Put on your bathing suit, lets dive
Into the deep ends of our mind
Our memories remain dry
And we are strangers in the night
Slightly reminiscent of Grimes, enigmatic electropop duo Cash+David say they make their music when called upon by the mothership, and that's how the 4-song EP Side 1 came about. Oookaay. However it happened, I enjoy listening to the kind of lonely, clunky, electronic chill of this track.
You claw, you fight, you lose
Got a doll that looks just like you
Remember when we used to say
"I love you" almost every day
I saw a light in you
Going out as I closed our window
You never liked me anyway
From gritty garage rock yesterday to Grimes, staying dirty but getting dancy for your Friday night. This song was her biggest hit off of Art Angels, which is not my favorite Grimes album overall, but still delightfully weird. I got to see her right up close, in the pit of the Blue Stage at (looks like the final) Fun Fun Fun last year. Her new album dropped that same weekend and I hadn't heard it yet, making her set feel a little different than I expected but still a blast.
Side note: I missed Neon Indian's set just before Grimes at FFF and then missed them again at SXSW (following which he seemed to indicate possible retirement of the band), so I'm pretty stoked to be seeing them in a couple weeks, at a show presented by the people behind FFF who are now putting on a fest called SOS (Sound on Sound). Woo!
(spoken) How about we do a decapitation tonight? Starring you.
Put you in the back,
Keep your head up, see!
Letters on maps you keep pestering
Kicking at the door, attempts to extricate
Wrong way what for?
Still taking it all away
Hearing The Growlers new song yesterday (awesome find by Kerri by the way) got me in the mood for some more gritty, dirty, catchy pop. Enter Dirty Ghosts and "Ropes That Way" of 2012's Metal Moon, a terrific album that combines 80's pop sensibilities with catchy and creative garage rock attitude ala Japandroids or Surfer Blood. Give it a listen. The whole album is terrific. In fact, all of their albums are terrific.
Fun fact, lead singer Allyson Baker used to be married to Aesop Rock!
BONUS TRACK!
