Not sure why anyone would need these…well, okay. I could see some form of scenario that included a Lite Fetische theme, maybe a dabbler’s IML pre-party, and they didn’t want to go and get flogged they just wanted to hang out in a new outfit. Not SO out there that people wouldn’t laugh but also no attention to your actual interests. Although, I DO flag hot pink on the right, maybe this product is for me. Purchase over at Self Ridges.
It’s just dumb, to have a record finished, knowing it will leak, and not release it. What are labels waiting for? To market it? Blogs already do that, unpaid and without being asked to. If labels could get over it and move the fuck on they’d engage the mechanisms that are already in place for music distribution instead of trying to fight them. The latest I heard about the MPAA and RIAA’s plans for putting a HALT! STOP! on pirating was unbelievabley disconnected from reality. It’s almost as if they think that consumers are just waiting for the right way for the industry to screw us, and we’ll surely allow them. Life has moved on from the old distribution model, meanwhile the execs are scrambling for a time machine. In any case, I have the new Crystal Castles, and I’m liking it. It’s a little mellower than the first, and that’s funny. Why? Because I always said these two were PUNK, and it’s classic Rock ‘N Roll that a punk band’s 2nd record isn’t as gritty.
Thanks Crystal Castles! Thanks for not breaking up and making another record! I’ll buy the vinyl. For now, I’m jamming on my portable mp3 player.
* This is the cover for the vinyl version
Opening track “Trinity’s Crying,” didn’t really have me dripping with excitement for the new album by CocoRosie. Sparse in arrangement with no chorus to speak of, the only thing you are left with is Sierra Cassidy’s opera voice singing the title over and over–who or what is Trinity and why do I care if she’s crying? As it turns out, Grey Oceans, the sisters’s fourth full-length, is just that: an opaque collection of somber, protracted waves. Mostly an album of ballads, even when the songs pick up a stray rhythm (think freaked out, opium-infused hip hop), they are quickly stuttered apart by that Cassidy sense of timing. First single ”Lemonade” is the closest Grey Oceans comes to traditional pop structure, however as an album teaser, it’s a gentle, valium-dosed sea creature not preoccupied with making splash. That’s where you get hooked, though. On each record, these women strip away any and all commercial aspirations to make their own space; it’s a feminine cocoon impenetrable by inattentive ears so when you dive into a Cocorosie record, you are like a lucky visitor who happened upon the Cassidys’s private skinny-dip. Undeniable is the singularity of Sierra’s soprano and Bianca’s Betty Boop–together these naturally alien voices are the most unique on the indie plank, and Grey Oceans is another record where a close look gets you lasting impressions of their world. Recorded in four different countries, the children’s toys and plucked harp (perhaps the touchstones of CocoRosie’s sound) are accentuated by boozy synths and acoustic piano, but what sets this record apart from the rest of their catalogue is the clearest peek into CocoRosie’s influences. Laurie Anderson, Bjork, Nina Simone, Aaliyah, and the Slits are all referenced here, submerged in a delicate poach and spit out into a body-temperature pool. If Trinity’s crying, her tears don’t beg for help, they beg attention. Grey Oceans is out in early May.
French Ye Ye singer, Mareva Galanter, SO HOT. Depsite the vintage look to the video and the harkening back to the 60′s Ye Ye sounds, this is mid-oughts music.
Some wikipedia Ye Ye factoids:
The yé-yé movement had its origins in the radio programme “Salut les copains”, created by Lucien Morisse and hosted by Daniel Philippacci, which was first aired in December 1959.
At the time, it was the only musical movement so far to be spearheaded by females.
Yé-yé girls were young and were also sexy, in a deliberately naïve way.
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