Not going to even try and pretend that her music hasn’t been increasingly consuming me the past week. On to something in a big way. It’s like Lio x tusk era Lindsey Buckingham + ♡ and just the right amount of Cocteau Twins thrown in.

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And her new single:

Grimes – Vanessa

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And people wonder why I bought a one way ticket to Belgium last year…

This video always bears repeating.

Lio – Sage comme une image [1980]

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Although Grimes recalls Lio’s first more brooding solo album a bit more than these bits of, oh why bother classifying..where’s the dance remixes of Grimes and Peaking Lights already?

Stay tuned for Pastel Sunset..

Norman Greenbaum – Marcy [1969]

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Pretty intergalactic still but with a theremin induced hook that is easily catchier than his other famously penned song “Spirit in the Sky.” Greenbaum has always been an artist of which to leave no stone unturned because he really has a lot of other great songs. Kind of in a Space Hymns part II mode lately.

Scene from the movie “Quiet days in Clichy”, based on a novel by Henry Miller and set to extremely addicting music by Country Joe McDonald that glosses over the subject matter by being wrapped in a halcyon melody.

Naked bachelor debauched days of yore, the clip goes from semi nostalgic to racy to generally offensive. I love it. (I wouldn’t watch it at work.)  Good luck getting the song out of your head.

I’ve been watching a lot of dystopian future films lately and wandering around random industrial pockets of New York while listening to outsider kraut albums. I usually end up gravitating towards more fringe kraut that leans towards a more melodic and regular song structure with sparse vocals rather than the vaguely cheesier aspects it can wander into. This song by Novalis is pretty on the level and its dystopian slide guitar intro with black hole synth line plays out like some post-apocalyptic take on Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross. For your next eclipsed sunrise:

Novalis – Im Netz [1979]

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This song goes out to J. Dutcher

This post has mutated several times over. What can I say, the weather has been as manic as my listening habits. Yesterday it was a collection of lost rainy day pop songs but it’s all blue skies today so I scrapped that and figured what better time to try and trace the melodic past of one of my favorite semi-shadow musicians whose traces can be found all over a lot of the best albums over the past two decades. Get to know Jimi Hey, he just joined Holy Shit:

Beachwood Sparks - Canyon Ride (live version better) [2000]

Total classic

All Night Radio – Sad K. [2004]

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Ariel Pink – Do it one more time [2008]

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Backup vocals

Indian Jewelry – Overdrive [2008]

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Melody Arrangement

Ariel Pink - Do it one more time

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Backup Vocals

an oldie but a goodie:

Further – California Bummer [1994]

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Vocals

If Urszula is to cool as ice Polish nights then Yu Grupa is the day after, torn and faded Thin Lizzy shirted Serbian backyard carwash in the last golden light of the day.

Urszula - Szał sezonowej mody [1985]

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Moonlight making it happen music, #Greenpoint

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Yu grupa - Galebov Let [1977]

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Ssaliva’s new album is killin it. The song Moth to a Flame immediately caught my ear and after a few listens I realized that the gauzy reverbed out dubby riff was transferred from one of my favorite Durutti Column tracks.

Ssaliva – Moth to a Flame

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Durutti Column – Belgian Friends

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Also check out this perfect new video for Moonblood, also on Ssaliva’s new album entitled Thought Has Wings:

Ash Ra Tempel VI – Pluralis [1975]

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Peaking Lights – Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)

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All the usual Know Phase trappings; Native Americansploitation shot by post-dadaist tripping Italians in the mid 80′s (Arrapaho) segueing into a Kurt Vonnegut inspired chrono-synclastic shelled dreamstate (Between Time and Timbuktu) all set to Peaking Light’s mind meltingly good new song Tiger Eyes (Laid Back). Feeling like I want to bring VJing back in a new way, starting now.