Sublime.
Category: Music
The only video you’ll see today starring a white guy impersonating Michael Jackson (the pop star, not the beer writer). Do you remember when the “Black or White” video premiered and it had all the morphing and shit and it looked really impressive? That was weird, huh?
Last week my brother sent me this song and it is my new favorite song of all time forever. Please enjoy it. Although, this track—also sent by my brother—might be my favorite cover since Travis covered “Hit Me Baby One More Time” and Bonnie Prince Billy covered “Am I Demon”.
God, there’s so much good music out there.
Between revisions today, I was listening to School of Seven Bells new album Ghostory (thoughts soon), and then wondered why I had never sought out any of their music videos. It’s weird because “I L U” from 2010′s Disconnect From Desire was hands-down my favorite track of the year. It’s just so damn catchy but also really pretty. I still really like it.
Well, a quick Yotubs search turned up the official video for the song. Here it is, nearly a year and a half after I wrote about how much I love this track. The video is really good too, even if I think the papier-mâché marionettes are incredibly creepy. It has all the things I like in music videos: simplicity, strength of concept, and beauty. It’s touching AND terrifying. “Awwwww, the dude and the chick are in love and they’re going at it! OH MY GOD THOSE CORPSE MARIONETTES ARE FUCKING EACH OTHER AND, HOLY LIVING FUCK, IT’S REACHING IN AND PULLING THE HEART OUT OF THE OTHERONE!!!!!
Great work all around.
Remember IDM? Of course you don’t! Don’t lie! No one remembers IDM unless you were a total EDM nerd in the 90s and early 00s.
So, assuming you don’t remember, did you know that Aphex Twin wasn’t the only person making music like he did? Of course you didn’t. No one does. No one! Well, Charles does. For sure. Anyway, there was this cat who called himself Squarepusher who was doing a whole lot of excellent bleep bloop music in the 90s and early 00s and now he’s back (not that he’s gone away) with a video from his forthcoming album Ufabulum which I am not sure how to pronounce.
The video is pretty sweet, delightfully minimal, and perfectly complements his sound. If you were wondering (and I know you were), this is what college sounded like to me.
