the droning background vocal tracks, blowing them up and looping them endlessly–like hitting on someone by constantly telling them how great their worst feature is. A sort of sexy optimism bordering on delusion. They cleverly dig up harmonies that aren’t in the original track, and use them as rails to steady a kind of breezy, neon, basement dance-pop, turning Anthony Gonzalez’s caterwaul into a Christmas ornament. [Source]
Inspired by Claus Thune, here is the third blog single from the new Soul Savers album. This is what Claus wrote this morning: “no skipping or shuffling since Monday – Soulsavers is the only album in rotation .. f**king brilliant!”
WIXIW, which is pronounced ‘wish you,’ is the new Liars album coming June 5 via Mute. It’s one of the best of the year so far with the ever-artsy band taking a left-turn towards space, texture, electronic experimentation and ultra-personal lyricism. Considering there are so many synths and oddball beats already, the album is also pretty primed for the remix treatment. Here’s one from Vince Clarke. It’s like he slipped a little ecstasy under the original’s tongue. [Source]
