Category Archives: Video
HEALTH ‘Die Slow’
Despite being quietly obsessed with them, I’ve refrained from saying anything here about the new HEALTH album because I’m afraid that if I do I won’t say enough. But suffice to say the whole thing is like having your brain turned inside out by machines, flushed clean by virgins, and then folded back into place [...]
Dananananaananananananana-kroyd on JJJ
Delivering a rousing rendition of ‘Whip It’ by Devo for Triple J radio: It’s not too far off the original, and what it lacks in cutaways to retarded, clapping hispanic women (watch the original, she’s in there…), they compensate with a taste of the signature spacticisty which caused their set at Sydney’s Annandale to be [...]
Friendly Fires – Kiss of Life
What better way to showcase Ed MacFarlane’s notoriously ill-fitting jeans and hit-and-miss dance moves than to have them star in the clip for Friendly Fires’ upcoming new single, Kiss of Life. Set to be released on the 31st August by XL, Kiss of Life is the perfect teaser for their Paul Epworth-produced sophomore album, which [...]
Knightlife – Crusader
With his brand-new track, ‘Crusader,’ we can finally catch a glimpse of Knightlife’s second EP, the appropriately titled, II. Melbourne’s Cutters Records will of course be looking after this release, with more news of it to come in the following months. I’d love to gush about how nice this track is (because it is) but [...]
More Evil Nine, More!
This photo notwithstanding, I really like Evil Nine, and have done for quite a while. I was (electronically) coming of age in the nu-skool breaks scene just as their debut album ‘You Can Be Special Too’ really started making waves in late 2003, so from the get go their particular brand of stomping, rock-tinged, snare-kick [...]
SALEM on Big Love
When people ask which new bands they should be listening to right now, SALEM (and Telepathe) are easily my first response. Their tormented lo-fi electro with its crooked, otherworldy vocals might at times seem an uneasy listen, but there’s so much depth to it, it’s an addictive uneasy listen. Following their first two releases on [...]
CHEW LiPS Remixed by Tepr
London’s new dance-pop three-piece, CHEW LiPS, are looking to join the bourgeoning ranks of acts with strong female leads such as La Roux, Little Boots and Marina & the Diamonds. Frontwoman, Tigs, had a fairly unsuccessful solo career a couple of years back, releasing a debut album, Cut With Fire, which did little to rescue [...]
Marina & The Diamonds
Yes, these tracks have already been everywhere, but they are some of the best I’ve heard in a good while, so pipe down. The decidedly pretty Welsh-born London-based Marina Diamond released her debut single, Obsessions, just last week on Neon Gold, its off-kilter pop not unlike that which saw label-mates, Passion Pit, so enthusiastically received. [...]
Simian Mobile Disco – Synthesise
This is an awesome video put together by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon from Dot Alt. I missed out on seeing SMD when they came to town last month which I will forever be bummed about. Well at least until I get to see them, hopefully later this year. The clip is not for the [...]
BMX- Anywhere But Home
Take your Bmx and go ride it somewhere else!!, somewhere other than home. I’m sick of it!!! Go take your BMX and get me some Salami from Safeway. Pick me up a Paddle pop and don’t “lick it” on the way home. And for God’s sake don’t ride your bike through the church, remember what [...]
Metronomy – I’ve Got My Mind Made Up Video
A Thing For Me from Metronomy on Vimeo. Too cute and then too funny.
Fan Death – Veronica’s Veil Video
The official clip for one of the best tracks disco has brought us this year. Think gorgeous graveyards, adorably awkward dancing, an enormous veil, and two cute girls at the beach and you’ve got a pretty good idea what this is all about. - bec
Shinichi Osawa – Last Days Video
Shinichi Osawa‘s Last Days is a great mix between sweet, melodic guitar and distorted, driving bass – and the video is no different. Using animated ink drawings the video starts off with blotter paper but turns into repetitive, interacting characters. Like almost all of the videos we’ve been featuring over the last few weeks you [...]
Desmond and The Tutu’s
Since i haven’t posted for quite some time, i thought i better have something well worth the wait,(not that you were waiting for me to post or anything.) Desmond and The Tutu’s are one hot little act indeed. Besides having one of the best band names i have ever heard, they also fuse contemporary native [...]
Battle of the Neon Gold Girls