Some short Saturday jams – I’m branching out a bit from my regular listening patterns. There are days during which I feel like I’m broke on music, and others when my appetite (if this analogy is to be stomached) seems insatiable. Otherwise I feel like I’m entirely predictable in what I like and what I post. I’m glad that these guys and girl challenge me to always listen to more and write my heart out here; before I get gushy again, I’ll give this quick THANK U to the girlpants staff and get this going.
What really tipped me over was last year’s Teengirl Fantasy stuffs (sent as the subject line to my school email address, thanks Eric!). Aside from some brief trips to Delicious Scopitone, my indie rock is cut-and-dry guy/girl harmony/no harmony bedroom/backyard business, so when I heard this glo-chill(“trill”)wave stuff I was charmed. These latest 2AM explorations the last few nights have made other things (coffee, letters to friends, nice breezes) seem less magical by comparison.
Nite Jewel’s “What Did He Say” should be percolating under velvet-suffocated speakers in a sad strip club. Kinda fortunately, it’s not (and hopefully never will be), and instead got into my crappy Altec-Lansing speakers somehow. Gonzalez is proprietress over the thick slabs of muddied bass and banshee vocals; the stance is cool and decidedly un-affected, making popular nightclub ironist/nostalgicist and/or handsome dude Girl Talk look like a kid with a broken Walkman WM-EX1HG (they’re also attractive women). Check out “What Did He Say” below – I also threw in her remix of Caribou’s “Odessa”(I like it more than the orig):
Nite Jewel — “What Did He Say”
Caribou — “Odessa (Nite Jewel Remix)”
Twin Sister has been plugged over at Gorilla v. Bear and Stereogum, and they seem pretty cool to me (no Papin sis thing either). “Lady Daydream” snuggles up nicely with the late-nite dreamer’s vibe I got going on here:
Twin Sister — “Lady Daydream”
I’m adding Coma Cinema to the sat jams because I’ve been playing “Flower Pills” each day this past week when I wake up. It’s soft and sweet, and makes a nice bookend to the preceding thirteen tracks on Baby Prayers, which is free to download on their website.
Coma Cinema — “Flower Pills”
In the next inning, I’ll round up some decidedly anti-anti-dance stuff and nominees for best SXSW ear dongles. Outsies.
Image by Helga Steppan.
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