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BEFORE TODAY by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

It doesn’t take much to make me feel stupid. Trying to find the words to describe the debut album of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at 4AD is just one of many examples I could give you. To me, ‘Before Today’ sounds like an album that Kevin Barnes could be recording if he loved goth bands more than funk ones. Or like the cold wave genre entering a multicoloured psychedelic stage instead of glazing at it's own depression. Don’t mind my threadbare examples; this is the album that will make it onto every interesting top 10 of the year and you don’t wanna miss it.

WE // R \\ WEARING

I can't resist (probably overpriced) basics-with-a-twist. My wardrobe, full of T by Wang, Oak, Bassike and yes, American Apparel is proof of this; and since in Australia, a new favourite has emerged in the form of Nathan Smith. His selection of supersoft tees, tanks and dresses have sucked me into buying multiples of a number of styles in different colourways. You just can't go wrong with these though! Addictively and endlessly wearable - and not in actual fact, overpriced in the slightlest - Nathan Smith is the way forward for your wardrobe.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

I don’t think any series will treat teenagers the same way that Freaks and Geeks did almost 10 years ago. Although relying on every teen American cliché they could, this series was the closest thing to reality you could get whilst still being something fun and interesting to watch – cause, you know, life is boring. With bands like The Who, The Clash and XTC being either part of episodes or the soundtrack, this 80’s based cult show was short-lived (only 18 episodes), but long enough to enrich the careers of some young actors (i.e. James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps and, erm, Linda Cardellini) and is greatly missed. Can we have a movie about them meeting again in the 00’s?

WE // R \\ GOING

Once, a friend of mine wanted to take me to this 'cheap Chinese restaurant', situated in the heart of Liberdade, a Japanese neighborhood in São Paulo. When we got there the place was packed, but because it looked cheesy and kinda poor, I didn't want to wait it out. It took another friend for me to go back there and fall in love with it. Now, every time the mood for some freshly made noodles (you can watch the chief making the noodle dough through a window) framed in some horribly painted pink walls takes me, I go for Rong He. Did I mention the food is also incredibly generous and cheap?

WE // R \\ READING

The ultimate in peeping tom into other, cooler, more fashionable, richer, quirkier and more-hipster-than-thou lives is Todd Selby's The Selby. Having previously been an internet only voyeur's dream, Todd has just last month released The Selby Is In Your Place, a book the coffee table tome full of twee drawings, colourful interiors and people showering. Half of the images in the books are favourites from the website and the other is stuff he hasn't published online yet. So go check it out, maybe buy it if you can to make your crappy coffee table in your crappy apartment that little bit cooler with pictures of someone else's cool stuff.

Say hiyaaa to Metronomy - the 4 piece

Monday // September 07, 2009 at 11:29 // filed under Music

By now you'll know that some time ago, the three piece that was Metronomy, turned into four.

Let's do a bit of Metronomical maths here:

Old Metronomy, 3: Oscar, Gabriel and Joe

MINUS -

Gabriel Stebbing, now of Your Twenties

PLUS +

Former Lightspeed Champion drummer Anna Prior and Gbenga Adelekan on bass

EQUALS =

New Metronomy, 4: Anna, Joe, Oscar and Gbenga

I hit Joe up with some quick questions a few months back and have recently gotten me some answers.

Can you please introduce the new members and what their role in the band is?

Hello, this is Gbenga, he plays bass guitar and sings. This is Anna, she is a mean drummer.

How did you go about hooking up with the new additions?

Anna has been a friend of ours for a long time. Gbenga won the auditions.

Is this going to change your sound/song writing process?

No...maybe.

How are things with Gabriel and Your Twenties?

Don't care.

Changing/replacing band members is kinda like when they replace a beloved character on a TV show: it's just not the same for a while, and sometimes the newbie is never quite accepted by the public, but people get used to the new face/s eventually. How do you think this will impact on your live shows - are you keeping the lights and dance moves (please say yes)?

Of course we have kept the lights and the moves, although the dancing is harder to incorporate now that we are playing everything live. As for the rest, of course it will take time to adjust, but that is the joy of it. People will realise what a burden Gabriel was. Anna and Gbenga are twice as good looking as Gabriel and one of them is a girl! Finally boys will like our band.

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And heeeeere you are, we've been sitting on these for a while now, itching to post them. To show you that their sound is still just as fantastic in a teaser for the upcoming EP, Not Made For Love, due out on the 21st of September (which has three songs and a slew of remixes for each), here's the Ebola remix for 'What Do I Do Now' and the Joakim remix of 'Not Made For Love'. Awesome stuff.

YAYAYAYAY WE'RE (STILL) IN LOVE WITH METRONOMY!

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Metronomy - What Do I Do Now (Ebola Remix) [mp3]

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Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Joakim Remix - Unmastered) [mp3]

POSTED BY CHRISTEL ESCOSA

TAGS: Metronomy, Joakim, Ebola // LINKS: Metronomy, Ebola, Joakim