Mr James Blake, the new master of melancholy, has just released a video for ‘A Case of You’ from his recent Enough Thunder EP. Starring Rebecca Hall (watch The Town), it’s an appropriately nostalgic ode to one’s love which fits such an ardent and wistful song perfectly. It makes me want to be all happy and nice to people; a prospect we all know is not possible. My icy heart aside though, have a watch below, wipe a solitary tear away and contemplate a few things, like why you’re so passive aggressive with the neighbour who keeps banging on your wall when you make too much noise. Stop throwing things over his fence. Or start throwing bigger things.
For those of you who know me, you may be aware of the fact that I have an addiction to battle rap. Honestly, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who watches quite as much as the man sitting here. I usually keep it fairly separate from the blog — although I do have a ‘Best Battles of All-Time’ post planned — mainly because Oldsy sees it and swipes at me, but I invariably manage to slip away like a cartoon rabbit. Today however, I can’t avoid it. This is the trailer for Don’t Flop’s international event, Blood in the Water 5. The fifth and final instalment in the BITW series, there are some serious match-ups here and when the uploads start, I’m going to be rinsing them. For now, I’ll just have to make do with snippets!
The beat’s a little loud so you may have to strain for a few of the punches, but it’s worth it.
Every time I write a piece on Sepalcure I tend to mundanely describe them as a “Brooklyn duo” and list concrete facts about their upcoming releases, which is something I need to stop doing. Soon you’ll be thinking this is a newspaper or magazine of some sort and expect genuine insight. Well kids, it’s not going to happen, because today I am describing them as “alchemists of aural effulgence” and on a completely unrelated tangent will slip in how I recently left a bag of chocolate buttons near my radiator and later discovered that they had all melted together…
I shall now address the new ‘Pencil Pimp’ video which facilitates this very post and mention how beautiful yet confusing it is. There’s men, there’s women, there’s fire, there’s wigwams, there’s three people whose faces are connected by a box with a watch stuck to it and there’s also an incredible cgi heart…so, you know, it’s a little bit interesting. I would try and describe it further but I’m worried I may genuinely go insane. Stare into the sublime abyss below aka the video lies after the jump.
The music speaks for itself. I’m lost for words. My tea’s gone cold. If you don’t watch/enjoy this video here then you hate music and therefore life. Self-titled album out in January, new track ‘Ruins’ available as a free download and the band are playing for free in Sheffield this Saturday. Could you ask for anything more? Tailor made, silk-lined, Hefneresque smoking jacket you say? Irrelevant.
That picture really just serves as filler, pure filler. Chromatics (of the Drive soundtrack fame) have a new album ready for release in January and this is the first single/title track. Who would have thought it. My buddy has just stolen the charger so we don’t have time for this. Disco video after the jump. More information here. They know what they’re doing.
Brighton hip-hop crew Rum Committee have just unleashed the video for ‘Yundunwannadrink’, one of the many alcohol-related tunes from their current album, Boozetown. Have a watch, even if you don’t drink, even if you’re a camel and rarely drink water, even if you’re a kangaroo rat and don’t drink anything at all, ever. Just go for it. Also, just to keep you sweet, I’ve included a free tune from their ‘Committee is Boss’ mixtape below.
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