Video: The Teen Velvettes – Grab Your Board

The Teen Velvettes have a free EP going up for download sometime this week. Prior to that, you can watch a video for ‘Grab Your Board’. It’s got lots of black and white footage of rad things from the olden days, a lass in a bikini, motor bikes racing, cars racing and most appropriately given the title and style of music, surfing. 

Unknown #002 & #003

Last week we brought you some sounds by an unknown producer who had chosen to release their music anonymously. We are still unaware of who it is, though a few rumours have been flying around the office as to who it could be based on a number of mad cap theories, which we wont reproduce here. These latest tracks should firmly divert the attention away from that chatter and instead shift the discussion towards the merit and consistency of the production. It’s a genuinely exciting concept which seems to be fulfilling its initial aims of getting people to appraise the music based on what it is, rather than who it’s by… 

We’ll keep you updated on this one. Enjoy…

Album Preview: Animal Collective – Centipide Hz

I’m not sure if ‘Album Preview’ is an accurate way to describe this video given it’s just a montage of weird VHS-esque imagery and the track titles glitching across the screen and through your speakers. Centipide Hz is released Monday 3rd September in the UK through Domino.

Stream: Azealia Banks – Jumanji

Nothing that I’ve heard from Azealia Banks comes close to 212, this is no exception. Even a production credit from Hudson Mohawke can’t take it there. Good of her to keep trying though. On a separate note how great a film was Jumanji?  

Stream: Disclosure – What’s In Your Head

Here’s a new track by Disclosure. Reasonable chance you’ve heard it though as it’s been on the internet for a whole day or so. 25,000 plays on soundcloud in that time. That’s the world we live in. Thought I’d still stick it up anyway as I guess some people might have missed it? That’s possible right?  

Video: Bonde do Rolê – Kilo

The best thing about this video by far is that it comes from a company called ‘Flamboyant Paradise’. I quite want to see what other videos these people have produced but I’m not sure I am quite ready for what I might unearth once I set that google in motion.  Over-examination of the credits aside this single is from Bonde do Rolê’s album ‘Tropicalbacanal’ which is out on June 26th on Mad Decent. 

Video: Trailer Trash Tracys – Los Angered

Penny Mills new video for Trailer Trash Tracys has a lot of colourful things doing things in reverse. There are some crayons that un-melt and some bottles that un-overflow with viscous ooze. I found the whole thing quite unsettling for some reason, not sure if this was the refusal to accept the laws of physics or my preference for darker hues.  

Video: Grimes – Nightmusic ft. Majical Cloudz

The second video to be taken from ‘Visions’, the album that catapulted Grimes into the heart of millions. Well maybe not millions but certainly all the right people. The ones that browse the proper sites and clutch the proper magazines,  the cool ones.  This John Londono directed video is all full of nature, lots of green things, some people without clothes on, those vibez. It probably means something about Gaia or maybe it’s an art thing. Who knows? 

Download: Playlounge – Boner Hit (KEEL HER cover)

The Art Is Hard Pizza Club is always great but this one is extra exciting. Playlounge are one of my favourite bands in the UK at the moment and it’s hard not to love everything that’s Keel Her related, so putting them all together is obviously a brilliant idea. Been loving this live for a while, now that it has been recorded everyone can enjoy it whenever they want. 

Unknown – #001

A mysterious email popped up in my inbox this morning, from an unknown sender saying the following,

“This is my first ever track using this alias. Basically – people listen to the music more openly when they don’t know anything about the person, when it’s “Untitled”. So I’ve decided I’m going to go forward this way.”

Which is, of course, like putting a box in front of a child and telling them not to open it. His/her gambit had got me and I had to look inside. The mysterious link held within it blissed out synths that intermittently rose above a sludgy minimal bassline and the echo of distant vocals. Subtle, even fragile, but the mechanical bassline gave it an unstoppably epic quality. I’m riveted to this track as much by what it’s trying to say in its anonymity as I am by its sheer quality.