Winter 2k15 Mix (right click to DL mp3)
Yum Yums - Gonna Be A Big Thing
Childish Gambino - Retro
Kero Kero Bonito - Sick Beat
Common - Speak My Piece
Lemonade - Minus Tide
Alice Boman - Over
Leon Vynehall - Goodthing
Caribou - Can't Do Without You
Young Ejecta - Your Planet
Freddie Gibbs & Danny Brown - High
Alex G - Sorry
Pavement - Frontwards
Beverly - Honey Do
Today my local guerilla publicity rep sent out an eblast about this new band called Pavement. After checking their zany description, scanning enthusiastic blog review excerpts and Zsharing the single, which I haven't listened to yet, sounds like they could be pretty big over the next few days.
Figured it's best to go ahead and get this up before Stereogum/GvB, then do more of a full-paragraph review tomorrow while reblogging the secret Tumblrteque performance in an elementary school janitor's closet. After HRO tweets on their supporting dates for AnCo's global tour, I can reestablish Hype dominance with a Falke / Lifelike / Breakbot rmx. And that should pretty much cover it.
Pavement - Best Friend's Arm (from Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels edition)
From the blast:
"Pavement's 'zany hook' is breathing pixie stix/Lik-M-Aid/fun dip dust off optically elusive DRM-free CD cases (320kbs), freaking out in unintelligible syllable strings from new languages, taking bluesy naps and doing it all over again. Conceptual bangers if you will." - RCRD LBL
Related:
Sister to a Father of Thought
"The best a Pavement cover can hope to be is good and interesting and bring out something that was hinted at in the original, but not made explicit.”
- Fluxblog
The bar is so high most are smart enough not to try. Those who do - in this case, Zooey and Los Campesinos - escape blasphemy charges by bringing whimsical innocence and a deep-rooted appreciation for Malkmus and team's slacker catalogue (Zooey has been singing this song in the shower for a decade, and LC unanimously declare Pavement to be the band's favorite band).
Both artists also recontextualize Malkmus' wildly abstract lyrics to suit a female perspective - Zooey's lighter, big-city sibling slinks instead of sulks ("I'm just a woman, you see who I am"); and when Aleksandra Campesinos halts the seven-piece violin/glockenspiel march to quietly whisper "She the only one who always inhales," we know she can empathize.
Zooey - Father to a Sister of Thought (Pavement cover)
Los Campesinos! - Frontwards (Pavement cover)
Side note: Zooey's interpretation of "You Gave Your Love To Me Softly" is less of a win unless you're also a big fan of Ladytron/The Rentals.
Zooey - You Gave Your Love To Me Softly (Weezer cover, from Pique-nique et jeux dans l'eau)
It'd be a whole lot cooler if B&S would just start making another album instead of releasing a 1996-2001 BBC comp, but as they have nothing else planned at the moment we'll take what we can get and like it. This is available via Matador 11/17.
Track listing:
Disc 1 – Radio Sessions: The State I Am In, Like Dylan In The Movies, Judy and the Dream of Horses, The Stars of Track and Field, I Could Be Dreaming, Seymour Stein, Lazy Jane, Sleep The Clock Around, Slow Graffiti, Wrong Love, Shoot The Sexual Athlete, The Magic of a Kind Word, (My Girls Got) Miraculous Technique
Disc 2 – Live in Belfast: Here Comes The Sun, Theres Too Much Love, The Magic of a Kind Word, Me and the Major, Wandering Alone, The Model, Im Waiting For The Man, The Boy With the Arab Strap, The Wrong Girl, Dirty Dream #2, Boys Are Back in Town, Legal Man
The four songs from 2001 – The Magic of a Kind Word, Nothing In The Silence, Shoot The Sexual Athlete and (My Girl’s Got) Miraculous Technique, have never previously been available on CD or vinyl and capture the band at the end of their first chapter (i.e. Stuart and Isobel had just broken up and were performing songs about their failed relationship next to each other). And of course Isobel peaced out shortly afterwards.
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap (4/25/99)
Belle and Sebastian - Live on KEXP (3/25/06)
Random: did you know Belle et Sébastien was a novel by hottie French actress Cécile Aubry starring a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog? And that this was made into a French live-action television series in 1965, and then a Japanese anime version nearly two decades later that you can now watch right now? I usually start every morning off with Air Wolf but this might be even more upbeat.
BBC extras:
The Zombies - This Old Heart of Mine (Isley Brothers cover, 1966)
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat (Peel session, 1976)
Pavement - Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen cover, 1997*)
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (BBC Remix, 2002)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Cigarettes (BBC, 2006)
*Included in Pavement's final Major Leagues EP and soon to be part of their Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. reissue.
Do hipsters instinctively gravitate to Cosby sweaters because the show was set in Brooklyn Heights, or because its pleasant nostalgia and stable familial structure takes them to a different world?
Either way, from now until June 12, the Cos is officially auctioning off his sweaters for charity. No doubt this will be the sizzling summer look of choice for alternadads, while hipster chicks may opt for the "pantless morning after with an oversized Cosby" walk of style/shame.
MD's own Oh Snap!! (label mate of BT favorite Gameboy/Gamegirl) commemorates the occasion:
Oh Snap!! - Bill Cosby Sweater Hostage Rmx
Remember when lil' Rudy tried to make peanut butter and jelly juice with Dad's juicer?
We're also seeing a rash of Hipster Fight Clubs spreading across both coasts - here's some footage from last week. Everyone wins here. Note the office chair-wheeling Tyrone Biggums who floats in to break up weak standoffs.
Pavement - Fight This Generation (from Wowee Zowee)
