Earlier this month, Dusted premiered a video to accompany ‘(Into the) Atmosphere’, the first dreamy single lifted from their recently released debut album Total Dust.
Now the duo of Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt and Final Fantasy’s Leon Taheny are offering a new video for ‘There Somehow’, the album’s short and dark closing track.
Here’s what director Scott Cudmore said about the video:
“Brian sent me the Dusted record last year and I immediately fell in love with it. It stayed in my car for almost the entire year. Something about the sounds and textures on that record, I guess they made me think that they could complement images and sounds of my own. The subject matter of ‘There Somehow’ and the short length of it really made sense with this material. It’s a different kind of project – it’s not a music video for a ‘single’ but more of a little film collaboration between two existing works.”
German electronic veterans Mouse On Mars released their tenth full-length album Parastropics earlier this year via Monkeytown Records.
The duo of Jan St Werner and Andi Toma offered up yesterday ‘They Know Your Name’ as the new single off Parastropics. The single is available on a limited 7″ and it includes a brand new rework by Mouse On Mars themselves on the A-side and a remix by Machinedrum on the B-side. You can get it here.
Coinciding with the release, Mouse On Mars have unleashed a video for ‘They Know Your Name’. The video was edited by Pfadfinderei using footage from various biological cell studies. Mouse On Mars explained how it all happened:
“A few weeks ago, our French friend Charles Baroud (Laboratoire d’ Hydrodynamique (LadHyX) / Ecole Polytechnique) told us about his newest experiments: He is now able to color drops and stretch surfaces in a way that the colors don’t leak and the drop keeps its form, even if mixed with other fluids. Those experiments are used for cell biology research, but also create – as a side effect – really esthetic and crazy patterns. When Charles sent us a few clips of his experiments, we immediately thought that those images would match our track “They Know Your Name” perfectly. Charles then bought a high res camera (he, as the boss of his institution, is allowed to do so) and recorded some really cool video clips of the red drop, which we lovingly babtized “Steve Verlaine”. We then asked Berlin based visual artists Pfadfinderei to get this material to swing.”
There’s more thrilling news from the Mouse On Mars world. The pair will drop a new EP entitled Wow on November 2nd. The new effort includes collaborations with Vietnamese visual and performance artist Dao Anh Khanh and Argentinian punk rock band Las Kellies.
Whilst we wait for it to drop, check out the video for ‘They Know Your Name’ below.
A couple of days ago we reported on the Charity Subscription Series that Graveface Records is putting out. It consists of twelve 7″ and three 10″ singles from bands and artists like Serengati, Xiu Xiu, Mount Eerie, Mike Watt, Appleseed Cast, Shearwater and many more.
The first instalment from this series features contributions from Serengati with Tobacco and Advance Base, Mount Eerie and one my favourite artists, the Minneapolis born multi-instrumentalist and loop master Dosh.
His contribution to the series is the utterly amazing ‘From the House of Caesar’, which has just surfaced the web. Dosh chose Building Dignity as the charity to be given most of the proceeds from his 7″.
As previously mentioned, Nigel Godrich teamed up with drummer and producer Joey Waronker and singer Laura Bettinson earlier this year to form a new band called Ultraísta.
The threesome will release their self-titled debut album on October 2nd via Temporary Residence.
We heard already two cuts from it, ‘Smalltalk’ and ‘Static Light’, and now Ultraísta have shared the album’s opener ‘Bad Insect’. Stream it below.
The songstress and her band have just announced the release of a new single from it, ‘Dodecahedron’.
“The night before I wrote it I had a dream that consisted of me running up to strangers in the street and asking them what a dodecahedron was, but no one knew,” explained Houghton. “I later found out that the ancient Greeks believed the Dodecahedron is a symbol of the universe and represents an idealized form of divine thought. Having said that, despite that first line, the song is nothing to do with Dodecahedrons, it’s just a prelude to a thought.”
‘Dodecahedron’ will be out on October 8th and to tease the new single further, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny have just unveiled a video for it, directed by Sasha Rainbow. Watch it below.
Menomena are set to release Moms, the follow up to their widely acclaimed 2010’s Mines. Moms will be Menomena’s fifth studio album and also their first as a duo.
The album is due out on September 18th via Barsurk Records.
Moms shows Justin Harris and Danny Seim didn’t slow down after the departure of Brent Knopf and kept writing and recording “with more focus and speed than ever before” as the label described. Moms is “tragic and intimate, comic and endearing, personal and motivated”.
Ahead of the release, Menomena have just shared a new cut off the upcoming album, the excellent ‘Capsule’. You can get it free here, in exchange for an email address.
Earlier this month, Dusted premiered a video to accompany ‘(Into the) Atmosphere’, the first dreamy single lifted from their recently released debut album Total Dust.
