The first thing that grabs you is the rhythm - jittery, squiggly, purely wiggy and totally glitchy rhythm. Rhythms that don’t make you dance, but do make you move. The ghost of Talking Heads’ Remain In Light lives here. Their fingerprints are all over songs that have been built up from rhythm. They inhabit the nine tracks that make up Amok, the first official album by Atoms For … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “What The Eyeballs Did” by Atoms For Peace
Chillwave
Song Of The Day – “While I’m Alive” by STRFKR & “Young Turks” by Sexton Blake
Sure, you’d be hard-pressed to forgive them for a band name as over the top as STRFKR (which is short for Starfucker). But props are firmly in order because over the past few years they’ve released three solid albums; chock full of deliciously danceable and tuneful electro pop confections. STRFKR’s roots are in solo projects by guitar/vocalist Josh Hodges, released under the … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “While I’m Alive” by STRFKR & “Young Turks” by Sexton Blake
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “True Thrush” by Dan Deacon
Somewhere between the robotic synchronicity of Philip Glass and the electro-crunch of LCD Soundsystem that threatens to dance yerself clean, lies the sound of Dan Deacon’s latest record “America.” Some categorize it as electronica…others contemporary classical…I just listen and marvel at one of the truly original artists making music today. Case in point is this track that … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “True Thrush” by Dan Deacon
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Love (Can Make You Happy)” by Mercy
This slice of easy listening splendor hit the number two slot on the Billboard charts in 1969. At the time Mercy consisted of artists signed to the small Sundi Record label from Florida, and centered around member Jack Sigler, Jr. Once the song began to take off on the charts, Sundi rush-released an album with this song as the title track credited to “The Mercy” that featured … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Love (Can Make You Happy)” by Mercy
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out
The genre is known as "chillwave" which is a dreamy kind of lo-fi instrumental based music perfect for chilling out with. Ernest Greene, a Master Of Library Science holder from Georgia who could not find a job, is the recording artist known as Washed Out. The song, "Feel It All Around," was pulled from the 2010 EP "Life Of Leisure" and is also known as the theme to the Fred … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out
