Blog: Esoteric Mumblings

This has to be the best new music video on YouTube this week. This fan made video of The Muppets performing Dance Yourself Clean , the amazing opening track on LCD Soundsystem's latest album, is really really sweet: It's basically a follow-up to the Kermit-starring fan video to LCD Soundsystem's New York I Love You from a couple of years back: Today's post marks the tenth and eleventh music video starring puppets posted to Esoteric Mumblings. Be sure to check out all [...]

After listening to Broken Social Scene's 'Hotel' on a bus trip the other day, I realised that there was something very familiar about the ending of the song. A quick listen to Feist's 'One Evening' confirmed what I had suspected - they have the excact same guitar riffs! How come I never noticed this before? Here's a mix I made where the two songs are blended together: mp3: Feist & Broken Social Scene - One Evening Hotel

Hello world, how have your first three weeks of the new year been? My apologies for the lack of updates in the last month! I know none of these are particularly new anymore by now, but anyway: Here are three of my favorite remixes right now. mp3: Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches (Starslinger Remix) mp3: Asobi Seksu - Trails (Deerhof Remix) mp3: Placebo - Ashtray [...]

Enjoy some selected minimalist acoustic christmas tunes by Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience, Whitest Boy Alive), E (Eels) and more. I guarantee you peaceful Christmas atmosphere if you fire up this playlist at medium to low volume on your living room stereo. Happy holidays, everyone! mp3: Erlend Øye - Last Christmas mp3: E - Everything 's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas mp3: Mew - She Came Home For Christmas (acoustic version) [...]

mp3: Uusi Fantasia feat. Eirik Bøe - Barefoot not Naked My favorite musicians from Finland, electronica trio Uusi Fantasia, recently finally realeased a long overdue follow-up to their fantastic (and brutally underappreciated) 2004 debut Top Ten . The new album is titled Heimo and came out last month. Just like the debut album it's filled with chillout / jazz inspired electronica, but with a few more radio friendly and poppish tracks this time around. One of my favorite tracks [...]

mp3: Beach House - I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun Beach House have had a very successful year. Their third LP, Teen Dream , has and reaped much more critical acclaim, and reached out to much larger masses of people, than their first two albums cold ever dream of. It's featured in many end of year lists as one of 2010's essential records, and I ranked it as my fourth favorite album of the year . Now the band is giving [...]

mp3: Beach House - I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun Beach House has had a very successful year. Their third LP, Teen Dream , has and reaped much more critical acclaim, and reached out to much larger masses of people, than their first two albums cold ever dream of. It's featured in many end of year lists as one of 2010's essential records, and I ranked it as my fourth favorite album of the year . Now the band is giving [...]

mp3: Asobi Seksu - Trails James Hanna and Yuki Chikudate of NYC duo Asobi Seksu have given the world the first taste of their forthcoming fourth LP, Fluorescence . Judging by 'Trails', the band has left the honey glazed dream pop sound of 2009's Hush behind, and returned to a rougher shoegaze sound again. Once again, they're so My Bloody Valentine, and I'm loving it!

My Top 25 albums of 2010: #10 - #1 10. MGMT - Congratulations //Country: US //Favorite tracks: It's Working, Someone's Missing, Flash Delirium, Congratulations mp3: MGMT - Congratulations MGMT [...]

My Top 25 albums of 2010: #16 - #11 15. Young The Giant - Young The Giant //Country: US //Favorite tracks: My Body, Cough Syrup, I Got Very promising debut album from energetic indie rockers, reminiscent of the debuts of artists such as Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and The Strokes. Read more , or watch the video for my favorite song: 14. Jónsi - Go [...]

My Top 25 albums of 2010: #20 - #16 20. Nóra - Er Einhver Að Hlusta? //Country: Iceland //Favorite tracks: Opin Fyrir Morði, Sjónskekkja, Skóflaðu Mér Nóra's five multi-instrumentalists don't only play an impressive amount of different instruments on their debut album, they also wander through an impressively large number of styles. The male vocalist Egill and the female vocalist, his sister Auður, take us through ambitious Arcade Fire-style theatrical-sounding indie, Belle and Sebastian-sounding [...]

My Top 25 albums of 2010: #25 - #21 25. Yeasayer - Odd Blood //Country : USA //Favorite tracks : Ambling Alp, Madder Red In the beginning of 2010, Yeasayer returned. Still experimental and weird, yet more accessible than before. This is one of my favorite videos of this year, and it gives anyone new to Yeasayer a good indication of how wonderfully strange Odd Blood is: [...]

mp3: of Montreal - I Was A Landscape In Your Dream (Grizzly Bear remix) mp3: Grizzly Bear - Boy From School (Hot Chip cover) It's winter again, it's starting to get ridiculously cold again, and once again I'm turning to Grizzly Bear. Where I live, it's been creeping down to 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit / minus 16 degrees Celcius recently, and most of all I just feel like crawling down into some warm place and hibernate until spring, bear style. Since I'm not [...]

mp3: Doug Paisley (with Feist) - Don't Make Me Wait Doug Paisley's album Constant Companion , which came out last month, features Feist on the above song. Feist's new documentary film Look at What The Lights Did Now has recently been screening on an obscurely small number of cinemas across the world, but according to her website it will be released as a DVD in stores December 6th in Europe and December 7th in North America, with a bonus CD. I'm honestly [...]

mp3: Bloc Party - Flux mp3: Bloc Party - Your Visits Are Getting Shorter mp3: Kele - Tenderoni mp3: Kele - Everything You Wanted (RAC Remix) The career development and evolution of musical style that Bloc Party's Kele has gone through is pretty much a typical nightmare scenario for lo-fi enthusiasts or any strict rock fan who frowns upon drum [...]

Hello internet, here is some electronic dance music I am currently fond of. //// German DJ Dennis Kaun, also known as Kaos , makes cold sounding but somehow still uplifting electro/house music that takes you right to the clubs of his native Berlin. Both of these tracks are a few years old, but I didn't discover him properly before now, and you shouldn't miss out either! mp3: Kaos - Lessons In Love (feat. Erlend Øye) mp3: [...]

Todays song is created by producer Norweigan Recycling. This mashup contains over 16 different songs from artsts like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Micheal Jackson and Cee-Lo. All miss,mix,&matched and stitched back together into this beautiful mashup. The song is called "Miracles" and takes its biggest samples from Micheal Jackson, but it goes all over the place and has a great sound quality. While generally not a huge fan of mash-ups, this song has it's own appeal for its sheer size, artist selection, and decadent feel. [...]

Yesterday, Eels released the second music video from their latest album, Tomorrow Morning . The new video, for 'Baby Loves Me', has a really quirky and low-budget feel to it, a big contrast to the high-production and completely awesome video they released for 'Spectacular Girl' back in July. You can watch them both out below, and be sure to check out the whole new album - I personally think it's the best music (frontman) E has made in years. What a guy. mp3: Eels [...]

Animal Collective just released a (belated) official video for 'Bluish' , one of my all-time favorite songs by the band. 'Bluish' is from their highly acclaimed 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavillion , and this very trippy video in my opinion matches the psychedelic sound of the album perfectly. mp3: Animal Collective - Bluish The lyrics are simply beautiful. Try giving this stripped-down acoustic cover a listen, and this fact will probably become even more apparent to you: mp3: [...]

mp3: Broken Social Scene - All To All (Spirit If Remix By Kevin Drew & Ohad Benchetrit) mp3: Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake Remix) Turn down the lights, take it easy and enjoy these two chillout remixes. Eat More Cake are a four-piece electronica band from London, here doing a very sweet take on Stardust's 1998 French house classic. Kevin Drew and Ohad Benchetrit are two of the many members of supergroup Broken Social Scene, [...]