This week in my much labored (and questionably edited) MP3 blog rundown: some more Magnetic Fields, new Goldfrapp and a few covers in the mix. Plus some domestic violence for good measure. You know, pretty much what you’ve come to expect of this column.
1. The Magnetic Fields, “Too Drunk to Dream”
You know, it isn’t a week if there isn’t YET ANOTHER Magnetic Fields song leaked from the new, mucho awaited album. This time Stephin Merritt (sounding conspicuously like Panda Bear) in the grand “upbeat music, decidedly un-upbeat lyrics” tradition talks about….well….being drunk.
MP3 here via Stereogum
2. Rooney, “What For”
I watch Gossip Girl.
Shoot me now.
I also liked this song by everyone’s favorite free association racists Rooney which appeared on said gem of teenage drama this past week (which was created by Josh Schwartz of “The OC” who made you know of Rooney in the first place).
Shoot me and bury me now.
MP3 here via The World Forgot
3. Hot Chip, “Sexual Healing” (Marvin Gaye Cover)
Hot Chip’s resolution for 2008: continue trying to cover/remix every song in the whole wide world.
Even those that don’t need covering, because there’s no way you could do better than what was done the first time around.
Like this one.
More like “Coitus Interuptus”.
MP3 here via Cover Lay Down
and from the same post:
4. Jens Lekman “You Can Call me Al” (Paul Simon cover)
Whatever Jens is serving, I’ll eat it. Especially if its all acousticed our and heartbreaking like this.
MP3 here via Cover Lay Down
5. Goldfrapp “”A&E” + Remixes”
Alison is back!
And while it is not necessarily the electro dancey sex we’d come to expect, we should still all welcome her with open arms.
Plus, you know, some people already remixed it.
MP3 here via Arjan Writes
6. Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”
Helio Sequence has their new album coming out in February on Subpop and if this fuzzed-out dance nugget is anything to go by, we should all be looking forward to it.
MP3 here via You Ain’t No Picasso
7.Shins “Phantom Limb”
Ok, I KNOW YOU ALL ALREADY OWN THIS record but a. its a wonderful track and b. this past week Shins member Martin Crandall was arrested for domestic violence against America’s Next Top Model Elyse Sewell (!!!!)’s limbs, so you know, it all comes full circle.
MP3 and story and bruised limb photos here via Brooklyn Vegan
Wincing was def the most underrated album of the year
January 6, 2008 at 7:57 pmWhat the hell were they thinking with that Sexual Healing cover? lol
January 6, 2008 at 9:13 pmMy sense of the Hot Chip cover is that it’s going for a geek narrative voice — here’s someone who really needs sexual healing, but instead they’re lost in the sterility of an emotional echo chamber. I’m not saying it’s successful, but I posted it because I thought it was an interesting take on the lyric.
Good calls on all. Thanks for the linkbacks!
- Boyhowdy, host of Cover Lay Down
January 7, 2008 at 12:03 amthat first link took me to about 10 different links before i could get to the mp3…
January 7, 2008 at 2:39 am
i don’t know which is worse: posting the the story about your own domestic violence case in your personal blog or the fact that i am actually commenting on it. probably the latter. shame on me.
the entire shins cd kicks enormous ass (like crandall, apparently) because it flows so well. track 10 is my favorite (girl sailor).
January 6, 2008 at 2:12 pm