Little Jinder, “Youth Blood (Bok Bok RMX)” MP3

Last night we went to a Fuck Buttons show and, though we were mostly sober, there was one moment where this white light was shining in our eyes, the chords were so glimmering and intense, and everything was so heightened we felt like someone had dosed us. Certain music just sounds like church! The twerky funky chords in Jinder’s excellent electro-disco “Youth Blood” were already like that (sidebar, why do so many Swedes have so much soul?), but one of our fave Brit dudes Bok Bok elevated ‘em with an extra kick in the junk, extending out the warm chords for a bit then letting congos and toms fall apart like candy coming from a pinata. We can dig this and will be digging further on the 21st of November, when Bok Bok plays NYC’s Santos with Joker and L-Vis 1990 (it’s on our calendar in red sharpie with a bunch of stars and exclamation points, so see you there).



Download: Little Jinder, “Youth Blood (Bok Bok RMX)” (via Fact Mag)

Dominant Legs, “Clawing Out at the Walls” and “Just Silly Ones” MP3

“Clawing Out at the Walls,” which begins with, and whose duration is kept steady by small and sharp hand drums, is instrumentally crisp, high guitar and bouncy bass, overlaid with flute-like keys that act as as a time keeper. But for most of the track, Dominant Legs’ Ryan Lynch has a vaporous voice, as if he was subsumed enough making such a meticulous song that finally singing over it might be too tidy. But then, as if something has finally jarred him, he sits up straight and projects loud, repeating that he’s “calling and calling,” amidst a quick grouping of unintelligible lines. “Just Silly Ones,” a more distinctly rocking song, keeps the guitar in the upper register, and moves the focus from the instrumentation and into the vocals, where Lynch is occasionally met by Hannah Hunt doubling him. We’re just silly ones/ And what’s become of us lately? he asks, concerned for himself. Halfway through, the nerves move over to a guitar that shivers like wind chimes. We wrote lovingly about two of Dominant Legs’ other tracks a bit ago, if you missed them, make sure to check them out, and see the Legs open for Girls soon, too.



Download: Dominant Legs, “Clawing Out at the Walls”



Download: Dominant Legs, “Just Silly Ones”

Video: Little Boots, “Earthquake”

This is how we imagine FADER #57 coverstar Little Boots lives her life when she’s not touring: in a special magic home modified to look like a galaxy, holding a speck of land in her hand like a delicate pearl. Then we remember she is a British star with an affinity for YouTube, not the Empress from NeverEnding Story. But it kind of works, no? (via Chunnel)

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Premiere: Chll Pll, “Pass Out” MP3

UPDATE: Just kidding, that song was actually “Now Then and When.” It’s a jam, so get the record. Check out the real “Pass Out.” It sounds like a regular band got trapped in a Lisa Frank commercial.



Download: Chll Pll, “Pass Out”

“Pass Out” is what we cannot believe drummer Zach Hill does not do halfway through every show he plays. We cannot imagine him performing this seven-minute (!) song live—clearly this has to have been taped together. Right? Right? Chll Pll, his new duo whose ridiculously titled debut Aggressively Humble (better hope your parents aren’t psychologists), is a vehicle for Hill to basically blast himself to the moon. It sounds sort of like “Here Comes the Indian” with blast beats, until its supple, wavy keys are pounded into submission with a snare. A friend told us he fell asleep listening to Brian Eno the other night and had good dreams. Though we know that wasn’t Zach Hill, it very well could have been, the arc of this song moving steadily from REM to zen whenever he moves from drum ping to butterfly winging the cymbals.

Heal Yourself and Move: Oh, Honey: The Unheard World of Catholic

This week’s Heal Yourself And Move—a biweekly column about dance and electronic music, written by Maryland’s finest, Andrew Field Pickering—tackles the crucial but overlooked work of Catholic, a lost project of major disco producer Patrick Cowley.
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The XX Takes on Jools Holland

…and transforms it into a veritable bedroom, because as we learned at their debut New York show at Mercury Lounge a couple months ago, these Brits can play a sweaty sweatbox of drunken boozehounds and deeply annoying LA pseudo-hippies and it will still seem intimate. They’re performing “Islands,” the all-up-in-your-earness of their sweet-nothing vocals and minimalism is crushingly close, and the light show Jools’ techs set up for them makes it seem like they’re on a spaceship to eternal love…I am yours now… so I don’t ever have to leave is a perfect lyric, because it is basically how we feel about their music. And that is why we put them in our next issue, coming very soon. (via Theophilus)

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Stream: Copy, “Karate Eyes”

The last we remember of DJ Copy, FADER associate editor Sam Hockley Smith was talking about his Diva Mixtape, Vol.1 and mumbling something about BONE THUGS. Thankfully, Copy has resurfaced with a new track on an EP inspired entirely by Jesse Reiser’s novel Atlas of Novel Tectonics. Now we can enjoy electro-bleep accompaniment to our thoughts on “The Judo of Cold Combustion.” Stream the track on Gold Robot Records’ MySpace or pony up for some limited edition colored vinyl.

Stream Copy – “Karate Eyes”

Rachel Comey’s Rain or Shine Collection

New York Fashion Week officially starts tomorrow, but we got a smart and sartorially impeccable headstart this morning at Rachel Comey’s spring 2010 show. Comey opted to present her Rain or Shine collection way above the madness on a rooftop, and it literally felt like the heavens were about to pour down on Chelsea with every passing model. A partially cloudy sky was actually the perfect backdrop for the collection—Comey layered flirty, printed blouses and dresses under patterned cardigans and rain coats. These were definitely outfits that lent themselves to sunshine and/or showers, and let’s not forget the awesome all-weather Grace Coddington-inspired hair! In fact we counted at least four feminine reinventions of the rain coat (cropped, draped, wasp-waisted etc), which was strangely kind of a bummer, since these are the practical, lovely, rain or shine clothes we’ve been longing for all summer.

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Jeremy Scott’s Cartoon Savannah

Jeremy Scott’s first collection for Adidas, released earlier this year, was a glittery-gold selection of irresistibly cut (wearable) harem pants, sequins, sporty fringed tanks and coveted winged hightops. His next installment abandons his black-gold-and-silver, Studio 54 color palette for a hue explosion and elongation of the tribal streetwear trend pioneered by MIA and Cassette Playa. Leopard-spotted sweatshirts, global mapped bodycon dresses and “tribal mask”-printed, exposed-pocket track suits all make appearances in this eminently watchable video collaboration with the video director Nabil. Appropriately, The Very Best, Esau Mwamwaya, MIA and Santigold soundtrack the trampoliney splashing around his collection apparently demands.

The XX, “Do You Mind” (Kyla Cover) MP3

Our British coworker just said “I love the way you say ‘lamps.’ LAYMPS! Americans are hilarious!” Over here in the New York homeland, we’ve done our best to observe and participate in the mystic culture of the UK, squinting in the dark, as fascinated by its unknowable ways as much as we are by LA, whose ways we may be able to understand but often try to pretend don’t exist. Though there has always been a bounty of music from the UK, dance music has always been its strongest pull, the cycle of “chavs” partying to some different big beat always tempting from the other side of the screen on the other side of the Atlantic. UK funky has taken a particularly strong hold on our brains. Kyla’s “Do You Mind,” despite its year old status (ten thousand internet years) is still our personal anthem, even if we’ve only ever heard it played in public once. The XX, who you may have noticed we like, have been successful in pulling the weight out of dance music, leaving just its trace in the air. Professed R&B lovers, and Brits, they’re apparently similarly smitten with “Do You Mind” and have covered the song, reducing it with their typical sullen bareness. And, just to be clever British assholes, the band uses live drums for the first time, abandoning their trusty drum machine the one time it would make perfect sense. That’s what British humor is all about, we think. We’re not sure, though, Fawlty Towers only made sense to us like a third of the time.



Download: The xx, “Do You Mind” (via Scott Wright, a British guy)

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