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Ratatat, starring in Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2: The Fourth Kind
Four Tet. What, you expected something human?
Couch, trying hard not to jinx it
The Album Leaf in Europe, photo by Paul Drake, 2005
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Listen to “Desencadenado” on MySpace.
Nuuro, photo by Toni François of tono.tv
Okay, sure, the cliche warped vocals would come across differently in English, but in Spanish, they’re charming! And Nuuro’s “Desencadenado” has some maximum catchiness going on. Don’t leave the song until you here the drop-out section with the high notes, as well as the short break of 1990s Nintendo game-sounding tones.
Listen to “Vid erum met kort af pianoini” on MySpace.
Mum, surrounded by lamps
Mum is good at throwing in that one last thing that sells you. In “Vid erum met kort af pianoini” (from Finally We Are No One), it’s that chilling piano that comes in pretty early in the song. But then, it goes away and there’s other stuff to listen to. And then just when you want it back, it comes back. Kind of like train tracks in your back yard.
Listen to “RIZE UP trumpet edit” on MySpace.
Lauren Flax in Norway
Lauren Flax drags an icepick across the room and makes it sound sweet. Lauren Flax converts cherries into C++ code snippets as if they were header files. Lauren Flax floats board games across seas of tigers. Lauren Flax exposes dynamic dynamicness as if it were inherently living within every object, every creature, and especially every track she spins.