"Mr Noah" goes. Panda Bear's played this song both times I've seen him live this year, and even as his other melodies rang throughout the venue, his masterful harmonious repetition - those "eh eh ehs!"- stood out. And today we learn it's not even on his upcoming new albumPanda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, but from a standalone EP. He's sneakily raised the bar for himself, especially now that the fantastic studio version is available in this also-amazing video, directed byAB/CD/CD. It seems to take place in a neighbourhood's recurring dream, with a good dog as its barking alderman.I think a loop crafter like Noah Lennox will appreciate the repeating views of skewed domestic scenes, like we're half woken up from the extended REM sleep of "Let Forever Be"'s elaborate theatre.The camera is especially remarkable; it's so fluid it's enough to make Gaspar No nauseous.
I'm still trying todecipher Scott Walker's"Epizootics!" music video, and I'll probably be sitting on Gisle Vienne's "Brando" video for some time as well. Vienne's is more cathartically troubling, thanks to the mother and son relationship that centres the piece, as well as Walker andavant-garde metal group Sunn O)))'s strange hosannas. With its frost-bitten colour palette and charged take on domestic strife and violence (Walker's lyric "A beating would do me a world of good" and the surrounding whip cracks are especially troubling here), it has the vibe of a movie you watch from Eastern Europe and don't completely understand. All you know is you feel like shit and don't trust people.
You can't really go wrong if you make a music video that's just a sentimentalanime in space, whicha galactic-age synth-pop band like CHVRCHES no doubt understands. Their debut record's latest video(which is not sung by usual vocalist Lauren Mayberry, but Martin Doherty) could have been sourced from an arcade machine in the mid '90s, what with all those glitches interfering with the space cruisers and neon streaks.
Despite the inevitable label of "electronic," Lone's new album is a hyperactive genre-skipping behemoth, but hip-hop is an enduring thread. It's there inthe freewheeling animatedvideo for "Restless City," too. There's aniconic "New York" style of grittiness - alleyways and street corners are usually the backdrops - which prevails over the smoking hamburgers, skateboarding hot dogs, and otherinspired characters. It's so NYC, expect to see all of these creatures asmascots for a hip new Toronto restaurant in the next few months.
I know I drop The Lawnmower Manas a reference a lot, but I promise that "100 Bottles" is exactlythat. Imagine after the ending of the film, Jobe The Lawnmower Man got lost in a Tokyo server, and started wandering around its red light district using the liquid metal form of a popular Houston rapper (with a new mixtape out!). Then he's lured into the club, the best place for A-Trak and Lex Luger's EDM-influenced trap, and soon learns he's not the supreme being, through a spiritual experience and lots of harsh graphics. A humbling experience for anyone, regardless of lawn.
FULL SCREEN: Panda Bear meets a recurring dream, Scott Walker + Sunn O)))’s domestic distress by Chart Attack | Chart Attack.
