Quite the devilish collection of music videos on the TV PARTY! this month. Must be something in the water making Satan not so boring. Our round-up of favorites includes “Devils” from Say Hi, “Devils Hearts Grow Cold” from La Sera, as well as The Twilight Singer’s deranged Santa Claus, No Age’s infernal destruction, and the beast that is Tyler the Creator. You get the picture. Dark! Stream the links below, read about the videos inside the post, and while you’re at it join our podcast (iTunes, Podcast.com, and Podcast Alley) to receive cool new MP3s and music videos!CONTINUE READING
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VIDEO: Say Hi “Devils” Barsuk Records [24.2mb]
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VIDEO: No Age “Fever Dreaming” Sub Pop Records [mov + 43.4mb]
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VIDEO: La Sera “Devils Hearts Grow Cold” Hardly Art [mov + 26.5mb]
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VIDEO: Tyler the Creator “Yonkers” 4AD [mov + 32.4mb]
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VIDEO: Mogwai “Mexican Grand Prix” Sub Pop Records [mov + 54.8mb]
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VIDEO: Phantogram “When I’m Small” Barsuk Records [mov + 44.4mb]
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VIDEO: The Twilight Singers “On the Corner”
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Eric Elbogen’s Say Hi released it’s seventh album Um, Uh Oh this past January on Barsuk Records. Mostly self-recorded in his home studio, Elbogen’s newest work shines with the sort of mature musical effortlessness one might imagine seven albums worth of recordings would bring. On the first single, “Devils”, Elbogen’s raw and economical production makes the most of a stripped-down drum set and in-your-face bass line, while the lyrical impact is like a slow landing gut punch. The video for the song is directed by Carlos Lopez (The Dutchess & the Duke, Intelligence, The Unnatural Helpers, Butts), and has Elbogen meeting the devil at the cross roads and signing over his soul for fame and fortune. That’ll earn you crotch kicks for eternity in the lower realms!
No Age’s most recent full length, Everything In Between, is a buzzed-out blitzkrieg rocking the white noise pop to the max on killer tracks like “Glitter”, “Skinned” and “Fever Dream”. Now we have a new video for the song “Fever Dream” from director Patrick Daughters, who has also done excellent work for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Feist and Depeche Mode. The video deceptively appears to be done in one take, and has Dean Spunt and Randy Randall hanging out in a well furnished warehouse space while the cameras slow forward and backward dollying instigates varying degrees of destruction on their surroundings, until all hell breaks loose. Pretty awesome stuff! Kind of a throw back to the old days of Michel Gondry and Spike Jonez when high concept and technical ability combined for something striking and memorarable. You know, art! (Check out some behind the scenes making of this video here).
Sean Tilmann (aka Har Mar Superstar) plays the devil in La Sera’s new video for the song “Devils Hearts Grow Cold”, pilfering the ever-lovely Katy Goodman’s purse while she doozes at party?! Is it just me or does Mr. Tilmann resemble a youngish Ron Jeremy, you know, circa Inside Seka or Debbie Does Dallas ll. For reals, check those last shots of him in a greasy white tee. Did you know that Ron Jeremy’s dad was a physist, and that his mother served in the O.S.S during WWll, as she was fluent in French and German. Or that Ron Jeremy was a high school classmate of former CIA director George Tennet. The things you learn.
Tyler the Creator fucks with boundaries…yours, his, the music biz, whatever gets in this hyper-neurotic dudes way. As integral member of the LA rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, Tyler the Creator has rapped on and produced for nearly all of the OFWGKTA releases, which include four mixtapes and eight solo albums-all available for free from the bands site! Seems the guy wants to add video producer to the resume, with the video for “Yonkers” delivering tightly crafted, “hyper-real” depictions of the artist eating a cockroack, vomiting, rapping with alien black eyes, or hanging himself, all done with stylish aplomb in stark black and white. Last month Tyler the Creator signed a one record deal with XL Records, and will release Goblin this April on the label.
Mogwai delivers another excellent video off their newest album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. Directed by Danny McConnell, the video is a great urban depiction using hundreds of video taped encounters with pedestrians in Glasgow to create a hypnotic flow of people and place. The final result is the almost impossible experience of taking all the encounters in a day and playing them back in such a rapid succession that they seem to bleed into one common human event. If only every day was like that!
Last year Phantogram released Eyelid Movies on Barsuk Records. The duo, Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, recorded the album in a farmhouse in rural, upstate New York that they’ve dubbed Harmony Lodge. Tightly produced, the album is an electronic tour de force of dance inducing beats and synth driven pop that might belie the bands bucolic surroundings. Now we have the video for “When I’m Small” off Eyelid Movies, and it’s a stylish, New Wave-noir in black and white.
Last month Greg Dulli’s The Twilight Singers released their fifth album Dynamite Steps, their first in five years. We like that Mr. Dulli is old school and still subscribes to the Cult of the Rock God, offering up the corruption of his flesh for our redemption. Always good of the rock gods to do that for us, and we enjoy the gothic touch! The video for “On the Corner” is a twisted glimpse of the American sub-conscious, our suburban hell-hole of zombie families worshipping the Donkey God. Ah yes, “taste the body/waste the body”.
