Category Archives: weird

Kurt Vile: “Freeway” MP3

This song is great for the summer but also able to maintain a serious amount of weirdness which is a tough feat. Some nice synth/guitar/drums get things going and create a sonic wash that the vocals try to squeeze through in the best way possible. It is kind of like Vile is singing through honey [...]

Grant Falardeau & Carson Mell: “Frito Lo”

This is one of the weirdest, but most enjoyable, short films I have seen in a while. Garret showed it to me over pizza and beer while we were waiting to go out and it left me feeling very uncomfortable in the best way possible, like I stumbled upon some home-made film by some kids [...]

MGMT: “Electric Feel” Video

My favorite song off of Oracular Spectacular gets the video treatment and ends up looking like a cross between Fern Gully and the rave scene from The Matrix: Reloaded. Weird.

James Pants: “Cosmic Rapp” Video

This dude is the ultimate freak - his music is off the wall but it somehow is coherent. Really plays to my obsession with obscure synth and drum machine sounds. There is so much I want to say about James Pants but not enough time right now - long story short, check out Rhythm Trax [...]

Scarlett Johansson: “Falling Down” Video

I’m pretty excited about this album, which I didn’t quite expect. Her voice is pretty raw in its own way and the production is wonderful (thanks Dave Sitek). Also, having Bowie on your track never hurts.

cat/theremin

weird but cool. i want to teach thierry to do this:

“Baroque Variations”

Take a MC-202, a Fairlight CVI, some baroque music, mix ‘em up, and you get something like this: