Tin Ear

Karekare

Dan Woods — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:57:37 GMT

orange orange orange in the mouth again
wearing stone washed denim again
carrying something wrapped in plastic
curled on the blue velveteen again

straighten

- Hyde

Uniqlo Calendar

Dan Woods — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:01:37 GMT

The new Uniqlo Calendar mixes beautiful time-lapse photography with music from FPM. It’s drop dead gorgeous: I’ve been watching it for an hour, mesmerised. So, who can remember their old postcode?

Sabre Dance

Dan Woods — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:09:07 GMT

I don’t know what to make of this. The guy has many, many videos on Youtube in which he pulls off a very convincing impersonation of a CGI character impersonating a real person who is pretending to be a mad scientist’s less strange elder brother on an off day. Like I said, I don’t really know what to make of this.

That Guy

Dan Woods — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:31:53 GMT

This is how you start a party is the best three minutes I’ve spent all day. (via MF)

The Girl and the Robot

Dan Woods — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:11:38 GMT

On first listen I wasn’t sure what to make of Röyksopp’s latest effort, Junior. Other than the first track, the stand-out Happy Up Here (which also has a stunning video) the album didn’t seem to have either sense of fun (Eple, Remind Me) or the sheer get-on-the-floor danceability (Only This Moment, Beautiful Day Without You) of Melody or Understanding.

Then there was the feeling that guest vocalists Robyn and The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson were being chronically underused. Witness Dreijer Andersson’s stunning vocals on her Fever Ray release this year and compare it to the nursery school chanting on Tricky Tricky (“six afraid of seven, ‘cause seven ate nine”) and you have to scratch your head and wonder what the grand plan is.

Each of the tracks are great individually, but as a whole there is an underlying sweetness to that left me wanting the downtempo and darker side to Röyksopp that balanced the first two albums so well. Then I read a couple of interviews with the band and discovered that the second part of the album, the more moody and atmospheric Senior is due to drop later this year.

I guess it’s a sum of all parts thing, then. Until then, I guess I’ll just keep listening to This Must Be It on repeat and wait for the remixers to get their hands dirty.