Our continuing look at the lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Dead Man’s Bones, the debut album from the Ryan-Gosling-plus-childrens’-choir outfit of the same name: More »
My favorite song of the day (so far) (OK I know it’s early): Dead Man’s Bones’ “My Body’s A Zombie For You,” in which Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields lead the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir in an eerie ode to someone who inspires so much love, s/he causes the other person to go all undead-like in the head. I’ve been listening to a bit of AM oldies radio lately, and “Zombie” sounds like it would fit right in, at least during the “Songs From A Possibly Alternate Dimension” hour. Dead Man’s Bones’ album comes out Oct. 6; the other tracks that the group’s released so far definitely are causing it to be on my Most Anticipated Albums That Have A Chance Of Actually Coming Out list. [Pitchfork / MySpace] More »
Dead Man’s Bones, the funeral-attended-by-children outfit also known as “that band Ryan Gosling is in,” will release their self-titled debut album on Oct. 6. In an interview with Pitchfork, Gosling has previously described the group’s aesthetic as being from “that place before we were trying to make the fridge,” i.e. when they were younger, and putting crayons to paper in ways that seemed interesting to them, with the thought of actually impressing adults through renderings of horses and the like far from their minds. After the jump, the clip for “Name In Stone.” More »
Dead Man’s Bones—the funeral-choir outfit that will forever be known as “Ryan Gosling‘s musical project”—has a new video out, in which Gosling and his collaborator Zach Shields lead a chorus through a graveyard, singing the wearily jubilant “Name In Stone” (which has an odd similarity to Lily Allen’s “The Fear” running underneath it, to these ears) all the way. I wonder if this is one of the clips that the band shot in lieu of going to South By Southwest last month? Clip after the jump.
