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MONDAY MUSIC: ATOMS FOR PEACE

Monday, January 21, 2013

Atoms for Peace is the side project of a certain someone we tend to appreciate – whose new album is coming out in late February.

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MONDAY MUSIC: SUZANNE VEGA

Monday, January 14, 2013

Classics, old and new.

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MONDAY MUSIC: FRANÇOISE HARDY

Monday, January 7, 2013

Hearing by chance the addictive Träume in a store last year made me look into Françoise Hardy a little, which is well worth the time. And just as good a start as any for Monday Music into 2013.

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MONDAY MUSIC: FLYING LOTUS

Monday, December 17, 2012

All right, all right, so we featured Flying Lotus a few times on Monday Music, but is it our fault if he gets the best young directors around to produce his videos? This time set to three tracks of his brilliant new album Until the Quiet Comes, by one Kahlil Joseph of the artists’ collective [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: SIGUR RÓS

Monday, December 10, 2012

With the final track Leaning Towards Solace, Sigur Rós‘ series of videos for their new album Valtari comes to an end. An epic 12 minutes featuring Elle Fanning and John Hawkes and directed by goth diva Fiora Sigismundi, it’s worthy closing to what has probably been the most interesting and brave collaboration on visualising an [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: FLYING LOTUS

Monday, December 3, 2012

We can always do with a little Flying Lotus to get started on a Monday morning, especially when the video involves a one-armed Elijah Wood.

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MONDAY MUSIC: GRIMES

Monday, November 26, 2012

Okay, Grimes, whatever, but the video by one Emily Kai Bock is a real stunner, and here is a director to watch, having steadily risen to produce some of the best videos for independent outfits of late, including the mighty Grizzly Bear’s latest offering. Funny how someone can use the same ingredients as everyone else [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: KEATON HENSON

Monday, November 19, 2012

How is that for an emotional sucker punch on a Monday morning? Mr Keaton Henson’s Sweetheart, What Have You Done to Us? is easy to answer – well, you made us cry or you made us laugh, depending on your emotional state of mind right now, but anyone who can transform an (almost) entire video [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: RUDI ZYGADLO

Monday, November 12, 2012

Rudi Zygadlo’s summer album Tragicomedies has just joined my ‘Best of the Year’ list…

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MONDAY MUSIC: THE SEA AND CAKE

Monday, November 5, 2012

There’s nothing wrong with a little dreamy nostalgia when winter is right around the corner, so curtains up for The Sea and Cake’s latest, appropriately titled, erm, Harps.

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