Live Eye Tv is 100 posts old, and that’s a lotta old in dog years!? We’ll keep churning ’em out if you’ll keep watching!! Up this week, a new addition of the TV PARTY! with music videos and hypnagogic delights from the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie xx, Twin Shadows, British Sea Power, Kurt Vile and much more. Stream the videos below or join our podcast to get new music and video updates weekly…iTunes, Podcast.com, and Podcast Alley. CONTINUE READING
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VIDEO: Gang Gang Dance “MindKilla” 4AD [56.9mb]
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VIDEO: Gil Scott Heron/Jamie xx “I’ll Take Care of U” XL Recordings [46.4mb]
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VIDEO: Twin Shadows “At My Heels” 4AD [41.8mb]
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VIDEO: Kurt Vile “Jesus Fever” Matador Records [37.5mb]
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VIDEO: British Sea Power “Who’s In Control” Rough Trade [33.1mb]
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VIDEO: Fleet Foxes “Grown Ocean” Sub Pop Records [24.5mb]
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VIDEO: White Denim “Drugs” Downtown Records [31.9mb]
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VIDEO: Dum Dum Girls “He Gets Me High” Sub Pop Records [24.5mb]
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On May 10th Gang Gang Dance will release Eye Contact, their fifth album, but first for the 4AD label. Recorded by prolific producer and engineer Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tv on the Radio) in an old church converted into a recording studio in upstate New York, the band returns from deep space tours with their most cohesive testament to the existence of extra-terrestrial dance forms. Years of travel between the inner worlds have allowed musicians Brian DeGraw, Tim Dewit, and Josh Diamond to hone their far-out, world beat experimentalism, providing increasingly more focused atmospheres for vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos astral prowlings. To get a little taste, this week we have the ocular enhancing delight “Mindkilla”, directed by Boredoms? Shoji Goto!
Also up this week, the first video from We’re New Here, the Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx collaboration that came out this past February. Remixing Gil Scott-Heron’s first musical effort in 13 years, last years outstanding I’m New Here, Jamie xx explicates and repurposes, for a a wider audience, the vital urban poetry of one of America’s greatest rock voices. The video for the remix of “I’ll Take Care of You” was directed and shot by AG Rojas and photographer Jaime-James Medina, and using an intimate cinema-verite style it documents the life of an up-and-coming female boxer trying to balance the demands of her career and young family.
Twin Shadows is musician George Lewis Jr., who was born in the Dominican Republic, grew up in Florida, and now resides in Brooklyn. On his 2010 release, Forget, he made great use of 80’s British-style synth-pop, and with production by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, the albums restrained instrumentation shined as it moved between moodier dream pieces and shake-your-butt dance breakdowns with great style. Now, we have the video for the tune “At My Heels”, off the Forget LP. Two versions of this video exist. One version has the audio turned down so that we can hear commentary about the making of the video from The Directors. Check that out here, as it’s a hilarious send-up of DVD commentary, or stream the actual video from our site!
Kurt Vile is a record making machine with Smoke Ring For My Halo being his fourth full-length in four years. On this newest LP, he continues to hone his idiosynchratic mastery of classic guitar rock and laid back, Christ-as-slacker musical approach. Seemingly unassuming and hazy, the songs drift in on summery, navel gazing guitar hooks, while Vile’s low key drawl barely gets off the couch for a bong hit. On “Jesus Fever” he sings, “I pack my suitcase/with myself, but I’m already gone”, and then goes onto sly muse upon the epistemological dilemmas of ghosts and other previously recorded events. The video for the song is directed by Ricardo Rivera, and features very cool compositing and “contour mapping” via the technology forward artists at KLIP.
This week we also have “Who’s In Control”, the second video from British Sea Power‘s newest LP Valhalla Dancehall! With the media abuzz about royal weddings it would be easy to forget that this past winter Britain was rocked by a series of student protests against the rising cost of college tuition AND the closing of libraries!! British Sea Power won’t let you forget, though! The new video for “Who’s In Control” was directed by Bajir Cannon and Bridget Palardy, and it features pretty young people goin’ down to the demonstration to get their fair share of the views. Violence and nudity ensue!
On May 3rd, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes will put out their second album, the 12-track LP Helplessness Blues on Sup Pop. Recorded over the course of a year at Avast Recording, Bear Creek Studios, Dreamland Studios, and Reciprocal Recording, the album was mixed by Phil Ek and co-produced by the band and EK. Beautifully recorded, the band’s brand of shady and breezy folk shimmers in warm orchestral beauty, with singer Robin Pecknold’s bronze-steeped vocals ringing out from the center of the mix. If you want a little peak into the band’s process, in all it’s analog beauty and complete with film-like 16mm imagery, the band has put out a “making of” video for the song “Grown Ocean”, and it’s a great behind the scenes peak into the Fleet Foxes musical world.
Austin’s White Denim always seems to be busy recording or touring. Recently, the four piece put out the single “Drug”, which is expected to be on their May release for Downtown Records called, D. Recorded at a studio on Lake Travis in Austin, the band continues to fuse together different elements of guitar rock into a psychedelic and heady brew. The video for the song was directed by Bobby Weiss, Michael Hammett, and Mark Greenwalt, and using stop-motion animation and a rotating platform, we see the band covered and uncovered in mounds of white toilet paper and other unsavory detritus.
And to wrap up the TV PARTY! this week, another video from LA’s Dum Dum Girls who have a new 12″, He Get’s Me High, out now on Sub Pop Records. The new vinyl has three originals including the tune “He Get’s Me High”, as well as a cover of The Smith’s song “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”. The video for the title track is directed by Christin Turner and is sure to induce those burned-out, day-glo eye reveries we crave!
