AOTW - Regina Spektor, Handsome Furs, Suicide, Prefuse 73

My bad for not posting about music as regularly as I once did. ANYWAY, here's some stuff I've been listening to recently.

Both me and the missus really dig Regina Spektor. She looks like an awful lot like Fiona Apple (which isn't a bad thing at all ;p) but she has her own great sound. I especially like her lyrics. She writes those "super simple yet so perfect" lyrics. Her new album, far, will take me a few listens to really, really love because it doesn't have that fresh new sound that Begin To Hope had for me. far is still awesome though. I bought it on Friday when it came out and I've listened to it every day since then. Anyway, here's "Laughing With":



Next up, Handsome Furs. I won their latest album "Face Control" from RTR radio. YAY! This is a really catchy album. It's like this 1980s electro beat stuff with punk-ish guitar or something. The vocals are RIDICULOUSLY familiar, but I can't pick which 80s band they're trying to rip off. Anyway, it's really cool and makes me dance around the house like a little indy kid or something. Here's the video for "I'm Confused", in which the black oil spreads itself around a party so that all the partygoers will become hosts to alien life forms :P



Next up, Suicide. Check this out:



The whole album sounds like this. It's this sweet electro punky duo. I was told about this band late last year, but it took me a while to find any of their stuff. I'm glad I did. This is cool. I feel like I've missed out on something huge not hearing these guys sooner. I've got their first self-titled album which came out in 1977 and as far as I know they're still going strong. Here's another track:



Awesome. Okay, next.

The latest album from Prefuse 73 is another wanky electro thing that I realy like. The album is called "Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian" and the cover looks like this:



I think that pretty much says it all. It has little moments that you can latch onto and dig, but then they are quickly taken away and replaced with all new moments. It's impossible to get bored with this album. I don't think it's one of those crazy jittery changing albums either. Grooves are held just long enough to get something from and hear and understand and then BAM! something different, like so:



...and that is all.

jej