Pretty Pretty & The Jump Jumps

If you're familiar with The Knife, you know Karin Dreijer Andersson as half of it. On her own, she just released a debut as Fever Ray, which you kids that like Portishead and Bjork should probably already be going apeshit over. Pretty much every blog I've seen it on has been taken down really quickly, so this will be an album I just recommend. While you hunt out a torrent, scope this video for "If I Had a Heart":

If I Had A Heart from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

I've got no idea how I missed this one, but apparently sometime in '05 two guys who go by DJ Cappel and Smitty came out with an album called Blue Eyes meets Bed Stuy which is A) a Biggie and Frank Sinatra mashup and B) dope. Head on over to Spymasta and cop that shit.


If you've not checked out one man hype-machine Wavves yet, the second psuedo-album, Wavvves, is something you should rock if you're into no-fi music with lyrics about: surfing, goths, and being totally bored. Something tells me this video isn't official, but it's Japanese as all hell and the song is rad. Download it from our friends at Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (which is one of the best-named blogs out there, after Pretty Pretty and the Jump Jumps).


And if you're in the mood for some whole other shit, the new Venetian Snares album "Filth" is noisy breakcore bliss. The kids over at nodata have it.

Heads up, my brief dissertation on my relationship with Kanye West is in the works.