useless under the sun

Now that girl­pants is back up and run­ning we’re get­ting invited to all the good par­ties again. It’d be gauche to go into too much detail, but I will say that Ben and Joel vis­ited la Tour Eiffel together and Niina shot some­body with a revolver. 

And me? I’ve been ensconced in Lali Puna’s bangin forth­coming album Our Inventions.

Lali Puna — “Move On”

Not just anyone can sing “you’re just a small light, so use­less under the sun, no will rec­og­nize your shine. Try.” In the wrong hands it’s like Thomas Kinkade ter­ri­tory. But ren­dered in that flatly Ger­manic, sexy robot voice of chanteuse Valerie Trebeljahr–I dunno, it seems earned somehow. By the chorus I find myself gazing out onto the horizon con­tem­pla­tively, morning coffee com­mer­cial style, won­dering what the day will bring. Warm, pul­sating elec­tronica and swelling major chords, apparently.