Summertime Clothes / Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion has been trumpeted about the past five months as one of the best albums of the year. And it is. And it will be in another six months when the lists are made. The album's most accessible track is being released July 7 with three new remixes. That may convert the few non-believers to the Animal Collective camp. If that doesn't do the trick, there's always the single's new video, featuring people in bubbles and enough technicolor trippiness to induce flashbacks to that one time you went camping and had the "special" stuffed mushrooms.
Sacred Trickster / Sonic Youth
The video for Sonic Youth's first single from The Eternal cribs from Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 cinematic masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers. Check out the following two parts from the movie here and here and you'll see what I mean. It's an updated version, overtly inspired by the film's use of femme fatales and handbags, though the outcome is Smurftastically tweaked.
The '59 Sound / The Gaslight Anthem
A new (ish) video for an old song. Earnest, yet rocking, in its 'Boardwalk sentimentality' and Springsteen-esque narrative, "The '59 Sound" ended up at #9 on The Mixtape's Top 100 of 2008. The Gaslight Anthem has released a second video for the title track of their 2008 sophomore album - the one eMusic dubbed the best album of the year. The new clip is a performance-only take on the original narrative/perfomance combination video released last summer. The new version lets the band kick out the jams in someone's living room and, without any conceptual images, lets the lyrics do their work.
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