Making springtime music is a delicate art: songs need to evoke the buoyancy of green leaves, budding flowers, and a newborn sun, without flaring up with 100-degree heat, poolside dancing, and scorching barbecues. A perfect springtime song will be happy, sure, and announce the summer craze; but it's got to retain just enough melancholy - or, at the very least, restraint - to suit the last cold and rainy days of the season (writing from France here - apparently NOT Massachusetts).
Call it coincidence, or perhaps special inclinations on the part of bloggers and critics, but there've been a lot of excellent springtime songs circulating around the internet lately. Actually, all the songs I'm about to review in this post and in the following have already been featured on countless blogs and other Pitchfork-y derivates (that's where I got them, duh). Probably even better reviewed. No matter, though, I feel like indulging in the springtime frolic, even vicariously, from behind my computer, in my dark Parisian apartment. Gotta give me that.
Enigmatic production duo Javelin were responsible for "Vibrationz," last summer's shiniest piece of retro groove, and rightfully voted one of 2010's most promising acts by Pitchfork readers in December. Newer tracks are floating all around right now, some super weird ("Oh Centra!" and its over-pitched rap…), others just ridiculously cool, and all warmly recommended. I have a personal crush on "Lindsay Brohan": it's sunny, and, like "Vibrationz," has this unbeatable blend of laid-back groove and sharp, glossy synths - guaranteed to win over even the toughest of skeptics. Beyond its hardy-har title and its hilarious vocal samples, what makes "Lindsay…" awesome are its choppy, sluggish beat and hazy synth/guitar jingles. Like the brainless trickster kid sampled at the beginning of the song says it, "It's kind of silly if you ask me, but what the heck." Well, personally, I just wanna high-five him and his long-haired bros, and go get myself a beer.
FC
Hear/Download "Lindsay Brohan" and "Vibrationz" (via Everybody Taste)
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