Video: Electric Guest - This Head I Hold

Nothing like a few indie-pop beats to start off the day. Like most, in the morning I rise and shower, dress and groom, and eat while watching pedestrians and cars dance around one another in the hospital parking lot. To spice things up, I like to listen to music as I prep myself for the toils of the day, scrolling through playlists to pick appropriate mood-setting music. As of late, I keep falling back on the same song, Electric Guest's signature piece. The song "This Head I Hold" is both catchy and complex, a combination of weird [...]

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Only 18 more days to go and next up on our countdown we feature LA band, Electric Guest.

I caught this track on WRFL yesterday and had to go search out the artist. I've seen Electric Guest's name pop up a couple times before now, but that was my first listen to them. It's some great nu-soul that sounds like Jamie Lidell and Janelle Monae teamed up for some new school soul. Pick [...]

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A week and a half ago I went to Make Music Pasadena, a free music festival featuring the likes of Grouplove, Milo Greene, Electric Guest, The Steelwells and many more. Read my review below. I got there about a third of the way into the show, with 20+ performers already having performed and another 40-50 [...]

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For every group like Beach House that wants you to sit down and ponder on their record, there is another like Electric Guest that just want you to have fun with theirs. Recently making noise for hooking up with Danger Mouse on their recent album, Mondo , Electric Guest's summertime smooth sounds are like a mix of Broken Bells, Foster the People, and all those other style-mixing pop groups making sugary snacks right now. Is this a bad thing? How could it be? If you are interested in catching them live, they've got a show coming up [...]

This video by Electric Guest struck a chord with me as soon as I saw it. Immediately after viewing I realize that there might be some deep underlying meaning to what I just witnessed. The problem is I am just not that deep and I really just found the video to be down right hilarious. Well played Electric Guest. Lifes a sweet fruit! Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =nVSiwMVaKe4 I don't usually go too deep trying to interpret films and videos simply for the fact that I'm not good at it. Can you really ever truly definite the intentions of an artist? True, some are pretty forthright and wear it on their sleeves as a sort of art-form in and of itself, but for the most part art and expression are purely personal exercises, the products of which can't be expected to be faithfully interpreted by others. And that's the beauty; that others are free to take the form and mold it to their [...]

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When my friend Niki played this track for me the other day I was pleasantly surprised by the soothing sounds that followed. I was even more surprised when I looked a little further into this duo out of LA to find that they had a little help from one of their friends in producing this album. A little friend named Danger Mouse , who is a pretty nice friend to have especially considering the genre of music that Electric Guest are interested in making. For their track "Awake" it's easy to hear Danger Mouse's touch added [...]

Electric Guest werden sich wohl schon bald als kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner in den Hitparaden einfinden. Sie sind die etwas cooleren Maroon 5 oder Gnarls Barkley in Neu. Danger Mouse am Produzentenpult sei Dank. Etwas Electro-Pop, etwas 70er Jahre Sould-Funk und fertig ist der neueste Streich von Produzent Danger Mouse. Electric Guest sind Asa Taccone und Matthew Compton und kommen aus Los Angeles. Der Guardian bezeichnet sie als "cool, clever, calculating". Sie schaffen den Tanz auf zwei Hochzeiten und könnten, je nach dem wie sich das Blatt wendet, [...]

Photo credit: Noah Abrams Los Angeles based Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton make up the electrifying Electric Guest , whose debut album Mondo was just unleashed last week. Filled with zesty grooves sprinkled with soulful harmonies, this sprightly album won't outwear its welcome. If there's something about Mondo that feels familiar, it may be due to their secret weapon: Danger Mouse added his magical touch, producing the album. The Guardian's take [...]

Photo credit: Noah Abrams Los Angeles based Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton make up the electrifying Electric Guest , whose debut album Mondo was just unleashed last week. Filled with zesty grooves sprinkled with soulful harmonies, this sprightly album won't outwear its welcome. If there's something about Mondo that feels familiar, it may be due to their secret weapon: Danger Mouse added his magical touch, producing the album. The Guardian's take on [...]

No matter where you stand on Electric Guest's Danger Mouse-stamped electro-soul — and we have some serious believability problems — the slick video for the catchy single "This Head I Hold" tests sensibilities. The collaboration of Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton, Electric Guest this week released its debut album "Mondo" via Downtown Records and Across the Universe. Director Keith Schofield (who's worked with Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck and Justice) follows Taccone as he flips out while waiting for an audition. Oh, the melodrama. ||| Live: Electric Guest plays Make Music Pasadena on [...]

Os  Electric Guest  já referidos por nós, e cujo o primeiro disco,  Mondo , saiu esta semana, acabam de lançar um novo vídeo para “This Head I Hold” que segue a linha cómica de “America n Daydream”, e que mostra uma série de candidatos a uma audição escolar, estendendo a música para quatro minutos ao contar a história de um dos participantes. Neste caso a história do vocalista e principal compositor da banda, Asa Taconne, que lança assim esta pequena mas potente injecção de adrenalina, com pianos dançáveis  que farão qualquer um bater os pés instantaneamente. Fiquem então com esta banda que está a um passo de explodir: [...]

- "This Head I Hold" music video by Electric Guest - Added on 25-04-2012 - Genre : Pop - Description : Music Video for Electric Guest "This Head I Hold" Directed by Keith Schofield - Tags : 2012 , 10s , Electric Guest

Watch the video for Electric Guest 's "This Head I Hold" . Electric Guest 's debut album, "Mondo" , which was produced entirely by Danger Mouse , is out today via Downtown Records . And yesterday they released the new video for their single "This Head I Hold" . Directed by Keith Schofield , the video has lead singer Asa Taccone (who's actually the guy who composed "Dick In A Box" ) in [...]

The ELECTRIC GUEST 's debut long_one is out in a coupla weeks and to get you in a jolz mood the Californian duo have released a lolocaustly awesome video for THIS HEAD I HOLD .