video: Narrow Sparrow - "Joe Meek's Dream"

Narrow Sparrow - Joe Meek's Dream (Music Video) from Richard Portillo on Vimeo.

Unrestrained "bizarro pop" from Chicago's Narrow Sparrow.  Fuzzy as a wool sweater and as angst-filled as anything on In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.  Expect this on 7" soon. 

Full disclosure: band member Ricky Portillo and this writer are good friends. Song rules either way.

Memory Tapes - "Today Is Our Life" (Video)

Memory Tapes : "Today Is Our Life" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

Here's the video accompaniment to the new Memory Tapes song that dropped yesterday.

Memory Tapes - Today Is Our Life

Memory Tapes on Blogger / Facebook / Twitter

RxRy - Alpha (Coming May 2011)

Something's afoot from dream-state drown-step artist RxRy.  The artist's blog features five new teaser videos and a promise for something by the name of Alpha, to arrive this year.  A fourth full-length?  A new EP?  An audio-visual album a la Animal Collective's "Oddsac"?  Only time will tell.  The sounds showcased in the following teaser videos are the most sonically saturated we've heard from RxRy.  It's early, and the audio snippets are short, but they may also be the most promising yet. 

EDIT: Alpha is a "microLP/megaEP," originally released as a free download, now set for release on vinyl this May.  Read more here.


A | RxRy | 1 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


L | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


P | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


H | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.


A.2 | RxRy | 2011 from Rx Ry on Vimeo.
 
RxRy on Blogger / SoundCloud / Vimeo

RxRy - "Aertigo Lapsees" Video

RxRy: Aertgo Lapsees from Ezra Ewen on Vimeo.

RxRy just posted an Ezra Ewen-directed video for "Aertigo Lapsees," one of the many standout tracks from his Ω album.  The video doesn't feature trains, as the song seems to, but it is filmed in dark basement with a shrouded figure tinkering around on an old piano and getting sucked into a TV as well as stock footage of space exploration.  So it matches the song's swirling grayish atmosphere well.  Recommended viewing.

(via RxRy's Blog)