Put on your bathing suit, lets dive
Into the deep ends of our mind
Our memories remain dry
And we are strangers in the night
Slightly reminiscent of Grimes, enigmatic electropop duo Cash+David say they make their music when called upon by the mothership, and that's how the 4-song EP Side 1 came about. Oookaay. However it happened, I enjoy listening to the kind of lonely, clunky, electronic chill of this track.
You claw, you fight, you lose
Got a doll that looks just like you
Remember when we used to say
"I love you" almost every day
I saw a light in you
Going out as I closed our window
You never liked me anyway
From gritty garage rock yesterday to Grimes, staying dirty but getting dancy for your Friday night. This song was her biggest hit off of Art Angels, which is not my favorite Grimes album overall, but still delightfully weird. I got to see her right up close, in the pit of the Blue Stage at (looks like the final) Fun Fun Fun last year. Her new album dropped that same weekend and I hadn't heard it yet, making her set feel a little different than I expected but still a blast.
Side note: I missed Neon Indian's set just before Grimes at FFF and then missed them again at SXSW (following which he seemed to indicate possible retirement of the band), so I'm pretty stoked to be seeing them in a couple weeks, at a show presented by the people behind FFF who are now putting on a fest called SOS (Sound on Sound). Woo!
I'm in Tokyo and it's slow
Sipping gin on the way home
Still hungover from the city bar
I'm sitting pretty 'cuz I got this far
Trying hard just to feel right
Flying higher in the sky
Tell me it's gonna be alright
And you dream this is real life
Over a million happy listens of this track on Spotify, but still no EP from Sydney duo Islandis. It was promised to arrive "in 2016" and they're still active on Twitter, so if you like what you hear, keep your eyes and ears open for more coming soon. I've been holding this song in my queue, waiting for the EP, but decided to share it today because of the title... As previously mentioned, Keith and I are in our hometown this weekend! So fun.
