Came across two great mp3s from the past week that are sure to temporarily scratch everyone’s remix itch. The first is a spaced-out minimalist rendition of ‘chillwave’ pioneer Neon Indian’s first single “6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)” by Portland’s own musician/culinary extraordinaire White Hinterland.
It’s only been two weeks since I last posted about Korallreven (including a remix by Ghostape), but this reworking of “The Truest Faith” by Canadian electronic artist CFCF was too good to pass up. Enjoy!
Surprisingly, I haven’t thrown up one of these video round-ups in about a month. So let’s cut to the chase and bring you some of my favorite music related finds from this past week:
Probably one of the best in-studio video recordings I’ve seen since The Morning Benders Yours Truly session, Annie Lennox (St. Vincent), Liars, OS Mutantes, and Beck all look like they are having fun covering the famed 80s and early 90s Australian rock group INXS [via GvB]:
Props to the guys over at Schmooze Blog for being the first to notice this awesomely constructed summer encapsulating video for the much-buzzed-about band Cults‘s track “Go Outside”:
Really been loving the latest Beko release by the French group La Femme — especially their killer track “Sur La Planche” (or, if my high school French skills are to be trusted, “On the Board” for us Anglophiles). Posted literally minutes ago on the always wonderful Delicious Scopitone, here is a spy-like vid for La Femme’s electro-haunting track “Françoise”:
Although relatively poor quality, here is Josiah and Yoni from Why? covering the beautiful Silver Jews track “Trains Across the Sea” a year and a half ago in Le Havre, France:
The tag-team duo of sweet singer Laura Gibson & mulit-instrumentalist Ethan Ross released a music video for their track “Younger” about two weeks back. Although I’m a little late to the party, the video is so beautifully shot that it is worth a second look even if you’ve already seen it:
Keeping it Portland, here’s the latest music video for White Hinterland‘s “Amsterdam” which You Ain’t No Picasso appropriately captioned as “easily the best video about wolves and pickles I’ve ever seen”:
What’s a video round-up without La Blogotheque? This time it’s five tracks from the artist of the year nominee Beach House:
Came across two cover songs today that are amazingly good and are worthy of some Two for Tuesday coverage. The first is a cover of The Magnetic Fields song “Yeah! Oh Yeah!” by UK chanteuse Tracey Thorn and Swedish oddball singer/songwriter Jens Lekman. It seems like the two are diving head first into a musical relationship, as Jens is slated to be featured on a couple of tracks on Tracey’s upcoming album, while Thorn is returning the favor by writing lyrics about Lekman. Though a lot more melodic that the original 69 Love Songs-featured song, it is quite surprising how similar Tracey/Jens voices are to that of Claudia Gonson and Stephin Merritt.
The second song is an out-of-nowhere cover of Justin Timberlake’s wildly popular hit “My Love” by Portland native White Hinterland (née Casey Dienel). Stripping the overly-produced track of all its bells & whistles, Dienel takes Timberland out of the equation and replaces it with only a minimalist tribal drum beat and her soft, beautiful voice. What a great rendition! And if you like this, be sure to cop White Hinterland’s latest album Kairos from Dead Oceans today!
