Gigantic Hand - "SuAnne Big Crow". I wonder if you know this feeling: You're like a building with the foundations blown out, still upright but all the struts and supports weakened, all the everything ready to go, ready to collapse. You feel like that; hollow. You go down to the subway and stand on the platform feeling grey and paper-thin. The ventilation shushes. And then suddenly, thwackkkkkkk, a subway-car slams into the station, slaps into the station, flies past you volatile & violent and it's like you've just been shoved. You rock back on your heels and realise: I'm still standing. You take a breath. I'm still standing. // Anyway I wonder if you know this feeling. (I haven't felt it in a long time.) Gigantic Hand do. "SuAnne Big Crow" is a song of a hundred station-slams, a hundred heel-rocks, four shoves per bar. But you're still standing. [MySpace/buy in February]
Bobby Digital ft. Thea & Monk - "Drama (Spoolwork remix)". Dave Fischoff releases electro-folk music on Secretly Canadian and remixes songs by Jens Lekman and Radiohead as Spoolwork. But I like him best when he takes off his indie duds and makes beats that are practical, just tomato-red rad. Here he recalls Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life" (but happier) - transforming the RZA's "Drama" from classicism to hopscotch, cathedral to playgroup. [MySpace]
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My newest music article for McSweeney's is now online: a piece on the 2008 Pop Montreal festival.
Posted by Sean at November 24, 2008 10:09 AMI like the eclecticism of your choices. They rock and groove. They are complimentary. Perhaps it's the strong background beat.
Posted by marziparzi at November 24, 2008 5:50 PMAhh the RZA, so instrumental. But the point is, "At this particular junction in my life I can connect with the words of the aforesaid spoken words".
Posted by Christopher Paul at November 25, 2008 8:29 AMall of a sudden, I am awaiting the release of this album by a band I barely know anything about with more anticipation than christmas holidays.
Gigantic Hand, what a strange name and what a wonderful noise.
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
