Video Round Up: Esben & The Witch / Worriedaboutsatan

A quick look at some recent visual treats, featuring two Sonic Minefield favourites: Esben & The Witch and Worriedaboutsatan. They both hauntingly beautiful in their own way.

Esben & The Witch - Lucia, At The Precipice




Brilliant young Brighton based band make their video debut with a ghostly little number. They’re currently on tour supporting some big names in indie land so if you don’t know get to know.

http://www.esbenandthewitch.co.uk/


Worriedaboutsatan – Heart Monitor: Teaser I/II

Heart Monitor teaser from worriedaboutsatan on Vimeo.

heart monitor teaser II from worriedaboutsatan on Vimeo.

Leeds duo Worriedabotsatan drop a couple of cryptic teasers for the forthcoming single Heart Monitor. They’re currently readying their tour with the wonderful Her Name Is Calla.

http://www.worriedaboutsatan.co.uk/

Video: Polar Bear - A New Morning Will Come [Leaf]

Just a quick heads up: Polar Bear release their fourth album entitled ‘Peepers’ on March 1st 2010 via Leaf and I can tell you it’s sounding brilliant, but more on that later. For now check out the video for ‘A New Morning Will Come’.

Polar Bear - A New Morning Will Come from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5j2LK1ses
http://www.myspace.com/sebastianrochford
http://www.polarbearmusic.com
http://www.theleaflabel.com/polarbear

Trim Freestyle

This is fucked, Trim slays it with Obese on a sick beat this is wetting my appetite for his forthcoming mixtape Monkey Features Vol.1 (See interview).

Listen to Plastician with Nomad, Trim and Obese on Rinse FM the other night, here (Right Click Save As).

http://www.myspace.com/trimbale

Mimas – Cats On Fire (Video)

Some more Big Scary Monster news for you, do they ever stop, with the wicked music?

Nope…

Fresh from their tour of the UK, the lovely Danes, Mimas, have just unveiled their video for 'Cats On Fire', featuring sock puppet sex, violence and bank robberies! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGLVDbYx_jo - The song is taken from 'The Worries', which is released on October 6th via Big Scary Monsters Records. The album can currently be pre-ordered for a low-price of just £7 from www.bsmrocks.com

You have to love the video, I’m not a hardcore sock sex fan or anything but this gives me a tingle I didn’t know existed.

Dusk & Blackdown – Margins Music Video

Keysound Video presents... Dusk + Blackdown: Margins Music from Keysoundrecordings on Vimeo.

Ratatat – LP3

Ratatat’s music remind me of the theme tune to Monkey you know Monkey Magic… with the Magical Man Monkey going on mad adventures in a Chinese style, but also crossed with a kind of sci-fi-dub cowboy theme to it as well. Ratatat are an electro guitar instrumental group from Brookline and with their third album the imaginatively named LP3 they bring some tasty beats. The sound is pretty retro and verging on the hip-hop at times, I believe they do a lot of remixes for a broad spectrum of artists in that genre and more. In-fact they even get people to remix them too, a while host of artists are going to be remixing tracks off LP3 such as, Animal Collective, YACHT and Zongamin being my choice picks.

LP3 has a distinct air of long lost TV themes to mad 80s sci-fi programs, maybe some of which that never saw the light of day apart from in the minds of Ratatat. They are all very enjoyable though, as you can pretend to be a space cowboy or magical monkey man while you have it playing and that surly cannot be a bad thing. I am however finding it hard to pick a track that really stands out as a absolute beast. This could either mean the whole album is solid and ace or that its all a bit weak, I’m as yet undecided. Over all LP3 is a lot of fun so well done Ratatat there. Something about their hip-hop leanings remind me of the Neptune’s productions, well a New York Hipster version of it anyway. Check out the very enjoyable video for single Mirando bellow and make your own mind up.