Best Music :: 2013

1. (ALBUM) Wondrous Bughouse by Youth Lagoon; (VIDEO) Raspberry Cane by Youth Lagoon
non-sensical yet wondrous animated video...

2. (ALBUM) Free The Universe by Major Lazer; (SONG) Watch Out For This (Bumaye) by Major Lazer
and sales of neon coloured tights go through the roof...

3. (SONG) Something In My Heart by Röyksopp

4. (SONG) Fresh by Summer Camp

5. (SONG/ VIDEO) Gay Goth Scene by The Hidden Cameras
new album out in January; "gay goth scene" not-so-subtly focuses on bullying; song also features the slaughterhouse vocal stylings of Mary Margaret O'Hara - last heard dying on Morrissey's "November Spawned A Monster" . so that's lovely...

6. (SONG) Instant Crush by Daft Punk
You would think the combination of auto-tune and that boy from The Strokes would be nothing short of disaster but no... best song on the album..

7. (SONG) After The Afterlife by Cocorosie
"wet snails get wetter, crawling towards perfume"..?? oh well.. it's got a good groove>

8. (SONG) Holding On For Life by Broken Bells

9. (SONG) Home by Austra

10. (SONG) Sleepwalk With Me by Young Galaxy

11. (SONG) Bagboy by Pixies
A song about a bespeckled bagboy. but wait.. he's a bad bespeckled bagboy...

12. (SONG) Step by Vampire Weekend

13. (SONG) I Need Your Love by Calvin Harris (feat. Ellie Goulding)

14. (ALBUM) Yes, It's True. by The Polyphonic Spree

15. (SONG) Metroland by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Further Coolness (songs):
Mira by Baio
Pyrakantha by Balmorhea
Defiant Order by Birdy Nam Nam
Now Is Not The Time by Chvrches
I Can Hardly Make You Mine by Cults
We Found That Beat by The Derevolutions
A Stone In The Ground by Fainting By Numbers
Living, Loving, Partygoing by Future Bible Heroes
Pursuit by Gesaffelstein
Play Hard by David Guetta (ft Akon & Ne-Yo)
Lying To You by Keaton Henson
Full Of Fire by The Knife
And The Birds by Light Heat
Just Make It Stop by Low
Oblivion by M83
So Good To Me by Chris Malinchak
Anthem For a Lost Cause by Manic Street Preachers
Alien Days by MGMT
Remurdered by Mogwai
Toothwheels by múm
Sugarcane by New Order
Lifetime by Noah And The Whale
After You by Pulp
Ísjaki by Sigur Rós
Never Run Away by Kurt Vile
Don't Give Up by Washed Out
Despair by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Friend by You Say Party!

Diplo :: Set It Off

I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find...

Some snare drum n' electronica goodness from Diplo (Major Lazer). Song No. 10 from last year...

You saved my life

...ooh, that was a nice sleep... The New Music ::

Burial by Miike Snow
A band from Sweden currently burning up the blogosphere. Did they really take a film crew and their jackalope to India to shoot this? A great video:



You saved my life by Cass McCombs
The dyi clip matches the pace of the tune as a slowed down McCombs passes many beer-pitcher swilling 20-somethings (including, I couldn't help but notice, mothers and mothers-to-be) in a Chi-town square.



Pon de floor by Major Lazer
An energetic dance floor number recorded in Jamaica and featuring the creative, explosive sounds of, yes, marching-band drummers. The video is a bit off-putting and Not-Suitable-For-Anything really. It contains repeated displays of a bizarre new-fangled Jamaican dance style known as “daggering” which, unfortunately, has to be seen to be believed. The fact it takes place in the Blues Clues house does little to make it a comfortable viewing.

Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

In the NA by The Hidden Cameras
Their song titles may not be as convoluted and strange as Of Montreal but.... what the hell is a NA? New album "Origin:Orphan" to be released September 22, 2009.



Warm in the shadows by Music Go Music
There is a reason why pop songs average 3 and a half minutes in length - short attention spans of listeners. “Warm in the shadows”, by 70’s revivalists Music Go Music, pretty much defies this logic at nine plus minutes of goodness.



Song (link) :: Burial by Miike Snow
Song :: You saved my life by Cass McCombs
Song (link) :: Pon de floor by Major Lazer
Song :: Walk on by The Hidden Cameras
Song :: Warm in the shadows by Music Go Music