A spectre is haunting Girlpants–

–the spectre of Man­pants.

Yes, dear readers, the dreaded day is upon us. The under­lings, the proles… they’ve risen as one and cre­ated a blog ded­i­cated to the worst in film and tv (the workers’ bread and butter, don’t you know). Is this the end for Girl­pants? Is it merely another turning of the wheel of his­tory? Is it inevitable that Girl­pants’ beau­tiful and pure, God-given right to rule be usurped by the masses? Or will Mike and Peter post a few times, get bored of it, and trail off? Time, it seems, will tell.

In the mean­time, we at GP got some postin’ to do-ooo.

Lots of new music has been hit­ting the inter­nets lately. Some of it is good. Some… not so good. Since we at giga­pants aim to cover all of it, here’s a smat­tering of the stuff that’s been get­ting play in my ears as of late.

DJ Mehdi — Lucky Boy (Ed Banger Records/Espionnage, October)
If you read us reg­u­larly, you might have noticed that despite my exes­sive protes­ta­tions against dance music, I tend to post about it pretty fre­quently. (With some rhythm, you might say.) Lucky Boy is the best straight up dance record I’ve heard all year and, depending on how crunk’d I get at the party next Friday, I might end up actu­ally dancing to it. In view of other people(!!). Check it:

• DJ Mehdi — “Pony Rocking feat. Feadz”
• DJ Mehdi — “Lucky Boy feat. Fafi”
• DJ Mehdi — “Hot-O-Momo feat. Xanax”

Of Mon­tréal — Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl, Jan­uary)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a record so far ahead of its release date as this one. It’s still Sep­tember, right? Yeah, I thought so. This baby offi­cially hits your ears in Jan­uary, but I figure it’s worth building the hype a little early because it’s so damn good. Used to be Of Mon­tréal was “just another one of those E6 bands”. Folksy, playful, whim­sical, etc. They’re still most of those things except now they sound like ABBA, too. Seri­ously, this is great.

• Of Mon­tréal — “A Sen­tence of Sorts in Kongsvinger”
• Of Mon­tréal — “Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider”

Tim Hecker — Har­mony in Ultra­vi­olet (Kranky, December)
This guy’s last couple records, Radio Amor (on Mille Plateaux) and Mirages (on Alien8) were cre­ative runs through the kind of gritty, sandy, stat­icky fields you’ll usu­ally find Fen­nesz dom­i­nating. Har­mony in Ultra­vi­olet cer­tainly makes it out to sound like Hecker’s been lis­tening to Venice on an end­less loop (all summer, per­haps?), but the con­nec­tion is def­i­nitely more inspi­ra­tion or kin­ship than thievery. Lots of music is said to have sonic “tex­ture” but in my opinion only a few records ever really achieve it. After only a few lis­tens, I’m nearly cer­tain that this is one of them.

• Tim Hecker — “Chimeras”
• Fen­nesz — “The Point of It All”

I’m not gonna say I’m revi­tal­ized, or that I can guar­antee I’ll be posting more reg­u­larly, but I will say that I’ve been feeling the itch. Joel’s set­tling back into the rou­tine of col­lege life; Niina’s livin’ it up in Yonkz; Mike… I don’t know what Mike’s doing, but he says he’s still working on his top 10 list. We’re alive, and we’re still on top. Don’t you forget it, Manpants.