unpiano: music

I’m not even going to speak on this one. The video is enough.

Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction

Oh man, the new Les Savy Fav album is so good. I’ve been keeping an eye on them for a while, but to be honest all the last albums sort of disappointed me so I never really spent much time on listening. I don’t know how the new album differs (which is why I shouldn’t have a music blog) from the old stuff, I think it might be a stronger effort on song writing. The hooks are catchy as hell and it’s less ’screamy’ then the last stuff.. I think I’ll use that word “accessible” again. Anyways, my birthday was a couple of weeks ago and I bought this album just to play at The Attic for the occasion. It totally made my night.

Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
Les Savy Fav - The Lowest Bitter
Les Savy Fav - Kiss Kiss Is Getting Old
Les Savy Fav - Scotchgaurd The Credit Card

I remember hearing The Teenagers’ ‘Starlett Johansson’ a while back and then forgot about them until my friend recently posted another one of their songs. I think I like them because they’re dirty, but not in Peaches sort of way. It’s more of a nonchalant European way of being dirty that I find very endearing. Plus some of their hooks are catchy as fuck, and you know how I feel about pop music. They are playing during January in San Francisco and I think I’m going to go. Probably not though, I’ll forget about it for sure.

The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole
The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson
The Teenagers - Homecoming

Bonus:
The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole (Detect Remix)
The Teenagers - Fuck Nicole (SLUTTT Ketateen Remix)

I kept getting turned down by Hype Machine I think because my links never expire or something. Anyway, I finally emailed them and asked what the problem was and got it sorted out. You can now stream unpiano postings like radio on Hype Machine by clicking below.

http://hypem.com/list/3002

The only things I know about The Mantles is that they are from San Francisco and that they make pop music the way I like it. Fuzzy, reverby and why don’t you throw in a hint of garagey 60’s psych while you’re at it? Kind of reminds me of the first Outrageous Cherry record I liked so much. Here’s a track off their new (first?) 7″ on Dulc-I-Tone. Limited with a hand-screened cover.. get ‘em before they’re gone.

The Mantles - Trouble In The Streets

90’s Sacramento legends Nar have a muddy history, peppered with drunkeness, laziness, line-up changes, false starts, tours and records that never happened and other disasters typical of the area. But one thing is for certain and that is Scott Miller (the “other” Scott Miller, not the dude from Game Theory) can write a catchy fucking pop song. The on-and-off-again trio recorded a heaping pile of songs from ‘90-97, releasing a handful of 7″ singles and compilation tracks that are all pretty much long gone. Sloppy punkish pop (not pop-punk) with an ear towards the bouncing playfulness and wit of the Television Personalities. Members of Nar have reappeared in like-minded projects such as Bright Ideas, Ski Instructors and the brand new and yet unrecorded English Singles.

Nar - Holiday Routine
Nar - Tradewinds
Nar - Right Idea

The new Thurston Moore record is pretty well done. He gets all acoustic which is a nice change and the songs have very minimal noise in them which makes them very ‘accessible’ - to steal a phrase from a friend. Noise rock has never been my thing, (see all of Mark’s posts) but I have always wanted to like Thurston’s stuff as opposed to just respecting it. Now I do. Granted this record sounds like it was written at the same time as Sonic Youth’s Rather Ripped, but I like that album so that means I like these songs too I guess. I just wouldn’t recommend listening to the two albums back to back though if you know what I mean. Do You? Sometimes I wonder.

Thurston Moore - The Shape Is In A Trance
Thurston Moore - Off Work
Thurston Moore - Wonderful Witches