I’m totally tired today and possibly getting sick, and I don’t particularly seem to have any thoughts about anything except when I want to run up the street for Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s. Luckily, there’s craploads of new music on l’internet, too, including this new Annie video that Stereogum just posted about.
I like the yellowy bits the best, but “lots of girls with dark hair and gloves” works pretty fine as a video concept, too. I just wish the whole thing didn’t seem like the director walked on the set and said, “OK everybody. We have a really tiny budget so we’re going to blow the whole thing on makeup! Can the fancy set ideas, more garish purple lipstick!!”
Filed under: music | Tags: al b sure, girl guides, guided by voices, robert pollard
While I wait impatiently until I get paid tomorrow to buy the new Portishead and Santogold albums, I noticed that The Girl Guides put some new stuff on their (her?) Myspace since the last time I checked. (more…)
Despite the fact that I’ve been swooning over the Long Blondes for the past two years, I’ve yet to pick up “Couples”, their second album, which came out digitally a couple of weeks ago. I’m holding out for the physical release on May 6th, although what with my being broke and with three exciting albums coming out tomorrow and a big trip to New York City this weekend I’m not sure if I’m actually going to get the chance to buy it right away. Especially since I also need to buy tickets to see the Long Blondes when they come to Boston on the 19th; I’m sort of nerdily anxious to hear if Kate Jackson will be able to hit all the super-high notes that seem to have replaced the spoken interludes in all their songs.
In the meantime, they’ve been kind enough to release a new video for Guilt, the second single from the album. It has lots of dogs so of course I love it. As for the song, it’s not quite as exciting as Century, I don’t think, but I feel like it might be a grower.
