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Paint the Sky

++They should totally have Sheryl Crow do one of these commercials, singing "All I Wanna Do, Is Have Some Nuts." But the internet would twist that lyric, wouldn't they.

++Hey Daily Mail! Don't you DARE pin this on spinach.

++Now what they need to do is mash this song with the Emiliana and Jai Paul song from yesterday, and it will sound like walking through the stereo speaker section of an electronics store.

...The paps should leave Ariana alone and focus on Frankie. That guy was meant for the limelight. High kicks!

 ++Love this Twitter conversation. (Will love it for a thousand more?) Not a day goes by when I don't think about the prescience of Idiocracy, Minority Report or Truman Show.
This tweet too.

++Hoo boy. Florrie is such a mix of airy, sassy/flinty and stunningly beautiful that I'm surprised there aren't a billion club remixes of her songs. I actually looked up the name Florrie on one of those baby name meaning websites and it means "sets sail to a thousand remixes."

Upping the Ante

++Emiliana *and* Jai Paul? You people gonna make my head essplode!

++Say whaaaaaaaaaa? How's that all going to work?

 

++Not to get all mumblecore here, but there are times when a song is like a passing snapshot of talent more than a fully realized song or complete coherent work.. and the videos are, like, capturing a tiny piece of the talent as it registers on the richter scale or a small movement in a Cinegraph. (Cinegraphs were one of my favorite things born of the Internet; one of those endlessly amusing/fleeting things like dramatic chipmunk.)

ANYWAY! I have to co-sign with Pigeons and Planes on the depth and richness of Bipolar Sunshine's voice. I wish the song had juuuust a touch more meatiness. I don't wish this for everyone but there seems to be hints of thoughtfulness in that voice; it seems destined for greater songs.

Would love to him pair with Cashmere Cat, Knucklehead ooh or if he brought some intellectual jazzy Thundercat to his game and went next level.

I've had this same excitement about experimenting and pairing spinach with things lately, but that's another post for another day.

Bipolar Sunshine's EP hits June 17th, which is the same night that Coco Quadron will be on Letterman. June 17th seems like it will be a fun day for music.

Update: Hm, then again, the gravitas does meld nicely with light notes of the airy dance beat. Do you, Bipolar Sunshine.

++Five Stars: I'm just gonna put the word French in front of everything I say today. People on Amazon seem to favor things with the word French in front of it.

Incidents of Road Rage

++WHERE Left Eye AT!? (So sorry.)

++Remember that one summer with Miike Snow and how I used to blog about him like he was one person? Not changing! Mr. Miike Snows employs some whistling, which no one does any more!

++From the inbox: Past favorite Quadron is back this coming June 4th with the new album Avalanche and an appearance on David Letterman June 17th. Excited!

++That's my girl right there. So comfortable and moves so naturally like a Gen X'er changing texting slang between Millenlials and Baby Boomers. (Really they speak completely different languages, don't they?)

++I guess there are easy listens and others that are a challenge to listen to... and Today's Pick by TVOTR is the latter. For whatever reason feel occupying the ol headspace with a gristly, cerebral kind of song. Maybe this one for later, too.:

Little Soldiers

There's always been something about the expression on actor Dave Foley's face that both disturbs and amuses me and I've thought about it for many years.  Even more so after his recent excellent turn on HBO's Veep as the husband of Finland's prime minister.

I might have written about this before.

Anyway, the floating head in this Sweet Baboo video reminds me of him and will not be helping the cause.

Hot Headed Belieber

A few months back I was head over heels in love with Luke LaLonde’s spare, brilliant nu jazz-ish cover of Beyonce’s Countdown. (Update: Oh! And Undone! Swoon. I forgot how best he is...) LaLonde’s band Born Ruffians is back with the album Birthmarks that came out last month.

Consequence of Sound has this great concise review o’ da album and LaLonde’s changing priorities as he ages

In pre-release interviews, frontman Luke Lalonde claimed that much of the inspiration for Birthmarks came from his feelings of “moving through your mid-twenties and not doing what a lot of people my age feel like they should be doing - like a PhD, buying a house, having a real job with a salary and benefits.” Needless to say, this is a far cry from 2006, when he was a 14 year old boy who had just seen his first bra and squealed, "I need to get laid immediately."

Now, heavy lines like “We get so lost sometimes, filling holes that don’t need fixing,” and “I’m not scared to die, I’m scared to be replaced” are peppered throughout Birthmarks, giving it a backbone worth revisiting.

So many holes in need of filling these days! Someone call Cal Trans.

 

SunSay

I don't have much to say about this song other than that it's stunningly chill and gorgeous. Well that, and wanted to repost the confusion in the comment section, verbatim...just because the variety/confusion is what I love about the comments sections of You Tube.

• нна Миронова 5 days ago

  Russian)

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  SweetandFitting 1 week ago

  Closer to Norwegian and Swedish and Danish I think

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  Игорь Ильяшенко 1 week ago

  nope

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  MsKLJames 1 week ago

  I absolutely love his music. I have epilepsy and take medicine that makes me feel really ill. I listen to Sunsay and am always soothed. It's amazing! Love the Russian language. Thank you Sunsay for being awesome!

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  Sainted187 1 week ago

  I think ukrainian and russian are like english and american english

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  blankiyta5 1 week ago

  i dont know a word they are saying but its good

   

Tried To Sleep Alone, Couldn't Do It

 

Will be listening to this Doves track from '09ers today. Hearing it for the first time but it's one of those ones that feels nostalgic, like it's attached to a sunsoaked memory that never really happened, namean?

The YouTubers say Thomthom Yorke's a fan, which is about right....

Ooh the deliberate finality of the plucking at the very end. Yes.

Gang Related

 

++Oof na na, do yourself a favor and wallow in this pristine track, Iodine, by When Saints Go Machine. As Ellen Pompeo might say, Seriously!:

++What isn't RZA doing these days? Busy guy. He's probably even up late at night calling Jake from State Farm.

++Oh LeeAnn Rimes, always stirrin' stuff up with people! When will you learn? (Yes I know that's not LeeAnn Rimes.) Travis' new album gets its official relearsse on August 19th.

Rimshots During the Vows

Today's pick is by Dead Sara who have been opening for Muse here and there.

That's a pretty good fit.. would be a whole of keening and yelling. They'd also marry well with known egress enterer Melissa Etheridge.

I think Demi Moore just went to see them in concert recently which also makes sense because people tend to listen to people voices similar to their own. Woah that Kinisonian yell at the end. Go on girl.

Clicksy here for an interview with Emily Armstrong.