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How To Dress Well - Ocean Floor For Everything / /
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The Walkmen - Heaven (radio edit) / /
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The Walkmen: “Heaven”
More here: http://bobetbagundang.com/2012/04/18/the-walkmen-heaven/
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Beach House- Myth / /
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Beach House: Myth
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Soap&Skin - Wonder / /
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Soap&Skin: Narrow
From http://bobetbagundang.com/2012/03/07/soapskin-narrow/
Lovetune For Vacuum painted Anja Plaschg behind the shadows of her work. Veiled as Soap&Skin, Lovetune are like ghosts of memories for Plaschg, like entries in a notebook drafted in yearning and heartbreak about relationships gone wrong. With no intention of getting bigger than her work, songs like “Thanatos,” “Spiracle” and “Mr. Gaunt Pt 1000” are towering ballads that measure the then teenager to a higher order among her contemporaries. She sounded serious and immediate, and Lovetune was in no time became a cult favorite for people that care less about the name but are big on art grandeur.
More here: http://wp.me/p1A9vL-ZJ
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I Used To Be A Sparrow - Life is Good / /
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I Used To Be A Sparrow - Life is Good
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Leopard Smoke- Anti-Art / /
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U Nu- Ocean Under Lakeshore Drive / /
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U Nu: Summer of Rain
from http://bobetbagundang.com/2012/01/25/u-nu-summer-of-rain/
In “Ocean Under Lakeshore Drive,” one of the highlights in U Nu’s debut Summer of Rain, Josh Brechner turns a deaf ear over his subject’ (or our) whining. In a cold fashion, he sounds gritty and punk, calloused by brassy drums and hopscotch singing. This and we are treated to “Field Recording,” an augmented number talking about err, recording and “one of those things” where you hear Brechner discuss the subject. What is the purpose of that? Seated mid-way in the record, it marks Brechner’s further take on different forms of this art called experimental music. And he does not stop there.
A student of Political Science and based in Chicago, 21-year old Brechner has handled numerous instruments in his 21 years. Drums, saxophone and basically everything one can hear in Summer of Rain. Striking the balance between his goals musically and what listeners expect out of something experimental can break off too far.
Admittedly, not all tracks in Summer of Rain are as appointing as “The Orchard Row / Ellipsis,” a five-minute stalker theme that strangely gives glimpses of lazy Sunday afternoon when there is nothing better to do than throw skipping stones at a lake or “Grey,” a spoken poetry number that showcases Brechner adulation of words by crisscrossing stories in a voice that ascends to panic in its last lines. “July23 or This is the End” with only seven words in it appeals in its simplicity and mounting emotional exhaustion.
Intentional in its approach, Brechner has come up with an exciting batch of songs that are diverse, sometimes addictive and undeniably memorable. Thrown with other songs in a playlist, his tracks remain recognizably U Nu and U Nu alone. Clearly aware of what he is making here, Brechner chooses to tread this experimental wing and seemingly will stay here for a long time, Summer of Rain can stand on that claim along with the verbosity brewing in all its sides.
Bandlinks: Bandcamp. Soundcloud. Facebook. Twitter.
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U Nu- Ocean Under Lakeshore Drive / /
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Mombi: “The Misunderstanding” (Music Video + MP3)
from http://bobetbagundang.com/2012/01/18/mombi-the-misunderstanding-music-video-mp3/
Six years worth of working together and evolving from their former sound as Khale, Kael Smith and Matt Herron took inspiration upon Smith’s beloved 1985 movie Return to Oz (directed by Walter Murch) and named their new project Mobi, after L. Fraunk Baum’s wicked witch character in his The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series from where the movie was based.
As Mobi, the Denver-duo released The Wounded Beat, a collection of eight melancholic soundscapes that houses their debut single “The Misunderstanding,” a four-minute clockstopper that stretches into a trajectory of gloom and reverb. Smith’s vocals build up as the track angles into a hazy wave of ambient sounds, picking up halfway as the momentum rises and the whirring closes in.
The music video for ”The Misunderstanding” is by director/animator Manuel Aragon of Spacejuncian Films who has also worked with Low (“Breaker”) and Retribution Gospel Choir (“Your Bird”). The video was chosen as a featured video in YouTube which introduced Mombi to a wider audience. “He specializes in animation, but he wanted to focus on live action shots for our video,” says Herron of Aragon’s work.
The Wounded Beat was released under Luxembourg’s Own Records and can be downloaded on the band’s Bandcamp page.
DOWNLOAD “The Misunderstanding“ (right-click) or visit the links below.
