Chris Recommends: July 2008

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7.11.2008

Top Ranking Santogold: A Diplo Dub

Thank god, Diplo's finally out of the rave cave and back to what, in my opinion, he does best: raps and weird blends. Top Ranking Santogold is, as far as I can tell, designed to be the Piracy Funds Terrorism to Santogold's MIA (Sorry on to pile on with the unfair MIA comparisons, but bringing Diplo into the picture makes it hard to resist). Anyways, it's shit like this that makes me remember why I used to love Diplo so much. Soundtrack for the summer? Quite possibly.

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Posted by Chris at 2:04 PM permalink

7.10.2008

LP3 by Ratatat

Ratatat have been one of my favorite acts since I was in ~~high school~~ my freshman year of college (god, that long ago!?), so I was naturally looking forward to their third proper full length. At first I liked it, and was then disappointed (sometimes it feels a bit incomplete, sketches rather than songs), but now it's grown on me a bit. Enough, at least, to get the ol' recommendation. It continues with the huge multi-instrumental sound that they developed with Classics, with a distinctly more tropical/latin feel than the last one. Judging by some of the song titles I think that maybe they went on vacation to Mexico and just got really into whatever village they stayed in. Anyways, they keep teasing that LP4 is right around the corner so let's hope that's not just malarkey. Check out "Falcon Jab" from the album in the link below.

Oh PS - Ratatat.com is amazing. At first I thought it was a joke created by the band, but it looks like an actual legitimate website for a family in Milwaukee.

Ratatat - Falcon Jab
Ratatat on Myspace

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Posted by Chris at 11:09 AM permalink

7.07.2008

Revisiting Joanna Newsom's Ys

About a year and a half ago this was my big Winter album, and it's still great for snowy nights. However, tonight, paired with the hum of the window A/C, it's doing the trick quite nicely.

Labels: Music, Summertime

Posted by Chris at 10:31 PM permalink

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NEWS/EVENTS MUSIC BIO/CONTACT SMOKE SIGNALS CHRIS RECOMMENDS FACEBOOK MYSPACE	7.11.2008 Top Ranking Santogold: A Diplo Dub Thank god, Diplo's finally out of the rave cave and back to what, in my opinion, he does best: raps and weird blends. Top Ranking Santogold is, as far as I can tell, designed to be the Piracy Funds Terrorism to Santogold's MIA (Sorry on to pile on with the unfair MIA comparisons, but bringing Diplo into the picture makes it hard to resist). Anyways, it's shit like this that makes me remember why I used to love Diplo so much. Soundtrack for the summer? Quite possibly. Labels: Music Posted by Chris at 2:04 PM permalink 7.10.2008 LP3 by Ratatat Ratatat have been one of my favorite acts since I was in ~~high school~~ my freshman year of college (god, that long ago!?), so I was naturally looking forward to their third proper full length. At first I liked it, and was then disappointed (sometimes it feels a bit incomplete, sketches rather than songs), but now it's grown on me a bit. Enough, at least, to get the ol' recommendation. It continues with the huge multi-instrumental sound that they developed with Classics, with a distinctly more tropical/latin feel than the last one. Judging by some of the song titles I think that maybe they went on vacation to Mexico and just got really into whatever village they stayed in. Anyways, they keep teasing that LP4 is right around the corner so let's hope that's not just malarkey. Check out "Falcon Jab" from the album in the link below. Oh PS - Ratatat.com is amazing. At first I thought it was a joke created by the band, but it looks like an actual legitimate website for a family in Milwaukee. Ratatat - Falcon Jab Ratatat on Myspace Labels: Music Posted by Chris at 11:09 AM permalink 7.07.2008 Revisiting Joanna Newsom's Ys About a year and a half ago this was my big Winter album, and it's still great for snowy nights. However, tonight, paired with the hum of the window A/C, it's doing the trick quite nicely. Labels: Music, Summertime Posted by Chris at 10:31 PM permalink	SYNDICATION! Click Here for the RSS Feed ARCHIVES February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009