It’s…FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS, y’all!
Tonight, we have three trippy-with-a-capital-T video selections. Put these on fullscreen/HD, kick back, and pretend you are still in college.
The pulsating Lumerians song above (via Dangerous Minds) reminds me of a cross between Suicide (WARNING: linked Suicide video contains footage from Taxi Driver, so, you know, violence) and Appliance.
(Hey, “The Suicide Appliances” would be a good bandname).
It took me a while to identify all the moving parts in the picture, and my eye kept getting tricked into seeing certain stationary bits as being in flux.
“Send Them Away” by Beaches (also via Dangerous Minds) is slightly shambolic girl-group-derived melodic guitar pop, a rich vein that has proved happily long-lived despite – or maybe because of – its seemingly-disposable simplicity and replicability (but that’s a post for another day.)
Accordingly, its charmingly handmade video is both simple and dynamic. Animation (and film/video in general) is of course a long-established way to trick the eye with the illusion of motion:
Here’s a bit of elemental instrumental fuzz-rock, via Boing Boing. No, it’s not a Magic Eye, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless:
Three videos, three questions: What are you guys listening to tonight? And, what happened to all the cough syrup?
have had the new boards of canada on repeat all week. it’s so very excellent.
As you know, I am somewhat ambivalent about B0C. But the first track I heard, I liked, and even the negative and middling reviews have intrigued me.
Ah, what the hell. It’s only $10 on Amazon, that’s my max for giving something a shot. Should be here on Tuesday.
Boards of Canada roygbiv will always be identified with my son on his rollerblades. I made a little video of him skating to this soundtrack.
it gets my stamp of approval. i was not totally sold on the campfire headphase’s sluggishness, but tomorrow’s harvest hits all the right points and hits them perfectly.
I never heard Campfire, I only have the first two. If it’s too sluggish for me, I have some gap-filling Eric B. and Rakim and some psychedelic rock and some ambient country coming this week too. 🙂 But I did like the lead single or first leaked track or whatever it was that I heard.
Listening to Dirty Beaches’ new one rt now. (Too many “Beach” bands, I declare a moratorium on use of that word in your bandname. “Beach Wolf” would be right out).
ambient country? like garth brooks at 10%?
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike that. Stay tuned, I’ll give an example in an upcoming Friday Night Videos post.
color me intrigued, honky tonk eno style.
Also, I keep looking to get that Beaches album for cheap…the rest of it is much more shoegazey/psychedelic/krautrocky (though I do think the posted song is super-catchy). But I ain’t paying full freight for it ($15), so I just keep checking back.
Just to say, I thought this was really cool.
I’m a sucker for animation.
Thanks Will. I have some cool visuals slated for next Friday too (though they are not exactly animated).