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April 17, 2012 • 10:48 pm 0

Mombi: “Time Goes” (Music Video)

Becoming one of my favorite acts this year, Mombi please their fans once more with another offering off of their debut The Wounded Beat, an achievement of a record from the duo Kael Smith and Matt Herron. I have written about the band before but the pleasure of raving about them is always an opportunity. Needless to say, the record has been playing non-stop alongside another great discovery House of Wolves. They do not sound the same but they both achieve a certain kind of easy listening mood that appeals to people who like sincere and personal work like that of The Album Leaf, Elliot Smith, Conor Oberst and other lyrical artists.

This time, Mombi promote their latest single “Time Goes.” Working once more with “The Misunderstanding” director Manuel Aragon, the music video, however, is an animated take on the song. “Conceptually, the video is about the circular patterns in nature,” explains Herron of the clip. “Eventually, everything begins again and paper cutout animation helps convey this message of time passing slowly and quickly all at once.”

Adding to the that, “Time Goes” contains some parts of a poem written by Lynn Vanlandingham, Smith’s grandfather, in his 1972 book Alone, I Wait.

Mombi’s The Wounded Beat is still available in the band’s Bandcamp page with added perks worth having for their fans.

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March 13, 2012 • 12:56 am 0

Blanket Barricade: “X-Out” (Music Video)

An ambitious project of four-parts, Blanket Barricade are bent upon seeing through the saga that heralds the release of band’s debut Parade Bells this March 20th. A trailer provided a glimpse of the videos which was quickly followed by ”Stray Shadows“. Now, it’s “X-Out,” the four- minute opening track of Parade Bells. Helmed by Marshall Axani, the same guy who framed the initial installment, the video for the song follows the story of a pudding shop owner who is saved from the brink of foreclosure if not from a mysterious present that she found at her shop’s door. A mixture of comedy and plain storytelling, “X-Out” continues Blanket Barricade’s design of entertaining and well-produced music videos to complement its forthcoming debut. “X-Out” is available at name-your-price on their Bandcamp.

Band Links: Facebook. YouTube. Bandcamp.

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February 28, 2012 • 1:46 am 0

The Little Hands of Asphalt: “Fitzcaraldo”

From friends in Norway is The Little Hands of Asphalt‘s new music video for “Fitzcaraldo.” Lifted from his latest work Floors, Vonnegut-quoting Sjur Lyseid’s one-man show LHoA was first introduced to me through a copy of the fantastic 2009 free EP Spit Back at the Rain.

Putting on a different shoe from his other band Monzano, Lyseid dons a singer-songwriter persona that rings of Conor Oberst (See “Love Song for Young Novelists“) and Elliot Smith’s wordy, highly-personal narratives. It turns out that picking up the guitar for some acoustic, feathery pop gems turned out right for Lyseid who sees the follow-up Floors to a wider audience outside of the Scandinavian music capital.

According to Lyseid, the title is from 1982 Werner Herzog film about an opera-loving rubber business heir.

“Fitzcaraldo” in its jaunty hooks of piano, drums and strings celebrates the very nature of touring; the sense of exciting abandonment accessed, probably by his own experience, only by the uncertainties of playing city after city as they “pack our guitars, plunge into the night with our knitwear and hungry hearts.” More literal hints are thrown throughout the song but the music video is a party on its own.

Framed by Synne Øverland Knutsen, one half of the team Apparatet, she called forth the power of memory and music for the video by assembling three musicians on the project of proving that the body gets old but the mind ceases to age. Images of childhood and loss are juxtaposed to resurgences of the spirit— picking up a learned instrument, dressing up for characters, dancing, and yes, rocking it out with the band! Worthy of pressing play more than once.

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February 22, 2012 • 2:23 am 0

I Used To Be a Sparrow: “Life is Good”/ “Mikkael”

If you were an animal what kind of animal would you be?

The question and other pass-the-time meanderings are not needed to kill the time (surely one would not think of a sparrow though) while listening to these two tracks of the new band I Used To Be A Sparrow made up of not-so-new-in-music members. The name made an impression first before I even got to hear the music itself. And why they both look sad in the picture? That’s another one. Kidding aside, it is always a welcome to have new music come this way.

With that poetic shot at their name, Swedish songwriter Dick Pettersson and Italian wanderlust Andrea Caccese (Songs for the Sleepwalkers) tested the waters by throwing some ideas for a collaboration, teasing the possibility of recording few songs yet the duo found themselves committing to a full-length right after few sessions.

Due in March, the single “Life is Good” and its B-Side “Mikkael” preview what Luke will be like come its release next month on the 14th.

An expansive and youthful anthem, “Life is Good” shines in its catchy chorus as Pettersson and Caccese sound intoxicated with nostalgia. With every instrument credited to the team, layers of vocals swim onward with the outstretching guitars filling up the empty space in its four minutes dream. The B-Side “Mikkael” builds on drums, down tempoed and moodier than the carrier single before messing it in the middle of haste and reverb. The tracks are available at the band’s Bandcamp for free and the music video for “Life is Good” has just been released and is directed by fellow Swedish Johan Haglund (ProLounge).

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February 4, 2012 • 11:24 am 0

Lamb: “Butterfly Effect”

Claudia Crobatia, a 28-year-old photographer from Amsterdam, worked with Lamb back in December 2010 for a photoshoot. She made a name for herself in the world of photography in the Netherlands, for capturing images of daily life in subtlety of direct meaning but more of suggested moods and narratives. The shoot, done in Lamb’s Lou Rhodes’ house, was for the band’s return to music after an eight-year absence, the release of their fifth album aptly titled 5. The duo’s break had left a spot off of fan’s musical spectrum, a beat that was terribly missed. Their return with the double-disc effort 5, with 10 solid triphop/ electronic possessed by the band’s modern life soundscapes and the second with instrumentals and outtakes, reaffirmed the band’s place in the world of electronic music.

After releasing “Another Language,” the band tapped Crobatia again for a short film interpreting their latest single “Butterfly Effect.” For the short film (not a music video according to the band) shot in black in white, Crobatia brought into play a trope of interpretations of the chaos theory phenomenon featuring two people seemingly fated with each other. The accompaniment visual of the track is also part of the ongoing Butterfly Effect Remix Competition where musicians are asked to submit their own take of the song to be included in the upcoming Butterfly Effect EP out first quarter this year.

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