There were a number of years in the early to mid-nineties when British Pop band Blur were my very favorite band in the Universe, In fact, I became quite obsessed and silly over them, but I don’t regret any of that. Back when Blur and their perceived musical nemesis, Oasis, were duking it out in the British press for Band of the Century or whatever, Blur were undeniably the shit. There are tracks off of Park Life that I’d put up against anything in The Beatles‘ catalog any day of the week. Just being serious.
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Video Clip of The Week: They Might Be Giants, “Underwater Woman”
Hey, Happy Easter! Since I didn’t have an appropriate Easter-themed music video to post for today, instead I offer up this fantastic clip from one of our very favorite bands to see live, They Might Be Giants! “Underwater Woman” uses incredible word-economy with Leonard Cohen-quality lyrics (“Brushing her hair/Eating a pear/No one can tell when she cries”) to relate the melancholy-yet-captivating tale of a solitary, seemingly human woman who is somehow able to survive living at the bottom of the ocean.
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Video Clip of The Week: Grounders, “Pull It Over Me”
I’m definitely not what you would call a “Cat Person,” but I sure do love watching a life-size Garfield wander the streets of an unspecified suburban landscape in this charmingly morose video for the song “Pull It Over Me” by Toronto based band, Grounders. In case the minor chord wooziness didn’t give it away, “Pull It Over Me” is a break up song, the occurrence of which puts Garfield in a deep enough funk to, it appears, spontaneously murder someone on the beach and get away with it. Hilarious!
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Video Clip of The Week: Novella, “Land Gone”
I’m not sure if I am hallucinating that the four ladies in this band all kind of look alike, or if it is just the effects of the overwhelming psychedelia infused in this great tune, “Land Gone,” by the sublime British quintet, Novella. All I know is that I fucking love this song, because it reminds me of the mind blowing intensity of discovering an aural gem like “See Emily Play” hiding in a pile of Katy Perry records. The video is a simple, super tight studio performance set against a green screen awash with subtly changing colorful visuals, not unlike those oil light shows we used to put on in college when we got bored, which was often.
“Land Gone” comes from the band’s debut LP, Land, due out on Sinderlyn Records on May 12th, 2015. Like them on the FaceBook at This Link! Enjoy!
Video Clip of The Week: Cotillon, “Before”
A former Bedroom recording project-turned-live band, Jordan Corso is the singer/songwriter behind LA-based Cotillon. Cotillon’s press release / bio explains that the project was “originally intended to illustrate the difficulty of maintaining relationships in LA in the spirit of the french new wave,” which I find fascinating.
Aurally, “Before” blends the wistful, lo-fi California sound of a group like Kid Wave with the minor chord gloom of The Cure circa 1982’s Pornography. The video, written and directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick, seems to switch between shots of a young lady aboard the Staten Island (or similar) Ferry, and old home movies of Southern California or Florida (some place where they have palm trees) shot on color stock that has now started to turn pale pink and blue, because that is what old color film does. It sets an appropriate mood to accompany the music, which will have special appeal for goths, and people on the verge of nodding out. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Cotillon’s self-titled debut album was released by Burger Records on January 26th, 2015. Enjoy!
