Showing posts with label electro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electro. Show all posts
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The Sea and Cake - Weekend

The Sea and Cake is a band that has apparently been around for over a decade, though their contemporary sound would make you think they were completely fresh. "Weekend" is the first and only song I've heard by them, and I love it so much that I'm a little bit afraid to see what else they've put out lest it greatly disappoint. The vocals remind me of the looming vocals of M83, while the tweaked acoustic guitar and buzzing keyboards remind me of Orbital.

The video for the song depicts carefree children doing what carefree children often do, and it's in many ways a very different video than what I imagined mentally when I first listened to the song. That's not to say that it's not fitting, but it may be wise to listen to the song without the video first in order to create your own mental image of it.

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Where Art Thou, Happy Music?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm destined to be perpetually melancholy. Hoping to add some happy music to my depressing mix of electro, rock and hip-hop, I took to the upbound "Action/Reaction" by Choir of Young Believers. I should have known better than to think that I would be listening to music that could also be uplifting. Just read these lyrics:

She is a monument,
and everyone is talking,
like a vision it's all crystal clear,
a change of mind and then a change of position,
did we ever honestly believe,
watching dead bodies and bombs falling from the sky,
nothing's gonna change, nothing is ever gonna change


Yikes.
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Electro Re-Birth

Last year it seemed like music was having its soul sapped by boring and winy emo. Now there's a whole lot more electro coming out, and it seems somewhat appropriate that the new school band M83 is becoming big on Mute Records, the same record label that Depeche Mode has been on for the past two decades.

If M83 and DM are too gloomy and depressing for you, there's always the absurdly upbeat disco-rock of Passion Pit to keep you upbeat:

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