Slow Animal band [Video] Slow Animal: theFUNsun

If you missed hearing Slow Animal on IGIF’s mpFree series a few months ago, you could watch their new video for “theFUNsun” and quickly figure ‘em out. Slow Animal are two dudes from New Jersey who love playing sloppy guitar rock, full of fuzz and garage grime. They just released a limited edition 7″ of the track with b-side “Saturday Mourning” you can snag here (only 80 copies left). Check out the messy, reverse/forward slow animation video for “theFUNsun” below.

Click to watch the full video and download the MP3

tennis whp screen [Premiere] Tennis: Bimini Bay (The Wild Honey Pie BUZZsession)

IGIF teamed up with The Wild Honey Pie to premiere their latest BUZZsession for the über-hyped new band Tennis (to be completely honest, tWhp did everything and then invited us to co-premiere it with them– IGIF just sat there looking really good). The tWhp crew hooked up with the Denver, CO, trio to record a wonderful little acoustic version of a new song called “Bimini Bay”. Check it out, along with the MP3, after the jump…

Click to listen to the MP3 and watch the full video

CSLSX [MP3] CSLSX: Futuretapes + We Ought To Be Together (Video)
CSLSX are a mysterious collective with a bleak MySpace featuring a few songs and less information than a can of Spam’s nutritional facts. Their official website is even more mysterious, playing on the ever familiar customer service prompts we’ve all endured at some point or the other (it’s a clever way to have your song heard nonetheless). After some digging and emailing, I managed to find out some new information about this experimental group. Based in Philadelphia, CSLSX have satellite members across the United States, as well as, Budapest, Paris, and London, currently. They trade music, musical projects, philosophy and gift each other with criticism. It’s hard to criticize something as lustrous and lovable as “Futuretapes” though:

[MP3] CSLSXFuturetapes

This song is so glossy, I’m not sure if I should be smiling while I drive down the highway with my hand stretched out the window, surfing the wind or if I should be spiraling down a rabbit hole full of watercolors and neon confetti. Everything works well together – the keys, looped beats, and celestial synths – all embellish vocoder vocals that shift toward the end of the song when a female takes over and totally turns the track in a new direction.

Below you’ll find another track titled “We Ought To Be Together” they just released the other day. Accompanying the MP3 is a trippy video that’s definitely inspired by acid and a super extra double rainbow.

Click to watch the full video and download the MP3

Posted By Nathaniel at

FILED: CSLSX, MP3

The Pass video [Video] The Pass: Vultures
Fellow Kentuckian blogger Zach over at We Listen For You likes to dabble in the realm of film now and again, as some of you have seen before. Helping Louisville-local band The Pass get their feet off the ground, Zach came up with a clever little video that’s sure to get the attention of at least 30 blogs. Why 30 of them? Well, the video was filmed during a house party where some of the patrons helped act out visual references to tons of blogs – some are easy to spot and others are trickier. Since David Blaine wasn’t on hand to do some freaky levitating, IGIF had a hard time being represented but Zach was sure to use IGIF as coy example of what to look for. See if you can spot ‘em all and if you can, drop We Listen For You a line to win a $50 gift card to Insound.

Click to watch the full video

l 3bb977e3290a47eb9f746ee143c2f07b [mpFree] Computer Magics <em>Hiding From Our Time</em> EP

Tropicrunk. Wizardwave. Post-Acidglow. Narniapop. Sc▲recrow.house. Whatevercore. Making up genre names is easy, and it’s even easier to apply these names to bands instead of thinking of legit and interesting ways of describing their music. Maybe some of them want to be associated with chillwave or witch house because that’s the name of the game these days, and that’s fine. But no one should want to be in a chillwave band, or to be a chillwave artist. Artists and musicians should really aspire not to fall into easily identifiable, bite-sized genre categories… at the very least they should make it difficult for journalists and bloggers to do their jobs.

[MP3] Computer MagicElectronic Fences

It’s nice to see that Computer Magic doesn’t pimp herself as a chillwaver. Nor does she try to be witch housey, even though the intro melody of the EP’s title track is scarier and more witchy than anything from the witch house ¢®∑\/√. Danz (as she’s known) seems to make music using all sorts of found sounds and samples, basically anything she can turn into a beat. Her vocals are a bit apathetic but the distant reverb doesn’t help make her sound any more present. This doesn’t take away from her charm, though, which still manages to permeate from beneath the dense electronics on each of the EP’s seven songs.

If you like what you hear you can download the full EP for free here.