This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Portishead – Third (Island Records) Muscular synthesizers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. In a few words this is how Portishead’s third studio release, suggestively titled “Third,” sounds like. An amalgam of noise, distortions and Eastern Bloc minimalism is what the first listener might…
I love pure instrumental music, and Atlantian Kaki King is one of my favorite artists to sprang off the new wave. Her signature picking style has branched out along the year into something really special. It’s like she’s managed to dwell to such a depth in her music, that’s she almost into a whole new acoustic genre – a mark that only few artists manage to make. Anyway, Kaki’s fifth studio effort, “Junior” is out…
“it’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural.” – MGMT, a few months ago when talking about the band’s new album. The cover art has just been released today, but even though the band stated it’s gonna be whole different album than Oracal Spectacural, judging from it, I have a feeling we’re still gonna be in stored for…
Hope you’ve all had one hell of a crazy, yet responsible, good time this New Year’s Eve – after all, it was the last party of the year, of the decade for that matter. Oh, and it’s been such a sweet year for music, filled with some incredible scores on all fronts, hasn’t it? Rest assure, though, if you’re feeling a bit disheartened about 2009’s passing, since, from the look of it, 2010 is going…
The Brooklyn dance punk duo have gone a long way since their first major label debut, “Oracular Spectacular”, got out back in 2007, propulsating them to instant stardom. It’s been hectic – it can be pretty clear for anyone to notice, fact noted by the band numerous times before too. Let’s just hope that MGMT’s upcoming new album, just recently dubbed “Congratulations”, isn’t going to be affected by the incredibly massive hype their break through…
“Kids, don’t do drugs” might serve as a good motto for MGMT’s latest video for their incredible single “Kids.” The video’s story follows around a toddler (most likely on acid. lol) who seems to see monsters everywhere he walks around, even in people. Guess there’s a dormant monster within every of us, even in your postman! The mom was totally annoying though, compelling me to smack my notebook’s display multiple times out of disgust for…
Artist name: Amazing Baby Album name: Infinite Fucking Cross Label: Psilocybe Genre: Indie Rock/Glam Rock Release date: 2008 ZMErating: 7/10 Website: theamazingbaby.com All this modern, new-fangled indie music tends to breeze right by me, if I’m honest. And I’m not sure it’s not deliberate on my part. If there ever seems to be a bleeding edge to the music scene, I always tend to wrap myself in metaphorical bandages and run straight in the other…
Last year’s Oracular Spectacular was quite delicious, especially when on ‘shrooms, while MGMT’s video for Time to Pretend could either scare you to hell or strip and start dancing on the melody. The band’s new video for “The Youth” isn’t by far as trippy as Time to Pretend, but it’s very fun nonetheless. Directed Eric Wareheim, from Adult Swim’s “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” the video for “The Youth” features a few kids,…
The miraculous, extravagant, uber psyched out dance-punk duo, MGMT, dropped off by KCRW’s radio station yesterday, where they performed an awesome set. The powerful indie anthems, “Time to Pretend” and “Electric Feel,” were obviously the stand out songs, after all they’re the radio darlings, but the band surprised us by opting to also do a cover song. The victims covered artists were a ’80s Danish synth-pop band called Laid Back, that had a short break…
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