Videos of the Week

Here are the latest videos that are intriguing me.



What I love about St. Vincent is how her songs have lovely, pretty melodies and seem very happy, and yet the lyrics have hidden meanings and depths which subvert the initial impression. Once you figure out the key to her songs, you never look at them the same way.



Live performance from one of my current favorite bands, The Twilight Sad. I love the singer's Scottish brogue. His lyrics are still way too personal and inscrutable to really know what he is singing about, but you feel and understand the emotion. I am upset that I missed their live show here. I didn't even know about it and it was a block away. Oh well, I am going to the Coachella festival next year and am hoping they will be there.



Another amazing song from the new album from Mew. Odd video that feels like a Bergman movie. This is one of my favorite songs on the album. It has a propulsive beat and amazing chorus. Hard to get it out of your head.



You will never look at Miss Piggy the same way again.



Absolutely bizarre video from Royksopp featuring Fever Ray. Karin Dreijer Andersson lends her otherworldly vocals to this crazy song.



I think David Sylvian works best when he goes for broke. His cd Blemish is one of the most gut wrenching cds I have ever heard. When he plumbs the depths of his feelings he comes up with something true and raw. His new release Manafon is another brilliant cd like Blemish. Lead single "Small Metal Gods" features the brilliant guitarist Fennenz.



Haunting David Lynchian video for Thom Yorke's cover of a wonderful Miracle Legion song. It is from an amazing compilation called Ciao My Shining Star, which benefits Mark Mulcahy, lead singer of Miracle Legion, whose wife died suddenly and left him with two small children to raise.



My favorite song off the new Editors cd. New electronic direction for the band that suits them.



The XX have probably my favorite cd of the year. I can't stop listening to it. Here is a live performance of brilliant song "Islands." They are playing here in Atlanta next month at a club about the size of my loft. I am so excited to see them.



So stylish and so cool. There is not one new wave/synth pop band from the 80s that does not owe a huge debt of gratitude to this band.