First up, the one, the only, the irrepressible
Stereolab are back with a new, totally good, album called
Fab Four Suture (
iTunes,
Amazon) which comes out tomorrow and is just as good as anything they've done. We heard one of my three favorite songs called "I Was a Sunny Rainphase." Next was an oldie-but-goodie from
The Halo Benders called "Don't Touch My Bikini" from their 1994 record
God Don't Make No Junk (
iTunes,
Amazon). Then Florida's
Electric President did "Snow on Dead Neighborhoods" from their debut self-titled album (
iTunes,
Amazon) which sounds kinda like a lot of other things such as
The Postal Service or
The Incredible Moses Leroy. Next was California's
Kevin Blechdom (who is really
Kristen Erickson) doing "Interspecies Love" from both her
I Love Presets EP (
iTunes,
Amazon) and also a later album, but c'mon, it's not THAT good, so just stick with the EP. And finally we finished up this episode with
Blanket Music (which is also basically the same band as
Toothfairy, who has been on
The Sounds in My Head before) doing a great
Nouvelle Vague-esque cover of Bjork's "Hyper-Ballad" from the
Read - Interpreting Bjork album (
iTunes,
Amazon).
This episode features a clip with Stephen Colbert preditcts the Oscar winners with 100% accuracy on his show The Colbert Report. You can watch the whole clip at One Good Move.