re:2010

Record of the Year :: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD)

"Round and Round"



----Honorable Mention

• Women - Public Strain (Flemish Eye/Jagjaguwar)
  

"Eyesore"

• Toro Y Moi - Causers of This (Carpark)
  

"Talamak"


Song of the Year :: The Books - "A Cold Freezin' Night" (The Way Out)



----Honorable mention

• Toro Y Moi - "Causers of This" (Causers of This)

• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Beverly Kills" (Before Today)

Video of the Year :: Caribou - "Sun" (dir. Simon Owens)



----Honorable Mention

• Hot Chip - "I Feel Better" (dir.
  Pe­ter Ser­afi­now­icz)

• Beach House - "Walk in the Park" (dir. Allen Cordell)

Live Performance of the Year :: Foals - "Total Life Forever" at Live De Semaine



----Honorable Mention

• Atlas Sound - "Walkabout"/"Please Come Home" on Cemetery Gates

• Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill"/"Ephemeral Artery" on Fallon

new song: the books - beautiful people

It's backwards and reverbed, but the harmony that opens "Beautiful People," the new track by collage maestros the Books, is unmistakably theirs. They're following up 2005's stunning Lost and Safe with The Way Out, coming in July from their new label Temporary Residence.

Perhaps catching some of the tropical sounds floating around their native NYC lately, the drums are a bit swingier than we're used to hearing from them, and the hazy wavy synth stuff going on sorta takes me away to, like, a planet where astrophilosophizers shout their mad revelations to the heavens under a sky with three moons. And surfers. With jetpacks.

I forgot where I was going with this.

mp3->The Books - Beautiful People (from The Way Out, out July on Temporary Residence)

(via p4k)

mp3: New Field Music - Measure

I admit I am laughably late to the Field Music party. Despite links to my beloved Futureheads and the half-remembered knowledge that one of these dudes is School of Language, I managed to sleep on what's probably the most straightforwardly delightful English pop band since, well, the Futureheads.



But, I digress and plug. Rumors of their demise being greatly exaggerated, the brothers Brewis are back (minus third player Andrew Moore) with another self titled record, Field Music (Measure) and are offering up the title track, which you could be forgiven for mistaking for the Books until Peter's warm, familiar English everyaccent swoops in.

mp3-> Field Music - Measure [from Field Music (Measure), out 2/15 on Memphis Industries]

[Download at RCRD LBL]

And, in case you missed it back in December (I did), here's the excellent video for the equally excellent first single off (Measure), "Them that Do Nothing."

Video: New Books - A Cold Freezing Night Live

Here's a new Books track, supposedly made from old secondhand Talkboy tapes.

I uh.

I don't even know.