On March 19th the Grizzly Bear responsible for tracks like 'While You Wait For The Others' , will be releasing a new EP called Silent Hour / Golden Mile on Warp Records. The sparse piano affair 'Saint Nothing' is the first track to be offered to our ears, Daniel Rossen says of the solo project: “When you spend so much time touring around, you can lose perspective on what you’re trying to do. All the sudden, I had no idea what to do or what [...]
It's been confirmed that Beyonce and Jay-Z's first born child Blue Ivy Carter, has made chart history by becoming the youngest person ever to land on a Billboard chart. The track she features in, 'Glory', was produced by The Neptunes, and as a result also features snippets of Pharrel Williams' voice. For Jay-Z: "life just got REALLY good", and for Blue Ivy, the tune currently sits at #74 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The poor baby must have been only a few hours old, when she had a microphone shoved in her [...]
Check out the really rather clever video for Modeselektor's 'Evil Twin', which toys with a whole batch of simultaneously running Quicktime videos layered over one another. The track itself reminds me of 'Kill Bill Vol.42 , with the syncopated saw-bass bouncing on the off-beat. It's all nicely experimental, whilst maintaining the duo's love for being oh so silly. -James Godwin, January 14th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: Music , Video [...]
A really interesting insight into the recording process of Animal Collective's seventh studio album, 20072s Strawberry Jam. "Scott Colburn had a great idea when we were recording Strawberry Jam . He set up a video camera to take short clips of footage once a minute for the whole time we were in the studio. This is the unedited result. Our tracking session for Strawberry Jam in Tucson at Wavelab Studios in 2007." [...]
A really interesting insight into the recording process of Animal Collective's seventh studio album, 20072s Strawberry Jam. "Scott Colburn had a great idea when we were recording Strawberry Jam . He set up a video camera to take short clips of footage once a minute for the whole time we were in the studio. This is the unedited result. Our tracking session for Strawberry Jam in Tucson at Wavelab Studios in 2007." Apparently [...]
I don't know much about The Shins, but I do know this is the song of the year so far for me. It's a super-strong melody providing a penchant for power-pop perfection. 'Simple Song' is the first single to be released from the upcoming Port Of Morrow , out March 20th. -James Godwin, January 10th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: mp3 , Music Tagged: James Mercer [...]
More new music from Gonjasufi, released through Warp on January 24th in the U.S. (and the previous day in surrounding countries). It's a cut from the mini-LP, MU.ZZ.LE , and it's dead cool. Gonjasufi - 'Feedin' Birds' -James Godwin, January 9th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: mp3 , Music Tagged: Feedin' Birds , Gonjasufi , [...]
Check out two new tracks below that Thom Yorke created exclusively for the Rag & Bone fashion show. Out of the pair I like 'Stuck Together' the most, Thom clearly drawing influence from the subdued electronic minimalism of James Blake and Jamie xx . Keep an eye out for the Garment Musique EP . That was a joke. Or was it... No, it was. .... 'Stuck Together' [...]
Tyler T. Williams is a very talented man, and Trevor Powers is also a very talented man. They've worked together before on the video for Youth Lagoon's 'Montana' , and whenever their respective efforts combine the result is just astounding. This time it's a sci-fi apocalypse affair, all freaky like. Youth Lagoon - 'July' -James Godwin, January 5th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. [...]
Here's presenting the video for the most supremely written gospel hymn of recent years, from Iron & Wine 's Kiss Each Other Clean . 'Godless Brother In Love' is the best song from Kiss Each Other Clean , and causes my ears to rejoice and stand to relaxed attention throughout. Taking a few more melodic leaps than perhaps his voice is comfortable with, the fragility of Sam Beam’s religious persona is alluring and accentuated when complimented by these particular harmonies and cadences. The flick was [...]
A new video directed by John Owen for the new Message To Bears track 'Mountains', taken from his upcoming second album Folding Leaves . Happy New Year. Folding Leaves is released January 18th on Dead Pilot Records. -James Godwin, January 2nd, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: Music , Video Tagged: [...]
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Here's a new demo from the xx, who have just commenced recording for their second album. Find it over at their blog , or download/stream below. the xx - 'Open Eyes' (demo) -James Godwin, December 27th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: mp3 , Music Tagged: Jamie xx , Open [...]
Check out the new video from James Blake , for his stripped back cover of Joni Mitchell's 'A Case Of You' below. The track was featured on this year's Enough Thunder EP , and Blake ended his recent concert at the Ansom Rooms in Bristol with it too. The film was directed by Seb Edwards , and showcases actress Rebecca Hall ( The Prestige, Frost/Nixon) . [...]
This is astounding. Here is Arcade Fire's suburbia. The band have gone and concocted two differing varieties of their brand new video for 'Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains' , taken from last years Suburbs . Directed by Vincent Morisset, you can view the nicely shot "traditional" version above aswell as an abstract introduction below, I'm not sure if anyone can explain quite what that's about. However, the real magic is here . Make sure your webcam is turned on, and watch as the images on screen conform and align with your own [...]
Earlier in the year Radiohead played The King Of Limbs page to page, in its entirety for Nigel Godrich's live music television format From The Basement . Two new tracks were thrown in for good measure, titled 'Staircase' and 'The Daily Mail'. Lyrics for the latter have been knocking about since 2005, as this post on Dead Air Space demonstrates: "Paid off security/And got through the gate". Last night Zane Lowe premiered a studio recording of 'The Daily Mail' on his Radio 1 show, thanks to [...]
Recently Trevor Powers, the leader of anthemic lo-fi outfit Youth Lagoon, played a handful of his well-written songs for Sirius XMU , however in amongst the usual suspects was a warming and personable cover of John Denver's 'Goodbye Again'. The immediately noticeable difference is how high Powers' vocals are in the mix, since fans of The Year Of Hibernation will be more accustomed to his reverb-drenched singing hiding beneath the often snowballing chords. If anyone was in doubt that this lad could sing, this exposed cover illustrates there's absolutely no denying [...]
With a début full-length , an EP and a non-album single all in 2011, the naturally productive James Blake can't quite release music fast enough. Have a listen to the title track from a second EP called Love What Happened Here , available to purchase digitally now. 'Love What Happened Here' -James Godwin, December 8th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. [...]
The epitome of cool. Via SPIN. -James Godwin, December 7th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Related articles video: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - 'Little Blu House' (informalflickthru.com) Filed under: Music , Video Tagged: Bicycle , Unknown Mortal Orchestra
I can already tell from this 54-second clip for Joanna Newsom's 7-minute masterpiece 'Good Intentions Paving Company' , that you're without a doubt laying eyes upon one of the greatest music videos of all time. Directed by Karni & Saul , there's a strong vintage vibe to the cinematography and folkloric imagery portrayed that works fantastically well. -James Godwin, December 7th, 2011 Copyright © 2011. Informal Flick-Thru . All rights reserved. Filed under: Music , Video [...]
Here's a track from Nick Zammuto's new band; and in case that name is beyond your recognition (which it was for me), he is the co-founder and primary singer/songwriter/composer of Brian Eno favourites The Books. Proceedings commence as a rather glitchy affair, before introducing Imogen Heap/Bon Iver vocoder-processed vocal harmonies that feel a bit awkward, but like a pig among guinea-pigs , any initial misplacement demands straight backs and eyes front. My attention is rewarded as Zammuto then wields what seem obviously appropriate harmony and noise around them. Pretty much employing [...]
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