do the whirlwind

feeling indie-popped and without a tune - there's a new weird dance track by Architecture In Helsinki called Do the Whirlwind, which leaves the Fingers Crossed land of languishing, open structures and goes all basic descending keyboards and cutiesie vox - the beginning is simply crystalline and enchanting though, so listen for at least 10 seconds.

awesome things i've listened to today:

Grizzly Bear "Horn of Plenty" which came out in Nov. - more music than should come from a duo, a little black box theater sounding (love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like.....you!) with telephone vox, out of tune cabaret piano and lovely/tragic whine vocals slip-slidy, little computron flourishes give it extra life where it might be just a sweet little psych folk thing.

Fannypack "See You Next Tuesday" holy shit, sophmore effort rules! i take it all back, they aren't just bratty teens cashing in, a post-Larry T style NYC groomed girl troupe, but in fact TOTALLY rule on 'seven one eight' and 'on my lap,' which made me think about dudes giving lap dances, which made me laugh aloud. how many records make you laugh aloud?

BuuuX:

Am reading Chris Washburne's "Bad Music" right now - it is my destiny to theorize the bad, I have been thinking lately although I'm always fighting between the critic (aesthetics) and the ethnomuze (sociologist/anthropologist) as to what is the most important part about music, how it sounds or how people think it sounds.