So I missed Total Bummer 2010 in Gainesville this weekend, and I’m a little sad all over myself. It really just slipped my mind. Now my days are staring at the ceiling, thinking it the surface of the sea above me. I like thinking about being underwater more than being underwater, and I appreciate songs that furnish the feeling (like the one I’m about to post).
Here We Go Magic’s upcoming record is called Pigeons and, just like the Goodfeathers, it’s filled to the gullet with choice savory bits. Brooklynite Luke Temple and his new friends sound a bit like Mice Parade, but in the spirit of acts like Camper Van Beethoven, the whole thing feels totally different from one track to the next (although not in that creepy Residents kind of way).
Here We Go Magic — “Bottom Feeder”
“Bottom Feeder” comes midway through the album, and sounds like nothing else that precedes or follows it; in an album with all this unbound heteroglossia, its kinda nice to arrive at the center with something simple and sweet. The track also adds to a long lineage of songs about guys likening themselves to crappy sea critters — Robert Wyatt’s “Sea Song,” Jets to Brazil’s “Sea Anemone,” Prince’s “Soft and Wet” — but dodges the mopey splash for a shimmery slow dance. It actually sounds a bit like Low but plus synth and kinda romantic.
Secretly Canadian says June 8th’ll be the day to get all your wonk-boogie and navelgazery out.
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/ March 30, 2010so, long day. but then your post and i put my headphones on and sank a little. and all I’m saying is that if there’s a “guys who liken themselves to crappy sea critters” genre, is because there needs to be.