I almost feel bad reblogging tracks I heard today on Pitchfork, only because everybody reads Pitchfork. It’s a little bandwagoney, a little me-tooey. Maybe it’s completely unnecessary. But then again, maybe you just skim and didn’t hear the same two tracks of red-hot madness I’ve been jamming to all day.
First, Flying Lotus has a new album coming out relatively soon. If you read this blog regularly you know we’ve got a raging hard-on for FlyLo, the Squarepusher of the Obama era. The track, ‘Computer Face / Pure Being,’ is dense and bright and fast and almost baroque, and that four-note hook keeps circling around higher and higher, pulling you up into the air like a disco tornado. It’s really damn good. You can download it here.
Next, we’ve got Janelle Monáe. I hadn’t heard her before today, but I don’t think I’m obligated to have had done so, since she’s only had an EP or two so far. Her debut album come out in May, but we’ve got this single from her to tide us over until then. It’s called ‘Tightrope’ and it features Big Boi and it’s crazy, isn’t it? Her voice is a little like a young Michael Jackson’s and she’s packed so many fabulous ideas into this song it makes me despair of ever writing one. The Big Boi feature makes a lot of sense, as she’s as high-concept and artistically fashionable as Andre 3000. She’s going to be huge, absolutely huge, and I hope ‘Tightrope’ becomes the next ‘Hey-Ya.’ Maybe you didn’t hear it here first you certainly are about to hear it here. You can also download this track from right here, homeboy.
Flying Lotus – “Computer Face / Pure Being”
Janelle Monáe – “Tightrope (f. Big Boi)”
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Comments ( 3 )
yes sir added these pithy words on Feb 25 10 at 10:34 ami hope people buy steven’s new album and don’t just steal it from the internet. he worked hard.
Paul A. Gibson added these pithy words on Feb 25 10 at 11:34 amAgreed. He’s a brilliant musician and he should be rewarded for it. It feels a little odd to post a track from an album not set to come out for a few months yet, but that’s what’s going around these days. I hope it sends the right message, i.e., “holy shit I can’t wait for this to drop.”
Osman added these pithy words on Feb 26 10 at 12:49 amYou actually should have already heard about her eventhough she only has about 2 LP’s haha
But not too much, there were only 3/4 songs of her earlier that were making the blogs… They were pretty good actually, I’ll try to find them…
