Via Pitchfork, I came across these two fantastic new videos from The National, one of my favourite bands of recent years. They're from a French website and given France's love of Leonard Cohen, it seems natural that they would take to this band. With more of the same intriguing lyrics and subtle anthemics, it raises expectations for the new album Boxer, out in May. Love the cutlery percussion!
On the same site is this superb video of the Arcade Fire doing Neon Bible while going up in a lift before heading outside for an acoustic version of Wake Up. I saw their concert at the Olympia in Dublin earlier this month, and managed to capture a poor quality version of this on my mobile phone. Thought about uploading it onto YouTube but caught myself on -it's always annoying to look for something and have to wade through loads of these crappy videos. It doesn't anger me as such (btw, why are people on message boards so angry?! everything is derided as being 'gay' - I guess they're just bored teenagers with issues) but when there's beautifully shot stuff of this quality online, why bother. As Sash would say, encore un fois.
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