Oligarchical Machinations

Pre-seasonal Weather

2009-07-30T21:23:00.000-07:00

In a somewhat dramatic turn of events, the new Why? album Eskimo Snow has been leaked nigh on two months prematurely. Described by Yoni Wolf as "really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs" - it is destined to be interesting at the very least...

Bounce your morals round as to whether to download it, I'm not going to give you links, don't be a scab, make sure you pay for it, eventually.

Reviews to follow in the near future...

Someone Still Loves The Missouri Cardinals...

2009-07-27T20:21:00.000-07:00

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) are a band much listened to by myself over the last couple of years. Hailing from the Springfield, Missouri, they epitomize the heartfelt lyricism of their lo-fi indie rock niche. Their songs are simply lovely in many, many respects.

So on finding that they had just recorded an anthemic rock song for their local minor-league baseball, the Missouri Cardinals, an eyebrow was definitely raised...

But here it is, have a listen, and see what you think...

http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/sslyby-cardinalrules.mp3

as taken from catbirdseat.org

Yo Gabba Gabba!

2009-07-26T19:10:00.000-07:00

To be honest, I don't really watch all that much television anymore. I'm not exactly sure as to whether it's a symptom of the fact I have less time or rather the pervasive lack of anything worth watching (a generalization, I'll concede).

Suffice to say that it's rare, rare indeed that I find myself completely and utterly enthralled for half an hour of television that I didn't set out to watch, yet, such is the power of Yo Gabba Gabba! Sure it's a kid's show, but it's a kid's show that will produce the coolest generation of kids ever to have graced us with their presence.

Hosted by the orange-jumpsuit-clad-figure seen above, the enigmatic DJ Lance Rock, who represents a godlike figure to the other characters (and god knows, I'd worship him), Yo Gabba Gabba manages to wrap the run-of-the-mill moralistic lessons integral to a children's show in music which would not seem at all out of place on your ipod.

The Yo Gabba Gabba! phenomenon has attracted guests such as Jack Black, Murray from Flight of the Concords, etc. as well as a phenomenal spectrum of musical talent with bands such as The Shins and Of Montreal both appearing.

Here's Of Montreal's contribution, in video-from-the-show form. So have a listen, and see if you can't catch the show at some point, it's definitely far more entertaining than most of the other crap on tv...

Okkervil River flowed in concert.

2009-07-25T01:31:00.000-07:00

This is way overdue, but time is relative, so suck it.

In the not too distant past George and I ventured to Billboard, to cast our scrutinizing gaze over the musical banks of Okkervil River.

In deference to a short precis, my one adjective for them would be pathetic.

Not pathetic in the modern wearing-a-two-piece-denim-suit-and-thinking-it's-cool kind of sense, but more in the traditional full-of-emotion meaning of the word.

Okkervil River, played with an energy that resonated harmoniously with whatever song they were playing - Their rocky songs were rockier and punchier and their slower songs more considered and heartfelt. Their set showed glimpses of the true artistic flare of a band that have time and time again produced consistently enjoyable music, and I would excessively recommend that any of you, should you get the chance, go see them live.

Jonathan Boulet

2009-06-05T17:04:00.000-07:00

killing all your trees and family / living in your dreams and influent speech

I'm in a good mood, this guy is amazing, 20, and from Sydney, I can hear many a band and genre in here, but in short, it's a pop-ier version of the synth of Animal Collective/M.I.A, with the general feeling of the Ruby Suns, but more gentle/relaxing/happy.

A Community Service Announcement - Jonathan Boulet

GO:
www.myspace.com/jonathanboulet

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Mexichno

2009-05-15T03:47:00.000-07:00

Straight out of Mexico, [insert swine-flu joke here] - Los Amparito - [insert upside-down question mark]. It has been likened to El Guincho, which I believe This Guy may be bringing to your ears soon, and I don't mind it one bit, especially the remix. It is an electro-percussive-heavy project from "Pepepe".

Las Miradas De Magaly - Los Amparito

And smuggling the tribal beats of Brothersport south-of-the-border in this great remix:

Brothersport - Animal Collective (Los Amparito Remix)

Further listening:

http://www.myspace.com/losamparito
http://www.myspace.com/pepepepepepepepepe
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synth degrees of separation

2009-05-13T02:34:00.000-07:00

More stuff and shit?

Now honies play me close like butter played toast

Because I've been listening to a lot of Biggie lately:

Juicy (Brooklyn Go Hard Mix) by "DJ Digital Dave" - what a name...

And just in general:

OLD (1979)

Down In The Park - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army

Sorry for shit indirect linking - I really wanted to put it up and it was nowhere.

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The Boat That Rocked (read:sucked) - A Review

2009-04-10T03:03:00.001-07:00

The Movie That Sucked...HA!

Spoiler Warning: This movie is about to be wrecked like the boat at the end. Oh...sorry.

I saw this last night, and it was "not good". It is, as you can see, The Boat That Rocked, written and directed by Richard Curtis who wrote and directed Love Actually. It's long, doesn't follow any sensible structure, self-validates, and is bad. It's pretty much Love Actually, but loosely based on the true story of a 'pirate' radio stations (illegal, right, but also on a boat!!11, but that's why it's called 'pirate'!!!1 so, like, triple-etymological-entendre???4) off the coast of Britain in '66, and instead of love it's focused on music, and despite an ensemble cast doesn't really involve many layers of story, and instead of working as a movie, it sucks.

So in that regard, it's not actually like Love Actually at all - except for the ensemble cast element, and the comedy part. Pretty much, there's this main character, "Carl", they call him, who sort of shares screen time equally with the other eight or so characters, making him not that main, and he is expelled from his school before the opening credits; ends up on this boat, of which his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy) is the captain, and it's a pirate radio station. And Carl doesn't have a dad. Turns out Carl's dad was this old DJ you see once or twice. Okay, then.

So, anyway, Carl has a love interest, Marianne, played by "Talulah Riley" - so she says - who is Quentin's niece, or something. Anyway, comedy of errors, blah blah predictable somethings - she then sleeps with a fat DJ instead of Carl when he's fallen in love with her from "the first moment he saw her", boohoo, what a scrag, etc., move on, you think - oh, but the movie listens, and the movie does; Marianne disappears for about 90 minutes of real-time after she's broken Carl's heart, and then she returns, and...all is well, no complications whatsoever. ... ...

What. The. Shit. Who and why are you, Richard Curtis? What did anyone gain from her sleeping with that fat DJ if there was no playing out of a complication and resolution between her and Carl? What was the point of this movie? Why have her as a character? Why, come to that, make this movie at all? Why did I get charged adult price for this shit when I've still got my devil-may-care youthful vibrance? Why did a film which was all a bit of a non-event need over two hours to run its course?
No reason, or, Because someone screwed something up, are the answers to most of these questions, if you interpret 'screwed' liberally.

Katherine Parkinson and Chris O'Dowd from The IT Crowd were involved somewhat, good for them, on the big screen, but thank god Richard Ayoade was not bought so easily; like a raffle ticket. We didn't win.

Curtis - "Fool" to his close friends and family - said that this movie wasn't about the literal events around pirate radio ships in the 60's - good, because otherwise they sucked - but rather it was for "entertainment purposes" only. That's why it wasn't called a documentary - thanks for clarifying, Richard! "Oh, watch as I recreate a periodic atmosphere, hey; clothes and haircuts, music and sex - I'm so ruthless with my stylising and nuanced visionary balls." Richard Curtis was entertaining himself by making this film.

Yes, it looks good, and yes there are some funny moments, like with the government officials played by Kenneth Branagh and Jack Davenport (boy, can that guy not get away from movies to do with ships - see below), but aside from the occasional "fun" moment, every other scene of the movie seemed a non-sequitur and didn't progress or promote any kind of storyline, or really develop characters or whatknot. Like the scene where "The Count" challenges "Gavin" to a game of "chicken" where they both end up climbing 50 "metres" or so up the mast, and then walk out over the edge of the boat on a beam, and jump into the ocean. Oh, the adrenaline. Be still, my heart. What did that scene add. That wasn't a question.

Jack Davenport: A Man Who Really Fuckin' Loves His Ships.

Mary Bryant (2005), Pirates of the Carribbean (2007), The Boat That Rocked (2009)

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And there was (probably still is) a character called "Thick Kevin" - who is possibly based on Richard Curtis - but we are invited to laugh at him in the same way that the characters in the movie do. Presentational. That's not fun for anyone. What was the point? To draw us out of the film so we can realise how nothing in it quite has a point? Why was he there? Why, why, why.

Everything in this movie was a self-validating circle.
Cyclical like a wheel, only it finished. And wheels don't. Because they go places.
Unlike this movie.

The End.

....but otherwise it was okay.

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or something

2009-03-30T01:51:00.000-07:00

Long story shortened; was listening to Triple J, heard a song, searched fragmented lyrics, found out it was Roll Bus Roll by Jeffrey Lewis, of whom I had never heard before, he wrote a Senior Literary Thesis on the graphic novel Watchmen and here are some songs. He seems to have been ampersanded onto the front of several little outfits, the songs are like stream-of-consciousness a bit like Why? at times, but not too complicated, sing-song-y, not-quite-folk, with some humour/societal comment, etc. "Anti-folk", they call it. A bit interesting.

I investigated, and liked; Don't Be Upset off the album City and Eastern Songs.

Don't Be Upset - Jeffrey Lewis

and I Ain't Thick It's Just A Trick from 12 Crass Songs

I Ain't Thick It's Just A Trick - Jeffrey Lewis and The Jitters

so much anti-materialist pain behind his eyes...
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More like 'Bad Summer'

2009-03-14T23:34:00.000-07:00

I thought the album For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver (pronounced bon-ee-vair, not bon eye-ver) was great, and most of it was recorded in a cabin in Wisconsin, that's not a joke, would I lie to you?

And I know the EP Blood Bank is several weeks old in news terms now, but I was thinking of posting something about this live bootleg of a Postal Service thing which I found but then didn't think was that enthralling, whereas saying something contrary to what you maybe think always is!!!114

That auto-tuning thing - which I think is called auto-tune - is heavily present on this one track called Woods, and as such, you sure as hell can not see (as in, listen to) them (that is, the woods) for the trees (that is, the auto-tuning). Like the idiom, are you following? It was used in The Wolves (Act I and II) - off For Emma - at 2:55 or so and then again at whatever other corresponding spots it is, and it's just a bit...bad..I find.

The title-track is okay, the vocals for some reason sounding more and more in my mind like TV On The Radio's except with those sensibilities rooted in a Wisconsin cabin. But if you remember that Imogen Heap of crap song from The OC about 2005 which played when something major happened to the residents of Orange County - nuclear fallout or something, I can't remember - well it's like that, and it just doesn't do much for me - sort of like sci-fi roleplaying.

Blindsided - Bon Iver
off For Emma, Forever Ago

Woods - Bon Iver
off Blood Bank

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of Montreal @ Hi-Fi Bar Melbourne 5/3/09

2009-03-06T03:21:00.000-08:00

So, I think Jack is dead or something, hence the delay, he was meant to write something too but didn't. Just so you know. Anyway, the night was opened by New Zealand's The Ruby Suns whose fans were there enjoying themselves under a pretext comparatively as specious as the statement "Alice the Camel has no humps, so Alice must be a horse" in lieu of the act which was to come...

If you don't know them, think of a glass of coconut-milk blended (or blent) with The Shins after they've been cross-pollinated with some Architecture or Animal Collective; then that strained through a corroding sieve rendered from the fibres of Vampire Weekend and MGMT...ultimately creating something not necessarily as interesting for as long a period of time as any of the above, but still pretty good and which kept the electro-nonces thoroughly enthralled. There was a drum-synth, which was about an 8 on the 'cool' to 'really cool' scale.

Both tracks off their second and most recent album Sea Lion:

Kenya Dig It? - The Ruby Suns

Tane Mahuta - The Ruby Suns

And then there was of Montreal.

Greatest night of my life, no exaggeration. There isn't that much to say; it lived up to the hype. Kevin Barnes sounds a lot more trans-gender live but that wasn't a bad thing. Interspersed throughout the psychosexual circus were appearances by numerous characters involved in various role-plays and choreographic feats; fighting, staged-blood-smearing, ferocious eating of fruit (this guy above), psychedellically impressionistic interactions with band members, etc.

We were close enough to read the set-list taped to the ground next to Kevin Barnes' effeminate left foot, which Jack snatched out of the air as it left the mod-hands of bassist Davey Pierce at the end. They played almost all of Hissing Fauna, a lot of Skeletal Lamping, some Sunlandic and a new track called Tender Fax.
I haven't linked anything because you should just go and discover the greatness for yourself.

And we left pasted in sweat-confetti and glitter. Here endeth the greatness.

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All photos from Thao Du, go check it out
Heaps more coverage from thebootypatrol.blogspot.com
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slightly less pale

2009-02-27T15:33:00.000-08:00

Whitest Boy Alive's new album, etc. They already had a nice enough sound with vox similar to Interpol, but I felt everybody went psycho over Fireworks when it was all a bit weak, but they've steered their musical ship into slightly more vibrant waters.

1517 - Whitest Boy Alive

press enter again in the address bar if it tries to 403 you...

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www.myspace.com/welovephdj

And I just heard Seven Sevens by Wolf & Cub but couldn't find it straight so here it is mixed...by really cool guy PhDJ - like a drink, did you get it?

Seven Sevens (Dept. Remix) - Wolf & Cub

(Download)

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you rest like a second-term president

2009-02-22T23:37:00.001-08:00

I'm a bit formulaic in the posting scheme of things; photo, synopsis, wit, link, album year...so...I've punched a guy! I don't know what you were doing at 5pm yesterday afternoon but I listened to Triple J's Live At The Wireless recording of Fleet Foxes playing in Sydney early this year, and they are great live...at the wireless. Try and podcast or something if you missed it. Anyway, here's some formulae, several, so it's okay:

From Why?'s 2005 album Elephant Eyelash. The album is less fluid than Alopecia (2007) by way of its comparatively sparse use of synth, more acoustic stuff as in this song (which is not an accurate representation of the whole), etc.; much more like the general conception of a band and album, and it has far less dense lyrical blocks, and also a less-subtle abundance of similes...but it's still great like a subway reaching through a New York sidewalk...(Grate; anyone? No? No takers? Simile?)

Whispers Into The Other - Why?

And their cover of 'Close To Me' by The Cure, which was made great like something magni-ficent. I'm yet to hear something related to Yoni Wolf which I haven't liked, he was in cLOUDDEAD, by the by.

Close To Me - Why?

Voxtrot once did a pretty good cover of Love Vigilantes - one of my three favourite songs by New Order - and you can download the live recording of it free along with heaps of other free Voxtrot documentary-type podcasts on their iTunes page.

Speaking of iTunes, I couldn't host it because it's 10MB's great, but on the Jon Brion Remix - EP (available from iTunes Store, hence segue), there is an extended version (8:16) of Gallery Piece by of Montreal, which is worth the $1.69 or, if you're slightly more generous, the $8whathaveyou for the EP itself.

Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman Feb 11

2009-02-13T02:10:00.000-08:00

Go now. Sorry for not actually hosting the video, but...I can't go for that.

Joaquin Phoenix, Letterman Interview Video
"what the shit?"

The theory other than he's gone all el pan de mais, el pan de mais, el pan de mais sin sal is that because he is currently having a documentary (or mockumentary) made about him and his transition from acting to hip-hop, this stuff in the interview was part of his image...Okay, sure.
It's like Commodus from Gladiator but with more beard, more weird and less scripted.

The untapped maple trees of Canada...

2009-02-03T17:14:00.000-08:00

mmmmmm..... Syrup

Ah Blogging, bloggity blog blog blog. In the country I grew up in, we used to eat blogs when the weather ruined our beets crop - like it or not, it was an alphabetical progression. This fact taken into consideration, hopefully you can appreciate my hesitancy at the thought of writing - fortunately George has been posting at a rate which would disguise my blog-related apprehension and having finally shaken of a good portion of the post-school miasma, I thought it about time I made these machinations slightly less tyranical and more oligarchical.

For my first offering onto this word-page, I humbly present to you;

The Rural Alberta Advantage (or the RAA)

This band that hail from Alberta in lovely Canada need some introduction, as they are currently unsigned to any label whatsoever. This is not to say that they are not worth listening to, but rather that record labels are stupid. The RAA possess a sound not too easy to describe; it harkens back to the very early musical voyages of Neutral Milk Hotel - taking the archetypal indie/folk/rock sound NMH created In the Aeroplane over the Sea and blending it with their more contemporary counterparts. There are flashes of the likes of Okkervil River, Sufjan Stevens, and their fellow Canadians Arcade Fire laden throughout their songs - giving an ultimate sound that is interesting to say the least, especially considering they produced the LP themselves.

The album is in fact called Hometowns,

Hometowns - RAA

And here are a few tracks off it, which I took a liking to.

http://www.theraa.com/audio/the_RAA-dont_haunt_this_place.mp3

http://www.theraa.com/audio/the_RAA-frank_ab.mp3

Actually, these were more the only two tracks they had on their website, but the whole album great and I reccommend you check it out.

stuff, etc.

2009-01-31T00:21:00.000-08:00

John Rambo; a man who knows how an attempt at a good time can go horribly wrong

Wendy Rene, 1964, mimicking the earliest mo-town and having a bit of a whine about emotions to make a living for herself:

After Laughter Comes Tears - Wendy Rene

...but really, probably only if they all manage not to die, ever

And Wu-Tang Clan's re-sampling in Tearz off Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) advocating, among other things, the importance of contraception through anecdote, and utilising Wendy's underlying message of sadness following a good or even, hey, a pretty good time...And also The M.G.M (Ghostface and Raekwon) because it's just so good...suckah...

Tearz - Wu-Tang Clan

The M.G.M - Wu-Tang Clan
(persevere with possible slow loading)

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Montrealis

2009-01-29T23:11:00.000-08:00

of Montreal's cover (their first?) of Yoko Ono's I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Clear Glass Window, which featured on their 1997 EP "The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower"

I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Clear Glass Window - of Montreal

And their last year's cover of M.I.A's Jimmy:

Jimmy - of Montreal

Done more than a decade apart (what have you done either side of the past ten or so years?), and Kevin Barnes &c. are still playing it book in both the cover and non-cover sense, and I'm seeing them on the 5th of March at the Hi-Fi Bar, and maybe tickets are still available from Missing Link. The last few weeks of my summer holidays were laced heavily with their album The Sunlandic Twins from 2004, which you should search for and buy, because you will love it like your own child, so it will be good practice for parenting later on in life as well as great listening.

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there's no expansion of time, so it's a collage

2009-01-28T19:10:00.000-08:00

MELBOURNE BDO 09

Hot Chip were the highlight of my day, but also exceedingly great were Black Kids, Lupe Fiasco, and Melbourne's own Little Red - but who cares to write about such things in detail, let's just write in general with links.
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Lupe Fiasco spotted just off-stage in the Boiler Room at Hot Chip's blistering set

Though unclear whether or not it's hypocritically satirising the typical west-side hip-hop conventions through its label-dropping or whether it just validates some criticism and lumps Lupe into the materialist category itself, Lupe Fiasco's Gold Watch still sounds good and is my most-listened-to Lupe song at the moment.

Arguably 2007's The Cool was a bit hit-and-miss like a drive-by shooting when compared to his Food & Liquor (2006) - prompting this speculator to anticipate but not hold lofty expectations for the final L-U-P-END - but the album by itself as another artist's debut probably would have been praised. Even with some clunky tracks in the repertoire, Lupe is the most skilled hip-hop lyricist and an amazing artist and should be praised by the doubters for the muscles on his back, the brains evidenced by the numerous songs that are on point, and his great live performance.

An interesting aside, I think the lyric "the most important parts are the ones that are unseen" in Gold Watch is adapted from the line of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince; "what is essential is invisible to the eye." Maybe not, either way, shut up - what have you observed recently? Nothing, that's what.

Gold Watch - Lupe Fiasco
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You're everything that I never could keep / I hear the sound then it starts to repeat

Two songs that did not feature in Hot Chip's set from Big Day Out:
Touch Too Much and their uber-distorted and minimalist cover of Joy Division's Transmission, c'est top-notch:

Touch Too Much - Hot Chip

Transmission (Joy Division Cover) - Hot Chip

dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio
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Oh, and ab the via...

CARLA CAMETTI PD
like good Australian television, only not.

A Google Image Search yielded no actual results, because the show is so bad.

A show burdened with stupid Italian stereotypes, substandard writing, a disproportionately enthusiastic soundtrack, and a prerequisite of indefinitely suspended belief to receive each episode as intended (instead of anything good), positioning us to laugh at and around - but certainly not with - the stupid protagonist (Diana Glenn); answering her phone "Carla Cametti" each time; in case we forget. Oh, and the acting is shit; like big blocks of self-conscious wood. Which ordinarily might be fun for a small child to stack, but just aren't.
By far the funniest thing on television at the moment, I'm not kidding - SBS, 8:30pm Thursday - be there.

*hot chip photo from Cellophane Sunset

A pretty basic equation

2009-01-05T18:57:00.000-08:00

Jay-Z + Radiohead =

http://jaydiohead.com/

Produced by Minty Fresh Beats, it's really like 3 1/2 parts Jay-Z to every 2 parts Thom Yorke & co. but fun nonetheless, especially if your music taste Venn diagram overlaps hip-hop artists with actual bands, which it should on occasion unless you're a faux-sophisticate close-minded freak/pedant who watches the strings at a Punch & Judy show.

From, The Management

2008-12-10T15:12:00.000-08:00

oh em gee em tee

MGMT have come full circle in Australia from when they first largely slipped under the radar, despite Rolling Stone's listing them as an Artist To Watch in November of 2007.
At length, their flames of hype licked the highly combustible drought-stricken country, and consequently every other MySpace profile had Kids as its song up until a few months ago - then the band was deemed over-played, and whose fault is that? Yours, dick...sorry.

Last night saw the duo +3 make their penultimate appearance on the much-hyped Australian tour with the Melbourne leg at Festival Hall, backed by Australian band Tame Impala (Article at Cellophane Sunset ) and Luke Steele (The Sleepy Jackson and Empire of the Sun).
Van Wyngarden told Rolling Stone last year that when starting out, he and Ben Goldwasser "talked a lot about selling out as soon as possible." Predictably, - although this was meant in the context of easily marketable music - this was literally fulfilled as tickets sold out for all shows on the Australian tour within minutes, and boy, was it - okay, wait - hey now, yes, it was "something", allright.

That nigh tangible transition between the 'warm-up' atmosphere - whereby the audience are drowned out by the acid rock renaissance of Tame Impala, but talk through Luke Steele - and the hot, hot, sweaty, hot, crackly MGMT atmosphere, a collective scream then hushed whisperings, calm before a storm, then more screaming; a hot, hot, sweaty, hot storm, a dark undulating mass of perspiring people, lit by the beacons of phones and cameras - a night which saw Festival Hall's internal walls cold with condensed perspiration and its air hot and oppressive with a visible overhanging haze of sweat. It was something beautifully compelling, like a ...beautifully compelling sauna with music...or something less synonymous with what was just described.

So why not, in the "spirit" of "things", this is Immukization's Mash-up of LCD Soundsystem's All My Friends against MGMT's Kids, along with MGMT's Of Moons, Birds & Monsters, because the hype has returned to me once more.

All My Children - Immukization (removed - go to http://prettymuchamazing.com/mp3/spincoms-top-25-mgmt-remixes/ )

Of Moons, Birds & Monsters

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all for pushing technicoloured alter-ego envelopes; of Montreal

In related news, Van Wyngarden is known to have been collaborating with of Montreal's Kevin Barnes on a project called Blikk Fang. Watch out.

And in case you're not into them yet (say it isn't so), here are two songs by of Montreal, the first from their second latest album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? and the latter from the relatively recent Skeletal Lamping.
Don't place them in your head as being a footnote of MGMT; they are a powerful package of psychedellic, avant-garde, recently sexy (in the 1920's sense), electro-alternative cohesion, combined with the right-hand of a psychotic and quite attractive Muse, it doesn't matter which one.

Listen and buy at least Hissing Fauna, if not their entire body of work.

Sink The Seine

Wicked Wisdom (next track along in player)

OF MONTREAL ARE PLAYING AT THE HI-FI BAR IN MELBOURNE ON THE 5th OF MARCH TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MISSING LINK
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Foals

2008-12-10T14:25:00.000-08:00

Foals' album Antidotes - released earlier this year, produced by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek - sees descriptively impressionistic, low-density (minimalist?), sparse and repeated lyrics meet with a nuanced, alluringly fast-paced electro dance-punk feel to produce one of the greatest albums of 2008. Below is a released demo of the single Olympic Airways (which smacks of Q And Not U), Holy Fuck's interpretation of Balloons, and the album release of Cassius. Enjoy and forget you ever wanted to search for young horses less than a year old.

Cassius

Olympic Airways(Demo)

Balloons (cover) - Holy Fuck

Welcome

2008-10-10T02:56:00.000-07:00

By means of an introduction to our blogging concept, I would like to steer your thought holes in the direction of Post-Periclean Athens, more particularly, the year spent under the thirty-strong, pro-spartan, tyrannical oligarchy. This collapse of democracy is, in fact, quite unlike the liberal notions that flow freely from our nouveau-oligarchy; an oligarchy of the intellectual variety. And so, to follow, we will provide you with glimpses into the machinations of the entity so awefully powerful - it crippled the young Peruvian boy who first found it in the Andes - that it is now stretched across two great minds in the form of a figurative zoo. From these two minds the wild thought-beasts shall now be released from the menagerie - be sure that your thought hole is ready and waiting...