Simian Mobile Disco’s “Audacity Of Huge” is an aggressively, ridiculously retro song–a PM Dawn reference is nearly back-to-back with a brand-drop of the MiniDisc, for Pete’s sake!–and its attendant video, directed by the London-based Kate Moross, is pretty straight-up in the way it wields bright colors, orphaned Radio Shack robots, trading cards featuring personalities who possess cadence-appropriate names, and American Apparel bikini bottoms in order to sear itself onto viewers’ eyeballs. (The song, I suspect, will be my “Ice Cream” of this year, thanks to its big dumb synth backing and blender-drink chill.) [YouTube; HT Jeff Rosenthal] More »
Like a lot of subcultural scenes, dance music is usually reduced to a few token entries on the year-end lists of general interest publications. As the former editor of wide-eared music site Stylus, Todd Burns did more than his fair share to turn people on to dance records that went deeper than the kind normally covered in your average indie rock webzine or glossy rock mag. His dance-centric essay for this year’s Pazz And Jop poll, however, is an object lesson in how not to turn people on to the unfamiliar, mostly by spending a few hundred words telling them why they suck for liking records with things like hooks. Did you know that you should feel guilty for enjoying poppy crossover dance records? Somehow I don’t think this kind of conscience-stricken Catholicism is exactly what all those old disco cats who equated the dancefloor with “church” had in mind, exactly.
Writing about Hostel 2 recently, Rich Juzwiak raised the old question about the infamous I Spit On Your Grave: “Is this director Meir Zarchi’s parable for women’s struggles and the strength needed to overcome them, or is it a 20-minute porno wrapped in 80 minutes of bullshit?” More »
Simian Mobile Disco remixes “Hands Off My Gold,” another track from Celebration’s forthcoming LP The Modern Tribe, and transforms the song into a spiraling late-night workout. More »
Simian Mobile Disco remixes “Hands Off My Gold,” another track from Celebration’s forthcoming LP The Modern Tribe, and transforms the song into a spiraling late-night workout. More »
