March 11th, 2012 / 4:25 pm
 Music & Roundup

Music x 3: Xiu Xiu, Pissed Jeans, Beach House, The Magnetic Fields

1. Xiu Xiu has a new album out (Always); the video for the lead single, “Hi,” is pretty great:

2. It is not, however, as great as the video for Pissed Jeans’s “False Jesii Part 2,” which I only recently discovered:

3. The new Beach House single, “Myth,” is a secret cover of “Eyes Without a Face.”

4. Stephin Merritt, may I suggest the formal constraint for your next album?

NO END RHYMES.

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7 Comments

  1. March 11th, 2012 / 5:22 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—
  2. March 11th, 2012 / 5:54 pm A D Jameson—

       Music is so great.

  3. March 11th, 2012 / 9:02 pm Anonymous—

      3. I’d say it’s a not-so-secret cover of Eyes Without a Face. Either way, dreamy good.

  4. March 11th, 2012 / 11:06 pm A D Jameson—

      Yeah, the more I listen to it, the more obvious it gets. Although I don’t think they say it anywhere…? But as I typed “secret cover” was thinking, “there’s got to be a better term for that than this.” Unacknowledged cover? Unofficial cover?

  5. March 11th, 2012 / 11:06 pm A D Jameson—

      I like it, btw. Though not as much as “Eyes Without a Face,” which is such a classic…

  6. March 12th, 2012 / 4:34 am Anonymous—

      I like the end rhymes.

  7. March 15th, 2012 / 12:13 am Dave K.—

      Pissed Jeans rules, and one of them used to be a professional wrestler in the Philly area.