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I finally am obsessing on some music that isn’t decade old hip hop! Phèdre’s LP dropped yesterday on Gorilla vs bear and you know I went straight to crankin’ it all day long.
I can’t get over how well this sort of Ariel Pink, Paul Banks, Atlas Sound smoothie that tastes great in my ears as this Seattle spring starts to rear with cold blown kisses from our coquettish sun.
A more autobiographical playlist than the ‘best songs released this year’ standard. This is a collection of tracks that, durring this past year, I’ve kept on loop cuz I dig on ‘em so well I almost broke my ear-shovels. Water ear-shovels? i dunno, I dig with ‘em.
There are tracks released this past year along side some older goodies that I’ve discovered as my tastes evolve and mature. The previous sentence might be the most boring sentence I’ve ever written….sorry, BossnotBossers.
Hey kids, here’s your small dose of some of my favorite albums this year. We’ll start off with Austra, givin’ us those crazy vocals and insane beats and end with Washed Out’s warbly, chill sound. Hope this sums up your year just like it has mine.
As for 2012, Bossnotboss looks forward to new changes, new friends, and new experiences. We’re almost ready to start working in our new studio, as it is shaping up to be quite an amazing chill and work zone. Hit us up via the comments or Facebook if you want to kick it in our new space! We are excited to let our friends do some bad-ass printing there with us :)
Happy New Year!
With 2011 winding down and all the “Best of” lists rolling out left and right, it only seems appropriate to follow suit and share one of my favorite albums of 2011, “The Unspeakable” from Chilly Gonzales AKA Canadian born-Paris based Jason Charles Beck.
For those unacquainted with Chilly Gonzales, he’s a piano virtuoso, an “Entertainist” (don’t call him an artist), Grammy nominated producer, weirdo rapper, Guinness world record holder for longest solo concert (27 hours 3 minutes), bathrobe and slippers aficionado, performer extraordinaire, and apparently my favorite musician to force on people when I’m drunk. You may recognize him as producer/writer/collaborator and all around BFF to fellow Canuck Feist.
“The Unspeakable” is Gonzo’s follow up to the incredible Boys Noize produced album “Ivory Tower” from last year (an album that also spawned an existentialist sports comedy film about chess and success and starring Gonzo himself, Tiga, and Peaches). Heralded as the World’s first orchestral rap album, “The Unspeakable” juxtaposes gorgeous orchestral movements with Gonz’s trademark whip smart, pun laced, left field, absurdist humor. He’s not lying when he states “Listen, it’s entertainment/But if you listen the genius is in the arrangement” and with deadpan comedic ingenuity like “I’m cult/if I wanted culture I’d eat a yogurt” and “I’m going through a difficult stage/From young Nicholas Cage to present day Nicholas Cage” you really can’t deny it when he labels himself “The Musical Genius.”
For a just-the-tip experience, check out the video medley for the album as well as the Tim and Eric-esque video for “Party In My Mind,”, and when your inevitable appetite for more arises, I highly recommend satiating yourself with his entire performance with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (via Youtube) to really see what the Gonz is capable of. For those of you who’d rather enjoy some come-down music after a long night, something to help you relax, or you just want to impress your friends without the trouble of actually knowing who Erik Satie is, go for Gonzales’s highly acclaimed 2004 record “Solo Piano”.
This has been the first post from our new contributor, Wyatt Carroll, who is yet another graphic design friend of ours with a unique style no simple man dare attempt to reiterate. He also has a mustache
This month’s mix is just a bunch of (mostly) newly acquired sounds by some cool kids. I based the feel of it off of Ladytron’s newest album which is super slick with new beautiful melodies and their classic electronic sound. Mostly lyric-less, which I sometimes enjoy because it helps me clear my head and not think about anything, or think about everything. But either way, I hope you enjoy it!
1. Grom by Moss of Aura
2. Quick Canal (w/Laetitia Sadier) by Atlas Sound
3. Magic Spells by Crystal Castles
4. Driverunserver by Kool DJ Dust
5. Aces High by Ladytron
6. Dark Bloom by Pink Playground
7. Disaronno Brain Feed by Betamaxx
8. Daydream by Youth Lagoon
9. Hours by Tycho
10. Puttgarden by The Embassy
11. Soft by Washed Out
These tracks are BOSS, no doubt. That said, I can’t stand this kids ginger voice slopping into my ears. I know you’re all starting to raise your finger at me, but I’m not racist; I had a ginger friend once in junior high, so that settles that matter.
Anyway, I must say that these tracks are helped by his dirty dirty ginger voice. For how much I dislike the voice, I need it to love these songs. Does that make sense? Does it have to? Did I mention this kid’s 17? Do you like paragraphs that end in several questions?
His self Titled EP just dropped this week so I strongly suggest running over to iTunes or your favorite torrent site and grabbing it. I suggest torrents but I don’t condone them. BnB logic is a fickle, fickle thing
ps. I’m also feelin this Metronomy remix :)
Over the past year, Kristian Garrard, whom you may recall from our Thousands interview as half of Thousands, has put together a few new tracks which you should probably be riding your bicycle in slow motion, through puddles and sunlight to.
The title of this 4-track album best describes it’s content. Yeah it’s super ambient, but I can’t help but feel it’s the sort of music you hear playing while you’re standing outside of a great beast’s den. As if there’s all this power and strength hiding within the sounds.
So enjoy a Thursday calm before a weekend storm and give these tracks a listen while you’re working on your crazy personal projects. It seems hard to imagine that a person couldn’t make something amazing while this is guiding their ears.
ps. most of the sounds are guitar! very cool.
BossnotBoss’s 2nd mix is a little more sensual than our last. The Sexy Mix is good for when words just aren’t enough. When body language is the only way of communicating. As though a simple caress carries more meaning with it than any recited sonnet ever could.
These are just a few of my favorite tracks to get it on to but I wanna know what some of yours are. Let us all know in the comments
So go off and get off with your favorite other on this sunny sunshine weekend in the park and put in a gyration for BossnotBoss :)
ps. If a little baby child is conceived to this mix and you decided to keep it, it’s initials have to be BNB, and it’s middle name has to be Not. So it is writen, so are the rules of the mix
pps. Yes, that BnB logo is real hair and makeup ;)
This band will be in my top three for the rest of my life. It’s weird knowing that you love a band so much, they can never be replaced by any future music finds, no matter how great. Partly it’s because they’ve been around so long they’re like a worn, unsupportive couch or an old family pet. They will always feel the same, no matter how outdated and used they are (note to self: condoms are not like these things–throw out the condoms).
Grandaddy. Sweet with your warm thought-out guitar rifts. Dark from your deep, methodical, incessant drumming. Your comforting, odd voice echoes in my head even after you are over. You make me feel close to nature and absolutely cold towards the technological world. You are underrated, understated, and terribly impecable. You hit the spot every time I listen to your entire musical history whenever I clean my apartment, even that stuff from ’92 which is so different from your later creative ventures. I will blast you through my speakers with the windows open. I have no shame when it comes to you. If you asked, I would wear my apron with nothing underneath.
I know that like most old band crushes, you might not like Grandaddy as much as I do. But listen to these tracks, which are so amazing, and give them the chance they never got to be recognized: Fuck The Valley Fudge, Summer It’s Gone, Shangri-La, At My Post, Jeez Louise, Rear View Mirror, Where I’m Anymore, Campershell Dreams, Wives Of Farmers, Lost On Yer Merry Way, and of course The Nature Anthem, my absolute favorite.
You may have caught our interview with Cock & Swan and, if you’re anything like me, you’ve fallen in love with them. Well they just threw another log on my love fire and I can’t wait to hear even more more more!
ps. you can grab more Cock & Swan on dandeliongold