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Chromeo - "Don't Turn The Lights On"
Stereogum’s got the premiere single from Chromeo’s upcoming album, Business Casual, and they’re giving it away.
It’s classic Chromeo, which is to say it’s classic Hall & Oates if Hall & Oates were classically obsessed with doing it constantly. The music is drenched in thick, bottom-heavy 80’s beats and soaring synth lines while the lyrics are playful, a little stupid (“Don’t turn the lights on because tonight I want to see you in the dark”) and catchy as fuck.
The album’s out on September 14. If this track’s any indication, it’ll be a must buy.
Paris is Jazz
Once upon a time Malcolm McLaren met a young lady at a Parisian party. I can only assume that happened before 1994 happened, because in that year Mr. McLaren released a solo album appropriately titled Paris. This album was utterly panned upon its release and for good reason!
Still, in 1994 when I stumbled upon this album, Paris sounded really far away (and it was — I didn’t get there for another 7 years), but this album represented a tiny fraction of what it might mean to go there.
I dug the album up in my iTunes upon Mr. McLaren’s passing earlier this week and I can’t say that it’s a very good album, but it’s definitely sincere. It’s the album of a man so in love with a city that he just had to declare that love with every forced metaphor and cliched image he could muster. Still, I got a kick out of it as a precocious 17 year old, so maybe you will, too.
This track is called “Jazz is Paris,” which should give you an idea of how the rest of the album plays out.
Transference by Spoon
After Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga in 2007, my hopes weren’t too high for a new Spoon record. I picked Transference up anyway and after a few listens, I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s a bit slow to get into, definitely not instantly catchy like Gimme Fiction or Kill the Moonlight.
Have a listen. The spooky, funky “Written In Reverse” is my favorite track, but “The Mystery Zone,” with drums lifted straight out of “Billie Jean,” comes pretty close.
A Scrumptious Song About Zombies
Plants vs Zombies Music Video (via PlantsVsZombies)
New Track From Junior Boys
Awesome new track from Junior Boys’s upcoming album Begone Dull Care.
