Spotlight: Your Influences Are Showing
Has it all been done before? Maybe. What's the difference between a reference and an outright copy? Let's explore that fine line with some blatant examples.
Has it all been done before? Maybe. What's the difference between a reference and an outright copy? Let's explore that fine line with some blatant examples.
A couple weeks ago we looked at videos made of found footage collages. Now, let's look at videos where the band is live; front and center, and the videographers are producing so much more than the grainy concert footage you occasionally screen, wincing all the while.
This Week: The Rapture return after five years of silence; Bombay Bicycle Club combine albums one and two for the third; Thundercat's futuristic-jazz-soul (co-produced by Flying Lotus); Sir Paul McCartney re-releases a 2005 hit with Radiohead's Nigel Godrich at the helm; TV On The Radio's live EP, recorded one month after the loss of bassist Gerard Smith.
We've been looking at music from a vibe perspective; this has brought us to headphones, one might say more beat-based stimulation on the whole—the stuff that can really move around the ear cabin.
This week: Pictureplane gets physical; Crystal Antlers take it up a notch; Autre Ne Veut...you love it or you hate it; Future Islands most potent expression to date; Brooklyn MC Theophilus London has something for everyone.
A collection of sounds for sunshine, aligning the warm beats with the warm breeze.