Mike Silver, aka CFCF, really went for it on this remix, sliding a melodic riff from Bruce Hornsby’s "The Way It Is" (or Tupac's "Changes", depending on your era of reference) behind LOL Boys' sleeper ... read more
On any given day, you can listen to three or four solid mixes by exciting new artists. Couple that with every new song that comes out, plus videos and other weird internet shit and you're ... read more
CFCF infuses the minimal pop sheen of Saint Lou Lou’s "Maybe You" with a bit of texture, giving its open washes some rooted beats and looping synths. Still Sain Lou Lou's vocals manage to hold ... read more
In our FADER #79 story, CFCF, bka Mike Silver, explains that he found inspiration in the much maligned Brutalist architecture of the ’60s and ’70s for his Exercises EP, but video director Adam Beck explained, ... read more
R&B experimentalist d'Eon’s "Transparency Pt. II" has the same basic chord structure as the original "Transparency" from last year's split Darkbloom LP with Grimes. Here, though, his soulful ooh girl vocals and digital keyboard arrangements ... read more
Almost a year after the release of the original, and following other "Romantic Streams" remixes by Damu, Nguzunguzu and Balam Acab, CFCF swaddles Sleep ∞ Over’s glittering, doomy love song in yoga blankets and lavender ... read more
Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists ... read more
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #79, on stands soon. CFCF’s Exercises is out now on Paper Bag. By the end of the 1960s, no respectable college campus was without an austere, hulking concrete ... read more
CFCF really couldn't have come up with a more appropriate title for his latest EP, Exercises, which, aside from being a really good record, is a meditation on brutalist architecture and the pretty (and sometimes ... read more
One of the best things about Elite Gymnastics’ Ruin project is that it could potentially go on ad infinitum, and given the duos creative range (see: video for Korallreven's "Sa Sa Samoa") who knows what ... read more
CFCF’s new, mini-LP Exercises is a series of piano and synth-based pieces influenced by Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Borden using "institutional architecture and ’70s Canadiana" as a framework. "Exercise #3 (Building)" is meditatively ... read more
I understand the sentiment of the Night Bus genre and agree that it's generally well named; it evokes a certain sort of feeling—long pans of America's darkened interstate, headlights refracting off the window, alone among ... read more
At the top of an old building near downtown, there were occasional Pop Montreal hosted panels. Because I missed Grimes due to hanging out with all of Canada at the Arcade Fire show, I made ... read more
Porcelain Raft’s "Talk to Me" is one of the most epic bummer songs ever. Actually, that's not entirely the truth. It's definitely a sad song, but there's still some little bit of hope left in ... read more
***Chris Brown embraces his bad boy image, with his with his not-too-bad Boy in Detention mixtape ***After a two-year-too-long hiatus, Air France finally released a new track. ***Right on the heels of a new Best ... read more
We're constantly looking for music that fits into our vaguely defined, mostly unrealistic mental concept of "late night music sitting around and sweating music." This could be anything, but most of the time it's not ... read more
Swedish duo Karl x Johan released "Fantasies" in February, hitting a kind of emotional high with the distressing and kinda-creepy (but we've kinda been-there?) chorus: My fantasies are all I've got/ my fantasies they make ... read more
Temporary-Parisian CFCF's remix of Dinosaur Bones' "Birthright" takes what was once a solid, solid mono-rock song on some space-filter shit, retaining the original's structure while replacing guitars with square waves and drum kits with programming not unlike "In the Air Tonight." It works super well, sounding something like a younger Radiohead we wish existed (but [...]
From now on, any time we need a song for the moments when we put on a pastel blazer and stand on a balcony in Miami looking at dolphins jumping over jetskis and thinking about life, we're going to call CFCF. He's perfected a twilight introspection that sits somewhere between legitimately heartbreaking, and sleazily smooth [...]
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