Posted on 27 April 2009
Canadian songstress Serena Ryder’s had a productive decade, releasing four albums and three EPs of original material, alongside working as a lead vocalist on this year’s Great Lake Swimmers LP Lost Channels, since debuting in 1999. She’s marking ten years in the recorded-music business with a fittingly far-flung four-track covers EP, filtering Kylie Minogue, Jordin Sparks, Hank Williams, and here Ben Bridwell through her formidable pipes. The drifting, easy listening arrangement of BoH signature jam “The Funeral” is pretty low key, stripping the song of its ampitheater-ready dynamic climax, leaving just her voice to do the heavy lifting (not necessarily a bad thing when your voice sounds like Serena’s). So while it makes for some Triple A styled listening, it’s also emotionally custom-tailed to soundtrack a teen soap’s season-ending montage (attention, Alexandra Patsavas).
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Posted on 27 April 2009
“Lisztomania,” the standout single from Phoenix’s forthcoming fourth LP, is certainly ripe for remixing, and finally an official one has surfaced. In re-imagining the synthrock song for a chill discothèque LA DJ duo Classixx cut out every undeniable guitar riff, so not surprising their version doesn’t hold a candle to the original. Still, it’s fun to hear “Lisztomania” in a new light, and you could say that Classixx succeed at making “Lisztomania” even more ’80s, no easy feat. A few weeks ago we heard thirty seconds of the remix soundtracking a viral video for Kitsuné (it birthed the screengrab above, in case you were wondering). The complete track can be found 6/2 on the French fashion label’s Maison 7 comp or right now on this French MP3 blog (HT GvsB). Also worth tracking down is the Phoenix-curated Kitsuné Tabloid, a compilation of songs that inspired the band. Here’s that tracklist:
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