posted by Ariana on December 8, 2011
First, and to disclaim, there’s nothing new from Bibio (at least I don’t think so). This song is just new to me! Second I’d like to acknowledge some facts. I realize that my previous Bibio post was wildly idealistic, perhaps even grotesquely so, but I still stand by it because it is true. The following song, which fits into that schema, was released this summer. It intended to be a summer song – just look at the title. But perhaps that makes it all the more stirring now that the leaves are all gone and the winter is upon us.
“Don’t Summarize My Summer Eyes” is a fabulous wordplay and a marvelous instrumental. Bibio generally uses his voice like an instrument, not really giving precedence to the vocabulary except when the words warrant comprehension. This and many other Bibio songs evoke a barren city, a pale sunlight, a glinting body of water on the verge of solidity (specifically the beginning and end of “Don’t Summarize”). They are luxuriously bleak. They put me in a lonesome, observational mood, but I don’t mean this in a bad way. In fact, let me rephrase. Some Bibio songs make it perfectly acceptable to be alone and observational. Or they highlight that lonesomeness that is latent in everyone.
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Finally! Leslie Feist has released a new album, entitled Metals (released just last week in the US and Canada). It’s definitely been a while, or at least it feels that way to me. Feist is one of the few female voices that I can tolerate, let alone enjoy and actively seek out. Check out the series of impromptu videos on Feist’s Youtube. Offered below are two songs that aren’t the single (“How Come You Never Go There”). The new album is cohesive and lovely, and it does just what it really should, which is to delicately wrap itself around your heart.
I listen to “Cicadas and Gulls” and look out my window at the burgeoning fall in the courtyard, and yes, trite as it sounds, I watch the play of light through the leaves and on the river beyond and approach what feels like happiness.
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» Meaningless labels: Amazing Voice • Broken Social Scene • Female vocal • Singer-Songwriter • Soulful
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Here We Go Magic = Luke Temple and new members Kristina Lieberson (keyboards), Michael Bloch (guitar), Jennifer Turner (bass guitar), and Peter Hale (drums). Here We Go Magic = exciting and different and seemingly spontaneous. Here We Go Magic = homegrown and analog and hipster. This Brooklyn-based band’s newest is The January EP, released this past May on Secretly Canadian. Check out “Tulip,” a rocking song from the EP, and “Bottom Feeder,” my favorite from the sophomore LP “Pigeons” that was released one year ago.
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Exciting news! Washed Out (Ernest Greene) has announced a forthcoming sophomore album to be released on July 12th, this time on Sub Pop (!). I don’t know if it’s going to be anything like what I’ve come to love and adore from Greene before, my favorites being, of course, those wonderful electro whirlwinds “New Theory,” “You and I,” “Belong,” and the remix of “Despicable Dogs” by Small Black. I would be perfectly fine if Greene just kept on going in that direction, but I have a feeling that he’s going to take it to the next level. So watch out. In the meantime, enjoy the new single, “Eyes Be Closed,” in all its characteristic Washed Out-esque synthesized decadence, and check out our previous posts on both Washed Out and Small Black.
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August 29th, 2011 at 5:17 am
Great blogging. Keep it up