David Bowie collaborating with Mylo sound good to you? Me too. Cut Copy are synthy rock types from Melbourne, and they’re causing quite a fuss among people who have cool haircuts because they sound a little bit like that ridiculously reductive comparison.
Their new video, “Hearts On Fire”, features a young man walking around with a raincloud directly over his head. Not very nice when he’s trying to get some kip, but when he awakes in the morning all he needs is to have some shower gel next to his bed and he’s shaved valuable minutes off his morning.
Having listened to their current album In Ghost Colours I have to say I found it a tad samey at first, but I loved this track from the outset. It has a Daft Punk-ish interlude that is just irresistible.
Check out the video over the page - if you disagree with me you don’t deserve to have a summer this year, alright?
Late Of The Pier are this week’s flavour of the, um, week out there in bloghypeland. “Focker” is their new single, and it’s rather catchy for a bit in a an electro-skwonky kind of way, before the power of the skwonk takes over entirely.
The video, however, is rather fascinating. Do you remember 80s kiddy show Let’s Pretend? No? OK, well if you did remember it, imagine they decided to make a horror movie featuring tar coming out of keyboards and an evil robot made out out of pic n’mix and victims with pancake mix on their faces. Scarifying yet delicious, huh?
Don’t believe moi? See over the page…
Some curmudgeons might claim that this video technically has nothing to do with music. I would respond that this 36-second clip is better than:
1. Athlete’s entire back catalogue
2. The UK entry for Eurovision
3. Loads of other things
So nerrr, yeah?
Right, I don’t get on my soapbox much, but this niggle has been bubbling away in my brain for quite a while now. See, when you write a music blog, you often find yourself on the look-out for new music videos to talk nonsense about.
Now you’d think, would you not, that in these modern times, when most record companies have more or less got their head around YouTube, that they’d be pretty swift at getting fresh new videos by big acts onto their accounts.
The benefits of this are obvious: the artist gets their new video out there in an “official” capacity, while the record company gets exposure since the page featuring the video can be branded. Fans and bloggers with RSS feeds can see when the video has hit the net and can be assured that, since it’s come through official channels, it should be a high quality version and not some rip from MTV.
Last week showed just how far from this state of affairs we currently are.
The world’s been wondering for quite a while what a collaboration between Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty would sound like. Last week the stupid world found out - it sounds like two dirty-fingernailed mooheads drooling over day-old mice. Catchy!
But it could do with a twist, to make it more dancefloor friendly. That’s where RevoLucian comes in. He/she/they is/are the person/people behind the frankly magnificent Bill O’Reilly remix (NSFW) which I shamefully only saw for the first time last week.
The remix of this formidable meeting of minds elevates the product to… um… well, it’s even more disturbing than the original clip, to be honest. But in an amusing way (I love Doherty’s “Oh my Gawd”s, I’ll be honest). Check it out over the page.
How has this video passed me by? Oh right, I suppose I need to watch MTV more. Well, as far as Jacko covers go this is alright I think - no irony involved, thankfully… in the song, that is.
The video’s a different matter, with Buster from Arrested Development, Turk from Scrubs, John Mayer and lord knows who else making appearances. Of course, like most Fall Out Boy vids, Pete Wentz’s eternal fart-sniffing pout steals the show. Oh, and congrats on the nuptuals Petey - I trust your expression remained the same throughout the ceremony?
I don’t know how long this ad’s been doing the rounds, but I saw it this morning on E4 and I was rapt. RAPT, I tell you. I’ve never been that big a fan of Snap’s “Rhythm Is A Dancer”, but when you’ve got a wee man from Thunderbirds shaking his strings to it, it ascends to that elusive “next level”. OK, so it’s clearly CGI, but ’tis still mucho clevs.
It’s all in aid of a brand of water called Drench, who clearly have their viral video head screwed on right proper. It sure beats a drumming primate, anyway. Click over for Brains’s moves - and try not to get distracted by how much he looks like the guy from Hot Chip.
Here it is then, after the sneak peeks - the video for N*E*R*D’s new single, “Everyone Nose”.
It basically shows loads of girls getting in exactly the kind of states their poor parents worry about. Chuck in a glimpse of party girl extraordinaire Lindsay Lohan and plenty of club rowdiness, and you basically have a video that could have been shot by Vice magazine. Which feels exactly right for the song.
If you don’t know who Joseph Kahn is, he’s one of the foremost music video directors in music video-land. He’s directed videos for pretty much every notable pop star over the last decade or so, from U2 to Eminem to Janet Jackson to, um, Shayne Ward. Now those frosty electroids Ladytron have got him to do the viddy for their new single.
“Ghosts” isn’t a huge departure from the usual Ladytron “product”, but the video does say “yes, we have a decent budget for this particular song”. It sees the ladies and the trons standing around in a desert with rabbits sniffing their ankles and cars driving along roads and wolves and dolls and then loads more rabbits and then a man looking through a tyre and then shitloads more rabbits.
I’ll be honest, the new “business models” surrounding paid-for music confuse me a fair bit. The salient details of how to pay for, and get music onto, this Zune doo-dah pretty much passed me by as I watched this new ad.
BUT! It has a clip of a new N*E*R*D track soundtracking it, which is a crafty way of getting people to check out the commercial, if not the actual gadget. The track’s called “Spazz” and features rather pleasing rat-a-tat-tat percussion with a typically bangalicious bass backing it up. Give it a listen over the page.
David Bowie collaborating with Mylo sound good to you? Me too. Cut Copy are synthy rock types from Melbourne, and they’re causing quite a fuss among people who have cool haircuts because they sound a little bit like that ridiculously reductive comparison.
