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Video of the week. It entails a blue yeti going skateboarding and having good times. I like the yeti, he looks like fun.
Herman Dune are French duo David-Ivar Herman Dune and Cosmic Néman. Apparently they have a thing for Blue Yetis. This video was directed by Toben Seymour.
Enjoy.
BP x
Winning this week's award for Most Bored Looking Band in Serious Need of Shoes for their Lead Singer is Evans the Death. This video looks like lead singer Katherine Whitaker actually struggled to stop her male band mates from looking wistfully at flowers in fields for long enough to shoot something, god forbid someone might actually pick up an instrument and play something. I presume they are her band mates anyway. For all I know they might a collection of local trouble makers. The sort Cameron worries about. Or her over-protective brothers. Who knows.
Anyway 'I'm So Unclean' is rapid pop infused with door-slamming distortion and agression. It feels perfect for driving too fast on summer days, the only problem being that a) summer's over and b) it's too short (two minutes isn't enough to even get to the Co-op, I checked).
Still, good to know that Whitaker is thinking of us when she's making sandwiches. That's important.
BP x
I'm So Unclean is out on 6 September on Fortuna POP!.
File this under spellbinding. I didn't know who Bill Ryder-Jones was but a trip to Wikipedia soon had me informed that he used to play guitar for the Coral but that he quit for 'reasons unknown'. Being a bit of a hater of The Coral I'd like to think that he maybe just realised their twee folk psychedlia was shit. But that's probably just me being unfair.
Anyway, Bill appears to be heading into the realms of contemporary classical music and if this video, directed by Adeline Mai, is anything to go by then that is a good thing. I struggle to understand within the video what is real and what is post-production, but regardless it's pretty special. The combination of filters applied to the swimming couple feels like a brilliant visualisation of the sounds. Just a word of warning - the video is probably slightly NSFW.
You can download Ryder-Jones' EP, A Leave Taking, for free here. He will be releasing his debut album on Domino imprint Double 6 soon.
BP x
Whoever Synthjunk is, this is basically him showing off. This video shows off not just his composition skills but also an immense collection of synthesisers. I'm quite jealous.
The video itself is also really well put together - filmed in low light black & white it really lets all those blinking lights on the equipment do the talking.
Check out Synthjunk's YouTube channel for more.
BP x