And on the fourth day... I still bring you even more of the songs that rocked my world in 2012. Are they're all good. Here's the skinny: I'm giving you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There will be a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (You can click back to Monday's post to get the first part, Tuesday's post for part 2, and Wednesday's post part 3) , and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome [...]
In the spirit of the holiday season, our writer's have a present for each and every one of us: their top picks for albums and tracks of the year. ...
I’m melting. Well I was until earlier today. After one week in the hottest Canarian August in 23 years, my quintessentially English temperature gauge and complexion were pining for a bit of cloud control and a drop in temperature. It was, as I thought, a week spent in whatever shade I could find, book in one hand, Mr Sangria in the other. Large hat and fifties style swimsuit notwithstanding, I have managed (albeit unintentionally, but alas unavoidably) to turn – in the words of HP – “ a shade of beige ”. And despite the heat, [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist : Kalle Mattson Video: "Water Falls" Highlight: "In coming up with the concept for 'Water Falls,' director Kevin Parry and I tried to emphasize and embrace the dichotomy of the video, having a hypnosis theme as well as creating a love letter to San Francisco a city we both love," Kalle Mattson tells Spinner. "We used this dichotomy further in the rhythmic syncing of the video to music and the interpretation of the song's lyrics through the [...]
You know the score. Some of our favourite downloads from the past month neatly parcelled up into one tasty mix and decorated with a few new tunes too. Nearly forty in all. Jump in! Download Wye Oak - Spiral mp3 (from Adult Swim Singles Series) A change of approach and tempo from experimental folkies Download Unnatural Helpers – Hate Your Teachers mp3 (from Land Grab) Raging. Ferocious. Punk Download Wake Up Lucid – Feel It mp3 (from Feel It) Combines sex-drenched vocals, high octane guitar, [...]
I was a bit late to finally check this out but I'm glad I did. This video for Kalle Mattson's Water Falls is totally mesmerizing. Zooming in and out and about California as if it were a dream, I was remembering all the places I'd been and all the places I hope to return to. Of the concept, director Kevin Parry says this - " I wanted to capture the slow-pulsing and escalating feel of the song. For years, I've had the idea of animating a camera through and around a city, so I [...]
We continue our catch up from vacation whilst filtering through the old inbox.Here is an assortment of MP3s, streams and videos for you to consider. MP3s The Blakes - "Art of Losses" It's been two years since their last album, and Art of Losses shows that these three brothers from Seattle haven't lost a step. We're featuring the title track. Word has it that the trio headed recorded [...]
Although we've been meaning to get round to listening to Kalle Mattson (now a four-piece) for a while, it took a timely reminder from trusty Song by Toad to prod us into action. So with apologies to our friends at Crash Avenue (we should listen to you more often), we gave their new EP Lives In Between a spin. And then another. And another. In fact we may have played it straight through over and over for the entire duration of our train journey from the Cotswolds to London. It is folk with [...]
by teepoo Position Last Song Link 1 - Dog Is Blue- People post 2 - The Dudes- The Dress post 3 - Yes [...]
It's difficult to explain exactly what's at the heart of Kevin Parry 's HYPNO SF project. I suppose you could call it hyper-zoom, or Mr. Toad's wild ride on a slingshot-cam, but both of those descriptions would fail to speak to the unique creativity of the project. Scored by Kalle Mattson and filmed by Andrea Nesbitt , the short shows off the sights of San Francisco while, like a rubber band, snapping back and forth from one point to the next. Late in the clip the shots begin to encircle various landmarks within the [...]
Okay, let's be clear from the start, this is absolutely fucking lovely. Okay, sometimes it gets into that 'folk-rock' territory where someone like me is always going to drift off a little, but there are songs here not only that I love, but that I would never, ever have expected to love given what I've been listening to recently. Folk-rock, indie-folk... whatever you want to call it, it's a genre I've had a little bit of a crisis with recently. I tried to explain this on the last podcast and failed, but it's a genre which [...]
El vídeo de su tema Thicks As Thieves se convirtió el año pasado en un fenomeno viral al superar el millón de visitas. El mismo equipo, el cantante y compositor canadiense Kalle Mattson y el director Kevin Parry, pretende repetir el éxito con este sorprendente e hipnótico vídeo que recorre a velocidad de vértigo los lugares más emblemáticos de la ciudad de San Francisco. Water Falls y Miles In Between pertenecen al Ep Lives In Between , publicado esta primavera. Mp3: Kalle Mattson. Miles [...]
Kalle Mattson hails from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and has been putting out music since 2008. My first listen to Kalle Mattson came today when I checked out his new video for 'Water Falls'. The song and video has been picking up a fair amount of buzz on YouTube with now nearly 100,000 views in the first week alone. The man behind the gorgeous music is Kalle Wainio who started out performing songs at the age of 17 under the band name of Kalle Mattson. He has since put out a couple of [...]
by teepoo Check out the hypnotizing new video from Kalle Mattson for his song Waterfalls . Also if you haven't downloaded his albums yet (they're free btw) what are you waiting for? Head over to his official website right now! Kalle Mattson- Water Falls
Lives in Between EP is free, so if you're looking for a couple of friendly indie tracks to augment your summer playlist, you won't do any harm in downloading it. Kalle Mattson's closest kin vocally is the Decemberists' Colin Meloy. His label is called Parliament of Trees. From these facts we may reasonably infer that Lives in Between EP is a through-and-through indie affair. This inference then becomes fact after a minute into "Someday", the lovely acoustic opener to this five-song set. Fortunately, this EP is a brief one, as there's little on here to differentiate Mattson from [...]
" The Shore " is one of those heart-beat tempo songs where life seems to settle as you listen. Kalle Mattson typically carries himself with much more of an acoustic demeanor, he's done well within those confines of meaningful lyrics and minimalist delivery yet it's those strengths which actually caught me off guard the first time I heard " The Shore ," it would be easier for me to believe this was a different band completely, that's how drastic the change felt. " The Shore " swims in the same Americana/Folk-Revival waters [...]
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by teepoo Here's my review of Kalle Mattson's EP Lives in Between . It's name your own price on Bandcamp , so why not head over and listen? Tracklist 1. Someday 2. Sun Is Gone 3. The Shore 4. Waterfalls 5. Miles in Between 6. Palm Sunday Kalle Mattson- Waterfalls BUY THIS ALBUM Bandcamp | iTunes
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