Bedroom
After first hearing about Bedroom, a (you guessed it) solo bedroom recording project from 16 year old Noah Kittinger from Nashville, I couldn’t tell if the name was some kind of tongue-in-cheek commentary on lo-fi bedroom projects that take themselves all too seriously (song names like “Nostalgic Feel” and “Falling” support this argument), or itself one of those projects with a straightforward, uncompromising title. After listening to his debut EP, Toys, though, I didn’t care. There’s no question about the sincerity underlying these songs.
There’s nothing too innovative about Bedroom’s bedroom music: he makes quiet (check), reverb-heavy (check), Youth Lagoon-like (double check) ballads. Plainly put: he just does it really well.
Listen to the EP below. And download it here.
And here’s the video for “Trees.”
Dnte
Dnte is a Hungarian electronic artist living in Berlin. He began by making beats for hip-hop artists before moving on to a solo career; this path is evident in the juxtaposition of classical samples and tinny, resistant beats of his music.
His inaugral EP, Wake Me Up, was released last year on Resistant Mindz. Listen to it below, via the Dnte bandcamp:
And visit his soundcloud for remixes and free downloads.
Here We Go Magic – How Do I Know
My shamelessly favorite music-video trend of the year? Enigmatic girls dancing wildly by themselves. Add another one to the list – Here We Go Magic’s “How Do I Know.” Their new album, A Different Ship, comes out Tuesday on Secretly Canadian.
Face + Heel
Put another nickel in the “experimental electronic boy-girl duo” jar. Face + Heel is a droning, minimalist band from Cardiff, Wales, comprised of Luke Taylor and Sinead McMillan. Their first EP, No Stars, comes out tomorrow on the newly-formed Warm Records.
And check out two spacey videos from their live set below:
Outsourced Compilation Vol. 6
Get this now.
Perfume Genius – Dark Parts (Music Video)
Who can possibly top a gay porn actor costar? Mom.
Here, Put Your Back N 2 It tear-jerker “Dark Parts” is put to video, starring Mike Hadreas and his mother doing normal family things – playing scrabble, climbing trees, and doing a choreographed dance around a fire pit.
Arthur Beatrice – Midland (Music Video)
Directed by Rita Lino.
Take a look at the band’s site here.
David Keplinger – “Messina”
Take Messina: you’d be impressed and even sad
that I remember. The crag of mottled faces
the rocks made like old pensioners in back pages
of a magazine. The light as bright as dentistry.
In Messina you’re alone‚ available‚ the youth
in your face still rising. As if there’ll be no end
to youth and solitude‚ the sea below Messina
answers: solitude is beauty‚ even after you
get cold‚ go back to the hotel‚ and light
begins to change‚ to fade‚ at each stage resonant.
Messina? I have never been. You told the story
quickly when I loved you; now here it is
exactly as you left it‚ its old stone faces
alternately old and then like children‚ elated by a fallen tooth.
(From Blackbird)
I Don’t Know What Regret Means: Computer Magic – Trinity (Music Video)
The newest video from Computer Magic, shot entirely on an iphone.
