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I Am Kloot’s “To The Brink (acoustic)”

October 20, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

A few months, maybe a year ago, Carol introduced me to I Am Kloot’s Sky At Night. This song quickly became my favorite from that record mostly because I am a sucker for sad drinking songs and this is one of the best sad drinking songs I’ve heard in a while. It might be right up there with The Magnetic Fields’ “Papa Was A Rodeo”, which is high praise coming from me.

The rest of the album is similarly good and I highly recommend you seek out a copy. Unfortunately, it’s not on Spotify (lame), or I’d have provided you a link. Here it is on Amazon, import-only. Weird, eh?

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M83’s “Midnight City”

October 18, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

Oh, I see what you did there at the beginning of the video, dudes who made this video? I have one word for you: TETSUOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like this song, even though my relationship with M83 has always been a little weird. Like, they always put weird interludes on their records. One moment it’s spacey synth music, the next moment it’s some chick screaming and crying. Why? WHY!? You know, the sax solo in this song is actually a pretty good example of that. One minute you’re all, “We’re in some future, slow-mo, rain-soaked, Parisian alley-way and this is perfect,” and then the sax solo comes in and it’s like some greasy guido in a Members Only jacket stepped around the corner of your little imaginary alley-way and started ripping it on the sax. And then I can’t help thinking of this.

Oh god, what have I become?

Anyway, enjoy the video. It’s pretty cool and the song is good too. The album makes Charles cry, he said, which is pretty weird, but he’s a sensitive guy so I’m willing to give it to him.

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Sleep’s “Dragonaut”

October 13, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

Another classic from the old Earache My Eye VHS tape that also had videos by Godflesh, At The Gates, Cathedral, Pitchshifter, Dub War, Brutal Truth, Carcass, Napalm Death, Entombed…shit man, if you were a mid-90s metal band, you were on that tape. I still have it somewhere in my parents’ house in CA. Memories.

Anyway, it’s gray as hell outside today and this song is basically exactly how my brain feels, so go with it. Enjoy “Dragonaut” by San Jose, CA natives Sleep.

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Behemoth’s “Lucifer”

October 4, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

Call me crazy, but I am going to go out on a limb here and venture that the visual motifs in this video were inspired by Nergal’s recent battle with leukemia. I know, I know, I might be reaching here, but I think I’m onto something.

The models doing their high-fashion Hellraiser thing are pretty funny too. Pink eye shadow is the most EVIL of all eye shadow! Well, here at The Black Laser it certainly is.

Evil unicorn! With red eyes!

The devil in a red smoking jacket speaking Polish!

Crispy corpse paint!

Drinking blood (messily) from a chalice!

Chewing on a rosary!

Ash falling from the darkened sky!

Hammering stuff!

Reversed footage of sparks!

Floating little girl!

A priest with tears of blood!

Really though, I think the most evil thing in this video is the crown-bearing chick’s unfortunate breast implants. Oy vey, those things are horrendous.

All in all, some fun, silly, horror-movie evilness from Poland’s death metal masters. It’s about as frightening as your average Halloween haunted house at the end of the cul-de-sac, but it’s still pretty awesome.

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Underworld’s “Push Upstairs”

October 3, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

I don’t know why I’ve never posted an Underworld video here before. It’s a little bit like last Spring when I asked why I’d never posted a Pulp video here before. It doesn’t make any sense. I love Underworld. They are easily one of my favorite electronic music acts. There are few other groups that I can listen to as often and repetitiously as I listen to Underworld.

And then you have “Push Upstairs” which is my favorite track from Beaucoup Fish which is my favorite Underworld album. It is the album that I picked up way back in the late 90s that shifter my interest in electronic music from mere curiosity to full on love. I love this album and I love this song. I cannot tell you the number of times I drove home from high school with this pumping in my car as I sped up 280 or back from Tara’s house in the middle of the night or on my way anywhere. And it really holds up still. To me it does not sound dated though laced heavily with nostalgia. Compare it to other late 90s electronic music from the same era—The Prodigy or Crystal Method to name a couple—and where you’d immediately know other bands were old, Underworld has a timelessness about their music. I could and do listen to this all the time and never ever get bored.

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Cut Copy’s “Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution”

September 27, 2011 |

Music and Music Videos

Man, I fucking love Cut Copy. As I’ve said before here, I think they’re a band that has matured so nicely over the course of their career, a band from whom I hope we continue to receive great music that makes me want to dance whether at work developing my post-production tan, at home cleaning the filth from my apartment, or anywhere the hell else it’s good to listen to music.

The premise for the video goes like this: what IF instead of nuclear mutants living underground in Beneath the Planet of the Apes they were the apes themselves and instead of worshipping a nuclear bomb they worship the little bits of Cut Copy they needed to assemble the band for the performance of a single song? And, what if instead of destroying the world with nuclear fire, they burned the instruments in fits of simian rage after unleashing the power of Cut Copy’s music? That’s pretty much what we’ve got here. And it’s pretty damned cool.

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