Got damn – I said GOTDAYUM! Mount Kimbie’s “Made to Stray” got my attention with a minimal beat lead-in, then spreads the love out to some Afro-Cuban vibing – culminating in a sound I usually associate with Hot Chip:
You can grab a free download of this banger at Mount Kimbie’s site.
How did it get to be mid-February and I’m just finding my first band crush of 2013? Whyyousoslow2013?
Major hat tip to Stereogum for introducing me to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs meets The Kills & Band of Skulls sounds of Slander. “Magnets” is the perfect song to score any late-night film scene where two slightly dirty but intensely hot characters decide they can’t keep it in their pants any longer and have sex in the dark corners of a bar and/or the bar’s bathroom. “Ghosts” is for the awkward morning/week/month montage of emotions that starts the morning after.
Enjoy:
File this one under: Unpolished for the times your ears need something a little weird, unexpected and curiously loveable.
Synthy, sexy and in my ears now:
I just peed. Not a little, but a lot. JUSTINTIMEFORMYBIRTHDAY!!!! Getting my Karen O-face ready to be rocked.
Chubby Jones 