Mystery Jets + The Count & Sinden = After Dark
Mystery Jets + The Count & Sinden = After Dark
Klaxons' comeback // a breakdown
Klaxons' comeback // a breakdown
FAJ + Danny Sangra
FAJ + Danny Sangra
Maximum (balloons) Theophilus (LDN)
Maximum (balloons) Theophilus (LDN)
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.
Nathan Smith
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.
Freaks and Geeks
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?
Rong He
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?
The Selby Is In Your Place
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.
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Yeasayer vs The Golden Filter

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What one might initially think are two paths going in different directions, have unexpectedly collided in this remix. The Golden Filter have taken their mitts to Yeasayer's new single 'Madder Red', making the most of that eerily pure vocal oooo-iness, speeding it up a tad and filling in the space between with rather a beefier version of their usual golden touch whilst Penny wraps her feather light vocal around Anand Wilder's.

 

The last third is EPIC! Winding it up into a 7 and a half minute jam, The Golden Filter get deep with the percussion, taking me back to Yeasayer's first album. A wicked interpretation, I really dig where this converged path goes. Check it:

 

O.N.E.

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Anand

 

The new video for Yeasayer's latest single 'O.N.E.' makes me giggle so much. It's high budet, kinda new-new rave, and a big mixed bag full of other seemingly random hipsteryishy stuff.

 

The video sorta follows this guy - firstly borrowing a little from Alex Mac and the Matrix's Agent Smith's copying technique - who gatecrashes a warehouse party full of East London looking dress up types and a caged Yeasayer fronted by an artfully ghetto netted Anand, who, incidentally, reminds me of Sati (from the third installation of the Matrix trilogy) with his cute little bob-style 'do.

 

Also featured are a trio of supremely enthusiastic dancers glad in rainbow warrior drop crotch trousers, a Lady Gags-esque figure crying into her martini glass and a game/test scenario, played with neon lights and colours and 3-D shapes.

 

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This track is really cool, and though I don't have much of a clue as to what any of the video means, it sure is fun to watch. Check it below:

 

ONE by YEASAYER

All For The Ambling Alps
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All For The Mountain

 

I'm never normally one for *jewellery* as such; preferring one big statement piece over lots of shiny trinkets, but All For The Mountain manage to do super cool statement pieces in shiny little trinket form (which, in my humble opinion, jewellery designers rarely do well). Plus they do these look book shots that feel all esoteric-hipster, which I actually dig; kinda making me feel like listening to Yeasayer or something.

 

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Speaking of which, whilst you check All For The Mountain out, do it listening to Yeasayer's new track, 'Ambling Alp', being their deepest foray into 'pop' to date. All versions of the track I've heard make me a little uncomfortable; the Memory Tapes remix shows a darkly twinkly version of the track, whilst I prefer the DJ Rupture remix best, showing the more familiar sound of dark and brooding Yeasayer, that's not a little woozy. But here's the single and the Memory Tapes remix for you to put on whilst you check All For The Mountain's stuff out:

 

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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp [mp3]

 

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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) [mp3]

 

So anyways. The Sacred Mystical Mountain Ring below almost makes me want to relinquish my life long ambition for the perfect pair of knuckle dusters. Imagine punching someone with this baby:

 

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The Sacred Mystical Mountain ring

Or how about the coolest neck piece I've seen in a while:

 

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Shoulder Pads

 

And making bolos cool again:

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Drip V Bolo

 

Go check more of All For The Mountains jewellery AND furniture line HERE

 

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