Do you like Stereolab? Atlas Sound? Atlas Sound songs where he’s mostly aping Stereolab? Does you foot start tapping when you’ve got a few PBR’s in you and the Gooskis jukebox starts rocking? Then maybe you’ll enjoy this one as much as I do.
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Les Marinellis follow up last year’s self-titled LP with Ile De Reve, another jangly album full of tunes along the lines of Black Lips’ In the Red output.
I can’t quite put my finger on why I keep coming back to this song. Maybe because there’s a warmness to it that usually doesn’t exist in sample-based music. It’s sort of like a hyperactive, Balearic-sounding Books song in that sense. Lovely video, too.
Heartland is out now on Civil Music.
Alright, there’s a lot of moving parts here, so stay with me: A few years ago, David Byrne (he of Talking Heads fame, amongst a million other projects) released a compilation of tracks by William Onyeabor, a Nigerian artist who recorded most of his output in the late seventies and early eighties. Just last year, Hot Chip covered “Atomic Bomb”, which was originally recorded by Onyeabor in 1978, for yet another compilation, this one featuring covers of the original compilation released by Byrne a few years earlier. Still with me? Good. Now, John Talabot has remixed that Hot Chip song into what your listening to right now. Confused? That’s OK. Hopefully you can still enjoy the tune.
Battle Ave has a new album coming out in May. Here is the opening track. This one took two plays to warm up to me, but it’s quite good and haunting. Happy Easter folks.